just download the looking for up Alberta Culture to date informationon the go? Calendar app! SEPTEMBER 26-28 Experience Alberta Airdrie as you never have before! Now in its seventh year, Alberta Culture Days has not only become a celebration of our vibrant and diverse culture – but a creative showcase of our provincial pride. At its heart, Alberta Culture Days is a volunteer-driven, grassroots movement led by partners in the culture sector. For three action-packed days, communities, governments, NOSE CREEK PARK, MAIN STREET THE HOPEWELL DRESS UP PHOTO BOOTH THE GREAT CUPCAKE EATING CHALLENGE Friday • 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Saturday • 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. businesses, nonprofit organizations and ARTEMBER: CULTURE AT THE CREEK Saturday • 12:00 - 7:00 p.m. How many cupcakes can you eat in 8 minutes? Be the first 24 people to register Friday • 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Sunday • 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. at [email protected] before Sept 28, and win a $250 gift certificate. individuals all across our province come Saturday • 12:00 - 7:00 p.m. Try on some silly costumes and say cheese! Our photo booth prints pics instantly At the amphitheatre. Sunday • 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. for you to take home (but please leave one for our wall of fame!). together to showcase our province’s Culture at the Creek is Airdrie’s celebration of Alberta Culture Days, providing THE QUILTED CLOTHESLINE activities for all ages. Music, food, arts and cultural performances! LIBRARY READING TENT Friday • 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. unique inter-connection of peoples, Saturday • 12:00 - 7:00 p.m. Saturday • 12:00 - 7:00 p.m. Sunday • 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. SCHOOLS PERFORMING ARTS SHOWCASE Kids can have some quiet time inside the reading tent and listen to stories read languages, history and art. From Friday • 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. by the Airdrie Public Library volunteers. Discover the gorgeous work of the Airdrie Quilting Guild display a clothesline’s All about our local performing arts programs in schools. Join the choirs and of quilting! Buy a raffle ticket to win fabricated art and to support Airdrie Victim theatrical performances and historical bands from kindergarten to grade 12 for an energetic show on the Zytech Stage. MILLER STREET ART WORKSHOP Services. experiences, to culinary workshops and Saturday • 12:00 - 7:00 p.m. ART FROM THE DUMP Sunday • 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. ZYTECH STAGE Friday • 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Saturday • 12:00 - 7:00 p.m. interactive activities - Alberta Culture Learn from pros how to turn spray paint into a work of art. We supply all the Sunday • 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. Saturday • 12:00 - 7:00 p.m. paints and tools. All ages welcome. Days has something for everyone. Sunday • 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. Two full days of music and multicultural performances, watch for complete Help create fun and colourful temporary sculptures. Join in on this highly CARTEMBER! schedule coming soon. Featuring award winning singer Garth Prince and Circles engaging and educational project. There will be clean reusable materials to work Saturday • 12:00 - 7:00 p.m. of Rhythm Drumming with Judy Atkinson. From September 26 - 28 Albertans are on or bring your own. Join the Airdrie Time Travellers Car Club members as they put on a mini-show PROPAK ART PAVILION and shine with some “wheelie cool” cars that are works of art! PLAINSMEN ARENA, 320 CENTER AVENUE encouraged to discover the cultural Friday • 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. FOOD TRUCK FRENZIE 5.0 AIRDRIE FOOD TRUCK FRENZY’S gems in their communities, experience Saturday • 12:00 - 7:00 p.m. Saturday • 12:00 - 7:00 p.m. Sunday • 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. Saturday • 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Airdrie Farmers Market famous Food Truck Frenzy moves to Nose Creek Park for Hosted by the Airdrie Farmers Market in support of the Airdrie Food Bank. Please something new, and celebrate The arts tent is open for everyone to explore a ton of hands-on arts projects and ARTember. Featuring some of Calgary’s best and tastiest food trucks! demos. Featuring: 4Cats Art Studio and Welcome Airdrie Passport fun. bring a donation and an appetite down to the Frenzy’s! everything that is beautiful and great about this province. Check out some of the exciting events listed in this guide, or go to www.AlbertaCultureDays.ca to discover thousands of other events CELEBRATE ALL WEEKEND LONG! occurring throughout the province! /AlbertaCultureDays @AlbertaCultureDays /AlbertaCultureDays EVENTS CALENDAR 2014 | CALGARY & AIRDRIE KERBY CENTRE, 1133-7 AVE SW AEROSPACE MUSEUM OF CALGARY, 4629 MCCALL WAY NE GENESIS CENTRE OF COMMUNITY WELLNESS MARKET ON MACLEOD, 7711 MACLEOD TRAIL S THE KING’S HARVEST DINNER THEATRE OPEN DOORS YYC 7556 FALCONRIDGE BOULEVARD NE ‘TO MARKET, TO MARKET’ Friday • 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday CULTUREFEST 2014 - COLOR OF CULTURES Saturday and Sunday • 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. The Kerby Players bring you a medieval live theatre performance and a themed meal to make 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Saturday • 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Storytelling and poetry. Come out and take in this unique children’s interactive performance, a your evening complete. workshop and open mic. AlgAry Discover Canada’s aviation adventure and enjoy Color of cultures performances bollywood, bhangra, fashion show, live singing, western C seeing aircraft up close while hearing the roar of a dancers, korean drummers and much more to enjoy. STEPHEN AVE AND OLYMPIC PLAZA modern jet overhead. 8 AVENUE SE AND 1 STREET SE WEST VILLAGE THEATRE, ALLEY ENTRANCE MARTHA COHEN THEATRE, 215 - 8TH AVENUE SE 2007-10 AVENUE SW EPCOR CENTRE’S ENGINEERED AIR THEATRE PLAY READING AT ALBERTA THEATRE PROJECTS KICKOFF BLOCK PARTY FOR CULTURE DAYS 205-8TH AVENUE SE Sunday • 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Friday • 5:00 - 10:00 p.m. CANADIAN PREMIERE OF raNDom: THE UPSIDE OF CALGARY STAMPEDE, 1410 OLYMPIC WAY SE RANDOM MISFORTUNE Join us for a reading of the stage version of the bestselling novel The Cure for Death by The seventh annual Alberta Culture Days kicks off a party in downtown Calgary! Discover and OPEN DOORS YYC DOORS OPEN CALGARY Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz. get a taste of events happening throughout Calgary. Friday and Saturday • 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Saturday • 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday • 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. A carefully choreographed study of one character played by three physical theatre artists. Sunday • 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Your journey through the bustling EPCOR Centre provides guided access to “behind the curtain” SIGNAL HILL LIBRARY, 5994 SIGNAL HILL CENTRE SW Featuring stilt-dancer Allara Gooliaff, dancer Julie Funk and actor Tour of the Stampede Grandstand, Infield at Canada’s third largest arts centre. Tour One Engineering Tour Two Venues. Maximum 20 ARTS LEARNING CENTRE (CENTRE COURT) Jacqueline Russell. and Barns and get a behind-the-scenes look people per tour by pre-registration only. Call 403-294-7455. 205-8 AVENUE SE 4TH ANNUAL COMMUNITY ART SHOWCASE at how the Stampede pulls off The Greatest CIRCUS WORKSHOP WITH GREEN FOOLS Outdoor Show on Earth. MY PRAIRIE HOME AND OTHER NFB Friday and Saturday • 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Saturday • 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ARTBOX ON FOREST LAWN, 1807-42 STREET SE SHORTS ART!FLICKS Sunday • 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. Sunday • 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Come and enjoy visual art in many forms created by amateur artists living in Signal Hill RED ROVER, RED ROVER, WE CALL BOWNESS OVER! Saturday and Sunday • 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. BlueBird Moving Arts and Green Fools Theatre offer circus workshops for kids age 8 and up! Stilt Library’s community. Saturday and Sunday • 1 1:00 am. - 5:00 p.m. Screenings of the transgender musician and performer Rae Spoon walking, tight wire, unicycle, trapeze, aerial hoop, and more! CALGARY TOWER, 101 - 9 AVENUE SW crosses endless fields of wheat and a famously big sky in Chelsea Pre-registration required: call 403-237-9010 or [email protected] An event based the schoolyard game. The International Avenue Mural Society along with the Bowness Community Association and the Bownesians, this event celebrates music, arts, and McMullan’s documentary-musical, My Prairie Home. WALLACE GALLERIES LTD, 500-5TH AVENUE SW OPEN DOORS YYC culture. SOULOCENTRIC BACH TOTS WORSHOP Saturday and Sunday ANDRE PETTERSON - IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA Sunday • 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday • 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Blue Bird Moving Arts is proud to present Soulocentric Performing Arts Bach Tots Zoo Dance Learn the story of the Calgary Tower, its history and CENTRAL MEMORIAL PARK, 1221 - 2 STREET SW Opening reception on Saturday from 2:00 -5:00 p.m. Interactive Dance workshop for children under the age of 6 and their families. construction during guided tours through the hidden EMMEDIA IS DEAD, LONG LIVE spaces behind the public areas of our attraction. EMMEDIA BOW VALLEY COLLEGE LIBRARY, 345-6TH AVENUE SE CENTRAL LIBRARY, JOHN DUTTON THEATRE Saturday • 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. 616 MACLEOD TRAIL SE looking for up CULTURAL CONTINUUM CANADA’S SPORT HALL OF FAME This outdoor event will feature large-scale video Friday • 10:30 a.m.