Culture Days is one of the most entertaining events of the season – but organizers say it means so much more to Cochrane than just a few days of art-focused fun.
“It brings the community together. We inspire each other,” Michelle Boudreau of the Arts and Culture Foundation Cochrane (ACFC) said this week. “That’s what art is. It’s meant to be there as an inspiration.”
The activity and artisan-packed weekend kicks off Thursday evening with three distinct performances at the Cochrane Ranchehouse Theatre. Friday celebrates the community’s children with a youth art show, gymnastics activities and a fall music showcase at the Cochrane Boys and Girls Club.
Saturday is stuffed with culture and art, from painting and beading demonstrations to a musical hootenanny at Heritage House Coffee Company, while Sunday focuses on an artisan market and concerts at Centennial Plaza, as well as street art at the Cochrane Youth Park skate facility.
The complete Culture Days schedule can be found at www.artscochrane.ca/arts-days.
Boudreau said she’s amazed by the level of talent this town has to offer – and she’s proud that Culture Days is such an engaging platform to show it all off.
“Not only does Cochrane have a huge contingency of local artists, but we have a community that supports the art,” she said. “We get to see all the fine point of our arts and culture.”
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ACFC Culture Days 2016 Full Schedule
Date Event Location Time
THURSDAY 29-Sep Youth Art Show Cochrane RancheHouse 8:30am-4:30pm
Opening Night: Culture for All Ages Cochrane RancheHouse Theatre Doors 6:00pm
FRIDAY 30-Sep Youth Art Show Cochrane RancheHouse 8:30am-4:30pm
Bronze Art Gallery & Foundry Tour Studio West Ltd. 205 2nd Ave East noon - 4:00pm
U of C Gymnastic Club Spray Lake Sports Centre 12:50 - 3:00pm
Pottery demonstration Saffron Collective Studios 205 - 3rd Ave 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Boys & Girls Club Fall Music Showcase 111 5th Ave West 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Writer-in-Residence Launch Nan Boaothby Memorial Library 6:30pm - 8:30pm
SATURDAY 01-Oct Beading & Embroidery Demonstration The Stitching Corner 118 Centre Ave
Literature & Art Nan Boothby Memorial Library 10:00am - 5:00pm
Custom Jewellery Demonstration Aeron E King Goldsmith Bay 3, 123-2nd Ave 1:00pm -5:00pm
Painting Demonstration Cochrane Caf é 316 1 st West 10:00am - 4:00pm
Cochrane Art Club St. Andrew's United Church 128 1st St East 10:00am - 4:30pm
Painting Demonstration Just Imajan Gallery Bay#3, 320 1st St West 10:00am - 5:00pm
Hanna Seidel Tyrrell Clarke Gallery 208 1st St West 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Art for Kids Just Imajan Gallery Bay#3, 320 1st St West 10:00am - 5:00pm (weather permitting)
Heritage Art Display Heritage House Coffee Co 214 1st St West 10:00am - 4:00pm
Music & Coffee Deja Brew 205 1st St E 10:30am - 11:15am
Bronze Art Gallery & Foundry Tour Studio West Ltd. 205 2nd Ave East noon - 4:00pm
Creative Arts with Fabrics Addies Creative Fabrics 420 1st St West 2:00pm
Marty Cochrane in performance Just Imajan Gallery Bay#3, 320 1st St West 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Godesses in D'Nile Killarney's Cochrane Golf Club 5:30 pm
SUNDAY 02-Oct Music Masters in the Round Heritage House Coffee Co 214 1st St West 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Heritage House Hootenany Heritage House Coffee Co 214 1st St West 7:30 - 10:00pm
Street Art with Zero Gravity SkatePark Westrock road@Highway 22 10:00am-2:00pm
ACFC Artisan Market Centennial Plaza noon - 5:00pm
Miss Ladybug Family Sing-along Artisan Market Concert/Centennial Plaza 12:30 - 1:00pm (weather permiting)
Spanish Guitar Concert Artisan Market Concert/Centennial Plaza 1:00pm - 2:45pm (weather permiting)
Filipino Dancing Artisan Market Concert/Centennial Plaza 3:00pm (weather permiting)
