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Campione Bike Shop

POSTED September 3, 2010 by Brock Mitchell

Here’s some promo pieces we worked on for Campione Bike shop. I hope this helps your appetite for the remainder of this season’s riding.

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CIA X CIRQUE DU SOLIEL – TICKET GIVEAWAY

POSTED September 1, 2010 by Brock Mitchell

Thank you so much to the amazing people at Cirque Du Soleil for this amazing opportunity.

For those who may not win our draw, and have some more guests to take with them, please visit this AMAZING PROMOTION that they are having just in time for back to school.

Cirque Du Soleil opens September 16th.

Visit Cirque Du Soleil for more details.

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Lifetime Clothing presents Sean Macallister

POSTED September 1, 2010 by Brock Mitchell

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SEAFOOD MARKET STUDIOS!

POSTED September 1, 2010 by Angela Dione

Make way for more creativity Calgary!  Thanks to our friendly neighbourhood CADA (Calgary Arts Development), we can now enjoy some more studio spaces in our city…and what better spot than East Village, our current hub of creativity and growth!

Seafood Market Studios is a brand new venture, hosting 10 studio spaces, a common area, an office space, and a 10,000 sq ft. warehouse space available for artists of all disciplines.  Located within the vacant Seafood Market in the East Village (630 – 7th Ave. SE), studios and creation spaces are available for rent from Sept. 15, 2010 until March 15, 2011.  Studio spaces range from $.95 to $1.00 / per sq. ft….making this a super reasonable studio rate for artists of any medium.

Application deadline is Sept, 13, 2010 (although applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis)  I could go on with more details, but if you’re an artist, an organization, or a community event looking for some space to create and operate, click on the image above to be directed to the specific CADA info site.  Or better yet, check out CADA’s full website at:


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K’naan ticket giveaway!

POSTED August 31, 2010 by Justin Huculak

K’naan will be at the MacEwan Hall on Sept 27 and you could be too!  Email justin@calgaryisawesome.com with your name/number and the secret to Bieber’s success and you shall be entered into our ticket giveaway draw!

Since the release of “Waving Flag”, K’naan has been unstoppable. A remixed version of the single has been chosen as the Coca-Cola anthem for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, to be held in South Africa, while during the Vancouver Olympics 50 Canadian artists joined K’naan under the collaboration name “Young Artists for Haiti” to produce a charity version of the song. In 2010 alone, he has won Juno Awards for Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year, toured with Lenny Kravitz and has hit #1 in music charts around the world. (Live Nation Press Release)

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the source in airdrie alberta

POSTED August 31, 2010 by Brock Mitchell

This past weekend, our friends at the Source spent the day in Airdrie Alberta. Here’s how it went.

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DIY: àlalá dreams on

POSTED August 31, 2010 by Irene Seto

Designer: Adejoke Taiwo
Fashion House: àlalá
www.adejoke.com

Being on television has given fashion designer Adejoke Taiwo plenty of great exposure, but it has also come with a few pitfalls. “People will call me wanting designer outfits and fancy ball gowns made in one day. I can make it in one day but it will have staples and hot glue in it,” she jokes.

As are the unrealistic expectations that have come from her appearance on last season’s reality show competition, Project Runway Canada. Not only did Adejoke have to make complete fashion pieces in one day, the show threw the competitors curve-balls with unusual assignments like creating dresses out of post-it notes and concocting evening wear out of camping tents. The long hours and gruelling pace of the challenges took its toll on the young designer.

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We Are Scientists ticket giveaway!

POSTED August 30, 2010 by Justin Huculak

Come on Come all, join the frenzy for this awesome ticket giveaway.  Email justin@calgaryisawesome.com with your name, number and the whereabouts of Waldo and we will hook you up with some sweet tickets if yours is the winning entry!!

For their first time in Calgary, WE ARE SCIENTISTS are coming to the REPUBLIK NIGHTCLUB to celebrate the LABOUR DAY LONG WEEKEND.  Coming along for the ride will be Vancouver’s BEND SINISTER and Winnipeg’s THE REASON.

We Are Scientists shocked themselves and impressed many others with their 2005 debut With Love & Squalor, which sold over 100,000 copies in the UK on the strength of dancefloor standbys Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt; It’s A Hit; and The Great Escape, as well as nine other songs that, to all appearances, people also liked. Twenty months of near-constant touring culminated in a sold out UK tour, including two nights at Brixton Academy, in the Fall of 2006, plus a very pleasant Christmas.  (Union Press Release)

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SHOT AT THE DARK – The Magician and the Gates of Love

POSTED August 30, 2010 by Brock Mitchell

Time can heal all things. Letting the second hand spin into minutes, into hours, into days. Allowing our hearts, our own self guilt, our morality catch up on one another, and see all troubles pass. It’s in this time that music can facilitate in healing. It’s specific songs that help people grasp onto for strength, and help. Songs that communicate deeper than a tap of our foot.

The Magician, Nathan Moes, and the Gates of Love, Conrad Dykman, Nick Koole, Andrew Koole, and Josh Daignault, have taken the sorrow of this wandering heart, and created something we can all rely on for hope. With the melody of time, and instruments of all trades, this band has made a spectacle that changed a tiny bistro, into a place of power and healing.

The Magician, and the Gates of Love, have been travelling across the Country with our friend Jordan Klassen. A tour that swept through the radio waves, and venues. Congratulations you guys on all your hard work this year. Your music changes people in a way time cannot.

So please welcome our friends to one of our favorite episodes of SHOT AT THE DARK, The Magician, and the Gates of Love.

Thank you so much to everyone for becoming a part of the show. Nathan, Conrad, Nick, Andrew, and Josh, this was one of the greatest performances I have been a part of, so thank you.

Thank you to Jordan Klassen, for lining us up. Thank you to Suzanne, and Angie, of Jacqueline Suzanne’s Bistro.

Thank you all for watching.

SHOT AT THE DARK is produced by Nicole Irene Dyck, Reueben Bullock, Justin Huculak, and Brock Mitchell.

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Tasty Highlights of Calgary

POSTED August 29, 2010 by Irene Seto

Food + sun + festival = a great time.  I hit up Taste of Calgary on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon – a good omen considering the rainy summer we have endured thus far.  For those who couldn’t make it down to the event a few weeks ago, here are a few highlights that caught my hungry eye and made my taste buds happy. Armed with a stack of tickets, my friend and I set off to find the tastiest treasures our tummies could seek.

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