cSPACE Eau Claire

Show and Tale
2024-01-05 16:30 - 18:30 UTC | cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, AB, T2P 0C5, Canada
Show and Tale Standup comedy
Join in to experience the eclectic collection of an artivist working in Calgary for 40 years.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/show-and-tale-standup-comedy-tickets-783143422057?aff=oddtdtcreator

Artifact [or Fiction] is a residency from Sharon Stevens, exploring themes of letting go.
Read more about Sharon Stevens here.

History of 1886 and Eau Claire Lumber
2024-01-06 13:30 - 15:30
History of 1886 & Eau Claire Lumber
Listen in to Historian with Darryl Cariou tell the story of the what cSPACE Eau Claire Community Hub was before.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/history-talk-really-local-tickets-783258255527?aff=oddtdtcreator

Artifact [or Fiction] is a residency from Sharon Stevens, exploring themes of letting go.
Read more about Sharon Stevens here.

Herland Memories and Tea Party
2024-01-07 13:30 - 15:30
herland memories & tea party
Bring your stories and memories of feminist film, video and activism from the past four decades with video screenings.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/herland-memories-tea-party-tickets-783256971687?aff=oddtdtcreator

Artifact [or Fiction] is a residency from Sharon Stevens, exploring themes of letting go.
Read more about Sharon Stevens here.

Archiving Do's and Don'ts
2024-01-10 13:30 - 14:30
Archiving Do’s and Don’ts
Zoom in to Archivist Braden Cannon from the Provincial Archives. Learn what to do with your stuff.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/archiving-an-overview-tickets-783260221407?aff=oddtdtcreator

Artifact [or Fiction] is a residency from Sharon Stevens, exploring themes of letting go.
Read more about Sharon Stevens here.

To Remember You By
2024-01-12 16:30 - 18:30
To Remember You By
In the tradition of Equinox Vigil a shrine will be built with funeral memorabilia. On display during the course of the residency and then to be set on fire at the EXIT finale. Bring in your loved ones’ stories and photos on paper, print, and newsprint.
Bring in funeral cards, programs, newspaper obituaries to be displayed in a memorial shrine and then to be set on fire at the EXIT finale.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/to-remember-you-by-tickets-783261836237?aff=oddtdtcreator

Artifact [or Fiction] is a residency from Sharon Stevens, exploring themes of letting go.
Read more about Sharon Stevens here.

Don't Go Breaking My Heart
2024-01-13 16:30 - 18:30
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
Love letters read out loud (yikes!) by actors, might be an 18+ event.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dont-go-breaking-my-heart-tickets-783263009747?aff=oddtdtcreator
Artifact [or Fiction] is a residency from Sharon Stevens, exploring themes of letting go.
Read more about Sharon Stevens here.

Finale
2024-01-14 16:30 - 18:30
Finale
Farewell to Artifacts or Fictions project by shredding, setting on fire or taken to the landfill.
Come out for the finale of the 3-week residency of touching Sharon Stevens’ stuff through stories, comedy, shrines, performance and info.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/final-sculpture-and-exit-tickets-783263671727?aff=oddtdtcreator

Artifact [or Fiction] is a residency from Sharon Stevens, exploring themes of letting go.
Read more about Sharon Stevens here.

HPR Curious Yellow Shop: Baker Miller Pink: Banshees
2024-01-15 - 2024-01-18
One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo Presents
A Series of RESIDENCIES
At the Curious Yellow Shop
cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub
381-2nd Avenue SW
RESIDENCY
Artists in Residence will have some hours where the doors will be open to the public to observe their process. Check the front door of the Curious Yellow Shop for hours!
Baker Miller Pink: Banshees

Jan 15 – 18
Banshees is an interdisciplinary narrative ghost walk that examines the scars of past relationships and the healing bonds of women scorned.

HPR Curious Yellow Shop: Words in Progress: Live!
2024-01-19 19:00 - 21:00
One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo Presents
A Series of free SPECIAL EVENTS
At the Curious Yellow Shop
cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub
381-2nd Avenue SW
Words In Progress: Live!
Created and Hosted by Louise Casemore
January 19th, 7pm
cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub
Free to attend, with Pay-It-Forward donations of cold weather items encouraged
https://forms.gle/cqbQxXDp55g1yABr7
PLAYWRIGHTS / IN THEIR OWN WORDS / READINGS AND CONVERSATION / LIVE AT HPR
Ever wondered how plays go from great idea to opening night? And what about that sometimes-glorious-sometimes-torturous space in between? Launched in 2020 as a 6-part series of online events, Words In Progress takes the leap into live with its first ever in-person installment, setting up shop at the High Performance Rodeo. Designed as a platform for playwrights to connect, converse, and share their work, this event features four unique and celebrated playwrights sharing 15-minute selections of plays in development. With plenty of room for conversations, questions, and the occasional debate, Words In Progress invites audiences to cozy up for an evening amongst artists, offering rare and entertaining insight into the creative process, and a sneak peek at some of Canada’s next great plays.
Hosted by playwright and curator LOUISE CASEMORE (Undressed, GEMINI), with Special Guest KODIE ROLLAN (Chromatic Theatre).
Featuring readings of new plays from STEPHEN MASSICOTTE (Mary’s Wedding, The Clockmaker), NATALIE MEISNER (Legislating Love, Speed Dating For Sperm Donors), TIFFANY THOMAS (The Rocky Mountain Special), and ARUN LAKRA (Sequence, Heist).
Presented with generous support from the Playwright’s Guild of Canada PlayConnect program, and One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo.

HPR Curious Yellow Shop: Awake and Still Drowning
2024-01-21 - 2024-01-27
One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo Presents
A Series of RESIDENCIES
At the Curious Yellow Shop
cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub
381-2nd Avenue SW
RESIDENCY
Artists in Residence will have some hours where the doors will be open to the public to observe their process. Check the front door of the Curious Yellow Shop for hours!
Awake and Still Drowning
Dustin Harvey
Jan 21 – 27
Dustin Harvey of Secret Theatre (Halifax) joins us in residence to workshop AWAKE AND STILL DROWNING, a cautionary fable about the day Nova Scotia becomes an island. It is a tale told through a combination of digital and live performance in which watching and performing signify the high cost of human migration when the exploited ocean takes back what is hers. The experience takes a simple approach to the interactive medium, allowing audience members to simultaneously play the protagonist’s part, a flock of little white birds living by the shoreline.

HPR Curious Yellow Shop: Where Digital Meets Physical with Dustin Harvey
2024-01-27 14:00 - 16:00
One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo Presents
A Series of free SPECIAL EVENTS
At the Curious Yellow Shop
cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub
381-2nd Avenue SW
Where Digital Meets Physical
Dustin Harvey
Jan. 27, 2:00-4:00pm
https://forms.gle/jBd4UmSafo5MmdfGA
Are you excited by the possibilities of immersive theatre? Join Dustin Harvey of Secret Theatre (Nova Scotia) in learning to create immersive theatre experiences in which the digital and physical realms intersect.

HPR Curious Yellow Shop: Upping Your Pitch Game
2024-01-28 14:00 - 16:00
One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo Presents
A Series of WORKSHOPS
At the Curious Yellow Shop
cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub
381-2nd Avenue SW
Workshop
Upping Your Pitch Game

Elena Eli Belyea
January 28, 2:00-4:00pm
https://forms.gle/W8tYEW93yk31Hdem8
Calling all arts makers, self-producers, playwrights, and creators! Join actor, playwright, and producer Elena Belyea (Smoke, Everyone We Know Will Be There, Miss Katelyn’s Grade Threes Prepare for the Inevitable) as we discuss the art of “pitching” a show to a potential producer or collaborator! Bring that burning pitch you’re just dying to share, and pick up some new tips, tricks, best practices, and pieces of advice from an artist whose pitch game is on point!

HPR Curious Yellow Shop: Chris Hunt: Old School
2024-01-29 - 2024-01-31
One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo Presents
A Series of RESIDENCIES
At the Curious Yellow Shop
cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub
381-2nd Avenue SW
RESIDENCY
Artists in Residence will have some hours where the doors will be open to the public to observe their process. Check the front door of the Curious Yellow Shop for hours!
Awake and Still Drowning
Chris Hunt: Old School
Jan 29 – 31
Christopher Hunt is an award-winning Calgary theatre artist who will be taking residence in the Curious Yellow Shop to work on his new project, Old School, an exploration of old-time music, what it means to come from a place, and how we understand ourselves in relation to our histories.

HPR Curious Yellow Shop: Justin Miller: Queens, Clowns, and Fools
2024-01-30 19:00 - 21:00
One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo Presents
A Series of WORKSHOPS
At the Curious Yellow Shop
cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub
381-2nd Avenue SW
Justin Miller: Queens, Clowns, and Fools
Justin Miller (Pearle Harbour)
Tue. Jan. 30 at 7:00pm
https://forms.gle/dAoPno2XHwyxfZ2p6
Queens, Clowns and Fools is an introduction to pathways for new work creation that address, invokes, or involves an audience’s presence directly into performance.
As taught by multi-award-winning drag clown Justin Miller (aka Pearle Harbour), this class aims to equip its participants with the skills to tear down (or at least peek around) the fourth wall, tap into their impulse and imagination, and open themselves up to the risk, surprise, and love that can arise when performer authentically listen to their audience, and respond urgently to hug the calamity in the room. Using tenants of Pochinko clown, bouffon, direct address, cabaret, commedia dell’arte, butoh, and contemporary drag, participants will tap into a presentational form that is both ancient and entirely in the moment.
This class is ideal for actors, drag queens, comedians, clowns, storytellers, solo and interdisciplinary performers, lecturers, anyone who has the courage to stand in front of someone else and entertain with both their wits and their heart.

HPR Curious Yellow Shop: High Performance Accessibility
2024-02-03 14:00 - 16:00
One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo Presents
A Series of free SPECIAL EVENTS
At the Curious Yellow Shop
cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub
381-2nd Avenue SW
Workshop
Inside Out Workshop: High Performance Accessibility
Sat. Feb. 3, Times TBD
How can accessibility not just welcome more people into your art, but also improve the art itself? Join Inside Out Theatre in this exploration of ways to incorporate accessibility practices in innovative, experimental, and theatrical ways!

The Hibernation Project: Open Studio
2024-02-07 14:00 - 18:00
The Hibernation Project is an art intervention occurring annually from Winter to Spring. A tool for embracing – and combating – Winter in Canada, each weekend an open community of artists, musicians, and participants respond to a theme, creating new work around the topic. Led by local artists Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett.
Read more about the Hibernation Project here.
And here: The Hibernation Project 2024 Themes

The Hibernation Project: EARS HAVE EYES Live
2024-02-11 18:00 - 23:00
EARS HAVE EYES: a listening party for sound art on the radio – LIVE!

LIVE-TO-TAPE Recording: Sunday, February 11, 2024
Doors at 6 pm, Live Performance from 7-9 pm
cSPACE Eau Claire

Theme by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett

The first event of our Hibernation-in-Residence at cSPACE Eau Claire celebrates the 2-year anniversary of EARS HAVE EYES with a special live* sound art radio program! Bring pillows and a blanket, and join us for a dreamy Listening Party at the historic Eau Claire & Bow River Lumber Company (next to Eau Claire Market) as sound artists, experimental musicians, and auditory explorers create a tapestry of sonic experiments for the enjoyment of your ears.
EARS HAVE EYES is a monthly sound art radio program airing the 2nd Wednesday of each month on CJSW 90.9 FM and Golden Co-op Radio. Every month, sound artists respond to a specific theme, sharing new and old work on the airwaves. The program started as part of The Hibernation Project, and is co-hosted by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett.
RVSP to attend
*This will be a live-to-tape recording for the radio, so prepare to be (fairly) quiet while our artists play!
*cSPACE Eau Claire is a little building and there may be limited space, but you are welcome to roll the dice and drop-in…
Because of space + time constraints, sound artist will be determined by invitation only

RADIO BROADCAST: Wednesday, February 14 // 8-9 pm
CJSW 90.9 FM and Golden Co-op Radio

The Hibernation Project is an art intervention occurring annually from Winter to Spring. A tool for embracing – and combating – Winter in Canada, each weekend an open community of artists, musicians, and participants respond to a theme, creating new work around the topic. Led by local artists Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett.

The Hibernation Project: TIMBER
2024-02-18 14:00 - 18:00
TIMBER: a collaborative interlocking lumber sculpture
BUILDING DAYS: Friday, Feb 16 & Saturday, Feb 17, 2024 // 11 am-7 pm
PUBLIC EXHIBITION: Sunday, February 18 // 2-6 pm
cSPACE Eau Claire

Theme by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett

Photos from the Glenbow Archives, found here.

In response to the history of cSPACE Eau Claire as the former offices and vault for the Eau Claire & Bow River Lumber Company, we invite artists & sculptors to join us in crafting a collaborative interlocking lumber sculpture. We will provide lumber, and artists will create sculptures following (and breaking) any conventions they desire, with the caveat that their work must, at some point, intersect with the sculptures around them. You may choose to work collaboratively, or design a piece by yourself, but the object of the experiment is to link the pieces together into one, giant, growing, organic structure – in a futile effort to reanimate the wood and keep it alive.
At the summary of the exhibition, all wood will be repurposed for future projects.
This event was inspired in part by Khalid Omokanye’s socially distanced collaborative sculpture, ISOLATED BABEL, for The Hibernation Project 2021.

Let us know if you want to participate!

You don’t need to RSVP to visit the Public Exhibition

The Hibernation Project is an art intervention occurring annually from Winter to Spring. A tool for embracing – and combating – Winter in Canada, each weekend an open community of artists, musicians, and participants respond to a theme, creating new work around the topic, led by local artists Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett.

The Hibernation Project: HEAT SEEKING
2024-02-24 19:00 - 23:30
HEAT SEEKING: a hide & seek slow dance
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Doors at 7 pm, Dance from 8-midnight
cSPACE Eau Claire

Theme by Desiree Nault, with Rebecca Reid & Ryan Bourne, and Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett

This year, we’re welcoming the return of the slow dance! Featuring a live band and communal movement games, this slow dance gives dancers the opportunity to question their relationship to touch, movement, music, sensation, space, and what the heck dancing even is.
The theme of this edition is Hiding and Seeking while dancing. We invite dancers to explore the theme through games and challenges that structure the event. We will provide an example of the games and challenges so you can get a sense of whether this will be fun for you sometime before the event.
P.S.

You don’t have to bring a partner.
We will bring props but feel free to bring your own.
Wear whatever makes you feel like dancing.
There will be a few snacks and lots of water. Alcohol or BYO? TBC.
There are no washrooms in the space, but there are facilities in a little building behind cSPACE Eau Claire, or at a hotel nearby

Want to attend the dance? There’s extremely limited space! Make sure you RSVP in advance…
RVSP to attend

The Hibernation Project is an art intervention occurring annually from Winter to Spring. A tool for embracing – and combating – Winter in Canada, each weekend an open community of artists, musicians, and participants respond to a theme, creating new work around the topic, led by local artists Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett.

The Hibernation Station 4
2024-03-01 19:00 - 2024-03-02 01:00
THE HIBERNATION STATION 4: public access TV for a live studio audience!
Friday, March 1, 2024
Doors at 7 pm, Show from 8-10 pm
cSPACE Eau Claire

Theme by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett

Hearkening to the joys of late night talk shows and public access TV, The Hibernation Station returns with an all-star cast of live performance art, videos, music, interactive bits, comedy, dance, and fun fun fun! Featuring quips and quagmires from the infamous Saskatchewan slew crew SCN (Swampy Communications Network).
Want to be part of our live studio audience? Ready to laugh, cheer, and cry on demand (just like the live broadcasts of old)? We’d love to have you! There’s extremely limited space! Make sure you RSVP in advance to attend…*
RVSP to attend
*Are we out of space IRL? Never fear! A recording will be available online after the event.

The Hibernation Project is an art intervention occurring annually from Winter to Spring. A tool for embracing – and combating – Winter in Canada, each weekend an open community of artists, musicians, and participants respond to a theme, creating new work around the topic, led by local artists Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett.
