arts & culture
It’s culture that gives colour to a place; it’s the underlying current that everyone can taste and feel.
East Village culture vibrates out from the hub that will be the National Music Centre on the site of the King Eddy Hotel. “The National Music Centre will finally give Canada a place to celebrate our national music story,” said Cantos President and CEO Andrew Mosker when the project was awarded a $75 million commitment from federal and provincial governments. With its distinctive architecture – designed by Allied Architecture Works of Portland, Oregon – housing an eclectic collection, entertainments and education, the 110,000 sq. ft. ‘living museum’ is a destination that will speak the international language of music, appealing to all. This is EV’s culture: irresistible, artistic and accessible. For more about the NMC, visit www.nmc.ca
First Seafood,
Now Studios
The East Village Seafood Market, once a symbol of retail prosperity in East Village, went from empty derelict to buzzing creative hive in summer 2010. Fourteen studios have been carved into the 24,000 sq.ft. space and 51 artists are busy writing, filming, painting, potting and performing the place to life.
The project to give the arts a beachhead in East Village brought together master developer CMLC and the Calgary Arts Development Authority. The groups say this collaboration is the first of many.