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Canada Day - with a French accent!
JUNE 2007 Jasper is a Creative 'City'
The Centennial approaches!
21 Caribou
Living on Sunshine Video
Family Day, CN and Marshmallows CN
Jasper Community Mission Impossible
Jasper in January The Year in Review, in advance!
Victorias Secret, Caribou and Indian Giving
Ah, November - its all about the weather
Community museums are key to culture
The Who, Trailer Park Boys and Mel Hurtig Tom Thomson and the Pine Beetle
Is that a Mexican Flag on the Banff Springs?
Green Party on the right track
Neufeld Watchel and Watchel
UNESCO's Indigenous Peoples Day
Heritage Day
From Fiddler on the Roof to Fiddler on the Rails Traditions made new again, First Nations art Bikeology and Caribou MAY 2006
On MountainTop Rock
COMING SOON Foothills Mens Chorus Artists on Rails
Cowboy Poetry Gathering
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JUNE 2007 Jasper is a Creative 'City'
Updated: June 28th, 2007
It's not a wonder that Jasper is a new member of the Creative City Network. The art and music are everywhere this summer. No more so than this Canada Day weekend!! Three days of live entertainment start on Friday June 29th and run until the fireworks on July 1st. (www.fetefrancoalbertaine.ca) And as if planned - the weekend coincides with the Edmonton Arts Council sponsoring Jasper's fledgling membership into the Creative City Network. It's all part of the EAC's mandate as Canada's Cultural Capital to bring communities together through arts and cultural programming....
From
Restless Communities to Resilient Places…an
advisory report by Infrastructure Canada came out in print this month,
ironically, at the same time as our community is being split - once
again by an issue – this time the pipeline. They
talk about the rapid and constant change Canadian communities have
experienced over the past 30 years, an issue of poignancy to our newly
formed municipality. Managing
growth, even on a scale as small as our mountain town, has similarities
to the issues raised in this national report.
As such I am thinking that many of the recommendations and new
program ideas that are expressed in the report may also apply to us!? The
buzzword throughout is ‘sustainability’.
Many of the recommendations made, while they appear to be letting
the federal government take less responsibility, are very grass roots
oriented. Accountability is
being taken down to its citizen level – where communities make choices
and changes. They talk
about the economic, environmental, social and cultural dimensions and
strategies for strengthening community in each of those.
(A few CD’s of the Restless Communities report are available at
the Fitzhugh paper office, and
online at www.infrastructure.gc.ca). What caught my attention (besides the proposed devolution of the federal government being accountable at a community level!) were the two programs initiated under cultural strategies, Cultural Capitals of Canada and Creative City Network. The Cultural Capitals is a national program created in 2002 to recognize and support Canadian municipalities for special activities that harness the many benefits of arts and culture in community life. Any municipality can apply for an award – designation increases and improves a town’s cultural services – partnerships and cultural exchanges encouraged…details at http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/ccc/index_e.cfm The Creative City Network (www.creativecity.ca) was setup by cultural municipality professionals to improve their practices through collective information sharing and regular communications. Their website is full of success stories, positive social and economic benefits for municipalities around the country that have found the Network’s resources useful in adopting culture as an industry. While
economic, social and environmental dimensions are important to the
well-being and future of communities – “they do not address some of
the fundamental issues of how to create sustainable communities, such as
developing civic pride, creating a sense of place and fostering
diversity and inclusion. Culture
is both a set of objects (art music theatre…) and set of processes. Cultural sustainability is essential to community success.”
(Restless Communities) The best news about this report and the two cultural strategies is – Edmonton is Canada's Cultural Capital this year and the Edmonton Arts Council has offered to sponsor Jasper’s fledgling membership into the Creative City Network in support of a strong collective cultural voice in Alberta. While it probably wont solve the pipeline issue – it will be a great addition to the resources, and offer new opportunities to be shared by all of Jasper’s cultural industry partners. Which in turn will touch all of us this Canada Day!
New Artwork, by Doris Charest and Phil Alain, at Fiddle River Restaurant - the best view in town, inside and out!
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The Centennial approaches!
Updated: June 13rd, 2007 JASPER, Alberta
The Centennial approaches!
New street banners are up, Jasper's first street fair provides the community with an amazing day of music, displays and information. Tuktu Prayers had an opportunity to raise awareness for the art exhibition that will open August 1 2007 at the Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum in Banff and at the Jasper Yellowhead Museum on September 14th in Jasper.
Even NumTiJah Lodge gets in a touch of heritage with their building of a mosaic pathway.
Mosaic 'master' Anna Carnell arranged for several artists (and some wanna be artists like me!) to create blocks of stone mosaics that would be laid on the path to the sauna. I thought it only fitting that a path being created at such a historical place should have one block honouring Jasper's 100th year. If you find yourself on the Parkway drop by the Lodge - they should be in place by late summer 2007.
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This past month has given the Chronicle the opportunity to be many places...thus no postings for May! Edmonton's Night of Artists was an amazing grassroots effort by some very dedicated artists - Phil Alain and Lewis Lavoie. Music and Art for three days and nights! Edmonton's title of Cultural Capital for Canada this year certainly was upheld at this amazing event.
This years event was in support of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, and Tuktu was invited! These beautiful coats by Edmonton City Centre High School students, one of the pieces from the traveling art exhibition, certainly get attention. We were honoured to have Madagascar Slim as our model! If you haven't had the chance to take in a NIGHT OF ARTISTS - mark your calendars for next spring - definitely worth the trek to Edmonton.
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JASPER'S CENTENNIAL EVENTS are posted! And if you want to decrease those carbon emissions to get to Jasper - VIA Rail has Thursday trains!
Thursday September 13th's Via out of Edmonton will feature Alberta entertainer, filmmaker and author Geo Takach as part of the ARTIST ON RAILS program. When in Jasper he will do his one man show "Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up" at the Jasper Yellowhead Museum on September 13th. Geo will be surrounded by the black and white photographic images of Kristen Wagner - from her book "I am Albertan". And the evening will end with a chat downstairs at the museum with Geo and community members...on what Jasperites see as their place in Alberta. Geo is collecting input for his upcoming book!
In keeping with the spirit of 2007- Jasper's Centennial - we at DTMI are collecting this years events and organizations doing what they do best throughout the year. If your club or class is doing something that brings community together - honours the people and the place in this special year - we want to know! These visual stories will be prepared into a CD/DVD format for a YEAR IN REVIEW.
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