Telling Our Family Stories Through Art - 55+ ZINE Workshop

Thursdays, January 26 - February 23

Participants will share their family stories through Zines that incorporate collage, photography and drawing.  (Zines are self-published magazines that are usually reproduced with a photocopier). Contemporary Calgary exhibitions Human Capital and Astral Dance will be used as resources to support generating ideas and approaches to using the materials. This program will be held at Contemporary Calgary, across the street from the Kerby Centre.

For adults age 55+

Facilitated by: Gail Hinchliffe, MFA candidate, UCalgary
Location: Contemporary Calgary
Registration Fee: $60 + tax

Agenda:

January 26: Orientation & Introduction / 2-4 PM

• Getting to know each other, an introduction to the project: Zines, and an introduction to the Chitra Ganesh: Astral Dance & Human Capital Exhibitions.

February 2: Collage / 2-4 PM

• Participants will create backgrounds for Zine pages, using Chitra Ganesh: Astral Dance as a reference for approaches. In this session, you will plan the composition of your Zine, including photos, drawn elements and text.

• Please bring: textured/patterned papers, magazine pics, etc that you might want to use to develop the backgrounds of your Zine’s pages. Instructor will bring additional papers, etc. to supplement materials that participants are able to bring.

February 9: Photography / 2-4 PM

• In this session, participants will take photos of original pictures that they would like to use in their zines (e.g. pictures of parents/grandparents, recipes in their original form, artworks in the home, pictures of their childhood home, pictures of their first home in a new country, etc.). 

• Participants will have the opportunity to learn how to edit these pictures on their phones. Final images will then be submitted to the instructor via email. 

February 16: Drawing / 2-4 PM

• In this session, participants will add photos from the previous session to their Zine and begin to include drawn elements and text. Upon completion, they will learn how to connect the pages together.

February 23: Exhibition Opening / 2-4 PM

• Participants are invited to bring guests to the Exhibition Opening where they can view Zines completed during this workshop.

• There will be light refreshments provided by the Kerby Centre café.

This program is part of the YYC/LRT: Community-Based Art as Community Development study. Those attending this event may choose to participate in a study exploring the role of art in community development. This would involve completing a questionnaire and including your art as data in the study. The Conjoint Faculties Research Ethics Board has approved this study (REB22-1227). For more information please email jreiserm@ucalgary.ca.

Human Capital Tour & Ballet Performance

December 9, 2022
Tour: 5:00 PM / Performance: 5:45 PM

Join us for an exhibition tour and special performance with Yukichi Hattori, co-founder of the H/W School of Ballet, along with dancers from Calgary and H/W students as they respond to the themes addressed in the exhibition Human Capital. Through their own personal stories of immigration and assimilation, the dancers move through rhythms of confrontation and harmony in a collective dance piece that celebrates diversity.

“A story of rocks grinding themselves to spheres through the river of time. A process that is harsh, exhausting and dramatic. I happen to find those moments oddly entertaining. I wish to share them with you”. - Yukichi Hattori

Concept and Direction; Yukichi Hattori
Music; "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel

Performers

Yukichi Hattori / Galien Johnston / Sabina Zhetpissova

Jolie Che / Annalise Grammacione / Allison Hardee / Allysan Lui / J. R. McNeil / Justine Park / Lan Tran / Paige Wichers / Claire Winther

Valentina Calderon / Hilit Heitman / Megan Kanashiro / Carlin Khu / Leah Flaschner / Sophie Kimber / Hailey Mah  

Solange Ansell / Ryan Brignall / Abigael George / Mae Hattori / Tobey Kanashiro / Hannah Kohn / Harper Marshall

Yukichi Hattori (he/him)

Yukichi started dancing in Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 13, he moved to Hamburg, Germany to attend the Hamburg ballet school. He joined the Hamburg ballet in 1999, where he was praised as the "audience's favourite dancer". He was promoted to soloist in 2004. He then moved to the Alberta Ballet in 2006, where he danced until 2016. He not only danced throughout his career, he choreographs all over the world as well.

He now opened H/W school of Ballet here in Calgary along with his partners, Galien Johnston Hattori and Tara Williamson to raise dancers and performing arts supporters.

Human Capital is presented in partnership with:

Opening Reception

Chitra Ganesh: Astral Dance & Human Capital

Please join Contemporary Calgary on October 13, 2022, for a series of events in celebration of the opening of our fall exhibitions, Chitra Ganesh: Astral Dance & Human Capital.

FREE with registration. Artists in attendance.