We are very pleased to welcome Kevin Robert Perry from Urban Rain|Design for his first public presentation in Calgary. Kevin will present his approach to green infrastructure visioning and planning developed through his experience at the City of Portland’s Sustainable Stormwater Program.

His innovative techniques to retrofit the urban fabric with sustainable stormwater management uses the landscape to not only manage stormwater, but to also create highly successful urban spaces.

DATE: Friday 25th October
TIME: Coffee and pastries from 7.30, talk from 8 till 8.45 AM
LOCATION: Bow Room the Water Centre – 625 25 Ave SE, Calgary

Please RSVP to charles.blanc@calgary.ca 

Minty Donald and Nick Millar, artists in residence with The City of Calgary Watershed+ program during April, August and September 2013, will share some of their work-in-progress at an open studio event.

Minty and Nick have devised a series of participatory studies or actions intended to invite reflection on the essential liveliness and wilfulness of water and on the interdependency of every life form with ‘the universal solvent’. While not addressing directly the forceful display of water’s liveliness and wilfulness witnessed in Southern Alberta in June 2013, they hope that the actions/studies might resonate in relatively quiet but thought-provoking ways with some of the feelings and issues raised by the vitality of water

DATE
Saturday, September 28th
TIME: 11am – 4pm
LOCATION:
Glenmore Water Treatment Plant

http://guddling.tumblr.com and http://guddlingaboutexperiments.tumblr.com

Walter Phillips Gallery presents a free drop-in workshop in the Bison Courtyard on the occasion of Alberta Culture Days.

Facilitated by artist Rachel Duckhouse the event invites visitors to combine various drawing and printmaking techniques to explore our relationship to elements of the natural world. Stemming from her research as an artist in residence with The City of Calgary WATERSHED+ program. Rachel’s work is inspired by the movement of water: a complex, multi-layered system quietly underpinning urban and rural landscapes.

Drop in from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Bison Courtyard, 211 Bear Street in Banff.

To hear more about Rachel’s work click here.

Our friends within the City of Calgary metal fabrication shop; graciously co-hosted the first CSIF/ WATERSHED+ screening. Staff was given a firsthand tour of the facility followed by a great night of films.

The films were a sampling from the Water Works film series coming up this weekend.

WATERSHED+ and the The Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers are excited to present Water Works. This two-day screening series will showcase critically acclaimed documentary, short and experimental films about water at two outdoor locations along the Bow river pathway in downtown Calgary. The event aims to encourage Calgarians to interact with their water sources, and to engage with independent film in unconventional ways.

DATES & LOCATIONS:
Friday, September 27th Bow River Pathway (at the South foot of the Peace Bridge)
Saturday September 28th River Walk (East of the Simmons Building- 618 Confluence Way SE)
TIME: 7:30pm both nights
* This is a FREE event open to all- remember to bring a chair and blanket!
(Weather Permitting)

PROGRAM:

FRIDAY, 7:30pm
Blue Suns | Dir. Chloé Leriche | (2010) | 6min

Wavumba: They Who Smell of Fish | Dir. Jeroen van Velzen | (2012) | 80min

Satellite Installations by Joyce Wieland & Michael Snow, Nettie Wild and Noel Begin

SATURDAY, 7:30pm
Magnetic Reconnection | Dir. Kyle Armstrong | (2012) | 13min

Leviathan | Dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel | (2012) | 87min

Satellite Installations by Richard Reeves, Larissa Fan and CSIF Film Club