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This month we connect with local creative visionaries about Calgary’s artistic future and highlight standout events to kick your summer into high gear - never mind the rain!             
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welcome to subtext
A community focused monthly newsletter from your friends at BassBus.
If there is something you'd like us to consider featuring, please email editor@bassbus.ca. Above all, keep creating, keep experiencing, and keep embracing the creativity and vibrancy in Calgary and beyond.
rewind

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ReWind
ReWind: The Radio Stage:
A Creative, Collaborative Centrepiece
We spoke with team members who spend their time and passion on one of BassBus’ most soul fulfilling yearly projects: Bass Coast’s Radio Stage. This annual pilgrimage charges our collective batteries and reminds us why we started fostering community in the first place: art, connection, and pure unadulterated good times. Our great friend BeeDee created a video to share the vibe of that unique place in space and time, check it out and read the whole story here.
the subscene
arts and culture beyond the mainstream
Riddim West
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Various Venues
June 6-8

ReggaeFest has retooled and reformatted into a multi-day celebration of reggae and Caribbean culture called Riddim West. The main event on Saturday June 8 at MacEwan Hall balances international calibre reggae artists ( Cham and Luciano) with established locals ( Lynn Olagundoye and Jory Kinjo) and even dips its toes into a non-conventional booking, at least for a reggae event. Delhi 2 Dublin, long time BassBus favourites, will be providing their signature multi-faceted electronic take on broad spectrum music from across the globe.

Riddim West isn’t limited to the big weekend party. Thursday June 6 features a film screening of Babylon, originally screened at Cannes Film Festival in 1980. For the era, the film takes on heavy material like racism, xenophobia and hate groups in the context of a young dancehall DJ in South London. That screening is at the Plaza Theatre in Kensington, and a pair of DJ parties at the den on both the kickoff Friday and after party Saturday go down at The Den at the University of Calgary.
Inglewood Night Market
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9th Avenue and 10th Street SE
June 7 

A curated lineup of local artisans and merchants is fun no matter what, but the extra ambiance and vibe of summer nights makes the Inglewood Night Market an easy pick for favourite public Calgary event. Live acts from singer-songwriters to full live party rockers (we’re looking at you, Rondel Roberts Band) act as vibrant soundtrack to enthusiastic Calgarians embracing the warm, purple twilight of midsummer by supporting the various artists and creators that bring our fair prairie town to life. June 7 marks the opening edition, and catch it every second Friday of June, July, August and September -- with a bonus Saturday for the final Market.
Fiasco Sounds of Summer
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Fiasco Factory Lot
June 15

Our old pals at Fiasco Gelato have quietly put together a stone cold banger of bookings with two of Canada’s finest Juno-winning indie acts on one day. Vancouver’s Dan Mangan creates driving, assertively melodic indie rock and has been a darling of independent radio stations like CKUA and CJSW since he officially came on the scene a decade ago.

An even bigger deal is Stars, a lushly arranged and expansively poppy group who’s been a critical centrepiece of legendary Canadian indie label Arts & Crafts since 2003. Their sound straddles synthy backdrops and melodically conscious lyrics with a well crafted male-female lead singer dynamic as the key emotional centrepiece. This one-two punch happens right on the Fiasco HQ, so you should have a wonderful combination of locally crafted sweets and all-Canadiana musical content on your hands.   
VegFest
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Shaw Millenium Park
June 15

June 15th is a big day, Calgary, so you may need to make a few stops! BassBus has provided entertainment for VegFest in years past and this year they’ve even added what is fast becoming a Calgary staple - the pop up Cold Garden beer garden, complete with pool noodle forest.

VegFest is a celebration of the finest in vegetarian and vegan friendly food, merchants and speakers, and will play host to talks on topics like Fitness & Masculinity, Food Justice and Ethics & Animals. This is the perfect day out for the socially conscious, the fit and nutritionally conscious, and anyone interested in being more committed to the health of themselves and their planet.
a family affair
expressive experiences for all ages
Shakespeare by the Bow

Shakespeare by the Bow presents:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The 2019 edition of this Calgary standard classic theatre experience is a perfect pairing of story and setting. William Shakespeare’s pivotal and much loved A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a layered narrative of plays within plays woven between a romp taken on by two motley bands of quirky characters. The lush, green space of Prince’s Island Park is a perfect mirror for the magical forest setting the fairies and campy clowns of the story inhabit.

In many ways, an outdoor public setting is a more accurate representation of the plays Shakespeare wrote in the Elizabethan era than conventional modern performance spaces. Theatres in that time were little more than an empty space surrounded by spectators - the action and visual elements were very much an exercise in collective imagination for the actors and the crowd. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is very friendly to family audiences and is for many people an entry point into the critical, substantial work of Shakespeare. Since the environment and story are very whimsical with many magical, fantastical flourishes, kids and teens are much more likely to feel invested in this story than heavier, more complex plays. Not only that, the location immediately adjacent to River Cafe and Eau Claire means a day of shopping, dinner and outdoor fun can easily be planned along with this show.

Book Tickets Here
localeyes:
your eyes on Western Canadian music
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Hayden McHugh - Lost
Hayden McHugh’s new single, Alone, channels sublime trance into vocal power pop. Read more about his new album here.
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out there: music review
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Vampire Weekend - Father of the Bride
For a group that made their name harmonizing indie pop and afrobeat synth and guitar sensibilities, Vampire Weekend’s newest effort, Father of the Bride, starts off with a surprise. Read the review and listen to the album here.

reflecting for the future
featuring Daisy Deville
Shakespeare by the Bow

Daisy DeVille
Welcome to the first edition of a regular feature on SubText, where we get thoughts and opinions from artists in our community about a positive vision for the future of art and creativity in Calgary and Western Canada.

Daisy Deville has represented the art form of burlesque in Calgary for over a decade now, and in that time has been part of the foundation of a current reinvigoration of that art form. She’s not only produced dozens of events over the years, she’s literally started dozens, if not hundreds, of entire artistic journeys through her legendary Burlesque Burn school of burlesque. Read the article here.
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