Share Your Story!

The arts help make a community a great place to live.

They get you pumped up, give you new perspectives, make you melancholy, and make you think.

Arts are the songs you hear, the posters you pass, the fashion you wear, the stories you tell.

Arts are the the murals you use as a background for photos and the statues your kids climb all over.

Arts are evenings at the theatre, afternoons at the gallery, and school trips to the museum.

Arts are the classes you take, the tunes you hum, the sculptures you mold, the moves you dance.

Arts bring LIFE to any space, including a neighbourhood, a community, and a city.

Arts are the very soul of a people and a place.

 

We want to hear how YOU experience the arts in Calgary! Here are a few prompts to get you started:

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• Do you have a favourite or most-memorable Calgary arts experience?

• Do you remember your first arts experience or that of your children?

• Is there a mural or public piece of art that you love to encounter every day?

• Have you had an arts experience that made you reconsider your perspective?

• Do you create art in the city? Where, with whom, and for whom?

• Have you ever left an arts experience in tears? In shock? Inspired to take action?

• Has making art ever helped you calm down, wake up, chill out, or get inspired?

 

Nothing tells the story of how important art is to a city better than, well, stories from people who live there!

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Thank You for sharing yours.