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2019 Calgary Stampede will begin on Friday, July 5

and ends on Sunday, July 14

Much more than a ten-day long celebration with midway rides and bucking broncos, the Calgary Stampede is a gathering place that hosts, educates, and entertains visitors from around the world. Our purpose is to preserve and celebrate western heritage, culture, and community spirit.

WHERE THE WORLD MEETS THE WEST

Each year, more than one million guests from around the world come to Calgary to experience the heart-pounding action of the world’s largest outdoor rodeo, featuring bull riding, barrel racing and more. The GMC Rangeland Derby is a Stampede original, with 36 teams of horses and drivers racing to the finish line each night. The excitement is capped off nightly with the Bell Grandstand Show and a fireworks finale that lights up the sky for all 10 nights.

The Calgary Stampede is also one of Canada’s largest music festivals, with five stages and 300 performers, including a slate of international music headliners. World-class agricultural events and adrenaline-pumping Midway rides will entertain guests of all ages. Experience First Nations culture and traditions at Elbow River Camp in Calgary Stampede’s

beautiful ENMAX Park.

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Paul J. Chinook just flew in from Texas to film his Alberta shot and cast project February's Dog.

Listen to how he shares about his first big commercial with Shaw and now creating his own projects1 he shares his love for Alberta Film and supporting it! February’s Dog Story overview February’s Dog takes place in Alberta in modern time and is set against the beautiful and iconic backdrop of the Canadian Rocky Mountains under a shroud of winter snow. It follows 2 uniquely different, yet typical men. Dale Walters is a very charismatic and lighthearted man that works hard to enjoy a life of adventure and excitement. Nigel Loggins is a military veteran that is quiet and calculated in his approach towards life. The film opens with these two men as they are finishing up work on a Friday. They get called into the office at the end of the day and are laid off by their boss Arthur Newbury; a very clean cut, to the point, middle aged manager. They are told abruptly by Arthur that this is just temporary, and that they will be back at work in 3 months as soon as market oil prices recover.

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Judy is known all over the world as a psychic medium. She grew up in Witshire in Britain. At the age of 11 she was recognised as having the gift. So learning from her family who had members with the gift, and from the many influences in the area she quickly grew a reputation. Moving to the NE of England she was recognised very quickly as having this gift. Judy has dedicated her life to using this gift to help others, studying many healing modalities along with the gift she is recognised by her clients as being transformational in their lives. Her motto is " After a session with me, your life will be a better place to be."

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Reiki - Psychic Readings - Tarot Card Readings - EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) - Mediumship Nutrition counselling - Guided Meditations - Life Coaching - Counselling - Crystal Healing - House Clearings - Bio Energy Healing - Palm Readings - NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) ​

We love life.

​Our mission is to guide you through knowledge, counseling, and using the powers of the universe. To help you design your best life everyday.

SERINDA SWAN CORONER Star On CBC –SEASON 1 NOW STREAMING On CBC GEM

Photography by Kenny Sweeny

Serinda Swan was born in West Vancouver, B.C., to a family of artists, including her mother, an actress, and her father, a theatre director with a well-established acting school. Serinda actually gravitated to the arts and at three was personally chosen for the role in her first motion picture, Cousins with Ted Danson and Isabella Rossellini.

Swan was introduced to the world in popular TV shows such as Smallville and Supernatural in Vancouver. She is most proud of her roles in Feud, Ballers, Marvels and Humans and Coroner.

She got her ’big break’ in Disney’s TRON: Legacy opposite Beau Garrett, Olivia Wilde and Jeff Bridges, as well as The Baytown Outlaws with Billy Bob Thornton.

She then made her move to Los Angeles, where she was able to work opposite the ‘The Rock’ in HBO’s Ballers and Jessica Lang and Susan Sarandon in Feud. Recently was a lead in Marvels and Humans which led her to her drastic change in appearance with having shaved her head for her role! Which allowed her to explore her new diverse starring role in Coroner!

Additionally, she starred in the thriller entitled The Veil, opposite William Moseley. Swan recently wrapped Blood on Wheels, a feature produced by James Franco.

Outside of her busy acting career, Swan’s true passion is activism. In 2011 she became an official ambassador of Friends to Mankind, an organization that partners with non-profits to raise awareness and funds through educational campaigns. Swan has cycled across Cambodia, installed nets in Africa, and skydived from 18,000 ft., the highest jump in North America, in hopes of encouraging others to take a stand and make a difference. She has helped raise over one million dollars to date for various charities and causes close to her heart. Swan is the CEO and Co-Founder of the education technology company, Deedly. Her belief is that education should be free, and through their specific month-long curriculum they educate students about world issues and the charities that strive to fix them. Deedly will be in more 1000 schools by the end of the year.

INTERVIEW WITH

SERINDA SWAN

by Blaine Schlechter

Congratulations on the Season 2 pickup of Coroner – which starts production soon. You’ve lived through a few of these, but it never gets old I’m sure; when you got the call saying you were coming back again to play Jenny Cooper, did you do anything special to celebrate?

I think I did a random dance in my apartment first and foremost, because you just want to celebrate and you want to let out some of the energy that you’re holding. Even though there was a good feeling from the get-go with this show, that it was going to go at least another season, you never know…this industry surprises you in good ways, bad ways and ugly ways. It’s an energy you’re carrying along, it’s another character…it’s another person. I have to keep Jenny close until I know that I can release her and so for me it was sort of that inhale of…’ok, here we go again’. I get to bring Jenny along for another year of life, which is incredibly rewarding and exciting.

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Cold Lake's Petcharnin "Patty" Cowden is an actor, producer, and entrepreneur. She was born in Bangkok, Thailand and is of Thai, Indian, Malaysian, and Portuguese (from her paternal grandfather) descent. Cowden began acting as a child in various Thai TV shows and Films. She appeared in numerous productions throughout her early teens, including being a TV talk show host for Channel V Thailand. At age 15, she decided that she wanted to be a filmmaker and began to focus on production.

In 2006 Cowden completed her Bachelors Degree, graduating Magna Cumme Laude, from Brigham Young University-Hawaii with degrees in Theatre and International Cultural Studies-Humanities. She went on to complete her Master of Business Administration from Aspen University.

Cowden said, "I always wanted to work in two industries: Film, where I can show people what endless possibilities look like and non-profit organizations, where I can be a voice for so many people who have been forced to sit in silence."

Her most recent film Sweet Oil (Producer & Story) premiered at the Phoenix Film Festival in Arizona in 2017.

"Thank you John Rhys-Davies for all the love and support. You always make every minute with you a remarkable one. Truly honoured to be playing your granddaughter in Moments in Spacetime."

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Rick Campanelli Shares how honored he was to Host Motion Ball Gala in Calgary recently!

Rick is a Candian Icon that we all grew up watching and loving still to this day!

Rick Campanelli is a Canadian television and radio personality known for his work as a VJ and host for MuchMusic and for co-hosting ET Canada.

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Motionball is a not-for-profit organization that builds funds & awareness in support of the Special Olympics Canada Foundation.

Our goal is to raise funds and awareness for the Special Olympics Canada Foundation.

The motionball calendar year brings more than 4,000 participants, supporters and Special Olympic athletes together for 18 annual events in 12 cities across Canada.

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Hosts Andrew Norton and Rob Norman, Courtesy of CBC

Personal Best is a humorous podcast that celebrates small ambitions, half-wins and the quiet satisfaction of getting less bad at things. Each week we help ordinary people work through the little things they’d never bring to a life coach — like kicking a snooze button addiction or getting less awkward around cashiers. Let us be your self-help sidekicks!

Hosts Andrew Norton and Rob Norman help ordinary people through the little things that they'd never bring to a life coach - like kicking a snooze button addiction or talking to cashiers - but that still deserve celebrating. This humorous podcast applauds half-wins and the quiet satisfaction of getting less bad at everyday things. Topics tackled in Season 2 include being able to dance in public and learning to be passionate about cooking, and the new season launches with Chandler, a woman in her 30s, who wants to get her first credit card.

Season one was named among the best podcasts of 2018 by Vulture, Apple, The Globe & Mail as well as Huffington Post. Season 2 launched May 14, 2019 with 9 episodes x 30 mins.

Andrew Norton is a radio producer and filmmaker. He’s made stories on everything from baseball mascots to legendary skateboarding tricks for outlets like CBC’s Wiretap, NPR, WBEZ and podcasts like 99% Invisible. And to answer the first question you’ll have when you meet him — he’s 6’6”.

Rob Norman is the author of Improvising Now, as well as an instructor and director at the Second City Toronto. In addition to producing The Backline weekly podcast, Rob is a Canadian Screen Award winner for his performance on CityTV’s Sunnyside. And yes, Rob is tall but he doesn’t make a big deal about it.

Interview by Blaine Schlechter & CBC PR -With Andrew Norton and Rob Norman

Congrats on the upcoming season 2 of your Podcast – Personal Best. Tell us about the show?

Andrew – We like to say it’s a self-improvement show for people who don’t like self-improvement. Each episode is like a mini-documentary and people come to us with something that they want to improve about themselves and it’s usually something petty…something weird that you normally wouldn’t want to go to a “life coach” for. Over the course of the episode we try our best to find experts; to develop activities to try and get them better at whatever it is they want to improve on.

It’s a great concept…where did the concept for the show come from?

Rob – I was doing a bunch of storytelling events around town and Andrew saw a video and said ‘ooh…I want to make a little documentary about it’ so we filmed that, in about 2015 or something. Years and years later, CBC was looking for a comedy podcast and I thought it sounded like a great opportunity. I only knew one person who makes podcasts and that was Andrew. So I called Andrew and we met at a coffee shop…later I would realize neither of us drink coffee…and I threw an idea (out there) and Andrew did not like the idea, but together we kind of came up with something that kind of meshed together to become Personal Best. So a real mess of an origin story I’d say.

Andrew – Yah, there wasn’t like an ‘aha’ moment of a light bulb flickering on or something like that romantic.

So you guys knew each other before the show came out, the show didn’t really bring you guys together?

Rob – We were pretty much strangers when we were making this video and I was just getting into podcasting and Andrew had mentioned that he had done some so I was asking him a lot of questions about the craft, but yah…our relationship has all been through the show.

Andrew – We were like Facebook buddies for a while where he was the one person where “Oh…Rob has an improv show coming up…this guys on my Facebook…I forgot about that” and then a few years later he reached out. So we knew each other a little bit I guess you could say.

Rob – And for the record, Andrew has never come to one of my improv shows!

Andrew – Well Rob does a really good job of not glamorizing Improv as well!

Do you guys have any personal favorite moments from Season 1?

Andrew – The cow birth episode I would say, especially in hindsight. We were such ‘threading the needle’ or ‘out on a wire on that one’; I can’t believe we pulled it off. So much had to come together, where not only were we helping this lady who wanted to birth a cow, we were building her skills up, getting her ready to do that…(but) we were actually trying to find a cow that was going to give birth and trying to make that happen within that time frame. Even listening back to that, it was ‘whoa…that worked out really well’. That was an interesting one; a fun one for sure.

Picture of Hosts Andrew Norton and Rob Norman, Courtesy of CBC

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Lady Ball Gala Is Saving Women's Lives - Michelle Schurman Chair Woman Interview

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The Alberta Media Production Industries Association (AMPIA) is pleased to announce their finalists for the 45th annual Alberta Film & Television Awards, celebrating excellence and outstanding achievement in Alberta’s screen industries.

A total of 600 class (205) and craft (395) entries were submitted for consideration into this year’s awards, resulting in 323 total finalists; 129 class and 194 craft. For this year’s awards 59 industry professionals outside of Alberta adjudicated the submissions.

These productions, from commercials, new media, and both long and short form fiction and non-fiction are vying for 24 Class awards. In addition, Alberta’s talented screenwriters, costume and production designers, cinematographers, editors, directors, make-up artists, special effects artists, sound technicians and composers are competing in 33 Craft categories. Each winner shall receive the prestigious Rosie Award.

Of all finalists, 155 are from productions based in the city of Calgary, while 141 are from Edmonton-based productions. There were also 24 finalists from other communities in Alberta, including 12 from Red Deer. As always, some Edmonton productions used Calgary talent. Similarly, some Calgary productions employed Edmonton talent. This should be kept in mind when comparing the breakdown.

In Calgary SEVEN24 Films had the greatest number of finalists with 15, while Spotlight Productions had the second most, having produced or co-produced 11 finalists.

With a total of 19, Mosaic Entertainment had the greatest number of Edmonton finalists. Handful of Films was right behind, having produced or co-produced 18 finalists.

As for individual productions, Edmonton based Mosaic Entertainment’s “Caution: May Contain Nuts” has the greatest number of finalists, with 12. The production receiving the second most finalists is Calgary based SEVEN24 Films’ “Heartland,” with 9.

The 2019 Alberta Film & Television Awards took place as a gala evening presentation was on Saturday, April 27 at the Edmonton Convention Centre in downtown Edmonton.

This year the Alberta Film & Television Awards, the oldest film and/or television awards event in Canada, is celebrating its 45th consecutive year of honouring its provincial production industry.

In order to qualify for an Alberta Film & Television Award a production must be produced or co-produced by a production company based in Alberta. For any craftsperson to be eligible he or she must have been a resident of Alberta for the 2018 calendar year.

Fred Keating was presented by the AMPIA board a special AMPIA Ambassador award.

Photos by Experiemental Experience for the print spread.

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Chris Tutty and Lynda Cater of Wonder Woman and more!

Chris Tutty is a Canadian Celebrity Artist, born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. His love of the arts could be observed in every school he attended from poetry books, yearbook covers, coloring contests, large murals, paintings, and his participation in various school productions and talent shows. After high school, Chris stopped painting and drawing all together to pursue a Geology degree. It seemed more practical to follow his father's footsteps into the oil and gas field. Now it's his full-time career along with his charity work with Guitars For Vets and more.

Chris also sells real-estate and has worked on many different movie projects, tv and commercials throughout the years from The Assassination of Jesse James to Passchendaele. Currently, he is co-producing a tv show called the Chevy Boyzzz with co-star David “Shark” Fralick of The Young and the Restless.

Over the years Chris rarely had a spare moment to explore and express his truly passionate side through art. With the passing of three incredibly influential people in his life, Chris found himself drawn back to what always helped him convey his raw unfiltered emotions, art.

With several events, newspaper, magazine articles as well as showings under his belt, Chris decided to go back to school. He was the top student in his Graphic Arts and Design program and was awarded the class Valedictorian with top marks in his program. Currently Chris is also training and collaborating with Blake McCully of Cross-Eyed airbrushing, together they are taking art to a new level.

In 2015, over two hundred thousand dollars has been raised for local Charites in Calgary through a partnership with Bill Brown of Elevated Auctions, Chris and YYC Charity. Chris’s charitable activities were also recognized in October 2015 by Vigor International with a Humanitarian Award. Today, Chris has several celebrity clients and contributes to charities. Chris has worked with the Kennedys Waterkeepers Alliance in which he was the feature artist, and was able to show his work along with actor Pierce Brosnan.

Chris has an amazing ability to express art in a diverse range of mediums: from exact photorealism to the inimitable abstracts. More often than not his pictures are a unique blend of both. What I love best about my brother’s work is... the vivid emotions I feel when viewing his audacious color combinations. We have only seen the tip of his natural, raw, untapped talent.

Keri-Dawn Tutty-Hill

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