cSPACE Eau Claire

This is Not My Culture - Public Exhibition
2023-09-28 17:00 - 21:00 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
Artist Xstine Cook invites you to view the results of her month-long residency and contemplate the creative potential of plastic.
Reception at 7 pm on September 28
The packaging materials for this residency were generated by Cook’s family’s normal consumption over the course of a year, and were prepared on site in the Hub, where the art was imagined, designed, and created.
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. This is Not My Culture contemplates the globe’s frantic pace of plastic generation that is at the crux of the fraught relationship between humans’ minds and hearts; our addiction to convenience, vs the interconnectedness of all life.

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. 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.
Cook recently co-wrote and produced MONSTR, an animated short by Tank Standing Buffalo for HBO Max Warner Brothers Discovery Access Animated Shorts Program.

This is Not My Culture - The Peace Pipeline Screening and Filmmaker Conversation
2023-09-30 14:00 - 16:00 | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
Join us to watch brilliant satirical film Peace Pipeline and stay for a conversation and bannock with director and actor Gitz Crazyboy.

In the Peace Pipeline, comedian-activists pose as an Indigenous energy company sharing plans to reroute Enbridge’s pipeline through the wealthy white suburbs of Duluth, MN, to more fairly share the risks oil pipelines bring—with shocking and hilarious results. 24 minutes.

Gitz Crazyboy is a Denesuthine and Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot) activist and youth worker who de-colonizes indigenous studies and teaches the history of Canada’s indigenous population. Working on reservations in rural areas and in cities, he educates on the destructive nature of the development of the Tar Sands. He is an author (“The Secret of the Stars”), an actor (credits include the Darren Aronofsky film “Mother!”) and an impresario (he hosted an episode of VICE’s “Rise,” and played both himself and a comic fictional character in “The Yes Men Are Revolting”).

Tito Ybarra is an Anishinaabe and Mexican comedian, pow-wow singer, actor and activist. He is well known in Indian Country for his stand-up, and he has appeared in the TV series “United Shades of America,” the film “Injunuity,” and he played both himself and a comic fictional character in “The Yes Men Are Revolting.” He has also been featured on Funny or Die, and has worked with legendary Native sketch comedy troupe the 1491s.

Free screening of this video is presented in recognition of National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, as part of Xstine Cook’s This is Not My Culture artist residency at CSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub. Xstine is 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 Kids Sport Canada:

https://kidsportcanada.ca/alberta/calgary/donate/

Links of Interest:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TitoComedy

Pipeline Humour
https://www.facebook.com/APTNNews/videos/454485501866723

Star Tribune Oct 28, 2019
https://www.startribune.com/enbridge-and-its-controversial-line-3-pipeline-targets-of-hoax/563997772/

Website
https://theyesmen.org/project/peacepipeline

Tarot Tuesdays @ Dark Recess with Karolina Gajewska
2023-10-03 18:30 - 20:30 | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
Take a peek into the metaphysical realm and look into your future while analyzing your past! Join us to get your hand or cards read with Carolina Gajewska.

Dark Recess Open House with Karolina Gajewska
2023-10-06 16:30 - 21:30 | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
Experience a fully immersive art installation designed to stimulate and evoke emotional responses common to horror themes. An element of this will include a large format horror inspired silk screened installation by printmaker Karolina Gajewska.
Dark Recess is a multi-faceted arts installation, dialog incubator and arts residency that unveils the emotions of loss, grief, pain, fear, darkness and trauma and how they are expressed culturally through art and various film horror genres. Inspired by the month of October and the resurrection of things arguably left better to dead, we’ll peel back the layers of which we express Dark Recess.

Dark Recess Poster Show curated by Karolina Gajewska
2023-10-07 18:30 - 21:00 | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
This event summons original silk-screened designs in partnership with Burnt Toast Studio to present a show exposing the dark drama / horror genre. Experience the work of printmakers and local designers in poster art focusing on the horror genera movie re-imagined. A Q&A with artists will be taking place.
Dark Recess is a multi-faceted arts installation, dialog incubator and arts residency that unveils the emotions of loss, grief, pain, fear, darkness and trauma and how they are expressed culturally through art and various film horror genres. Inspired by the month of October and the resurrection of things arguably left better to dead, we’ll peel back the layers from which we express Dark Recess.

Trivial Thursdays @ Dark Recess with Karolina Gajewska
2023-10-12 18:30 - 20:30 | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
Join us to test your horror film and dark arts knowledge! From Harry Potter to The Exorcist we will are going to see if your horror trivia lives up to the hype!
Dark Recess is a multi-faceted arts installation, dialog incubator and arts residency that unveils the emotions of loss, grief, pain, fear, darkness and trauma and how they are expressed culturally through art and various film horror genres. Inspired by the month of October and the resurrection of things arguably left better to dead, we’ll peal back the layers of which we express Dark Recess.

Pumpkin Competition @ Dark Recesses with Karolina Gajewska
2023-10-14 15:00 - 17:00 | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
A good ol’ pumpkin carving competition in celebration of all things Halloween! Prizes!
Dark Recess is a multi-faceted arts installation, dialog incubator and arts residency that unveils the emotions of loss, grief, pain, fear, darkness and trauma and how they are expressed culturally through art and various film horror genres. Inspired by the month of October and the resurrection of things arguably left better to dead, we’ll peal back the layers of which we express Dark Recess.
It is important to come together and discuss and express the dark recesses of our own minds and experiences and relate to one another to begin to heal and face those fears and traumas to begin to heal. Honoring and facing our darkness allows us also to honor and face the light.

Freedom Through Theatre: An Artist Prepares
2023-10-31 13:00 - 15:00 | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
An artist prepares the space. Resources and learning for anyone interested in the artist process, Forum Theatre and Theatre of the Oppressed theatre Models. Come and meet Linda Kee, actor and facilitator. Drop-In.

BYOB: Bring Your Own Boo's
2023-10-31 16:00 - 18:00 | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
Freedom Through Theatre’s Opening Halloween Meet and Greet. Bring your own character and come ready to play.
Free

Freedom Through Theatre: Digital Theatre Night
2023-11-01 18:00 - 20:00 | cSPACE Eau Claire, 381 2 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 5E9, Canada
Digital Theatre Night
All Human Beings Are Theatre

Lecture on film by Theatre of the Oppressed Theatre Activist Augusto Boal
8pm-9pm – Reflections

Free

Freedom Through Theatre: Augusto Boal Forum Theatre Workshop
2023-11-02 14:00 - 16:00 | cSPACE Eau Claire, 381 2 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 5E9, Canada
November 2, 2023
Public Hours:
2pm-7pm

2pm-4pm

Games for Actors and Non-Actors designed by Theatre Activist Augusto Boal.
A Forum Theatre Workshop, led by Linda Kee

Free

email: theareallindakee@gmail.com to reserve a spot
