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  Art Fairs!

  Commercial galleries take the work of their artists' all over the world to art fairs where they are exposed to serious, potential new buyers. We should have the same in Calgary. Over time it would bring buyers, artists, and representatives from contemporary galleries from all over the world! Exhibiting the work of local artists is very much needed, but art fairs are one way to inject our artistic pride into a larger ...more »

  Commercial galleries take the work of their artists' all over the world to art fairs where they are exposed to serious, potential new buyers. We should have the same in Calgary. Over time it would bring buyers, artists, and representatives from contemporary galleries from all over the world! Exhibiting the work of local artists is very much needed, but art fairs are one way to inject our artistic pride into a larger art scene.

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  Submitted by shyra.desouza 2 years ago

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  The World's Most Delicious Jazz Festival

  It's time the world knows that Calgary is a world class culinary and cultural destination. Please vote for The Tasty Jazz Festival - "The World's Most Delicious Jazz Festival". As Canada’s Cultural Capital, Calgary would have the opportunity to start a new annual festival that invites the world to show off their very best food and jazz in a combined festival taking place in August at Olympic Plaza. As the inaugural ...more »

  It's time the world knows that Calgary is a world class culinary and cultural destination.

  Please vote for The Tasty Jazz Festival - "The World's Most Delicious Jazz Festival". As Canada’s Cultural Capital, Calgary would have the opportunity to start a new annual festival that invites the world to show off their very best food and jazz in a combined festival taking place in August at Olympic Plaza.

  As the inaugural Tasty Jazz Festival, I suggest inviting the city of New Orleans, Louisiana to come to Calgary and bring it’s very best food and jazz to share with Calgarians. As the birthplace of jazz, New Orleans is a perfect choice as the first guests to share their exquisite culinary and music traditions.

  Future Tasty Jazz invitees may include Tokyo, New York City, Chicago, London, Paris, Rio or even entire countries such as Norway, Spain, Finland, Germany, Cuba etc.

  As 2012 is the 100th anniversary of The Calgary Stampede, I argue that it’s time for Calgary to begin a new tradition of showing the world much more than just Calgary’s western heritage because Calgary is much more: it’s a culinary and cultural destination. By inviting the world to teach us about their food and jazz they will experience ours in the process.

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  Submitted by timtamashiro 2 years ago

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  CALGARY BIENNALE OF INTERNATIONAL ART

  Invite every country in the world to select one artist and mount a massive exhibition at the Stampede Grounds. Temporary (or even permanent!) Pavillions would be built for each country. Modelled after successful art festivals/exhibitions in Venice and São Paulo, and to a lesser extent the Whitney Biennale in New York, it would attract hundreds of thousands of people from around the world to the city, and especially if ...more »

  Invite every country in the world to select one artist and mount a massive exhibition at the Stampede Grounds. Temporary (or even permanent!) Pavillions would be built for each country. Modelled after successful art festivals/exhibitions in Venice and São Paulo, and to a lesser extent the Whitney Biennale in New York, it would attract hundreds of thousands of people from around the world to the city, and especially if it was held at the Stampede grounds, counter the popular image that Calgary is a city of philistines. Currently there is not a major art Biennale in North America, so why not Calgary? Why wait until Toronto or Edmonton take the initiative and start one of their own and get all the cache that will come with it?

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  Submitted by mmarkowsky 2 years ago

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  International Cultural Centre

  Calgary could host major international and Canadian performing and visual artists during the year. The artists would be part of a series that would generate international interest in Calgary, and attract tourists to our city. The artists would be chosen to demonstrate our history, the diversity of our current cultural status, and our future aspirations.

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  Submitted by Michael Green 2 years ago

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  Export Excellence

  We should focus on exporting excellence: the people, organizations, initiatives, technologies, art, etc. that have roots in Calgary and can compete in external markets. We should work to figure out what it is about Calgary that helped them achieve these qualities, and what can we do to help the world experience more Calgary???

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  The Great Canadian Tour

  Calgary artists and cultural organizations could put together a national touring show (one big show together or several smaller shows) that would start to put a bigger emphasis on "exporting" Calgary's creativity. We already do this in a number of areas, but with extra support, 2012 could be a year when Canadians learn first hand what Calgary has to offer.

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  Artist Homecoming

  2012 should include an artist homecoming. Cultural organizations around the city should be encouraged to program artists that got their start or a major boost to their career in Calgary (alumni from our post secondaries, people born here, etc.), but now work elsewhere could be featured. This should go throughout the creative industries: TV, film, dance, theatre, literary arts, dance, music... Any exhibit or show that ...more »

  2012 should include an artist homecoming. Cultural organizations around the city should be encouraged to program artists that got their start or a major boost to their career in Calgary (alumni from our post secondaries, people born here, etc.), but now work elsewhere could be featured. This should go throughout the creative industries: TV, film, dance, theatre, literary arts, dance, music...

  Any exhibit or show that featured a Calgary artist would be promoted as part of a bigger series: Calgary making its mark around the world (or something like that...).

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