Up to Date.

September!

I write a lot of reviews and previews for Downtown Calgary's Blog. So I thought I would link them here, so you're not missing out on some of the great (and not so great) theatre going on in the city.


I got to interview Dave Kelly! Getting Down with Dave Kelly.
He was a lot of fun. Also, the first candid, from the first person, interview I've written.

Photo Credit: Avenue Magazine

Amazed.

Summer of My Amazing Luck is a novel published in 1996, by author Miriam Towes, also the author of A Complicated Kindness. Chris Craddock, is a playwright who adapted the novel for theatre.
Sage Theatre has remounted the touring play, putting an intimate spin on a big story.

 Summer of My Amazing Luck tells of single mom Lucy, who is struggling to take care of her son in a housing project in Winnipeg. The story unfolds and the audience is thrown into the story of Lucy and the people who are in her life.

Strategizing.

 "All of us are engaged in a fundamental realignment in culture and communications"
-- Ben Cameron, on performing arts

Thursday was the first annual Calgary Arts Congress. It was a gathering of people who are in any way stakeholders in the arts. Administrators, artists, politicians, enablers. It was organized by Calgary Arts Development. The keynote speaker was Ben Cameron, and you can see his Ted Talk here.
I missed the entirety of his speech. But I caught his Q and A, which was worth it.