École Holt Couture

Arts and Cultural Profit generated by restoring the “art” of sewing and design in Calgary.

As per: http://www.ecoleholtcouture.com/

Our Mission

To respond to designers having difficulty in finding the expertise to create couture fashion with trained knowledgeable sewing professionals, particularly in the areas of pattern making, sample making and hand finishing, and to nurture exceptional talent in couture.

École Holt Couture believes that the mentor apprentice relationship, which is so crucial to the transference of very specialized skills, has been lost to current fashion design education.

The school therefore integrates theory with practical application, teaches techniques of design and pattern making; couture skills of precise tailoring and dressmaking and the embellishment of apparel and accessories as a specialization distinct from fashion design, marketing and merchandising.

Learn more at: http://www.ecoleholtcouture.com/

Vintage Pop-Up Shop

SEA Change would like to welcome Vintage Pop-Up Shop to our Calgary Social Entrepreneurship family! We love what your doing to build community in Calgary.

Vintage Pop-Up Shop

As per: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vintage-Pop-Up-Shop/171365476225327?sk=info

Vintage Clothing, Accessories and Furniture sourced for you by two lovely ladies.

General Information

We set up shop in different locations around the city. A vintage theme will be showcased at every pop up. Vintage Pop-Up Shop is dedicated to finding our customers beautiful Vintage treasures.Please contact us with any questions. vintagepopupshop@gmail.com. We would love to hear from everyone!

Endeavor Arts and Event Space

SEA Change thanks Endeavor Arts for their amazing support of Calgary’s social entrepreneurs! We love having our events in your beautiful space 🙂

As per: http://www.endeavorarts.com/about/

Endeavor Arts is an innovative contemporary art gallery featuring mixed media, digital, sculptural and other artwork featuring the materials, methods and mediums of our time.

The gallery space is also available for rent as an event venue, it is 2800 square feet of amazing open space that was originally used as a Dance Studio and years later was The Night Gallery. We’re proud to be a contemporary unique venue located within Victoria Park on Suite 200, 1209 First Street SW Calgary, AB.

Click here to book your next event!

Protospace

As per http://protospace.ca:

Protospace is a hackerspace – sometimes (somewhat incorrectly) called a maker or make space. We’re a Calgary non-profit organization geared towards providing a workspace suitable for research, lecture, computer exploration, physical and virtual prototyping, and development. If you would like to help in the development of this hackerspace, associate your group with the hackerspace, or donate tools, hardware or money please contact us.

In almost every major city you go to, you will find a hackerspace and inviting inventors, geek and artists hard at work making and breaking everything under the sun. We are not evil, we wish to promote creativity and community both here in Calgary and around the globe. Read more about hackerspaces on Wikipedia

Market Collective

An excerpt from:  http://www.facebook.com/marketcollective

 

Market Collective is an independent market, created to showcase the works of local artists, artisans and musicians and to strengthen the community in Calgary.

We believe in supporting creativity in the city of Calgary in every way that we can. This includes opening up space for musicians to perform, artists to sell their work, non-profit organizations to show their projects, and the community to …express themselves through interactive displays and collaborative pieces.

For each MC, we create an artist sponsorship in which we take submissions. This is to further our mission of giving back to the community.

Learn more about this amazing market and details about the next event at:

http://marketcollective.ca/

http://www.facebook.com/marketcollective

https://twitter.com/#!/mrktcollective

Innovation Exchange

Innovation Exchange is a monthly meetup of Calgarians interested in contributing to solving social problems.

Founded to help build community around the theme of social innovation and social good, IX facilitates connections and support for people and projects.

Our members include professionals from areas such as:

business, non-profits, community investment, corporate social responsibility, international development, government departments, social enterprise, community economic development, social investment, and more.

Held on the last Wednesday of every month from 5-7, Innovation Exchange will help you connect with people who share your interests and may have skills, connections, new ideas or other resources that can help you pursue an entrepreneurial project, build your career, learn, volunteer, find an investment, or just have good conversation.

We hope you’ll join us in growing Calgary’s community of social innovators!

Learn more at http://www.meetup.com/Innovation-Exchange/

Calgary Foundation

THE CALGARY FOUNDATION MAKES AN $8.027 MILLION IMPACT INVESTMENT IN CALGARY’S ART COMMUNITY

Calgary Arts Development and The Calgary Foundation formally announced the purchase of the King Edward School site from the Calgary Board of Education.

King Edward School is a distinctive heritage building located on a three-acre site in South Calgary at 1720 – 30 Avenue SW. Built as one of nineteen sandstone schools between 1894 and 1914, the School is centrally located in the community of South Calgary.

The King Edward School site is the first of a future portfolio of spaces for cSPACE Projects. After five years of research, advocacy and planning, cSPACE Projects has been founded as a non-profit real estate enterprise dedicated to developing a network of multi-disciplinary creative workspaces across the city.

The property was formally transferred from the Calgary Board of Education to cSPACE Projects on December 2, 2011 for the amount of $8.027 million. The land purchase was supported by an $8 million loan from The Calgary Foundation, along with a $5 million grant from the City of Calgary’s Municipal Sustainability Initiative, which will contribute to the loan repayment. The Foundation also granted $3 million in multi-year funding toward the development of the project.

VISIT http://calgaryartsdevelopment.com/content/new-story-old-school TO LEARN MORE.

cSPACE Projects

Calgary Arts Development and The Calgary Foundation formally announced the purchase of the King Edward School site from the Calgary Board of Education.

King Edward School is a distinctive heritage building located on a three-acre site in South Calgary at 1720 – 30 Avenue SW. Built as one of nineteen sandstone schools between 1894 and 1914, the School is centrally located in the community of South Calgary.

The King Edward School site is the first of a future portfolio of spaces for cSPACE Projects. After five years of research, advocacy and planning, cSPACE Projects has been founded as a non-profit real estate enterprise dedicated to developing a network of multi-disciplinary creative workspaces across the city.

To learn more about this incredible collaboration visit: http://calgaryartsdevelopment.com/content/new-story-old-school