Movie Night with Zac Trolley: Aliens

 

 

Have you heard of Mars One?

Have you heard of my good friend, Zac Trolley?

 

Well, you have now-- and count yourself lucky! Zac is about passion, mission, science and space. Along with being a Mars One Candidate, he has also been accepted into the prestigious International Space University to attend the Space Studies Program this summer. To pay for his tuition, he has created a fantastic event this Thursday, March 20 at The Plaza featuring his favorite sci-fi movie, Aliens.

 

This event is great because it's supporting local talent to flourish and grow in an industry that is just starting to gain mainstream awareness while also being a great retro date night! When was the last time you had a chance to see Aliens on the big screen? If ever?!

 

Come help Zac and other space pioneers continue to tend to and live their dreams and get your sci-fi on

 

And as an added bonus The Plaza has some of the best movie theater popcorn in all of the land. Gobble-gobble.

 

Event and Ticket Info:

Movie Night with Zac Trolley: Aliens

Plaza Theatre
1133 Kensington Rd NW Calgary, AB T2N 3P4
Canada                           

Thursday, 20 March 2014 from 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM (MDT) 

 

General Admission $10.00 (+ service fee)  

To buy tickets go HERE  

 

Further info on Zac Trolley

 

 

Extras to make a full night of it:

Interested in dinner and a movie, check out the Kesington Brasserier for some of the best food in the city-- it's just right next door to The Plaza! Or, down the road is the ever popular and very faithful Kensington Pub.

 

 

 

 

 

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PHANTOM WING: a pre-demolition project at King Edward School

Remember when they did Wreck City? Well, this is some what along the same lines.

Explore the abandoned wing of Calgary’s fourth oldest school, re-imagined by 30+ Artists prior to demolition. Through a series of large-scale artworks, PHANTOM WING explores the soon to be demolished 1960s wing of the historic King Edward School, before it's redeveloped as a multidisciplinary arts hub (cSPACE). A community artists and performers have taken up temporary residence within the abandoned wing, creating infestations, fire-bell installations, psychedelic portals, Girl Gang Dance Parties, intercom performances, water-features, poltergeists, and more. The resulting exhibition will be both an echo and a bang: a reflection and a mirage. In essence, PHANTOM WING proposes the creation of a phantom limb – an event designed to resonate long after the building is severed from its adjoining sandstone counterpart.

Ticket Price:
Free (!!)

Location:
King Edward School, 1720 30th Ave. SW

Hours of Operation:
24 Sep 2013 - 6:00pm
25 Sep 2013 - 6:00pm
26 Sep 2013 - 6:00pm
27 Sep 2013 - 6:00pm
28 Sep 2013 - 10:00am
29 Sep 2013 - 10:00am

Website:
https://phantomwing.wordpress.com/

Stuart McLean: Christmas Concert 2013

Yes, it's August (AGAIN) but it's also the end of August and that usually means thoughts about Christmas (AGAIN). It's true but that's only because this is the time of year that the Stuart McLean Christmas Concert tickets go on sale (AGAIN).

You might SHOULD be familiar with his heart warming show in the CBC, well this is live and it's all about Christmas and all about fuzzy warm traditions and doing things from the heart. For me, there is no better way to start off Christmas then with a dose of Stuart McLean. Love!

Calgary, Alberta
Thursday, December 5th and  Friday,  December 6th @ 7:30 PM
Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
(855) 985-5000
www.ticketmaster.ca
In person: Monday – Friday 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM


Banff, Alberta (spoiler alert-- one of Stuart's favorite places in Canada)
Saturday, December 7th @ 7:30 PM
Eric Harvie Theatre (The Banff Centre)
(403) 762-6301 or (800) 413-8368
www.ticketmaster.ca
In person: The Banff Centre Box Office Tuesday – Saturday 12 noon – 5:00 PM
Old Crag Cabin (211a Bear Street) Tuesday – Sunday 12 noon – 6:00 PM

Special musical guest this year will be the wonderful and talented, Juno Award-wining band, The Good Lovelies (they are a favorite of mine).

You can find out more information about The Good Lovelies here: www.goodlovelies.com

The concert always takes Foodbank donations by way of non-perishable food items and cash.There is plenty spiced eggnog (for adults and children) and holiday spirit served up. I personally can't think of a better way to start of the beautiful holiday season.
 

Related posts:

I've Been Waiting All Night for This

Lets Talk about Christmas

Music Obsession Monday: Dala

Photo borrowed from here

 

Kim's Convenience presented by Theater Calgary

Every year my friend Diana and I buy subscription tickets to Theater Calgary. I love this time of year, summer is about parties and being outside and a break from the norm but as the days get shorter and the nights get cooler, we all migrate inside and experience theater. The first play of the season always welcomes this transition.
 
 
This year, the play is called Kim's Convenience and I'm excited to see it. It has received rave reviews since debuting at the Toronto Fringe Festival last year, critics calling it touching and funny (my favorite combo of emotions if you ask me).
 
 

Date(s): Sept. 3 - 29
Venue: Max Bell Theatre, EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts, 205 8 Ave. SE
Tickets: Prices vary
Korean immigrant Mr. Kim is nearing retirement and wondering what will happen to his convenience store when he stops running it. This family tale that looks to the past and future with love and laughter is by Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre Company, presented by Theatre Calgary.
For more info or to buy tickets go the the Theater Calgary website

Choose Yer Own Festival 2012

guerrilla marching band with homemade instruments 2011

I have a few things I look forward too every year...

Stuart McLean Christmas Concert
Folk Festival
Free Pancake Breakfasts
Any time Feist comes to Calgary

AND..

Choose Yer Own Festival (!!) I've posted about it a few times in the last few years.

Happening August 31st - September 2nd 2012

What is fantastic about this festival is you can do anything. It's like a weekend to be, do, create whatever you desire. Some of the things done last year were:


Insomniac’s Art Party
Stay up making art all night with Bogdan, who believes that insomnia and art go together like dogs and bones. Whatever state your skill is in and whatever form it takes, come spend the night making art, watching movies and cooking food, in an attempt to focus on the relationship between insomnia and art.
Duct Tape Duels
Make your own padded sword and wage war against friend and foe to the sounds of pummeling drums.

Pajama Making Workshop
Skipped out on Home Ec.? Interested in dinosaur-print flannel loungewear? Learn the art of pajama-making from a mother of four.

Jurassic Park: The Ride
Universal Studios comes North! Follow a tour guide through the Jurrasic Park of your dreams. Raptor shooting range, full-sized inflatable garbage bag dinos, suspense and mystery… it will be the best!!! Bring your bikes or something to roll on.

and that's only a few of the creative and fantastic things to expect. Each year is different and it reminds us to love the city we live in, the people we know and don't know yet and just to play as long as you can.


NOTE: I haven't seen a schedule for this yet so check back at Choose Yer Own Festival often for the publication of it and subscribe to their blog. Enjoy! xxoo

Stuart McLean Christmas Concert

Yes, it's August but it's also the end of August and that usually means thoughts about Christmas. It's true but that's only because this is the time of year that the Stuart McLean Christmas Concert tickets go on sale.

You might be familiar with his heart warming show in the CBC, well this is live and it's all about Christmas and all about fuzzy warm traditions and doing things from the heart. For me, there is no better way to start off Christmas then with a dose of Stuart McLean. Love!

Calgary, AlbertaThursday, November 29 & Friday, November 30 @ 7:30 PM
Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
(855) 985-5000
www.ticketmaster.ca
In person: Monday – Friday 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM


Banff, Alberta
Saturday, December 1 @ 7:30 PM
Eric Harvie Theatre (The Banff Centre)
(403) 762-6301 or (800) 413-8368
www.ticketmaster.ca
In person: The Banff Centre Box Office Tuesday – Saturday 12 noon – 5:00 PM
Old Crag Cabin (211a Bear Street) Tuesday – Sunday 12 noon – 6:00 PM

Special musical guest this year is the talented Reid Jamieson.

You can find out more information about Reid here: www.reidjamieson.com

Reid will be joined by The Vinylettes; three fantastic female vocalists. If you were at our Christmas show last year, you’ll will know why we are so excited to welcome back The Vinylettes.

Related posts:

I've Been Waiting All Night for This

Lets Talk about Christmas

Music Obsession Monday: Dala

photo borrowed from here

Get Your Craft On

Stash Lounge, a place to get your craft on. Sew, knit, craft and crochet-- you can learn and do it all in an intimate class setting with other like minded creative people.

Located in the historic 1912 Hudson’s Bay warehouse in Inglewood. Check out the STASH Summer 2012 Classes Newsletter to find the perfect project for you. You can also browse the classes page, or class calendar for alternate views of offerings.

I want to make it all!


Stash Lounge
(403) 457-0766
1B, 1215 – 13th Street SE
Calgary, AB
Email: needles@stashlounge.com

Evil Dead: the musical

It's back and covered in blood... again. If you were in Calgary about 4 years ago, walking downtown on a warm August night, you may have experienced it. Handfuls of people laughing and gallivanting around, participating in all types of debauchery...wearing white shirts covered in blood. Ruby red, sticky, washable blood.

That was the summer when Evil Dead: the musical first came to town with it's campy lyrics and splatter zone, it was the hottest ticket in town. Those of us who went became greedy, going not just once but sometimes three of four times causing the production to hold over an extra month due to the popularity and demand. It was fantastic.

Embrace the mess and wear your best white shirt. Buy your tickets in the splatter zone. Should you feel a little shy about it, there are plenty of seats out of reach. Just remember, messy is more fun.

Starting August 14th

Tickets range from $25 and up

located at the Pumphouse Theater on 2140 Pumphouse Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB T3CTP5

The Fairmont Palliser's Pop-Up Afternoon Tea

 

A good friend of mine came back from London a few months ago and never got to have true "high tea" so I thought for her 30th birthday, it was a must do to start off her special day. After doing some quick research I discovered that the oldest of old school class, the Fairmont Palliser in Calgary, offered a high tea on Saturdays from 2:00-4:00 pm. I booked it, we went and for $40 a person (we had a bottle of Champagne-- of course) it was an enjoyable experience. Though I would say that there were too many sweets on the three tier trays.Regardless, it was worth the experience and sans champagne runs you around $25 a person.

However, this was planned. It was in the tea room at the hotel and there wasn't anything surprising about it but on August 18th of 2012 the Fairmont Palliser's afternoon tea will be hosted at a surprise location. A pop-up tea party which will have double the decadence and double the delights.

Guest will enjoy a selection of tea sandwiches, pastries, fresh fruit with Chantilly cream and traditional English scones with some of the tastiest preserved I've ever put in my mouth.

Tickets are $50 a person and to reservations, call Jennifer Seguin in the catering office at (403) 260-1222

Victoria Park Red Leaf Project: July 2 2012

On Monday, July 2nd the Molson Canadian Red Leaf Project will be working with Victoria Park BRZ to do some good for my favorite community. Volunteers will be rejuvenating a vacant lot on 14th ave and 1st Street SE in the Victoria Park area of Calgary for a day and transforming it into an urban open space that everyone can enjoy. Volunteers will be given a ticket to see Sublime with Rome at the Cowboys tent on July 3rd

There are two shifts:

8:30 am - 12:00 pm and 11:30 am - 4:00 pm

What you'll need:

Outdoor wear, sturdy boots, anything you don’t mind getting a little dirty

LETS GET DIRTY and do something good!

Leonard Cohan Presale Code for November 16th Calgary Concert

 

Leonard Cohan presale starts today at 10AM

Head to Ticketmaster and use the presale code: danceallnight

 

Enjoy!

 

Calgary Jane’s Walk 2012

Brought to my attention by the always informative and quickly becoming one of my favorite people in the social networking world, Mr YYC wrote a post about Jane's Walk in Calgary for 2012.


Here are a few of my favorite walks as posted by Mr. YYC:

Chinatown Tour

Guided by Jing Grace Wang

Want to know more about Chinese culture but never got a chance to visit China? Chinatown tour will be the best choice for you! Chinatown is a small reflection of China embedded in brilliant culture and exuberant history. We have murals that are painted to fight the graffiti in Chinatown, and in turn shares stories of how the Chinese started its roots in Calgary. The 100-year old Canton building, “dinning block” that serves tons of amazing traditional Chinese food, The Chinese Cultural Centre that holds lots of great Chinese events, Sien Lok Park that is always promoting Chinese language, philosophies and culture, and The Dragon City Mall that runs different business related to Chinese culture, these are all fantastic places you don’t want to miss!

 

 

Unique Food Shoppes of the Beltline

Guided by Paul Chambers

Don’t know where to get that unusual ingredient or favourite treat? The Beltline has a food store for that!

We’ll spend two hours exploring the diverse range of specialty food and grocery stores in the Beltline, all within walking distance of each other. We’ll meet the passionate owners and staff who contribute to the Beltline’s unique gastronomic culture. We’ll learn the history of the stores, where they source their products and even get some tips for cooking your dinner!

We’ll be visiting Community Natural Foods, Epiphany Chocolate, Kalamata Grocery (Greek), Matrioshka Grocery (Russian), Boyd’s Lobster Shop, Rustic Sourdough Bakery, Janice Beaton Fine Cheese & Wine Ink.

[I have writen about Epiphany Chocolate before]

 

 

The Calgary That Could Have Been

Guided by Jason Markusoff

In a city with a mythology of risk-takers, dusty shelves are full of proposals and blueprints that promised a very different-looking Calgary. This walk starts at the Prince’s Island Museum that never existed, retraces the path of the expressway that almost flattened Eau Claire and Chinatown, and ends near the canal that didn’t dissect East Village. We’ll ponder how these alternative realities would have transformed our city.

[This walk reminds me of a post I did in 2009]

For further details check out the inspiration for this post Mr. YYC's post on Jane's Walk

Or Check the Jane's Walk site for info on all the tours.

 

The Shamrock Hotel

There is a little bar on the wrong side of the tracks. It's known for it's rowdy atmospher, it's gritty patrons and some of the best local music you can find. It's kind of a biker bar, it's kind of a scary bar and it has a loooong histroy in this fine cow town of mine.

In the spirit of St. Patricks Day, here is an article written for FFWD with lots of tasty history for all you Calgary Keeners.

Happy 100th St. Paddy's Day,  Shamrock!

Thing to do in Calgary this Fall

Whiskey Tasting at Kensington Wine Market
We love our wine tastings, but this fall, it’s all about whiskey. Check out the Kensington Wine Market’s tasting nights, focusing on rare whiskies that have been aged for more than 20 years from closed distilleries. You might discover a new old-school favorite.

Kensington Wine Market; 1257 Kensington Rd. N.W.; 403-283-8000

Heritage Park Historical Village
It’s your last change to enjoy the Historical Village as it closes for the season following Thanksgiving. Go back in time with costumed townsfolk and a collection of impressive antiques and artifacts.

Heritage Park Historical Village; 1900 Heritage Drive S.W.; 403- 268-8500

Calgary Collects
Fall means new shows in all of the city’s galleries – and until the end of the year, The Art Gallery of Calgary will be displaying rarely seen works of contemporary art acquired by avid Calgary collectors. Time to get gallery-hopping.
The Art Gallery of Calgary; 117, 8 Ave. S.W; 403-770-1350

Cooking Classes at The Cookbook Co. CooksCool weather calls for hearty, home-cooked meals. For some culinary inspiration, take a class or two at the famous downtown kitchen. Choose from a variety of options including couples nights, a class on how to cook with squash or the best of Moroccan meals (from $85). The Cookbook Co. Cooks; 722 11 Ave. S.W.; 403-262-3322

Autumn Birding Course at Fish Creek ParkNature enthusiasts rejoice: Alberta is the best for birding (a.k.a. bird watching). Get out and be one with nature (and the birds) this fall by taking weekly two-and-a-half-hour sessions, which include plenty of field trips. Fish Creek Provincial Park; 15975 Bow Bottom Trail S.E.; 403-238-3847

Hot Air Balloon Rides

What’s the deal?

Go for a ride in a hot air balloon.

Where’s it at?

Of all the ways of flying, no other feels like a hot air balloon. To balloon is to levitate above the ground, drifting silently as if in a dream. With its beginnings in 18th-century France, the endeavour has changed little since. You are still completely at the whims of the wind.

Book a flight with Sundance Balloons, an operator with balloons in 12 cities from Ontario to British Columbia.

Flights launch at sunrise and sunset, but try a sunrise flight because the winds are calmer and your trip is less likely to be cancelled. Meet your crew, who will arrive with a trailer, in the early-morning twilight. First, they’ll unload the wicker basket, which despite its non-aeronautical appearance has proved de rigueur for hundreds of years. Next, the balloon will be unfurled and inflated with giant fans, and finally the gas-powered burner. Clamber in and you’ll soon be hovering 100 metres above a rural landscape, peering down voyeuristically.

The tranquillity is broken only as your pilot pumps the jets, sending flames up to modulate lift, the only control you have. A skilled pilot can read air currents and choose an elevation with a breeze to his liking. After about an hour, you’ll set down in a farmer’s field and the chase vehicle will arrive to pack it all away. Your pilot will offer a champagne toast, a tradition of balloonists, and the experience will feel like it was a dream.

Who’s it for?

Those who are not afraid of heights or landing in a strange farmer’s field. Sundance Balloons offers two flights per day, weather permitting. Prices start at $215 a person.

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Another company I have dealt with is Rainbow Balloons, very good. Family Owned. No deposit required.