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Situating Design in Alberta
One of the most difficult things to measure is how design connects people to place. Design—a broad field including architecture, interior design, industrial design and visual communications—can create community, elevate the marginalized and, at times, contribute to social justice. Yet the success of the design industry is usually measured solely through an economic lens: in […]
Tags: Alberta Views, amery Calvelli, Book review, design, nonfiction
November 1, 2022
Buffalo is the New Buffalo
When Chelsea Vowel’s new book Buffalo is the New Buffalo was released, I’d been away from the home Métis territories for about a year. In Vancouver I craved the openness of prairie sky and the landscapes, stories and community that held me as a child and then as an adult. When I heard the book […]
Tags: Book review, Chelsea Vowel, storytelling
How to Be a Climate Optimist
Blueprints for a Better World
Tags: Book review, Chris Turner, climate change
Wrecked Leaders
Turn them into quick cash!
Tags: Alberta Views, Fred Stenson, party leadership, politics, rage, wit
Injustice System
The rot in our prisons.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Paula Simons, prison reform, social issues
Fighting in Whatever Way We Can
Ukrainian-Edmontonians and the war in Ukraine.
Tags: edmonton, Myrna Kostash, Ukraine
Should the Arts be Publicly Funded?
A dialogue between Owais Lightwala and Colin Craig
Tags: Alberta, Alberta artists, american culture, arts, arts funding, Bandcamp, Bowfort Towers, business investment, Calgary public art, Canadian artists, Canadian Council of the Arts, Canadian cultureal identiy, Canadian industry, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, CanCon, censorship, Chad Kroeger, Colin Craig, controversy, core services, creativity, dance, democracy, Dono, eBay, Etsy, federal income, feminist, fixed income, GDP, GoFundMe, government spending, high skilled labour, human sexuality, inflation, international artists, job creation, Justin Bieber, Kickstarter, libertarian, literature, loudwire, low income, Massey Commission, multicultural, Music, National Gallery of Canada, Nickleback, OECD, Out of Control, Owais Lightwala, Patreon, patron of the arts, Peaches, performing arts, Private investment, public accountability, public arts funding, public funding, queer, risque, Rush, Ryan Peake, See Art Orlando, Should the Arts be Publicly funded, Slane Castle, Snapshots, special interest groups, State funding, stories, subsidies, tax allocation, tax cuts, Taxpayers, The Fleshies, theatre, Think tank, Think tank second street, Traveling light, U2, US culture, Voice of Fire, Whose Jizz is This, Wishing Well
Creative Adaptation
A photo essay by Leah Hennel.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, COVID 19, Leah Hennel, pandemic, Photo Essay
People Need Music, Right?
How the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra weathered the pandemic.
Tags: Alberta Views, edmonton, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, pandemic, Sandra Sperounes
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