cSPACE Projects

TRACES OF CONSCIOUSNESS opening night live with pianist Roman Rabinovich
2024-03-06 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Edmonton) | cSPACE Marda Loop- Studio Theatre, 1721 29th Ave. SW, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Opening night with improvisations, Roman Rabinovich and Chris Sies on electronic impressions. Mingle with the light and soundscapes.
Join us at cSPACE in Calgary from March 6th to 9th, and be sure not to miss our special opening performance by the extraordinary Roman Rabionovich and Chris Sies sonic artist. They will weave a tapestry of enchanting piano improvisations inspired by the ‘Traces’ installation at cSpace, adding yet another layer of sensory delight to your extraordinary journey.
Presented by the artist collective, LUMINOS.SPACE; James Ziegler, Alan Fortune, Dylan Bauer and Chris Sies.

Opening night, space for 100 guests.
Tickets: Patrons $38 or pay by donation, as you can.

Welcome to My Renaissance – feat. Morag Northey
2024-03-06 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
Welcome to My Renaissance is an artist-in-residency featuring Calgary playwright Eugene Stickland and friends.
Eugene Stickland is joined by special guest cellist MORAG NORTHEY as they discuss the process of musical/theatrical collaboration, looking back at three projects they have created together: Queen Lear, 17, and The Innocence of Trees. What is the process of working together in this manner like? Of interest to writers and musicians interested in collaborating and blending different art forms for production. No reasonable question will go unanswered!
About Eugene Stickland
Born and educated in Regina, after completing an MFA in Theatre at Toronto’s York University, Eugene arrived in Calgary in 1994 and began a ten year residency at Alberta Theatre Projects. During this time he wrote and saw produced ten plays — 6 for ATP, 3 for Lunchbox Theatre and 1 for Theatre Network in Edmonton. In total, he has written 19 plays that have been produced in Calgary, Edmonton or Toronto and then throughout the world, from London to Istanbul. Following the residency at ATP, Eugene wrote a feature weekly column for the Calgary Herald for 6 years, a total of approximately 250,000 published words. In 2015 Eugene published his only novel (to date), The Piano Teacher, recipient of the W.O. Mitchell Award. Plans are being made to make a movie of the Piano Teacher, with Eugene writing the screenplay. Eugene currently has several projects underway which he is excited to share over the course of his cSPACE Eau Claire residency. He lives in the Beltline area of Calgary with his wife Belina.

CALL: Finding Peace and Joy Within
2024-03-06 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-02-28 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-02-21 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-02-14 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | cSPACE Marda Loop, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
There is a universal human desire to be happy and to avoid suffering. We try to fulfill that desire through our outer world – family, career, service, hobbies, recreation, etc. Through modern technology, we now have wealth and health to an extent that our ancestors (and many in developing nations) could only dream of. Yet which of us is truly happy and free of suffering? Do you have the feeling that “something” is missing?
We have known since we were small children that we have a mind and a body. However, we have a third, inner resource that we easily overlook, that can provide a source of joy and respite from suffering.
Please join us at “Finding Peace and Joy Within” to have a direct experience of this resource to help you have a happier and more fulfilled life.
You must be a member of CALL.

Welcome to My Renaissance – A Trip to Saskatchewan
2024-03-05 13:00 - 16:00 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
Welcome to My Renaissance is an artist-in-residency featuring Calgary playwright Eugene Stickland and friends.
Playwright and artists Eugene Stickland hosts a reading from A Trip to Saskatchewan and begins a painting of the same name.
Anyone interested in memoir writing is welcome to talk about the pitfalls and opportunities of writing in this genre.
About Eugene
Born and educated in Regina, after completing an MFA in Theatre at Toronto’s York University, Eugene arrived in Calgary in 1994 and began a ten year residency at Alberta Theatre Projects. During this time he wrote and saw produced ten plays — 6 for ATP, 3 for Lunchbox Theatre and 1 for Theatre Network in Edmonton. In total, he has written 19 plays that have been produced in Calgary, Edmonton or Toronto and then throughout the world, from London to Istanbul. Following the residency at ATP, Eugene wrote a feature weekly column for the Calgary Herald for 6 years, a total of approximately 250,000 published words. In 2015 Eugene published his only novel (to date), The Piano Teacher, recipient of the W.O. Mitchell Award. Plans are being made to make a movie of the Piano Teacher, with Eugene writing the screenplay. Eugene currently has several projects underway which he is excited to share over the course of his cSPACE Eau Claire residency. He lives in the Beltline area of Calgary with his wife Belina.

OKAN! Presented by BuckingJam Palace
2024-03-02 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Edmonton) | cSPACE Marda Loop, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Bring your dancing shoes to cSPACE Marda Loop as BJP heads out of the house for a vibrant evening of music.
OKAN fuses Afro-Cuban roots with jazz, folk and global rhythms in songs about immigration courage and love. This women-led ensemble takes its name from the word for heart in the Afro-Cuban religion of Santeria. Winner of the 2021 JUNO award for World Music Album of the Year, OKAN expresses its rich Cuban roots with confidence and creativity under the leadership Elizabeth Rodriguez and Magdelys Savigne.
Born in Havana, Cuba, Elizabeth Rodriguez is a classically-trained violinist who served as concertmaster for Havana’s Youth Orchestra. Magdelys Savigne hails from Santiago de Cuba and graduated with honours in orchestral percussion from Havana’s University of the Arts. Both are also Grammy-nominees for their contributions to Jane Bunnett and Maqueque, of which they are former members.
More info here: https://buckingjampalace.com/event/okan/

OKAN at cSPACE Marda Loop
2024-03-02 19:00 - 21:30 UTC | cSPACE Marda Loop- Studio Theatre, 1721 29th Ave. SW, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Taking their name from the word for heart in the Afro-Cuban religion of Santeria, OKAN, is a Juno-Award winning women-led ensemble that fuses Afro-Cuban roots with jazz, folk and global rhythms in songs about immigration, courage and love. You won’t be able to resist dancing along to their warm Cuban-Canadian vibes. Don’t miss them for their last stop on the West Coast.
Join the BJP Music Foundation at cSPACE for this unique performance, and support our work in bringing exceptional jazz-inspired talent to Calgary!

The Hibernation Station 4
2024-03-01 19:00 - 2024-03-02 01:00 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
THE HIBERNATION STATION 4: public access TV for a live studio audience!
Friday, March 1, 2024
Doors at 7 pm, Show from 8-10 pm
cSPACE Eau Claire

Theme by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett

Hearkening to the joys of late night talk shows and public access TV, The Hibernation Station returns with an all-star cast of live performance art, videos, music, interactive bits, comedy, dance, and fun fun fun! Featuring quips and quagmires from the infamous Saskatchewan slew crew SCN (Swampy Communications Network).
Want to be part of our live studio audience? Ready to laugh, cheer, and cry on demand (just like the live broadcasts of old)? We’d love to have you! There’s extremely limited space! Make sure you RSVP in advance to attend…*
RVSP to attend
*Are we out of space IRL? Never fear! A recording will be available online after the event.

The Hibernation Project is an art intervention occurring annually from Winter to Spring. A tool for embracing – and combating – Winter in Canada, each weekend an open community of artists, musicians, and participants respond to a theme, creating new work around the topic, led by local artists Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett.

The Hibernation Project: Open Studio
2024-02-29 14:00 - 19:00, 2024-02-27 14:00 - 19:00, 2024-02-24 11:00 - 15:00, 2024-02-23 14:00 - 19:00, 2024-02-22 14:00 - 19:00, 2024-02-17 11:00 - 19:00, 2024-02-16 11:00 - 19:00 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
The Hibernation Project is an art intervention occurring annually from Winter to Spring. A tool for embracing – and combating – Winter in Canada, each weekend an open community of artists, musicians, and participants respond to a theme, creating new work around the topic. Led by local artists Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett.
Read more about the Hibernation Project here.
And here: The Hibernation Project 2024 Themes

Dispelling the Myths of Self-Publishing
2024-02-27 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | cSPACE Marda Loop – RGO Treehouse, Suite #475
RGO Treehouse
Level 4
cSPACE Marda Loop
Join us for the second installment in our series of panels and guest speakers exploring the Writers’ Life. After a successful session on Dispelling the Myths of Publishing, we’re excited to delve into Dispelling the Myths of Self-Publishing. This event features a panel of Alberta authors who will share their personal journeys with self-publishing, including essential dos and don’ts, crucial insights, and helpful tips to facilitate your success in the world of self-publishing.
Our panelists are: Sandra S.G. Wong, Angela Ackerman, and Rebekah Raymond.
Hosted by: Irena Karshenbaum

CALL: Variety Book Club
2024-02-27 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | cSPACE Marda Loop, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Dive into the exciting realms of biographies, historical fiction, mysteries, and beyond!
The Calgary Association of Lifelong Learners (CALL) is eagerly opening its doors to welcome new members into our Variety Book Club. Enjoy a world of captivating stories and engaging discussions, with book picks voted on by members. The Variety Book Club meets on the 4th Tuesday of every month in the CALL suite, #310, on the 3rd floor of cSPACE Marda Loop.
Join a community that thrives on the joy of reading. Your literary adventure awaits—come be a part of our Book Club family!

The Hibernation Project: HEAT SEEKING
2024-02-24 19:00 - 23:30 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
HEAT SEEKING: a hide & seek slow dance
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Doors at 7 pm, Dance from 8-midnight
cSPACE Eau Claire

Theme by Desiree Nault, with Rebecca Reid & Ryan Bourne, and Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett

This year, we’re welcoming the return of the slow dance! Featuring a live band and communal movement games, this slow dance gives dancers the opportunity to question their relationship to touch, movement, music, sensation, space, and what the heck dancing even is.
The theme of this edition is Hiding and Seeking while dancing. We invite dancers to explore the theme through games and challenges that structure the event. We will provide an example of the games and challenges so you can get a sense of whether this will be fun for you sometime before the event.
P.S.

You don’t have to bring a partner.
We will bring props but feel free to bring your own.
Wear whatever makes you feel like dancing.
There will be a few snacks and lots of water. Alcohol or BYO? TBC.
There are no washrooms in the space, but there are facilities in a little building behind cSPACE Eau Claire, or at a hotel nearby

Want to attend the dance? There’s extremely limited space! Make sure you RSVP in advance…
RVSP to attend

The Hibernation Project is an art intervention occurring annually from Winter to Spring. A tool for embracing – and combating – Winter in Canada, each weekend an open community of artists, musicians, and participants respond to a theme, creating new work around the topic, led by local artists Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett.

Springboard Performance presents: Vastadus eana, The answer is land
2024-02-21 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | The GRAND, 608 1 St SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 1M6, Canada
The GRAND Theatre
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
7pm
Springboard Performance presents Vastadus eana, The answer is land, a radical act of resilience by Indigenous Sami choreographer Elle Sofe Sara. From the arctic tundra, polyphonic chants and dance draw us into an acapella story of resistance. This journey towards healing, love and collective strength is unique.
Taking inspiration from a poem that foregrounds the relationship between the Sámi people and their homeland, choreographer Elle Sofe Sara fashions a critically important message about the foundational attachment arising from community and culture.
Tickets starting at $40
Students: $25
Seniors: $25
TICKETS AND MORE INFO HERE.

The Hibernation Project: TIMBER
2024-02-18 14:00 - 18:00 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
TIMBER: a collaborative interlocking lumber sculpture
BUILDING DAYS: Friday, Feb 16 & Saturday, Feb 17, 2024 // 11 am-7 pm
PUBLIC EXHIBITION: Sunday, February 18 // 2-6 pm
cSPACE Eau Claire

Theme by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett

Photos from the Glenbow Archives, found here.

In response to the history of cSPACE Eau Claire as the former offices and vault for the Eau Claire & Bow River Lumber Company, we invite artists & sculptors to join us in crafting a collaborative interlocking lumber sculpture. We will provide lumber, and artists will create sculptures following (and breaking) any conventions they desire, with the caveat that their work must, at some point, intersect with the sculptures around them. You may choose to work collaboratively, or design a piece by yourself, but the object of the experiment is to link the pieces together into one, giant, growing, organic structure – in a futile effort to reanimate the wood and keep it alive.
At the summary of the exhibition, all wood will be repurposed for future projects.
This event was inspired in part by Khalid Omokanye’s socially distanced collaborative sculpture, ISOLATED BABEL, for The Hibernation Project 2021.

Let us know if you want to participate!

You don’t need to RSVP to visit the Public Exhibition

The Hibernation Project is an art intervention occurring annually from Winter to Spring. A tool for embracing – and combating – Winter in Canada, each weekend an open community of artists, musicians, and participants respond to a theme, creating new work around the topic, led by local artists Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett.

CALL presents: Read it Again
2024-02-16 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-02-12 10:00 - 12:00, 2024-02-12 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Marda Loop Community Association, 3130 16 Street SW, CAlgary
Please note this event takes place at the Marda Loop Community Association building, kitty corner to cSPACE Marda Loop.
This recurring event, hosted by The Calgary Association of Lifelong Learners (CALL), is an interest group that re-reads a classic work of fiction, to engage in an in-depth discussion.

“Most of us study the classics when we’re students – join us for an opportunity to re-read one of these books and discuss it from a different — dare we say – more mature perspective.”

The focus for the first session is on The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, winner of the 1992 Booker Prize.We’ll divide the book into four approximately equal sections for discussion at each of our four meetings. Participants will be asked to read the first section before our first meeting, and come prepared each day to contribute to the discussion as well as helping to research and provide background of topics and issues that arise.
Reach out to CALL in the link below to register.
https://calgarylifelonglearners.ca/Read-It-Again
CALL is a core tenant in the cSPACE Marda Loop Creative Community.

Dipankar Mukherjee Reception featuring Tinica Commodore
2024-02-15 18:00 - 18:30 UTC | cSPACE Marda Loop, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
Dipankar Mukherjee – Artist Reception
Level 4
cSPACE Marda Loop
This Exposure exhibiting artist will be holding a reception, featuring a live music set from Tinica Commodore.

Hi I’m Tinica Commodore, a 28-year-old singer/songwriter originally from London UK. Music has always been a huge part of my life. Growing up, music was always playing in my household and I was exposed to different types of music, as well as cultures. Along with music came my love for singing and writing. I love to tell stories and express difficult emotions through songs. I’m deeply inspired by history, especially, the 1940s, 50s and 60s, I believe it was a beautiful a well as magical time for music. I enjoy the whimsical nostalgic comfort you get from listening to an old-time Jazz record. My musical influences also include artists such as Hiatus Kaiyote, Billie Eilish, The Weeknd, and Lana Del Rey. – Tinica Commodore

Literature and Freedom
2024-02-13 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | cSPACE Marda Loop- Studio Theatre, 1721 29th Ave. SW, Calgary, AB, T2T 6T7, Canada
The Calgary Institute for the Humanities presents the 6th Annual Naomi Lacey Memorial Lecture
In the century between 1750 and 1850, the idea of freedom became a central concept for the ways in which European writers understood themselves and their literary works. Yet different writers had very different types of freedom in mind. While some focused on the freedom from patronage, others talked about the freedom from the pressures of the literary market—and still others about the freedom from the rules governing individual genres, or even a more abstract sense of freedom that readers could experience when reading literature. Drawing on texts by Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, and others, this talk assesses how these various types of freedom coalesced into a concept of literature whose legacy is still felt today.
Martin Wagner (Ph.D., Yale University, 2014) is Professor of German at the University of Calgary. His research focuses on German literary and intellectual history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His latest book, A Stage for Debate (University of Toronto Press, 2023), assesses the contribution of the most important German-language stage of the nineteenth century, Vienna’s Burgtheater, to the social and political debates in Austria. He currently works on a SSHRC-funded project on the history of obedience in Germany.

The Hibernation Project: EARS HAVE EYES Live
2024-02-11 18:00 - 23:00 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
EARS HAVE EYES: a listening party for sound art on the radio – LIVE!

LIVE-TO-TAPE Recording: Sunday, February 11, 2024
Doors at 6 pm, Live Performance from 7-9 pm
cSPACE Eau Claire

Theme by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett

The first event of our Hibernation-in-Residence at cSPACE Eau Claire celebrates the 2-year anniversary of EARS HAVE EYES with a special live* sound art radio program! Bring pillows and a blanket, and join us for a dreamy Listening Party at the historic Eau Claire & Bow River Lumber Company (next to Eau Claire Market) as sound artists, experimental musicians, and auditory explorers create a tapestry of sonic experiments for the enjoyment of your ears.
EARS HAVE EYES is a monthly sound art radio program airing the 2nd Wednesday of each month on CJSW 90.9 FM and Golden Co-op Radio. Every month, sound artists respond to a specific theme, sharing new and old work on the airwaves. The program started as part of The Hibernation Project, and is co-hosted by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett.
RVSP to attend
*This will be a live-to-tape recording for the radio, so prepare to be (fairly) quiet while our artists play!
*cSPACE Eau Claire is a little building and there may be limited space, but you are welcome to roll the dice and drop-in…
Because of space + time constraints, sound artist will be determined by invitation only

RADIO BROADCAST: Wednesday, February 14 // 8-9 pm
CJSW 90.9 FM and Golden Co-op Radio

The Hibernation Project is an art intervention occurring annually from Winter to Spring. A tool for embracing – and combating – Winter in Canada, each weekend an open community of artists, musicians, and participants respond to a theme, creating new work around the topic. Led by local artists Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett.
