Making Treaty 7 Remount of Okosi Band Rehearsals
2023-08-28 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-08-29 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-08-30 15:00 - 18:00 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
Marvin’s Room Month at cSPACE Eau Claire
A jam fusion of pow wow and contemporary music that will be featured in the theatrical production of Okosi.
From the Making Treaty 7 Website:
O’kosi (oh-go-see) is the Blackfoot word meaning ‘in the fall when we gather,’ and refers to returning home to the river valley for winter camps.

Luis Tovar and Arturo Marc Quartet Open Rehearsal
2023-08-28 19:00 - 23:00 UTC
Luis Tovar and Arturo Marc quartet open rehearsal.

Marvin's Room presents ‘’LUZ’’ Live Show
2023-08-29 20:00 - 23:00 UTC
Luis Tovar and Arturo Marc quartet live performance.
Venezuelan seasoned percussionist Luis ‘El Pana’ Tovar, and Venezuelan-Canadian singer-songwriter Arturo Marc have joined forces to create ‘’LUZ’’, an unforgettable live music experience that fuses Arturo’s unique blend of Venezuelan folk and Caribbean music, under the guidance of Luis‘ exceptional music production and percussion skills. ‘’LUZ’’ live experience aims to amplify the work done in Arturo’s debut EP ‘’LUZ’’ produced by Luis and expected to be release on Friday, October 20th, 2023. The ‘’LUZ’’ EP showcases their ability to seamlessly blend Venezuelan and Latin cultural influences into a harmonious musical journey.
In ‘’LUZ’’ the live show collaboration, Arturo Marc’s emotive vocals and genre-blurring compositions are elevated by the rhythmic expertise of Luis ‘El Pana’ Tovar. The audience can expect a fusion of traditional Venezuelan melodies, reggae-infused rhythms, and a dynamic shot of cultural diffusion. The performance promises to showcase the seamless integration of Arturo’s heartfelt music with Luis‘ percussion artistry, delivering a unique and unforgettable musical experience.
Arturo Marc is an emerging talent in the music scene, renowned for his distinctive fusion of Venezuelan folk music, reggae, and ska. With a focus on heartfelt lyrics and engaging melodies, Arturo brings a fresh perspective to the stage. With over two decades of professional experience, Luis ‘El Pana’ Tovar is a Venezuelan-born percussionist who has made his mark in the Western Canadian music landscape. Known for his outstanding percussion skills, dynamic energy and unique ability to infuse his Afro-Caribbean roots into any project, Luis brings an electrifying presence to live performances and recording sessions.

Come FLY with Me with Rein the Rebel and featured guests
2023-08-31 15:00 - 21:00 UTC
An ode to ‘The FLY’.
Original Rudes members Rein the Rebel, Roofeo and Creeasian join forces to create a series inspired by the life, conversations with, and the music of Marvin Kee.

Thursday, August 31, 3pm-9pm
The Exchange: come kick-it.
Visual installation and exhibit with Marcello Correa, JT Rebalbos and Brandon Barcena.

Friday, September 1, 3pm-9pm
Art-Luck. Food and Music.

Saturday, September 2, 3pm-9pm
Beats, Rudes, and Life.

Marvin's Room Closing Fam Jam
2023-09-03 14:00 - 18:00 UTC
A specially curated exhibition from the personal archives and collection of musician Marvin Kee.
Music, Art, Food.
Free to attend.

This is Not My Culture - Open Studio
2023-09-04 13:00 - 17:00 UTC
This is Not My Culture – Open Studio
cSPACE Neighbourhood Hub
Artist Xstine Cook invites you to contemplate the creative potential of plastic as she transforms diverted packaging material into a full body mask creature.
By touching, manipulating, and re-purposing plastic that was intended for a single use before being thrown to Earth to process over unknown millennia, This is Not My Culture invites you to view this miraculous material not as waste, but as an extraordinary resource. The globe’s frantic pace of plastic generation is at the crux of the fraught relationship between humans’ minds and hearts; our addiction to convenience, vs the interconnectedness of all life.
The packaging materials for this residency were generated by Cook’s family’s normal consumption over the course of a year, and will be prepared on site in the Hub, where the mask will be imagined, designed, created and exhibited. Viewers will observe the repetitive, meticulous process of creation, and the slow reveal of the creature.
Open Studio
Whenever the artist is working, the space will be open. See schedule for confirmed times, or drop by to see what’s going on.
Note: Space will be closed: September 14-18
Events and Happenings
Check out several community events happening as part of This is Not My Culture, including Make-Your-Own Mask sessions, Mapperz Bring Your Own HDMI Vol II projection mapping event, Work and Watch movie nights, Cabaret Jam puppet meet up, a screening of the Bum Family’s film Pollution Solution, a special National Day of Truth and Reconciliation screening of Gitz Crazyboy’s Peace Pipeline, and an exhibition of This is Not My Culture creations.
*Some events request registration via Eventbrite.
*Photo credit: Sean Dennie

This is Not My Culture - Watch and Work: Circle of Care
2023-09-05 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Watch and Work is a series of films and documentaries you can watch while artist Xstine Cook works on her Hub residency. Be welcome to bring along a project of your own. Please use the Eventbrite link to register.
Tuesday September 5
12pm: Watch and Work: Circle of Care – Gender Identity EDIA Workshop produced by Calgary Arts Development Association (CADA).
Come by to watch CADA’s Virtual Town Hall – Circle of Care–Gender Identity EDIA Workshop led by Sable Sweetgrass. This is a 1-hour Zoom session that we will watch during artist Xstine Cook’s residency at the Hub.

This is Not My Culture - Watch and Work: 18 Products Made From Trash
2023-09-05 15:00 - 17:00 UTC
Watch and Work is a series of films and documentaries you can watch while artist Xstine Cook works on her Hub residency. Be welcome to bring along a project of your own. Please use the Eventbrite link to register.
Event 2: Tuesday September 5
3pm: Watch and Work: 18 Products Made from Trash

Drop in to watch 18 Products Made From Trash – a 2.5 hour documentary during artist Xstine Cook’s residency at the Hub.

18 Products Made From Trash is from Season 3 Marathon | World Wide Waste | Insider Business
We make 2 billion metric tons of garbage every year. This documentary highlights people, companies, and governments all over the world who are using old and new technologies to turn trash into treasure. Whether it’s bricks made from milk cartons or eyeglasses made from coffee grounds, or mats made from. human hair, here’s 18 fascinating examples of how people around the globe deal with World Wide Waste.
18 Products Made From Trash will play as part of Xstine Cook’s Artist in Residency “This is Not My Culture” at cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub. Cook will be working on her art during the video screning, and attendees are welcome to bring along a project they want to work on while watching and listening to the video.
Free screening of this video is presented as part of Xstine Cook’s This is Not My Culture artist residency at cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub. Xstine will be modifying and altering reclaimed commercial plastic packaging material into an artistic creation during the month of September.
The cSPACE Eau Claire Hub Artist in Residency program is supported by cSPACE Projects and The City of Calgary.
*Note that capacity is extremely limited.* If you sign up, please attend, or cancel your reservation so that others may.
Please consider a donation to Nature Conservancy of Canada
https://secure.natureconservancy.ca/site/SPageNavigator/Forms/landing.html?s_locale=en_CA&_ga=2.136098099.329967507.1691470962-445715520.1691470962

This is Not My Culture - DIY Mask Making Activity
2023-09-10 13:00 - 17:00 UTC
Drop in and try your hand transforming plastic into an interesting mask. All ages, children welcome with accompanying adult.
ABOUT XSTINE COOK:
A cultural activist who uses the power of storytelling to bring unconventional stories and art forms to light, Xstine Cook operates on the core belief that all humans are art makers, and acts of radical creativity are necessary to evolve our understanding of ourselves, each other and our world.
Xstine is a visitor to the Treaty 7 area, who was raised in Calgary and in the foothills of Alberta along Dog Pound Creek. Cook is a mask maker and multi-disciplinarian and she trained at Dell’Arte theatre school in Humboldt County California, and with various masters in Indonesia, Italy, France, and the West Coast of Canada.
Xstine co-founded Green Fools Theatre where she wrote, directed, and designed many of the company’s boundary-stretching original works until she left in 2003 to start the Festival of Animated Objects, and CAOS, an interdisciplinary arts company.
Xstine is the recipient of the 2022 City of Calgary Award for Community Achievement in the Arts, the Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Medal, the Rozsa Foundation’s Innovation Award, and countless awards for her filmmaking.
She recently co-wrote and produced MONSTR, an animated short by Tank Standing Buffalo for HBO Max Warner Brothers Discovery Access Animated Shorts Program.

Photo Credit: Sean Dennie

This is Not My Culture - Watch and Work: Naqoyqatsi
2023-09-11 21:00 - 23:00 UTC
Watch and Work is a series of films and documentaries you can watch while artist Xstine Cook works on her Hub residency. Be welcome to bring along a project of your own. Please use the Eventbrite link to register.
Event 6: Monday September 11
9pm: Watch and Work: Free screening of Naqoyqatsi Godfrey Reggio’s 2002 film Life as War.
Drop in and watch Naqoyqatsi, also known as Naqoyqatsi: Life as War. This 2002 American non-narrative film directed by Godfrey Reggio and the sequel to Reggio’s experimental 1982 film, Koyaanisqatsi and 1988’s Powaqqatsi. Naqoyqasti is the third and final film in the Qatsi trilogy.
Naqoyqatsi is a Hopi word (written as naqö̀yqatsi in Hopi orthography) meaning “life as war.” In the film’s closing credits, Naqoyqatsi is also translated as “civilized violence” and “a life of killing each other”. A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
While Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi examine modern life in industrial countries and the conflict between encroaching industrialization and traditional ways of life, using slow motion and time-lapse footage of cities and natural landscapes, about eighty percent of Naqoyqatsi uses archive footage and stock images manipulated and processed digitally on non-linear editing (non-sequential) workstations and intercut with specially-produced computer-generated imagery to demonstrate society’s transition from a natural environment to a technology-based one. Reggio described the process as “virtual cinema.”
According to Reggio, the film has no screenplay per se, but three movements (like those of a symphony) with different themes:[5]
1. Numerica.com: Language and place gives way to numerical code and virtual reality.
2. Circus maximus: Competition, winning, records, fame, “fair play” and the love of money are elevated to the prime values of life. Life becomes a game.
3. Rocketship twentieth century: A world that language can no longer describe. The resulting explosive tempo of technology is war and civilized violence.
Release date: October 18, 2002
Director: Godfrey Reggio
Music composed by: Philip Glass
Sequel: Naqoyqatsi, Powaqqatsi
Cinematography: Russell Lee Fine
Naqoyqatsi will play as part of Xstine Cook’s Artist in Residency This is Not My Culture at cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub. Cook will be working on her art during the screening, and attendees are welcome to bring along a project they want to work on while watching and listening to the talk.
Free screening of this movie is presented as part of Xstine Cook’s This is Not My Culture artist residency at cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub. Xstine will be modifying and altering reclaimed commercial plastic packaging material into an artistic creation during the month of September.
The cSPACE Eau Claire Hub Artist in Residence program is supported by cSPACE Projects and The City of Calgary.
*Note that capacity is extremely limited.* If you sign up, please attend, or cancel your reservation so that others may.
Please consider a donation to Nature Conservancy of Canada
Please sign up on Eventbrite.

This is Not My Culture - Workshop Cabaret Jam
2023-09-12 14:00 - 16:00 UTC
Artists from Calgary Animated Objects Society (CAOS) invite you bring your puppets, masks, and playful spirit to share and learn with a gathering of like-minded folks.

ABOUT CAOS
CAOS is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to acts of radical creativity using the art forms of mask, puppetry, and animated objects.
CAOS produces the Dolly Wiggler Cabaret, a ribald anything-goes night of short form puppetry and mask for adults that takes over the #1 Legion annually around St Patrick’s Day.
CAOS website:
https://animatedobjects.ca
Looking for more puppets? Check out the Festival of Animated Objects, coming up in March.
FAO Website:
https://www.puppetfestival.ca

This is Not My Culture - Watch and Work: Mother Trees and the Social Forest
2023-09-19 19:00 - 21:00 UTC
Watch and Work is a series of films and documentaries you can watch while artist Xstine Cook works on her Hub residency. Be welcome to bring along a project of your own. Please use the Eventbrite link to register.
Event 7: Tuesday September 19
7pm: Watch and Work: Free screening of a recording of forest ecologist Suzanne Simard’s talk on how trees communicate with fungi, and with each other.
Drop in and enjoy listening to a recording of Forest Ecologist Suzanne Simard talk where she reveals that trees are part of a complex, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground mycorrhizal networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities, and share and exchange resources and support.
The talk will play as part of Xstine Cook’s Artist in Residency This is Not My Culture at cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub. Cook will be working on her art during the screening, and attendees are welcome to bring along a project they want to work on while watching and listening to the talk.
Simard’s extraordinary research and tenacious efforts to raise awareness on the interconnectedness of forest systems, both above and below ground, has revolutionized our understanding of forest ecology. This increasing knowledge is driving a call for more sustainable practices in forestry and land management, ones that develop strategies based on the forest as a whole entity, not on trees as isolated individuals.
Mother Trees and the Social Forest was given on June 15, 02021 as part of Long Now’s Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world’s leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand.
The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/longnow
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/longnow
Free screening of this pre-recorded talk is presented as part of Xstine Cook’s This is Not My Culture artist residency at cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub. Xstine will be modifying and altering reclaimed commercial plastic packaging material into an artistic creation during the month of September.
The cSPACE Eau Claire Hub Artist in Residence program is supported by cSPACE Projects and The City of Calgary.
*Note that capacity is extremely limited.* If you sign up, please attend, or cancel your reservation so that others may.
Please consider a donation to Nature Conservancy of Canada
https://secure.natureconservancy.ca/site/SPageNavigator/Forms/landing.html?s_locale=en_CA&_ga=2.136098099.329967507.1691470962-445715520.1691470962

This is Not My Culture - Watch and Work:Trees and Mushrooms Communicating
2023-09-19 21:00 - 23:00 (America/Edmonton)
Watch and Work is a series of films and documentaries you can watch while artist Xstine Cook works on her Hub residency. Be welcome to bring along a project of your own. Please use the Eventbrite link to register.
Event 8: Tuesday September 19
9pm: Watch and Work: Free screening of Trees and Mushrooms Communicating
Free screening of a recording of forest ecologist Suzanne Simard’s talk on how trees communicate with fungi, and with each other.

Drop in and enjoy listen to a captivating recording of a talk from Suzanne Simard, Professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia.
The talk will play as part of Xstine Cook’s Artist in Residency This is Not My Culture at cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub. Cook will be working on her art during the screening, and attendees are welcome to bring along a project they want to work on while watching and listening to the talk.
About the talk: Suzanne Simard has a PhD in Forrest Sciences from Oregon State University. She talks about how the forest is linked through mycorrhizal connections, how trees communicate with fungi, and with each other. She explains how large “mother” trees help their offspring, as well as their “neighbours” thrive in the coniferous forests of the west. A huge cycle, or “spiral,” of life is taking place and how humans are impacting the forest system.
She also has a movie/documentary on Amazon Prime called Intelligent Trees which will change the way you look at a forest, especially the old growth forests, and how important conservation measures are to not only fungi and plants and trees, but to humans and life on earth as we know it.
Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society was honored to have her give this talk during a club meeting which was open to non-club members because we feel this topic is so important.
The talk will play as part of Xstine Cook’s Artist in Residency This is Not My Culture at cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub. Cook will be working on her art during the screening, and attendees are welcome to bring along a project they want to work on while watching and listening to the talk.
Free screening of this pre-recorded talk is presented as part of Xstine Cook’s This is Not My Culture artist residency at cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub. Xstine will be modifying and altering reclaimed commercial plastic packaging material into an artistic creation during the month of September.
The cSPACE Eau Claire Hub Artist in Residence program is supported by cSPACE Projects and The City of Calgary.

This is Not My Culture - Open HDMI Vol II
2023-09-21 19:00 - 22:00 UTC
In celebration of their one-year anniversary, MAPPERZ takes over cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub in collaboration with This is Not My Culture artist residency. In this Open HDMI night, the Hub will be immersed in projectors with a spare cable ready for local visual artists to plug in and play. Free to attend. Open to the public.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
MAPPERZ is a projection mapping club that transforms areas around Calgary with the use of optical illusions and creative alteration of perspective.
https://www.instagram.com/mapperzyyc/
https://www.mackenziebedford.com
