November 2024 NEWSLETTER
As The GRAND enters a new chapter, we’re committed to becoming a true home for Calgary’s performing arts community—one that fosters creativity, inclusivity, and growth. This November 5th, we’re thrilled to host a transformative workshop.This event invites Calgary’s arts community to come together, share insights, and help shape The GRAND’s future as a vibrant creative hub. We’re excited to see the impact of these conversations and the collaborative vision that emerges!
GRAND EVENTS
I SEE COLOURS
Presented by Diane Din Ebongue and sponsored by The GRAND
November 2nd - 16th, 2024
"I See Colours" is a visual arts exhibition that explores the intricate and diverse nature of skin tones. Through a combination of photography, video, projection mapping, assemblage, generative AI and augmented reality, the exhibition offers a unique perspective on the connection between light, skin, perceptions and emotions.
About the Artist:
Diane Din Ebongue is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and arts manager passionate about intangible cultural heritage and knowledge sharing through arts. She holds a Master's degree in Science, Arts and Techniques of Image and Sound from the University of Aix-Marseille in France. Her artistic and curatorial experience spans across continents, with roles such as managing an indigenous-owned art centre in Australia, curating community art projects in France, as well as showcasing a collection of participatory artworks advocating for human rights in Cameroon during the first world conference held by the International Council on Archives in Africa.
MORE EVENTS THIS MONTH
La Probabilité du Néant
Presented by Springboard Performance
Friday November 1st, 2024
8:00pm
For La Probabilité du Néant, Alexandra 'Spicey' Landé brings together seven virtuoso street dancers, who magnificently inhabit her choreographic work: Banks, 'Bibiman', 'Jigsaw', 'Kiddi', Kosi, 'Tealeaf', 'Hurricane Tina' and 'Rawss'.
With its incisive dance, La Probabilité du Néant challenges our perceptions, our judgments, and the consequences of our choices. In the strange possibility of our own self-destruction, it also reminds us of our luminous capacity for resistance and resilience.
The Pretty Things
Presented by Springboard Performance
Friday November 15th, 2024
7:00pm
Five bodies move to the rhythm of the metronome. Their mechanical movements resume, the machine heats up and demands impeccable rigor from them. As her artistic language matures, choreographer Catherine Gaudet sets out in search of a space beneath the bodies where desires can be reborn despite the weight of constraint.
Behind the innocuous appearance of this systematically traced collective score, there's a whiff of cheap varnish that will eventually crack. In tune with the contradictory pulsations of his time, Gaudet surrounds himself with his faithful accomplices to explore the pretense of the spectacular apparatus. After a while, repetition becomes the troublesome agent of performers turned instrumentalists. It makes the valve hiss, allowing the excess steam of salty bodies to escape. De-pression is the flip side of grandiosity. Here, the risk of a lapse in taste is very real, but necessary to maintain the balance.
DAVID NIHILL: Shelf Help
Presented by MRG Live
Friday November 29th, 2024
8:00pm
Leaving Dublin, Ireland where he was born and raised until the age of 22, David got drunk on travel and never quite hit sobriety of it. He has lived and worked in twelve countries and visited over seventy. His shows draw on his wide travels, cultural observations, attempts at language study, (occasional) international drinking session(s) and being a mildly confused immigrant. His new show Shelp Help mixes comedy and reading recommendations because that's the kind of wild kinky stuff David is into.
CONSIDER DONATING TO THE GRAND
As a non-profit arts organization, The GRAND thrives on the generous support of patrons like you. Your contributions are more than just donations; they are investments in our community and in the vibrant, transformative power of art. Every dollar you give is channeled directly back into our programs, enabling us to produce exciting shows, host workshops, and continue to make art accessible to all. Please consider extending your support by making a donation today!