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A Day in the Life: Guilty Confessions of a Designer

A Day In The Life: Guilty Confessions of a DesignerWritten by Paul Hardy // @Paulhardyinc @paulhardydesign Starved for both a late night craving and what to compose, I decide to make my way to the grocery store for some inspiring snack food. I grab a carton of milk, a dozen cookies from the bakery section,...

A day in the life: Pieces of my Day

A Day In The Life: Pieces of My DayWritten by Barb MacKenzie // @pieceonpeace It’s Tuesday morning and I am on my way to my boutique with a sewing machine in the trunk. Tuesdays are usually quiet. I am tired of doing paperwork and like any artist, I am looking for time to create. Today,...

A Day In The Life: You & Me vs. the 1 percent

A Day In The Life: You & Me vs. the 1 percent Written by Kevin Jesuino // @kevinjesuino At the moment of writing this blog, I am attending the Open Engagement conference, an international gathering of artists working in the realm of socially engaged art practice. If you’ll allow me, I’d like to set up...

LE CIRQUE DE LA NUIT: we like to dream big

What will you show us at The Dream Factory? Well, given the chance we'd show you a world filled with awe inspiring feats of danger, beauty and astonishment. We like to dream big! If you had a dream for the Calgary Arts scene, what would it be? Our dream would be one of support, encouragement...

Tim Uniac: a dream manipulation

Tim Uniac is a sound designer in Calgary, Alberta and he is currently the Head of Sound at Theatre Junction! What will you show us at The Dream Factory? How easily your brain can be manipulated! Super fun! If you had a dream for the Calgary Arts scene, what would it be? People would stop...

Allison Lynch: I dream of flying

Allison has performed on nearly all of Calgary’s major stages as an actor, singer, sound-designer, sound composer or musical director. She was an artist in the Theatre Junction resident company from 2007-2008. Selected credits include Romeo and Juliet, All’s Well that Ends Well, Goodnight Desdemona, Good-morning Juliet, The Shakespeare Company; Dear Johnny Deere, One Man…

Peter Moller: Am i awake now?

Peter Moller lives and creates here, in Treaty 7 territory. He has run Egg Press Co., a graphic and sound design establishment, since forever. The recipient of a number of Betty Mitchell and Elizabeth Sterling Haynes awards and nominations for his theatre sound designs, it has been his good fortune to collaborate…

Lane Shordee: My dreams escape me

Lane Shordee is a multidisciplinary artist living in Calgary, Alberta. Drawing from construction waste and items found by happenstance, he builds elegant sculptures and installations that both challenge and indulge our relationships with our urban and rural ecologies. Shordee’s notable works include THE GREENHOUSE (Kensington, Calgary – Wreck City: An Epilogue for 809)…

Chris Dadge: A dream of the restless sleeper

Chris Dadge is a musician, composer, producer, and live performance organizer. As a drummer, his most visible role, he’s known for his work with artists such as Chad VanGaalen, Samantha Savage Smith, Alvvays, Rae Spoon, Woodpigeon, and Snailhouse; he currently coleads critically acclaimed psych-pop combo Lab Coast, whose latest full-length, Lab Coast, is being…

The internet knows what my dream means…

Anton De Groot is a freelance designer, creator and theatre maker based in Calgary, and has recently completed an MFA in design and technical theatre. His main interest is in scenography within a devised theatre process; how immediate integration of light, sound and projection can be used in the conceptualization and…