This activity draws inspiration from Joel Sartore’s Photo Ark project, a collection of beautiful photos of endangered animals, to guide you through creating simple mixed media animal masks with your family.
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This Feels So Real - Interview with writer, actor, and filmmaker Melanee Murray-Hunt
Melanee Murray-Hunt is a writer, actor, filmmaker, curator, and host who doesn’t shy away from big questions and big problems. In this brief conversation, Melanee considers how self-isolation could help us build collective empathy and why she’s currently obsessed with mystery novels.
Creating in Isolation - Arts Commons Ledge Gallery artist creates art under challenging circumstances
Born and raised in the small town of Bashaw, Alberta, local non-binary artist Kyle Simmers focuses their work on creating connections between the disparate worlds of queer and rural identity.
Creative Stretch with Downstage
As theatre artists, we are continually finding ways to be playful, resourceful and imaginative. Many of us have a daily practice that keeps us open to new inspirations. For almost a year, Downstage has been offering Creative Stretch at Memorial Park Library and now they’re taking the experience online.
Broadcast Lab - Inside the Filmmaker's Process
A Canadian artist working in film, video and photography, Aaron Zeghers is primarily an experimental filmmaker.
The three short films included in the Spring exhibition of Broadcast Lab at Arts Commons use very different techniques to tell their stories resulting in three pieces, that may, at first glance, look completely unrelated.
Calgary Philharmonic takes kids on an orchestra adventure with launch of new online series
Calgary Philharmonic musicians and Associate Conductor Karl Hirzer are used to welcoming large groups of kids to the concert hall each season, but right now, there are no yellow school buses lined up in front of Arts Commons. So, the Calgary Phil decided to create a fun and educational tour of the Orchestra for kids that can be experienced from anywhere.
Dr. Kara Cooney: When Women Ruled the World
Egyptologist, archaeologist, associate professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Language and Cultures at UCLA, Dr. Kara Cooney has spent her academic career exploring the history of female power. Dr. Cooney brings one question to the forefront. Why are we as human beings so hostile to female power? Why do we think we’re not? Or why do we think it’s ok?
Notice. Wonder. Make. Telling Stories With Photographs
Our first activity in the Notice. Wonder. Make. series looks at simple photography that you can do with your children using the same principles that National Geographic photographers use in capturing their amazing shots.