#Pursuit Collection Banff

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Pursuit Collection Offers Feast for Senses and the Soul in Banff, Canada

Dining at Sky Bistro atop the Sulphur Mountain summit, reached by the Banff Gondola – an incomparable view matched by an incomparable culinary experience © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com By Karen Rubin, Travel Features Syndicate, goingplacesfarandnear.com On our first evening in Banff to sample Pursuit Collection’s tourism and hospitality services, we dine at Farm & Fire, one of Banff’s…

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Day 1 - Sessanta Mid West America Tour 2024

Canadian Rockies to WhiteFish, Montana

Day 1

Truly I would say that my vacation feeling started the night before on April eleventh.

Friends of mine who are well adept at being nomadic travellers, managed to hitch their way out to Canmore - the gods favored them with timing that lined up for us to be able to hang out before I left for a 3 weeks. We broke bread, ate cheese ( the saucy kind) and shared some homemade wine together. It is a blessing to see these wonderful people when we happen to be in the same area. I value greatly getting to be able to spend time with them.

But after socializing, it was time to finalize packing and try to sleep.

I always find it difficult to sleep the night before an adventure due to the energy of sheer excitement. I did manage to get a few hours in but my eagerness had me naturally bouncing out of bed at ungodly hours of the morning.

I use the extra time to treat myself to some self care at my second hand vanity (That I got for free - of course).

The day's agenda for my trip included a pit stop across the border to pick up a few supplies. Then, head to Whitefish to check in to Grouse Mountain Lodge.

And so the Adventure begins!

Grouse Mountain Lodge is part of the pursuit collection thus I saveth the moneyth a-la mouldy purse style.

Along the way the route through BC, in Radium, I saw a lot of big horn sheep. All I could think about was my sister when we were in the Yukon together and that she just really wanted to see one of those curly horned. It looks like She'll just have to sacrifice herself And enjoy some hot spring soaking in radium with me so that she can see some curly horn sheep up close.

I had thought that perchance I may have gotten a photo of them curly cues as I had set up my camera for a time lapse while driving out of Radium.

However of course the camera time lapse snapped intervals rather than video and so this was the best shot I have.

Lesson Learned to not timelapse but video instead.

I was really amused when hitting the border crossing for the United States at how many roaming wild turkeys there were....I wasn't expecting that.

My first stop was in Eureka, Montana to pick up some supplies.

I definitely could feel my muscles clenching over confederate flags being around..

I try to hope that the business i supported were not the ones hanging up that stuff as they share a building, but my intuition has sinking sentiments.

Onwards to Whitefish!

I arrive to the Hotel and check in.

I am blessed with what I see as a lucky room number! Good Juju awaits me on this trip!

Also, holy geez - It's April and it's already Banff Summer Weather here! I think I may have packed clothes that are too warm for this Trip.

No rest for the wicked; for Day 1 I booked myself a seven thirty ticket to a theatre performance put on by the Whitefish Theatre Company.

" Silent Sky - The True Story of Women Who Mapped the Stars."

" When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she is not allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women “computers,” charting the stars for a renowned astronomer who calculates projects in “girl hours” and has no time for the women’s probing theories. As Henrietta, in her free time, attempts to measure the light and distance of stars, she must also take measure of her life on Earth, trying to balance her dedication to science with family obligations and the possibility of love. In this exquisite blend of science, history, family ties, and fragile love, Silent Sky follows the true story of a passionate young woman who must map her own passage through a society determined to keep a woman in her place."

I have to say that I am so glad that I attended this opening night!

I haven't been in a small intimate theatre like that in a very long time. It brought me a lot of sentimental value & nostalgia.

Handmade sets, proximity to the stage, actually painted scenes! At my ownArts institution, a lot of theatre work is being pushed into 3d printing, collapsible sets, or no set or painting at all ; entirely 3d mapping projection. While those in and of themselves have their own values and merits for labour, I really value seeing those old school art forms still existing in theatres. That eople still get to work in those other domains. I know all of it comes down ultimately to money. But they are certainly different feeling qualities to them all.

Honestly, this show was extremely well written. Not just myself, but the whole audience laughed a lot. I was moved to tears several times not just from laughing so much but also because of the deep emotions that were brought up in me. (And you know I hate being emotional public.) Uncontainable public emotions are truthfully one of my gauges for exceptionality in a work. To me, something is so good that I cannot keep my emotions from spilling outward.

I wrote most of this day out by voice to text because the show ran till 10pm. By the time I got back and cleaned up, admittedly, I was very tuckered.

Let's look forward to tomorrows adventures!

P.S I know some of you are thinking "Jen, how dare you travel alone and film and take pictures simultaneously." I'm here to affirm to you that I'm driving and my camera is on the dash or some other location in the car, hands off, recording while I am driving. I am NOT distracted driving. I edit out me being parked to setup an angle to record.

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Powder Magazine

(Written by Sam Cox - December 28, 2020)

Growing up in Montana, my winter free time was consumed by skiing. Big Sky was the destination when I was barely old enough to walk. Eventually we made the move to Bozeman and Bridger Bowl became my second home. During the early years, my family made the trek to a handful of Warren Miller movies when they were on tour in the fall and Snow Country was the magazine subscription that landed on the coffee table. I was vaguely aware of Jackson Hole, Snowbird and Squaw Valley and my father would occasionally regale me with tales of skiing (read Après) in Germany when he was in the Army. At some level, I already understood that there was something special about Bridger, but realistically, my sphere of outside influence was quite small. Christmas of 1989 turned my entire world upside down. My aunt and uncle are longtime Salt Lake City residents and Brighton skiers. Typically they would send a package each year with the customary cookies, toffee and a card. However, this year they sent two VHS tapes and a magazine - Ski Time, Blizzard of Aahhh’s and a copy of Powder. Things would never be the same for me. Scot Schmidt became my hero, Greg Stump was taking skiing into uncharted territory and above it all, Powder created an eloquent voice for our sport and was the fabric that held things together. Even at my young age, everything that I’d intuitively sensed before was distilled into a potent desire to devote myself to the simple pursuit of being a skier.

Johan Jonsson, Engelberg, Switzerland - Photo: Mattias Fredriksson/POWDER

Powder was founded in Sun Valley by the Moe brothers in 1972 as an annual portfolio of The Other Ski Experience. After several years of running the magazine, Jake and David Moe sold Powder to the owner of Surfer Magazine. A repurposed aircraft hangar in San Juan Capistrano became the new home of skiing’s most prestigious publication. Over time, there was an ebb and flow to the size of staff and cast of characters, each person leaving their unique mark. For decades Powder weathered corporate acquisitions, office relocations and the constant metamorphosis of the ski industry - never losing its voice, Powder remained the benchmark. It was a source of creativity, inspiration and a defacto annal of history. For many it was also a shining beacon, a glimpse into a world filled with deep turns and iconic destinations - even if this world could only be inhabited inside the constructs of your imagination.

My story and the impact Powder had on the direction I would take is hardly unique. The magazine left an indelible impression on countless skiers. When the news broke this fall that operations were being suspended indefinitely, a heartbroken community took to social media to pay homage to the magazine and how it changed their lives and in some cases, careers. This is my version of a tribute and it’s definitely not perfect. In order to gain some perspective, I reached out to former staff members - a collective I admire and respect. It’s an attempt to articulate the essence of Powder, capture its influence on the skiing landscape and give credit to the people who made it come to life. 

Bernie Rosow, Mammoth Mountain, CA - Photo: Christian Pondella/POWDER

HANS LUDWIG - The Jaded Local

“Skiing has always been really tribal and one of the last vestiges of having an oral history. Powder was a unique concept, because they weren’t really concerned with the family market. They were just concerned about being really into skiing. Growing up in Colorado and skiing moguls, my coaches Robert and Roger were featured in the early Greg Stump films. Being in their orbit, I knew a little bit about skiing culture and what was going on out there, but didn’t have the whole picture. The Stump films resonated with me, but Ski/Skiing Magazines didn’t really do it for me. Powder was the door that opened things culturally, it was the only entry point before Blizzard of Aahhh’s.”

“Something that nobody gives Powder credit for, is sponsoring the Greg Stump, TGR and MSP movies and giving them full support right from their inception. It legitimized those companies and helped them become one of the catalysts for change and evolution in skiing. Ultimately this change would have happened, but at a much slower pace without the support of Powder. Getting support from Powder meant they’d weeded out the posers and kooks and what they were backing wasn’t something or someone that was “aspiring” they were a cut above.”

“Powder brought a lot of things into the mainstream, raised awareness and helped to legitimize them: Jean-Marc Boivin, Patrick Vallencant, Pierre Tardivel, telemarking, monoskiing, snowboarding, the JHAF, Chamonix, La Grave, Mikaela Shiffrin, fat skis pre McConkey, skiing in South America….the list goes on.”

“I had some rowdy trips with Powder. Writing “Lost In America,” I went Utah-Montana-Fernie-Banff-Revelstoke via pickup truck, only backcountry skiing and camping in the mud. It was a month plus. I did another month plus in Nevada, which was after back to back Jackson and Silverton. Total time was two plus months. That was fucked up, I was super loose after that whole thing. So many sketchy days with total strangers”

“People forget that Powder was around long before the advent of the fucking pro skier. Starting in 1996, the magazine was in the impact zone of the ski industrial complex. There is limited space for content each season. It was a challenge to balance the pressure coming from the athletes and brands to cover something that was going to make them money vs. staying true to the Moe brothers original intent and profiling an eccentric skier, a unique location or even fucking ski racing.”

Full Circle - Photo: MJ Carroll

KEITH CARLSEN - Editor

“When I was young, Ski/Skiing didn’t do anything for my spirit, but Powder lit me up. It ignited a passion in diehard skiers and gave them a voice and community. It was focused on the counter culture - the type of people who rearrange their lives to ski. This was in direct opposition to other magazines that were targeting rich people, trying to explain technique, sell condos or highlight the amenities at a ski area.”

“Skiing has always been my outlet and mechanism to get away from things in life. My two talents are writing and photography, so I enrolled at Western State with the direct goal of landing an internship at Powder. Even at 19, I had complete focus on the direction I wanted to take. If it didn’t work out, my backup plan was to be a ski bum. 48 hours after graduating, I was headed to southern California to live in my van and start my position at Powder. When the decision was made to close the magazine, it was really personal for me. Powder had provided me direction in life for the last 30 years and I needed some time to process it. In a way, it was almost like going to a funeral for a good friend - even though it’s gone, the magazine lives on in all of us and can never be taken away.”

“It was, and will always remain, one of my life’s greatest honors to serve as the editor-in-chief for Powder Magazine. It was literally a dream that came true. I’m so grateful for everyone who came before me and everyone who served after me. That opportunity opened literally hundreds of doors for me and continues to do so today. I owe the magazine a massive debt of gratitude. Every single editor was a warrior and fought for the title with their lives. They were doing double duty - not only from competition with other publications, but the internal struggle of budget cuts, staff reductions and trying to do more with less. Powder never belonged in the hands of a corporation. The magazine spoke to an impassioned community and never made sense to an accountant or on a ledger.”

Trevor Petersen, Mt. Serratus, BC - Photo: Scott Markewitz/POWDER

SIERRA SHAFER - Editor In Chief

“Powder celebrated everything that is good and pure in skiing. It highlighted the old school, the new and the irreverent. The magazine also called bullshit when they saw it. It was a checkpoint, a cultural barometer and an honest reflection on where skiing has been and where it’s going.”

“My involvement with Powder came completely out of left field. I was never an intern or established in the ski industry. My background was strictly in journalism, I was a skier living in Southern California and editing a newspaper. I knew that I wanted to get the fuck out of LA and Powder was that opportunity. It was a huge shift going from my job and life being completely separate to work becoming my life. Literally overnight, Powder became everything - friends, connections and part of my identity. It derailed my trajectory in the best possible way.”

Brad Holmes, Donner Pass, CA - Photo: Dave Norehad/POWDER

MATT HANSEN - Executive Editor

“Keith Carlsen was a man of ideas, he had tremendous vision and influence. He came up with the ideas for Powder Week and the Powder Awards in 2001. In some respects those two events saved the magazine.”

“Powder was the soul of skiing and kept the vibe, it changed people’s lives and inspired them to move to a ski town. As a writer I always wanted to think it was the stories that did that, but in truth it was the photography. Images of skiing truly became an art form, 100% thanks to Powder Magazine and Dave Reddick. Dave cultivated and mentored photographers, he was always searching for the unpredictable image from around the world and pressed the photographers to look at things from a different angle.”

“It sounds cliche, but writing a feature about Chamonix was the highlight for me. Sitting on the plane, things were absolutely unreal. I linked up with Nate Wallace and the whole experience from start to finish was out of my comfort zone. Ducking ropes to ski overhead pow on the Pas De Chèvre, walking out of the ice tunnel on a deserted Aiguille du Midi right as the clouds parted, late nights in town that were too fuzzy to recall. The energy of the place taught me a lot. I didn’t have a smartphone and there was no Instagram - I had time to write, observe, take notes and be present with who I was and with the experience. As a writer it didn’t get any better.”

“The true gift of working for Powder, was the once in a lifetime adventures that I wish I could have shared with my family, I was so lucky to have had those opportunities. It almost brought tears to me eyes.”

Peter Romaine, Jackson Hole, WY - Photo: Wade McKoy/POWDER

DAVE REDDICK - Director of Photography

“Just ski down there and take a photo of something, for cryin’ out loud!”  “I’ve found that channeling McConkey has been keeping it in perspective. Powder’s been shuttered. That sucks. What doesn’t suck is the good times and the people that have shared the ride thus far and I’m just thankful to be one of them. There’s been some really kind sentiments from friends and colleagues, but this must be said - Every editor (especially the editors), every art director (I’ve driven them nuts), every publisher and sales associate, every photographer, writer, and intern, and all the others behind the scenes who’ve ever contributed their talents get equal share of acknowledgment for carrying the torch that is Powder Mag. There’s hundreds of us! No decision has ever been made in a vacuum. Always a collective. At our best, we’ve been a reflection of skiers everywhere and of one of the greatest experiences in the world. It’s that community, and that feeling, that is Powder. I’m not sure what’s next and I’m not afraid of change but”  “There’s something really cool about being scared. I don’t know what!”

Scot Schmidt, Alaska - Photo: Chris Noble/POWDER

DEREK TAYLOR - Editor 

“Powder was the first magazine dedicated to the experience and not trying to teach people how to ski. It was enthusiast media focused on the soul and culture. It’s also important to highlight the impact Powder had outside of skiing - today you have the Surfer’s Journal effect where every sport wants that type of publication. However, prior to their inception, everybody wanted a version of Powder.”

“Neil Stebbins and Steve Casimiro deserve a lot of credit for the magazine retaining its voice and staying true to the core group of skiers it represented.”

“Keith Carlsen is responsible for the idea behind Super Park. This was a time when skiing had just gone through a stale phase. There was a newfound energy in park skiing and younger generations, this event helped to rebrand Powder and solidify its goal of being all inclusive. Racing, powder, park, touring - it’s all just skiing.”

Joe Sagona, Mt. Baldy, CA - Photo: Dave Reddick/POWDER

JOHNNY STIFTER - Editor In Chief

“What did Powder mean to me... Well, everything. As a reader and staffer, it inspired me and made me laugh. I learned about local cultures that felt far away and learned about far away cultures that didn’t feel foreign, if that makes sense.”

“But I cherished those late nights the most, making magazines with the small staff. Despite the deadline stress, I always felt so grateful to be working for this sacred institution and writing and editing for true skiers. We all just had so much damn fun. And it didn’t hurt meeting such passionate locals at hallowed places, like Aspen and Austria, that I once dreamed of visiting and skiing. The Powder culture is so inclusive and so fun, I never felt more alive.”

Doug Coombs, All Hail The King - Photo: Ace Kvale/POWDER

HEATHER HANSMAN - Online Editor

“Powder is a lifestyle and an interconnected circle of people. It’s about getting a job offer at Alta, opening your home to random strangers, locking your keys in your car and getting rescued by a friend you made on a trip years ago. Through the selfish activity of skiing, you can create a community of people you cherish and can depend on through highs and lows.”

Ashley Otte, Mike Wiegele Heli, BC - Photo: Dave Reddick/POWDER

The contributions of so many talented individuals made the magazine possible. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone who shared their experience at Powder with me. Also, I want to thank Porter Fox and David Page for crafting inspiring feature stories that I enjoyed immensely over the years.

After the reality set in that the final issue had arrived, a void was created for generations of skiers. I’ve been focused on being thankful for what we had, rather than sad it’s gone. It’s a challenging time for print media and I wholeheartedly advocate supporting the remaining titles in anyway you can. In a culture driven by a voracious appetite for mass media consumption and instant gratification - I cherish the ritual of waiting for a magazine to arrive, appreciating the effort that went into creating the content and being able to have that physical substance in my hand. Thanks for everything Powder, you are missed, but your spirit lives on.  

Captain Powder - Photo: Gary Bigham/POWDER

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Everything I Say Is True: Poetic Bibliography

https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/art-and-ideas/everything-i-say-is-true-poetic-bibliography/

Performance artist Kite presents her script for Everything I Say Is True, now annotated as part of the Creative AI Lab’s database.

The Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer and scholar Suzanne Kite (aka Kite) is quick to point out that the groundwork for her contribution to Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not obviously about technology: “I can’t point to specific papers about AI that I’m building my work on top of because I’m not building it on a history of technology. I’m building it on this other history of knowledge.” Kite and others in her network of thinkers are writing a theoretical framework for AI that isn’t just a deviation from existing technological protocols, but a new one altogether, built on Oglála Lakȟóta and other indigenous knowledge systems.

Kite’s pursuit to build an indigenous AI directly confronts prevailing Western anthropocentric ideologies that position humans as dominant over the resources and systems around them and technology as a tool used to solely meet human needs. In Making Kin With the Machines, Kite and her co-authors ask how they might conceive of technologies like AI as kin, with an obligation to situate the ‘computational creations’ of AI in partnership with their wider community.

Critical theories of knowledge inform how we distribute power not only in our personal relationships but ultimately in the technological infrastructure built around us. But critique alone doesn’t leave us with an alternative. Kite works generatively, employing the principles and ethics of Lakȟóta methodology to build new frameworks and technologies.

Her commission for the Creative AI Lab, Everything I Say Is True: Poetic Bibliography takes the form of an annotated script from her 2017 performance, Everything I Say Is True, originally commissioned by the Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff. Kite borrows a four-part framework for building collective truth from her grandfather’s sweat lodge ceremonies: first, teaching, then providing evidence, followed by the display of that truth, and finally an accusation to non-believers which introduces critical reflection. Using family ephemera and historical documents she considers truth in relation to Oglála Lakȟóta knowledge systems. These systems in turn signal an ethical method for the development of new advanced technologies.

A. Teaching

When I was 12 I kept a dream journal One night I dreamt it is a sunny day[1] I am in a garden and I look down I see the green grass, the leaves and branches of the trees Below me is a picnic table with an umbrella People sit around it in a circle[2] When I was 14 I went to Ojai with my mother and my uncle to meet my grandfather[3] We sweat and it was intense, lots of lights, lots of medicine[4] I was invited to smoke the pipe but I did not[5] We sat down for lunch around a shaded picnic table but no one ate I looked up and there is a blue bird jumping from tree to tree[6]

Looking down, Trying to get a closer look at us.[7]

Every time you look away I disappear and reappear Look here, I can prove it to you There is a need for constant vigilance, they say FBI calls, they watch Don’t forget COINTELPRO No bullshit, suicide by force is real They set fire to his family’s house during the speech, they say This is a long chain of events, of evidence Manifest destiny, they say[8]

Ogle wakhan kin iyuha kic’unpi They all wore the sacred shirt, they say[9]

How can I think in Lakota if I cannot speak Lakota? How could I have thought in Lakota if I could not have spoken in Lakota?

I’ll teach you some Lakota words I have taught myself Ehánni: always Wihiyayela: time Tohanyan: how long[10] Wowicala: belief Wochekiye: prayer Wakhan: sacred Zintkatho: blue jay Woihanble: dream Wakhangli: lightning

Ay what does this have to do with me? My auntie has to pee outside a gas station They won’t let her ndn mother come inside, It is so cold

B. Evidence

Okay, so. I wanted to share the evidence. How can I be Oglala Lakota? Membership Card? Enrollment documents? What does it mean to make something that is Oglala?[11] This, right now, is a piece of art. How can I make it Oglala?[12] How am I supposed to be Lakota, here? These are Lakota art object. Lakota Flute Lakota Beads[13]

Does making something Oglala require thinking in Lakota? Require wowicala? Belief? Wowicakhe? Truth?[14] If I am Oglala because of location, where am I? Am I in Kyle? Am I in Portland? Am I at my parents’ house? What about events, experience? The Indian Child Welfare Act? The Indian Relocation Act? Counter Intelligence Program?

In Lakota, past and present are much closer together. For example: -ble means “I went/ and I go” and -mni kte- “I will go”. If I think in Lakota, is there a difference between past and present? Time encircles my body on a flat plane, intrinsically connected with space.[15] Time, while appearing to be linear, is a flat circle. If time is collapsed, what has happened is happening NOW.

Maybe the Peltier Trial is happening now.[16] Wanted poster Map of Compound Affidavit of Wilson Bullet casings FBI says COINTELPRO ended in 1971; Still NOW it continues today albeit under other code-names. Memorandum Extremist Matters Referenced Right to continue investigation Investigate all Indians Those Programs are designed to destroy individuals they find objectionable Official lying and disinformation, False charges, Manufacturing evidence, Withholding evidence, Occasional assassination.

Still NOW there is radiation in the water supply. Nitrates and Uranium[17] Resident risk Mine Reclamation Cost

If ‘destiny’ is a “natural” unfolding of events, ‘conspiracy’ is its opposite. ‘Conspiracy’ requires an enemy with a preconceived plot;[18]

But ‘destiny’ is the fulfillment of a natural order. ‘destiny’ requires a beginning point and an end point: Linear time.[19]

Einstein proposed there were two mirrors. Einstein’s two mirrors act as a clock. With a photon bouncing in the in-between. In this model of spacetime,[20] The expanding distance is relativity.[21] Our perspective is faster Light’s perspective is slower. Future is unfolding light photo by light photon Einstein’s mirror, they say.

Are you still with me?

A light cone is the path that a flash of light From a single event Traveling in all directions Takes through spacetime. On a two-dimensional plane, The light from the flash Spreads out in a circle.

These are all the points I ever reach.[22]

All points which are the speed of light away from me at birth.

Speed of light is our limit.[23]

This dark part is everything outside our speed limit Relativity says you must go faster than the speed of light to exit the light cone; To see into the dark. To experience what cannot occur in linear time.[24]

Still now I am a blue bird.[25] Still now buffalo are coming over the hills.[26]

To think in Lakota is for it to be responsibly true for time to cease to be linear[27] For the actions of our past to be unified with the present.

To be eternally responsible for the decisions we make, responsible to ourselves, to our locations, to our communities.

These are decisions.[28] My grandfather constantly tells me to stop thinking.[29] I cannot. I am too indoctrinated.

But I have done the math, and I have designed the models,[30] and I have read the texts, and I have reviewed the articles, and I have come to the most logical conclusion.

This is the shortest distance on the light cone. Most efficient place to exit is NOW.

C. Display

∞ -∞

ehánni, long ago, already

Light cone edge

Linear time

Band separating in winter

Manifest destiny

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Bull Bear to Fort William

Bureau found corrupt

Wovoka Prophecy

Aleta Jo

Indian Relocation Act

Carol Jean[31]

COINTELPRO

Wounded Knee

Fire set

Leonard Peltier in prison

Cynthia Anne

Standing Cloud hears

Suzanne Nicole

blue bird seen[32]

bison appear

Teaching Evidence Display Accusation[33]

D. Accusation

Ah! One of you does not believe!

This conspiracy is an endless one.

They cut off her hands!

You don’t believe me?

I cannot lie.

This is given to me

I am just a conduit.

There is no ending.

Tona akhigle opagipi kin he iyena wochekiya kagapi.

Each time they filled the pipe they make a prayer.

Everything I say is true.[34]

Here I am going to do a magic trick.[35]

The performance of Everything I Say Is True was originally commissioned by the Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff, Alberta March 27th, 2017

Poetic Bibliography

[1]

Hélène Wallaert, “Beads and a Vision: Waking Dreams and Induced Dreams as a Source of Knowledge for Beadwork Making. An Ethnographic Account from Sioux Country.”, Plains Anthropologist.

The calculation of all the stars Kite could have reached so far in her lifetime if she was a flash of light at the moment of birth

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Three killed after a tour bus rolls over in the Canadian Rockies

Three killed after a tour bus rolls over in the Canadian Rockies

Dave McKenna, president of the Banff Jasper Collection by Pursuit, told CNN an off-road ice explorer was involved in an accident en route to the Athabasca Glacier on Saturday around 2 p.m. MT (4 p.m. ET).

The Athabasca Glacier is on the Columbia Icefield, in the Canadian Rockies, about three and a half hours northwest of Calgary.

“I would like to extend our deepest condolences to the family and…

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2017 Artist Projects - Large Grants

Approval of 31 projects by local artists

Project grants for individual artists and artist collectives allow the pursuit of artistic and professional advancement. Be it creation, research, development, curation, exhibition, production or professional development opportunities; artists are welcome to apply to have these projects funded.

The Edmonton Arts Council accepts project grant applications three times a year: “small grants” of up to $5,000 twice a year and “large grants” up to $25,000 once a year. Our next intake is February 15, 2018.

Image: Jesse Thomas, Horse's (Mouth): The Allegory of the Cave, 22x30, lithograph, 2017.

Project grants support the development of artists and their creations. In this round of grants, we are excited to see proposals from a wide array of disciplines and stages of development. Jesse Thomas travelled to Berlin to work in collaboration with master printers in the production of a stone lithograph series at Keystone Editions and exhibit work in their gallery. Christine Sokaymoh Frederick will be re-developing one of her theatre pieces for a young audience. Planning their first feature films, Lindsay McIntyre and Trevor Anderson are both working on screenplays. Jalal Barzanji will be completing the novel he began in 2008, as writer in residence in Dawson City, translating it from his native Kurdish to English.

Image: aAron munson’s photograph from the weather station of Isacshen, in Nunavut.

Also approaching completion, thanks in part to Artist Project Grants, is aAron munson’s project Isachsen, and the Madness of a Lonely Man. With a 2015 grant, he collected imagery at the abandoned arctic weather station of Isacshen, in Nunavut. Now with approval from this round of grants, he will be finishing his work for presentation at dc3 Art Projects.

Image: Brendan Boyd and his puppet alter ego Nino at CBC Edmonton studios. Photo by CBC Edmonton.

Below is the full list of large grants (up to $25,000) approved through our peer jury review process:

aAron munson | produce and exhibit Isachsen, and the Madness of a Lonely Man at dc3 Art Projects in January 2018

Anna Fiddler-Berteig, Brendan Boyd and Kevin Kuzyk | puppet construction and script development for a new show

Belinda Cornish | produce Our Man in Havana for a run at the Varscona Theatre, November 23 to December 2, 2017 

Brenna MacQuarrie aka HILL | create an experimental electronic soul record and two adjacent music videos to be released May 2018 

Christine Sokaymoh Frederick - development of a theatre piece specifically for young audiences 

Darrin Hagen | research and write a new play telling the story of the 1981 mass arrest of 60 gay men in Edmonton’s Pisces bathhouse 

Dave Horak | workshop, rehearse, design and produce the world premiere of Too Late To Stop Now by Edmonton playwright Collin Doyle 

Emily Noel Ritchie | produce a 15 to 20-minute historical art film telling to story of missing-in-action Canadian and Albertan air force soldier 

Emmanuel Osahor | attend a visual arts residency at the Banff Centre 

Farren Timoteo | self-directed study of Opera to further develop his career for the practice of directing opera 

Garth Prinsonsky | record second studio album The Savannah is Calling scheduled for release May 25, 2019 (Africa Day) 

Hans Olson | 20-minute documentary sharing the story of an Edmonton writer 

Jalal Barzanji | translate the novel he began in 2008 from his native Kurdish to English 

Jasmina Odor | complete her first long-form fiction in a novel exploring grief, loss, and past trauma, in the context of human migration 

Jason Lee Norman | edit and publish a collective novel project featuring work by local authors, expected to launch October 2018 

Jennifer Bowering Delisle | complete a manuscript of creative nonfiction

Jesse Thomas | travelled to Berlin to produce and exhibit a series of stone lithographs at Keystone Editions

Jonathan Luckhurst | a new body of work that moves from his documentary based to more abstract photography work

Julien Arnold | production of Going to St Ives for a run at the Varscona

Kathryn Macintosh | production of Igor Stravinsky and C.F. Ramuz's The Soldier's Tale 

Kent Sangster’s Obsessions Octet | European tour to promote their Steppin Up album and a recording in Poland 

Kyle Armstrong | create a short dramatic narrative film 

Lindsay McIntyre | write a feature screenplay about behavioural epigenetics, generational trauma and her Inuk Great-grandmother

Mark Meer | produce and expand the “Die-Nasty” Annual Soap-a-thon in celebration of their 25th Anniversary

Mat Cardinal & The Sins | recording and promotion of their debut album, first single to be released in January 2018

Nathan Cuckow | writing new play exploring the multifaceted complexities of family dynamics and LGBTQ relationships in a modern day context 

Nuela Charles | write, produce and record a new album to be released in April 2018

Remi Noel | commercial recording of original jazz music set to be released in December 2017

Theodora Harasymiw | public art piece of three unique rushnyk (Ukrainian embroidered cloth) designs created from mosaic tile to be installed on the Wentworth Building 

Trevor Anderson | write a full-length feature film script 

Usha Gupta | further develop, choreograph, and rehearse the final creation of a dance work entitled Khoj (Search)

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Best Places to Visit in Canada

Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls is a series of three Amazing Palaces Located on the border of Canada’s Ontario and the United States’ New York. The Ontario side of the Falls is also known as Horseshoe Falls also offers the very best views and most attractions. The immediate area surrounding the Falls is just a premier tourist spot located in observation towers, restaurantsand souvenir stores, casinos and high-rise hotels. Certainly one of the best places to view the Niagara Falls on the Ontario side would be from Queen Victoria Park where the Falls have been illuminated and fireworks are displayed nightly throughout the summer.

Ottawa 

Located at the confluence of the Ottawa, Gatineau and Rideau rivers in southeastern Ontario, Ottawa is the capital of Canada. As the world’s capital, Ottawa is also home to many financial, commercial and national institutions such as Parliament Hill, the government chair at which the Changing of the Guard takes place daily throughout the summertime. Running directly through the center of the town, the Rideau Canal is Ottawa’s celebrity attraction. In winter the canal becomes the planet’s biggest ice skating ring.

Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island, named after the explorer George Vancouver, is the largest island off the West Coast in the United States continent. Located across from Washington State, It’s accessible by ferry through the San Juan Islands out of Anacortes, from Port Angeles around the state’s Olympic Peninsula, or by Vancouver on mainland British Columbia. Vancouver Island is known for the quaint city of Victoria, the gorgeous Butchart Gardens, the surf town of Tofino and the jungle in the northwest, where it’s possible to catch a ferry to Prince Rupert, also another to Alaska from there.

Toronto

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Montreal

The next biggest city in Canada after Toronto, Montreal could be the financial backing of the Quebec province. Together with the largest French-speaking community outside Paris, France, Montreal is a bustling metropolis included of a downtown district, a historical quarter, entertainment district and lots of identifying areas. Montreal’s major landscapes involve downtown skyscrapers just such as the Olympic Tower, the historical buildings of Old Montreal and many family attractions including theme and water parks.

Banff National Park

Located in the state of Alberta, the Banff National Park isn’t merely Canada’s first national park, but also one among the nation’s largest and most visited national parks. The park’s magnificent scenery and wildlife attraction many tourists every year along the Trans-Canada Highway, which passes through the playground. Banff National Parks high concentration of wild life includes mammals like black bears, grizzly bears, bison, moose, bighorn sheep, wolves and bald eagles.

Vancouver 

Situated between the Coast Mountains and the Pacific Ocean in British Columbia, Vancouver is favored for its majestic landscapes which present an all natural playground where tourists could swim from the ocean, roller blade through scenic parks and snow ski resorts in the hills all in one day. The third largest metropolitan area within the nation, Vancouver is probably one of the very most populous places to visit in Canada. Vancouver’s celebrity attraction is Stanley Park which covers a huge section of woodlands, gardens and green spaces. Some of these city’s other top websites contain Granville Island’s notable market and Chinatown’s vibrant collection of shops.

Whistler 

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Calgary 

The largest city in Alberta, Calgary is situated between the Canadian Prairies and the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. After oil was discovered nearby at early 1900s, Calgary boomed into what is currently one of Canada’s largest urban centers, bringing tens of tens of thousands every year to its world-famous rodeo event, the Calgary Stampede. This old-west party is held over ten days in July using rodeos, chuckwagon races, parades, competitionsand crafts and food.

Halifax

Nova Scotia’s funding is a fantasy destination, and one of the can’t-overlook places to go to in Canada for historians. This magnificent harbor town has been pirate haven and a British stronghold. What’s more, the city hosts because the final resting place for the hundreds of individuals who died at the sea, once the alleged unsinkable Titanic underwater in the arctic Atlantic. And together with most of the town’s top attractions devoted to maintaining its rich history, both along with other travelers may feel it is rooted over time.

Peggy’s Cove

Famous for its working fishing village, flavorful seafood and awe-inspiring scenery, Peggy’s Cove is a scenic haven best known for its historic lighthouse, which was constructed in 1915. Although it’s small, more than half of a million of tourists visit Peggy’s Cover every year, just to snap photos of its renowned light house.

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Pursuit Selects Maestro Web Multi-Property PMS for 15 Properties Totaling 1,400 Rooms

Maestro PMS announced that Pursuit, an international independent hospitality destination company, selected the Maestro Web Property Management Suite to consolidate hotel management operations at Pursuit’s 15 distinctive lodging properties with more than 1,400 rooms.  Maestro PMS is the preferred cloud and on-premise property management solution for independent hotels, resorts, conference centers, and multi-property groups.  Pursuit is a collection of inspiring, unforgettable adventure travel experiences in Alaska, Montana, the Canadian Rockies and Vancouver, B.C.  Wenda Huseman, Vice President of Revenue Maximization/Research for Pursuit, said, “Pursuit evaluated 25 property management systems for its 15 property operation. Maestro PMS had the best hotel management system and its service oriented company culture is impressive.”  “We recently rebranded under the Pursuit name and wanted to combine properties from separate regions onto one central database and system.”  “Multi-Property Maestro Web enables us to easily book guests into more than one location and oversee our operation from anywhere.”  Pursuit hosts its Maestro Web hotel management system on its own cloud platform.  “We have an extended installation schedule because most of our destinations are seasonal,” said Huseman.  “We selected Maestro on April 1, 2016 and Maestro created a custom installation plan based on our property schedules.”  “Maestro based its training plan for Pursuit on each staff member’s property and position so they have ideal system experience when the system goes live.”  Approximately half of Pursuit’s destinations are installed now and the others will be live before year end. 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2017 First Round of Artist Project Grants

First round of small artist project grants has been approved by City Council!

Project grants for individual artists and artist collectives allow the pursuit of artistic and professional advancement. Be it creation, research, development, curation, exhibition, production or professional development opportunities; artists are welcome to apply to have these projects funded.

To be more adaptive to the needs of artists, the Edmonton Arts Council is now accepting project grant applications three times a year: "small grants" of up to $5,000 twice a year and "large grants" of between $5,001 and $25,000 once a year.

Image: The Audrey Ochoa Trio’s album Afterthought 

This latest round of small project grants will help artists share and develop their work locally, national and internationally. Trombonist Audrey Ochoa is currently promoting her second album Afterthought across Canada, using her project grant to cover campaign fees. Brittany Roy has been accepted to a programmed residency Luminous Bodies at Artscape Gibraltar Point on Toronto Island. Roy will research human-to-human interface technology (electrophysiology) and use it to question the assertion of power and what it means to control and be controlled in a series of performance and video. Marc Siegner will be travelling to Bangkok, Thailand to install his work in the Masterpieces of Contemporary Canadian Printmaking exhibition at the Ardel Modern Art Gallery as well as researching a future project. 

Image: “Big Magic Redux” by Marc Siegner

Below is the full list of small grants approved today:

Emily Bachynski | Record and release a full length album

Katrina Beatty | Complete the formal interviews for a short documentary

Paul Bernhardt | Research and create new paintings

Astrid Blodgett | Complete a short story collection

Jeff Burke | Organize a public reading of multiple screenplay segments

Silvia Buttiglione | Produce a Canadian Chamber Music series of concerts

Kasie Campbell | Explore a new visual sound art research project

Althea Cunningham | Draft a play

Steven Dixon | Create new work and attend two scheduled exhibitions

Maria Dunn | Attend the official Showcase at Folk Alliance International Conference in Kansas City, MO

Maren Elliott | Creation of series of portraits in string

Julie Ferguson | Create a new physical theatre show

Zoe Glassman | Development of a new dance-theatre piece

Heather Hindman | Create a new chamber music composition and attend professional development program

Dean Kheroufi | Private instruction and Daptone residency in New York City, NY

Kurt Loewen | Produce a sound recording

Andrew MacDonald-Smith | Build an ensemble of puppets to be used in the creation of a new work

John McMillan | Produce an electroacoustic work and recording project

Audrey Ochoa | Disseminate new album Afterthought

Andrea Rankin | Attend One Yellow Rabbit's Performance Lab in Calgary, AB

Hello, Me | Produce two songs and one music video

Brittney Roy | Research and create new work at a programmed artist residency

Heather Shillinglaw | Produce artwork Whiskey Sisters for exhibition

Marc Siegner | Attend the opening of Masterpieces of Contemporary Canadian Printmaking in Bangkok

Matthew Stepanic | Write a novella for Monto Books' Compass Project

Mark Templeton | Create a new audiovisual art piece

Kirsty Templeton Davidge | Creation of paintings for exhibit Earnest & Detached

Cayley Thomas | Attend The Banff Center Songwriting Residency

Alma Visscher | Create a new series of small installations, sculptures, and drawings

Want to apply to have your project funded? The deadline for the large artist project grants is June 15!

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2018 Artist Project grants – first round

Edmonton Arts Council and City of Edmonton supports 30 local artistic projects

Artist Project grants for individual artists and collectives support the pursuit of artistic and professional advancement. Be it creation, research, development, curation, exhibition, production or professional development opportunities – artists are welcome to apply to have these projects funded. With so many artists pursuing various ideas and disciplines, it’s inspiring to see what Edmonton’s arts community is creating.

Image: Nancy Sandercock performs frost flowers/RHIZOME at Mile Zero Dance’s Spazio Performativo (click here to watch her performance filmed by John Bellucci) she will be expanding on this work for The Works Art & Design Festival in a four-hour durational performance installation.

Throughout 2018, you can expect to see numerous artist projects around Edmonton. With their Artist Project investments, Nancy Sandercock and Emmanuel Osahor are each creating art installations to be shown at The Works Art & Design Festival – discover their work as part of the festival from June 21 to July 3 at Site 1. Merging dance, music, and theatre, Thou Art Here will bring you the story of William Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway, in the historic 1886 Edmonton Cemetery this fall, assisted by a Project grant.

Image: Stephanie Urquhart performs with Experience Points on Churchill Square, photo by Tatiana Zagorac of XYZ Productions.

Seeking an outlet for her compositions, professional composer and pianist Stephanie Urquhart created the group Experience Points. Together they combine funk, jazz, and groove-based music with classic video game soundtracks. With their Artist Project grant they plan to record and release their first album.

Image: Murrini glass prototypes by Keith Walker, photo supplied.

Artist Project grants also give artists the opportunity to explore and experiment in their practice. Looking to push her own artistic voice, accomplished dancer, choreographer and instructor Jodie Vandekerkhove will be exploring how to express herself through body and camera. Her dancing-camera will allow audiences to see what a dancer sees from “their” perspective, adding a new voice to the work. Using his Project grant, Keith Walker will be working with assistants to explore the Italian glasswork technique, Murrini. He experienced this labour-intensive process at an international glass residency at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts and is excited to continue in this exploration into future works.

The full list of the first round of Project Grants approved through our peer jury review process is below:

Alicia Krawchuk & Kirstine Bargas (of Blanket Studios) | complete postproduction for feature documentary, Music of the Motherland, about Namibian-Canadian musician Garth Prince

Asani & Maria Dunn | create a video of two songs that tell the story of the Cree, Dene and Métis peoples’ community of Fort McKay

Bill Bourne | record 20th album

Carmen Nieuwenhuis | attend the Women’s Directing Intensive with Carey Perloff at the Banff Centre for the Arts

Dawn Carter | hire an editor to review and edit a manuscript

Emmanuel Osahor | create a large scale outdoor installation at The Works Art & Design Festival

Experience Points | record an album of original video game music arrangements

Farhad Khosravi | press second studio album The Passenger

Fish Griwkowsky | create a short experimental documentary portrait of two Edmonton artists

Gabriel Esteban Molina | attend the Banff Emerging Artist in Residence Program

Holly de Moissac | produce a new body of print works

Jodie Vandekerkhove | explore the use of body-mounted cameras to create a new dance piece

Keith Walker | develop a new series of glass sculptural work using Murrini technique

Kellen Frost, Hailey Fata & Olivia Iadritis | production of 25-minute film Indra's Spirit, the sequel to award winning film Indra's Awakening

King of Foxes | record a new album titled Salt & Honey

Kyle (Terrence) Appelt | short film and installation exploring province of Alberta’s masculine and economic identities

Larry Kelly | complete postproduction for short dramatic film D-Day Plus One

Laura Porter | attend the Banff Emerging Artist in Residence Program

Maria Phillipos (RIELL) | mix and master a new recording

Martin Kerr | create five original arrangements of songs for chamber orchestra for Winspear performance

Matthew MacKenzie | write a new play

Mbira Renaissance Band | record and release a studio album

Michael Bradley, Elise Jason, Patricia Darbasie, Alexandra Dawkins & Nicole St. Martin | collaborate in a first-stage devising workshop based on Shakespeare's Richard III

Nancy Sandercock | research and develop a new dance, sound and visual art installation for The Works Art & Design Festival

Thou Art Here Theatre | create a site-sympathetic production of Shakespeare's Will by Vern Thiessen in the 1886 historic Edmonton Cemetery 

Nisha Patel��| write solo book of poetry

Raphaël Freynet | attend a creative song-writing retreat

Scot Morison | research and write a non-fiction project about the Arab/Israeli conflict

Vaughan String Quartet | perform a series of outreach concerts for underserved audiences

Yinan Li, Daniel Belland & Allan Gilliland | compose three new works for The Obsessions Quartet

The Edmonton Arts Council accepts project grant applications three times a year: “small grants” of up to $5,000 twice a year and “large grants” up to $25,000 once a year. Our next intake is June 15, 2018 for large grant requests.

>> Click here for more information on this grant program…