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A Tale of Two (Edible) Eddys
- Posted by Mike Scullen on November 22nd, 2011
When the friendly folks at the New Music Centre Project asked our team to participate in their latest fundraising efforts we responded with some seasonal enthusiasm. It is a sure sign that the holidays are upon us when you find yourself constructing local landmarks out of quantities of baked goods and sugar. This Edible Eddy project is a way to bring some funds and awareness to the New Music Centre's goal of restoring the beloved King Edward Hotel to former glories. It's going to be quite the comeback.
We are lucky to have Deeter Schurig on our team, who has studied architecture and has experience designing theatrical sets. He responded to this challenge as any good architect would and fired up the computer aided design software. The technology behind the construction doesn't end there either; the latest techniques in transferring pixels to icing were also employed to tell our story about the transformation of Calgary's arts and cultural landscape both then, now and tomorrow.
The Eddy is not the only grand old king in our city. The other Eddy resides in South Calgary and is also undergoing a transformation. King Edward School, with the help of the Calgary Foundation, is on its way to becoming an arts incubator (here is an impressive fly through of the vision). To further infuse Dickens (see title), the ghost of Eddy(s) past and the ghost of Eddy(s) future have informed this gingerbread construction while the ghost of Eddy(s) present wants to bring you sweets while you support these projects.
We all want new Eddys for Christmas. You can support the New Music Center by donating online or by coming out to their fundraising event: The CORE ‘Twas the Night on November 30th. Cantos will be debuting the top three Edible Eddys that night, you can vote live at the event on our Edible Eddy and enter to win a $250 Shopping Spree to The CORE. You can help us be one of the top three by voting for us through Cantos' Facebook campaign.
Cultural Tourism - Advice from Atlanta
- Posted by Erica Mattson on September 19th, 2008
We had the privilege of spending time with Shelton Stanfill this morning discussing cultural tourism, thanks to the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts. Shelton, a well-known arts leader from the U.S., had some great insights on how Calgary can start moving forward in this area based on his experiences building and shaping Atlanta's cultural tourism strategy. We were joined by Johann Zeitsmann who currently runs the Mesa Arts Center in Arizona and was able to offer some very interesting perspective based on his current work as well as his past experience developing the arts in South Africa. Read more »
Calgary 2.0
- Posted by Terry Rock on March 7th, 2006
What do UK architect Will Alsop (see one of his projects here) and marketing guru Seth Godin have in common? A lot, I think!
On Monday, Feb 27th, Alsop spoke to a buzzing crowd of over 1100 Calgarians jammed into the EPCOR CENTRE’s Jack Singer Concert Hall. His talk was part of Alberta College of Art & Design’s Stirring Culture series.
Alsop dropped jaws in the room with images and videos of his work. Not surprising from a man who said this: 'Our work as architects currently poised to be able to give the world extraordinary objects of design is under threat by people who see the world as a dull and uncultivated place of day-to-day tedium and boredom. Stop them, write them out of your story.' (source)
