Calgary's Illuminated Landscapes: Installation #2 - Play!

On Wednesday, August 17, 2011, AF Calgary July 2011 fellows Claudia Bustos and Vlad Amiot presented their second installation based on their project proposal "Calgary's Illuminated Landscapes."

Entitled "Play!" Calgarians of all ages were encouraged to bring their inner child and to come down to Prince's Island Park from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. to create and to play with balloons with LEDs embedded in them.

Likened to a glow-in-the-dark ball pit, participants tossed, kicked and buried themselves in balloons, and fun was had by all.

Approximately 50 people came out in the middle of the week to play along (many despite having to work the next morning), and this video is a short montage of what happened that night:

To learn more about the Illuminated Landscapes project, check out http://collaborativeprojectsyyc.blogspot.com/

And if you've missed out on the previous two installations, there may be one more opportunity to take part in this AF Calgary funded project before the summer is up. Stay tuned!

Finally, don't forget that May 2011's AF Calgary winning project "MP3 Experiment" takes place this Sunday, August 21 at Sien Lok Park at 2 p.m. If you want to take part, check out Audio Mob YYC.

$1000 to help "Illuminate Calgary" - spread the word!

Hi Lori (and everyone at Awesome Calgary)!

We just wanted to update you on our status for our first installation of Illuminated Landscapes.  The Fireflies version will be going up tomorrow:

Come join us for our first installation on Friday, August 12th. Start your adventure at the intersection of 4th St. and 26 Ave. SW anytime after 10 pm! 

Once visitors get to the intersection, they will follow a trail of lights to our location. 

We'll keep you updated for the next installations; also, check out our blog at http://collaborativeprojectsyyc.blogspot.com/ to track our process and progress through our projects!

Thanks again for Awesome Calgary's help.

Thanks, and hopefully we'll see you tomorrow!

Vlad & Claudia (Awesome Foundation Calgary's July 2011 grant fellow)

July Top4 Finalists announced

It was another very tough selection night to narrow our 14 awesome submissions this month down to only 4 finalists to pitch to us on July 28th.  Team awesome met at the fabulous Calgary Folk Music Festival (on Thursday and thankfully not Friday!) to make our top4 selections to the fabulous backdrop of the main stage and amazing music.  

Here they are (in no particular order): 

• LED Dominos - a digital urban community art project to show the world that Calgary is both modern and cool, with the world's first LED Domino urban art. (Shannon Hoover)
• International Computer Literacy - program to have International Grad students teach computer skills to immigrants -  to help the grad students hone their teaching skills and to help immigrants gain computer skills to more quickly become productive members of the Calgary economy (Leanne Wu)
• Team Zeus - a competition for post secondary students to build, and then race electric/efficient motorcycles - then take the learnings to high school classrooms to engage kids in further education and the idea of creating for the future (Jules LaPrairie)
• Illuminated Landscapes - invite Calgarians to light up overlooked city spaces with LED lights to add new vibrancy by changing these spaces into welcoming and magical environments at night.  (Claudia Bustos and Vlad Amiot)

Join us on Thousand Dollar Thursday to watch these 4 teams vie for the $1000 cash on July 28th at 6pm at the Calgary Drop In Centre (423 4 Ave SE - 6th floor presentation area).  Special guests The Heebee Jeebees will perform with the Top4 teams to really set the stage for an awesome showcase of the amazing talent and people of Calgary.  Don't miss it!