Culture Days in Calgary FREE Block Party

BACKGROUND:A special media launch took place on Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 10 a.m. to announce details about the Block Party being held this Friday, which helps kick off Culture Days in Calgary. Stephen Avenue Walk and Olympic Plaza will become party central for Culture Days in Calgary starting Sept. 25. This launch will give media a taste of what Calgarians will see and do both at the Friday night block party, and throughout the weekend. For more information visit calgary.ca/culturedays   Transcript / Time Code 100:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,160[TERESA] We're here to celebrate one of our favorite weekends: Culture Days in Calgary 200:00:04,160 --> 00:00:08,160it's an opportunity for Calgarians to really get a sense of arts and culture in the community 300:00:08,160 --> 00:00:12,260it's always a wonderful opportunity to see the light in people's eyes 400:00:12,260 --> 00:00:14,520when they realize that arts and culture really is a part 500:00:14,530 --> 00:00:18,490of their everyday life whether it's fromthe clothes they put onto their bodies or 600:00:18,490 --> 00:00:21,750it's the music that they're listening toon the way to work they realize that 700:00:21,750 --> 00:00:27,320that culture and art is what enriches it and what makes it a better way to 800:00:27,320 --> 00:00:29,900make a living and make a life... 900:00:29,900 --> 00:00:38,000[MUSIC] 1000:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,800Our kick off, Friday September 25 (2015) from 3:30 p.m. - 8 p.m., 1100:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,020at Olympic Plaza and Stephen Avenue walk - there will be an opportunity to 1200:00:45,030 --> 00:00:47,840get a wide variety of the samplings ofwhat can be expected 1300:00:47,840 --> 00:00:49,320during the culture days weekend 1400:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,980[GERALD] Open Streets Calgary will be pedal powering a slideshow projection 1500:00:53,980 --> 00:00:58,160of public art across the city so peoplewill be able to generate the electricity 1600:00:58,160 --> 00:01:02,520kind of like having a bike ride around allare beautiful public art 1700:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,780[RACHEL] At the Glenbow (Museum) our vision is more people interacting with art and culture - more often 1800:01:06,780 --> 00:01:12,680this was piece was created by over 200 people that walked down Stephen Avenue Mall this summer 1900:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,840we're hoping to get even more peoplecontributing to it on Friday 2000:01:16,850 --> 00:01:18,210at the Culture Days block party 2100:01:18,210 --> 00:01:23,630kicking off the weekend, Friday, 3:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. at Olympic Plaza and Stephen Avenue walk 2200:01:23,630 --> 00:01:26,560you can come down and get a sampling of arts and culture in our city 2300:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,760for more information go to calgary.ca/culturedays     -----------------------------------------------------------------------   Members of the media and publicare welcomed to make and use copies of this materialto support their own news reporting.  Media Feed by The City of Calgary is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work athttp://thecityofcalgary.libsyn.com/podcast. Email notice of such use is sincerely appreciatedat [email protected]