The fun stuff. Calgary has a ton of amazing stuff that happens in our city. Reviews of new movies, or albums, art shows or news about sports.
Over this spring break, I’ve had the most wonderful – most awe-inspiring, phenomenal, stupendous, extraordinary, and breath-taking (for “wonderful” simply isn’t enough to describe the awesomeness that had befallen upon me, so I take to abuse the thesaurus) – experience: school trip to LONDON and PARIS! I’ve always loved to travel and sight-see, but the trip…
The past few months, I had the pleasure of working with dedicated volunteers who helped with the 2013 Otafest Maid Cafe. We had to learn how to do the dance featured in Secret’s Shy Boy video and then during the weekend of Otafest, greet and serve customers! Overall, volunteering was a ton of fun and…
Post-con blues? Don’t worry, there’s always photos to help with coping! Without further ado, here are a bunch of various photos I snapped up at Otafest of the various things that personally made my day. Enjoy. 🙂 Until next Otafest… 🙂
Instead of spending my evening sprawled on the couch in sweats writing this blog post, in celebration of the long weekend, if not the rain that Fernie has been having, I went for a walk. At least rain makes things green and spring-like, which is why I brought my camera. Even if you didn’t go…
Check out this very touching performance by Attraction, a dance group from Hungary. Who knew shadows could inspire such emotion.. http://youtu.be/CvQBUccxBr4
Great works of poetry usually have a meaningful story behind all of them. This Calgary-based poet, Clayton L Sanders was in a dark time of his life and this poem, along with others immediately touched me with its meaningful message and prose. A Company of Angels by Clayton L Sanders 09/28/08 A company of Angels…
……..The May long weekend has ended, and that means Otafest is now over. 🙁 *spams sad faces all over the blog post* Hey, we still have Otafest Aurora this year, so maybe I should be actively spamming happy faces all over this post. As I took advantage of being a volunteer this year, the one…
It’s running season in Cowtown, but Colour Me Rad is not just for hardcore track athletes – this rainbow explosion of gluten-free awesomeness is for anyone who’s not allergic to fun. As runners race through Canada Olympic Park, they are bombarded with blasts of colourful corn starch every 5 minutes. What starts out as a…
Last Tuesday, the Epcor Centre presented an insightful and enchanting performance called Red. I was with Youth Central, volunteering for the event and had the fortunate opportunity to watch the show live. There was an excited atmosphere and the fans were most definitely anticipating the show! I know I was! SPOILER ALERT – Stop reading…
First thing’s first, I have not read the book so I am reviewing this solely movie wise, not about if it was true to the book or not. Plot: Nick Carraway, a young man trying to succeed in the success of bonds in New York during the 1920’s, meets his strange neighbour Gatsby. Jay Gatsby…
If you haven’t heard of the Green brothers, let me give you a quick run down. John Green, (whose quotes I have featured in this article), has to be one of my favourite writers. If you’ve ever heard someone exclaim “Have you read TFIOS?!”, they are referring, not to some extra-terrestrial piece of literary material,…
Friday’s charm is printmaking’s charm. When it’s the last day of the work week and you are prepared for a fun weekend adventure, you have more patience to do it! Two Fridays ago, this event was my chance to enjoy Creative Printmaking at the North Pleasant Arts Centre! (And to support Youth Week too!) It was a pretty quiet night…
We were learning the Vietnam War in social class the other day, and we learnt about how average American citizens strongly opposed the war at that time, because of the unnecessary damage that would be done to all the victims and their families & friends. A couple of days later, I came across this poem…
Yann Tierson is probably one of my favorite contemporary pianists. He has a way of conveying emotions through the simplicity of his work, proving that complex sheet music is not essential to writing a breathtaking song. The 2001 film Amelie contains a collection of his works, so beautiful and moving that the movie would be…
The “Draw My Life” video trend has been growing for a while, and I recently watched a few of them. It’s no wonder they are so popular, because I think these videos are really worth watching and have good morals (I sound like I’m preaching, but it’s true!) This week I wanted to just provide…