SPACEPILOT
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Connecting artists and creative entrepreneurs with underused commercial spaces to create in.
SPACEPILOT is a cSPACE Projects initiative that involves partnering with commercial landlords to activate their underused spaces with artists who need space. This type of leasing model is popular in the UK and known as a Meanwhile Lease that exists on a month-to-month basis.
Under the direction of Sean Dennie, the pilot is collecting vital data regarding Calgary’s need for artist-use spaces. The response so far is undeniable – artists and creative entrepreneurs in Calgary need affordable space in order to practice, perform, and run their businesses.
For artists, use of these vacant spaces can last a week, a month, or sometimes years on a month-to-month basis, and provide office, workshop, rehearsal/event/exhibition space, at affordable rates. It’s a match made in collaborative heaven!
SPACEPILOT currently has undertaken 40,000 square feet across six buildings and will determine the viability of whether there is the demand from arts and culture groups to maintain the pilot as an ongoing project.
If you are an artist or creative entrepreneur needing space, we encourage you to fill out the Art Space Survey below. (3-5 minutes).
About Sean Dennie (he/him)
Sean Dennie (he/him) is a child of Toronto born in the disco era. He studied
International Relations at Carleton University in Ottawa before becoming fascinated with the west.
In 1995 Sean purchased a one-way ticket to Calgary armed with a camera to document his western exploits. Cutting his teeth in Calgary’s gritty punk rock scene of the 90’s, Sean became an award-winning photographer completing hundreds of commercial, editorial and stock campaigns and assignments around the world.
Sean founded Bertrand Crump Property Corp. in 2007, a small, family owned commercial real estate acquisition and management company and currently manages his family’s portfolio.
Occupying the liminal zone between art and real property, Sean has undertaken the research of the Meanwhile Lease Pilot, and to test the viability of an ongoing program to connect commercial property owners’ holdings with arts and culture groups.
Loving Wuthering Frights! A format after my own bloody twisted heart ❤️
Two more shows! Friday and Saturday!
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The Oratory: WRAP PARTY & POTLUCK 🎉☀️💕✨😎
This Sunday, we’re going out blessed with a BOOM! 💥
Link in bio for full agenda. 🗓️
Drop a 😎 if you’re ready to eat, laugh and play in the sun with us.
Meet you at The Oratory!
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For our second week at The Oratory, we got to speak about embodied practices, somatic abolitionism and explore the topic “our bodies store our stories”, with our beloved Pam.
This choreographer, interdisciplinary performance maker, movement educator and arts worker, was a phenomenal guest-in-residence and we couldn’t have been more thankful for the “body acknowledgment” practice she shared. 🫶🏽
Check out the live if you haven’t already!
Link in bio to register for our next talk on Sunday or you can pay at the door with cash, e-transfer or with-a-plant. 🥰🪴
Meet you at The Oratory! ✨
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You know the drill, here’s your weekly calendar reminder to come to The Oratory 🗓️
We launch our fourth week topic Sunday “Claim Your Space” with our mystery guest-in-residence. This is gonna be a good one! 🙏🏽❤️
Link in bio to register for our next talk on Sunday, you can pay-what-you-may at the door or you can pay-with-a-plant 🥰
Meet you at The Oratory! ✨
#theoratoryproject #cspaceeauclaire #cityofcalgary #yyc #yycevents #calgaryartsdev #downtown #neighbourhoodhub #yycbuzz #yycliving #thespacepilotyyc
MEET US IN PERSON ✨🎉
On Tuesday April 25th from 7-10am, you can experience The Oratory on your early morning radio. 📻🙌🏾
Tune in via 90.9 FM, online at [CJSW.com](http://CJSW.com) or download the CJSW app to listen!
✨Learn about the uniquely curated experience so far at The Oratory;
✨ enjoy smooth sounds from CJSW vet stefloveroots of Knotted Roots;
✨soak up healing spoken word poetry from the incomparable harpreetmdayal;
✨meet the Executive Director of cSPACEkingedeard, Deeter Schurig, as well as Dennis Hoffart, from the City for making this all possible, and;
✨wake up and sip on coffee or tea from our Soular.Power.Radio show sponsor Lukesdrugmart
Mark you calendar, set your alarm and rise & smile with us for this multi-layered community mash up! This is one live show you won’t want to miss 😎
**no registration required, just show up!**
Meet you at The Oratory!
#theoratoryproject #cspaceeauclaire #cityofcalgary #yyc #yycevents #calgaryartsdev #downtown #neighbourhoodhub #yycbuzz #yycliving #thespacepilotyyc #cjsw #radio #neosoul #music #musiclover
On Tuesday April 25th from 7-10am, you can experience The Oratory on your early morning radio. 📻🙌🏾
Tune in via 90.9 FM, online at [CJSW.com](http://CJSW.com) or download the CJSW app to listen!
✨Learn about the uniquely curated experience so far at The Oratory;
✨ enjoy smooth sounds from CJSW vet stefloveroots of Knotted Roots;
✨soak up healing spoken word poetry from the incomparable harpreetmdayal;
✨meet the Executive Director of cSPACEkingedeard, Deeter Schurig, as well as Dennis Hoffart, from the City for making this all possible, and;
✨wake up and sip on coffee or tea from our Soular.Power.Radio show sponsor Lukesdrugmart
Mark you calendar, set your alarm and rise & smile with us for this multi-layered community mash up! This is one live show you won’t want to miss 😎
**no registration required, just show up!**
Meet you at The Oratory!
#theoratoryproject #cspaceeauclaire #cityofcalgary #yyc #yycevents #calgaryartsdev #downtown #neighbourhoodhub #yycbuzz #yycliving #thespacepilotyyc #cjsw #radio #neosoul #music #musiclover
Our in-house live band key30orchestra for the month continuously brings the heat. 🔥
Today, we’ll be highlighting one of the Key 30 Orchestra crew known as Robson, also referred to as RobyMisterDrums. Musician, entrepreneur and founder of Key 30 Orchestra giving us all the chills. 🥁🎉
Stay tuned for more clips from our in-house band because we have plenty that we want to show you!
Link in bio to register for our next talk on Sunday or you can pay at the door with cash, e-transfer or with-a-plant. 🥰🪴
Meet you at The Oratory! ✨
#theoratoryproject #cspaceeauclaire #cityofcalgary #yyc #yycevents #calgaryartsdev #downtown #neighbourhoodhub #yycbuzz #yycliving #thespacepilotyyc
We’ve hit the halfway mark of this experience and we couldn’t be more proud. 🎉🤗
We have so much more goodness coming up with our next talk as creator and founder of RecessCalgary, Tyson Bankert (tibkid) joins us to discuss the topic “Play is Resistance”. ✊🏿🎯🏀🧩
As for me personally… I miss you! I would love to reconnect with you all, hear your thoughts about what we’ve been sharing at The Oratory and practice understanding with each other.
So… we’re introducing a new offering at The Oratory, called “Ask Us Anything”. Every Friday, I’ll be answering questions from the stories and live questions, and we may even have a surprise guest join us 👀. We will also encourage you as a community member, to join the live yourself and show your lovely face! 🥰
Anything on your mind or heart can be spoken about at on Friday’s live from 7-8pm 🙏🏽❤️
Mark your calendar or set a reminder to attend our first-ever live Q&A tonight!
Meet you at The Oratory! ✨
#theoratoryproject #cspaceeauclaire #cityofcalgary #yycevents #thespacepilotyyc
cSPACE thanks the Alberta Real Estate Foundation (AREF) and Calgary Arts Development Authority (CADA) for their support.
