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King Edward School to be Alberta Culture Days Celebration Site

 

cSPACE is pleased to announce that we have received a provincial grant for King Edward School to be a Celebration Site for Alberta Culture Days. Many thanks to Minister Klimchuk and our partners at Alberta Culture for recognizing the unique proposal to showcase King Edward and our programming partners. Alberta Culture Days will be held from September 28th-30th, 2012.

Link to Alberta Government News Release

 

DOORS OPEN @ King Edward

DOORS OPEN @ King Edward

From school to creative hub: An interactive 3-day event celebrating People, Place and Ideas.

Please save the date for a unique open house at the historic King Edward School from September 28 - 30, 2012.

This 3-day interactive event will celebrate both the legacy and future of this sandstone building as a platform for connecting people, place and ideas. Our collaborators for the weekend include Doors Open YYC, PechaKucha Night Calgary and We Should Know Each Other, with programming that includes an exhibition from our photography competition and family-friendly opportunities to suit diverse interests.

With a mission to connect people, place and ideas to ignite creativity, community, collaboration and change, cSPACE is excited to invite the community inside the 100-year-old King Edward School before the redevelopment process begins.

Please note that all entrances of the school require stair access at this time. 

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Lack of Affordable Art Spaces in Calgary

Reid Henry, CEO of C-Space Projects speaks with David Gray at CBC's Eyeopener about developing affordable space for local artists and arts organizations.

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King Edward School Interview on CBC's "The Homestretch"

Guest host Frank Rackow speaks with Reid Henry, President and CEO of cSPACE projects about intention to transform Calgary's historic school into an arts hub and community centre. 

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100-year old school to become a 21st century model for cultivating leadership, collaboration and creativity in Calgary

Calgary Arts Development and The Calgary Foundation today 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.

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Community unites to transform old Marda Loop school into vibrant new arts hub - BY STEPHEN HUNT, CALGARY HERALD

Calgary's arts community just got a sturdier foundation under its feet.


That's how it felt when a jubilant group of arts administrators, philanthropists, politicians and community representatives gathered at King Edward School in Marda Loop on Friday to talk about plans for the transformation of the 100-year-old school into an arts incubator.


"It's a phenomenal plan," says Ald. John Mar. "This is very, very avant-garde in its design and concept, and the community, fortunately, has been very, very positive and welcoming towards the concept of creating an arts hub for the community of Marda Loop."

 

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Calgary Heritage Initiative forums

The Calgary Heritage Initiative Society is dedicated to the preservation, productive use and interpretation of buildings and sites of historic and architectural interest in Calgary.

Calgary Heritage Initiative forums is a place for the discussions of issues affecting Calgary's heritage sites.

Here is the link to background articles on King Edward School from March 2006 - Present

City backs plan to transform old King Edward school into arts and culture centre

CALGARY – A city committee has voted unanimously to kick in $5-million to preserve a piece of Calgary history while helping the art community.

Calgary Arts Development needs $25-million to preserve the Old King Edward School on 30th Avenue and 17th Street S.W. The school has been vacant for the past six years.

It plans to turn it into a mixed-use arts and culture centre. Artists of every discipline would be able to live and work in the space.

“We feel the collisions of disciplines creates the energy we are looking for so it will have social entrepreneurs, music industry, fine artists, emerging and long term, so we are really excited about the mix,” says Reid Henry, Calgary Arts Development Authority.

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Arts centre one step closer

Arts centre one step closer It's unanimous. A city committee has voted to kick in $5 million towards a bid to turn the historical King Edward School into an arts hub for the commnity. Calgary Arts Development needs $25 million to preserve the southwest school site to turn it into a mixed-use arts and culture centre. Project lead Henry Reid told Fast Forward Weekly last week the centre would benefit the entire city. Two former bids to the Calgary Board of Education fell through but there seems to be much more support for this project. The bidders have until August to meet the sale obligations.

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"Potential home for the Arts" BY LEA STORRY

After months of research, the decision on whether to buy a 100-year-old Calgary school and transform it into an arts centre is now centre stage. Calgary Arts Development and The Calgary Foundation put in a combined bid in 2010 to buy the surplus King Edward School from the Calgary Board of Education. The two partners are headed to City Hall on June 29 to ask for a $5-million contribution to help with the purchase cost. "It's a big task," said Reid Henry, Calgary Arts Development director of art spaces initiatives. "The past eight months have been focused on a duel development process and we know everything from the risk of the building, to the community and cultural sector settings, and we're confident on what this project can be and how to make it happen."

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