My girlfriend F & sweet little L invited me and my son L to go to her mother-in-law (grandmother) Art Exhibition today in an art gallery located in Inglewood. I soon realized it was part of the Calgary Art Walk Festival happening this weekend (September 18 - 19th 2010) around various galleries throughout the city. Downtown, Inglewood and the Beltine art galleries put out their finest and most interesting arts for this fun and enjoyable art venue.
The Art Gallery is called ArtPoint Gallery & Studio Society and is located at 1139 - 11 Street SE in the Calgary's oldest neighbourhood of Inglewood. One of my favorite neighbourhoods in Calgary. This place reminds me a lot of my past neighbourhood when I lived in Edmonton, the White Avenue. But in my opinion, homey and smaller! Many art galleries and little antique stores. White Avenue is getting to commercial and trendy, little small family coffee shops being replaced by mega famous Starbucks and Second Cups, and little bookstores not able to compete with Chapters, etc. I think Inglewood still keeps this feeling of simplicity and warmth of small stores. When you enter this old dusty bookstore, or find an old gentleman sitting behind the counter of an antique store, or little restaurants with live music, etc. I really like that heterogeneous, historical and deep feeling.
The Art Gallery is called ArtPoint Gallery & Studio Society and is located at 1139 - 11 Street SE in the Calgary's oldest neighbourhood of Inglewood. One of my favorite neighbourhoods in Calgary. This place reminds me a lot of my past neighbourhood when I lived in Edmonton, the White Avenue. But in my opinion, homey and smaller! Many art galleries and little antique stores. White Avenue is getting to commercial and trendy, little small family coffee shops being replaced by mega famous Starbucks and Second Cups, and little bookstores not able to compete with Chapters, etc. I think Inglewood still keeps this feeling of simplicity and warmth of small stores. When you enter this old dusty bookstore, or find an old gentleman sitting behind the counter of an antique store, or little restaurants with live music, etc. I really like that heterogeneous, historical and deep feeling.
Inglewood is the home of the famous Spolumbo restaurant too. Do you know about the Spolumbo sausages? Personally I think they are lean, tasty and delicious. Perhaps I should dedicate a whole blog story about them, because in fact they are so good that they deserve a special mention. Their story is quite interesting too. Nowadays you can find them literally everywhere: Safeway, SaveOnFoods, Sobeys, etc. and they cater to business around the city. My company use them in their meetings and I often get to savour them at our lunch and learns.
Inglewood is located immediately across the Elbow River from Fort Calgary and was established in 1875 after the fort was built. These days, the neighbourhood is a shopping and art district and home to the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary (previously mentioned in my other blog story).
Inglewood is located immediately across the Elbow River from Fort Calgary and was established in 1875 after the fort was built. These days, the neighbourhood is a shopping and art district and home to the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary (previously mentioned in my other blog story).
ArtPoint Gallery has an eclectic group with about 25 artists showing art in all sorts of different medias. ARTPOINT is open Thursday & Friday from 1 to 5 pm, and Saturday from 11 am to 5 pm. My friend's mother-in-law name is Charlene Turner Kroeger and her exhibition was called Myths & Stories, an artist who loves to paint portraits and people.
Thank you my dear friend F! We had a great time there today! My son L chase your little L all over the gallery, but he had fun specially at the waving and spuning gallery area. Wanted to see more, but we had other plans for the day and we're running out of time. But it was a fun thing to do! I LOVE art galleries...
We also made sometime to pop into the Calgary Moms Trade Fair this afternoon.
