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PechaKucha Night – December 3rd
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Here is the note sent out by Bil from CADA. We will presenting at 9:13PM on how we “co-live-work together.”
Following the success of Calgary’s inaugural PechaKucha Night, Calgary Arts Development presents PechaKucha Night #2: How We Live Together.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Doors at 7:00pm, 7:30pm start
Tickets $10
Uptown Stage and Screen, 612 – 8th Avenue SWPlease note: this is a licensed event – minors will not be admitted.
Devised and shared by Klein Dytham Architecture in 2003 as a place for designers, developers and architects to meet, network and show their work in public, PechaKucha Nights are now taking place in 256 cities around the world. The format is simple: speakers present 20 slides each, for 20 seconds per slide. Calgary Arts Development has secured the rights to PechaKucha Nights in Calgary and will be hosting 4 PechaKucha Nights over the course of the year.
The theme for the December 3rd PechaKucha Night is “How We Live Together.” Presenters include:
Bernie Amell, Prairie Sky Co-Housing
Jerrod Bitango, Central United Church
Gian-Carlo Carra, Senior Urban Designer, T6
Xstine Cook, Activist and Curator/Artistic Director, Calgary Animated Objects Society
John Frosst, Arbour Lake School
Tom Keenan, Associate Dean (Academic) and Professor, Environmental Design, University of Calgary
Eric Moschopedis, Interdisciplinary Artist and Creator of the Imaginary Ordinary Community Project
Naheed Nenshi, Associate Professor, Bissett School of Business, Mount Royal University
David Plouffe, Acting Executive Assistant for the Director of Land Use Planning and Policy, City of Calgary
Quinton Rafuse, Partner, CoworkYYC
Lothar Wiwjorra, Senior Urban Designer, City of Calgary
Susan Veres, Communications Director, Calgary Municipal Land CorporationFor more information, please contact Bil Hetherington at Bil.Hetherington@CalgaryArtsDevelopment.com or call 403-264-5330.
To buy advance tickets: http://calgarypkn2.eventbrite.com
www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/calgary
www.calgaryculture.com/yycpkn
Seriously? A laptop steering wheel desk
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009We never really identified “working in your car” as a reasonable alternative to working from home, but why not. This is a nice accessory, if not completely distracting…
Check it out on amazon: Laptop Steering Wheel Desk
We presented at Democamp Calgary
Thursday, November 12th, 2009DemocampCalgary and barcmapCalgary have been informing and entertaining the tech community for close to two years now. We were fortunate enough to be able to present at DCC15 on October 27th, just a few days prior to our opening.
The DCC team put together a wonderful video highlighting the great lineup of apps, plugins, etc. We start in at 2:42. The original post can be found here: DCC15 video
If you haven’t already, come by to check out the space.
We have a home!
Monday, October 5th, 2009We have a home!
…and hopefully it will be your home away from home, too.
From concept to keys
We have learned a lot about coworking, real estate and all sorts of randomness along the way. There has been much news surrounding the commercial vacancy situation in Calgary, however, our search was not to find a penthouse pad in one of Calgary’s glass and steel towers — we were looking to strike the balance of proximity, accessibility, functionality, price and aesthetics.
And, we found it!!
Our new address is proudly in the Ramsay Design Centre:
150 – 1900 11th Street SE
Calgary Alberta T2G 3G4
Canada
What kind of space is it?
The space is almost ready to go and after some furnishing, a bit of paint and some decoration, we’ll be up and running in no time.
Many of you know the character and charm of RDC. It is home to, among others, Redpoint Media, FFWD, and borrowme. It is the former home of iStockphoto (they just moved to a bigger space next door) and countless other design and tech enterprises, a creative incubator if you will.
It’s close to several coffee shops, restaurants, Inglewood Pool, the Elbow and Bow River pathway system, Crossroads Farmers and Flea Market, and is within easy access to the C-Train and buses, and we even have free parking to the early-bird!
When’s day one?
Our official opening day will be Monday November 2nd, but if you are cool with a bit of chaos, we can probably work something out.
The basic amenities on offer will be a desk and internet, plus access to the common areas: meeting room, kitchen with lounge and washrooms with shower. As demand dictates, we will add in other services. We want to make the space to be flexible and organic enough to work with your needs as we both grow!
How do I find out more?
Our website, currently this blog, will be replaced by our actual website. We will publish a full set of details there. We will also keep everyone informed via Twitter, Facebook and our email list (subscribe here).
Though we want to show the space to you when it is 100% ready, we know you’ll be eager to see it firsthand. Contact us at info@coworkYYC.com to book a viewing. If you’d like to see the space sooner than later, you’ll have to keep your shoes on until the dust settles, but after that, it’ll be like Bert Cooper’s. You bring the cocktails, k?
…and hopefully it will be your home away from home, too.
From concept to keys
We have learned a lot about coworking, real estate and all sorts of randomness along the way. There has been much news surrounding the commercial vacancy situation in Calgary, however, our search was not to find a penthouse pad in one of Calgary’s glass and steel towers — we were looking to strike the balance of proximity, accessibility, functionality, price and aesthetics.
And, we found it!!
Our new address is proudly in the Ramsay Design Centre:
150 – 1900 11th Street SE Calgary Alberta T2G 3G4 google map .What kind of space is it?
The space is almost ready to go and after some furnishing, a bit of paint and some decoration, we’ll be up and running in no time.
Many of you know the character and charm of RDC. It is home to, among others, Redpoint Media, FFWD, and borrowme. It is the former home of iStockphoto (they just moved to a bigger space next door) and countless other design and tech enterprises, a creative incubator if you will.
It’s close to several coffee shops, restaurants, Inglewood Pool, the Elbow and Bow River pathway system, Crossroads Farmers and Flea Market, and is within easy access to the C-Train and buses, and we even have free parking to the early-bird!
When’s day one?
Our official opening day will be Monday November 2nd, but if you are cool with a bit of chaos, we can probably work something out even earlier.
The basic amenities on offer will be a desk and internet, plus access to the common areas: meeting room, kitchen with lounge and washrooms (one with a shower). As demand dictates, we will add in other services. We want to make the space to be flexible and organic enough to work with your needs as we both grow!
How do I find out more?
Our website, currently this blog, which will be replaced by our actual website. We will publish a full set of details there. We will also keep everyone informed via Twitter, Facebook and our email list (subscribe on the right sidebar).
Though we want to show the space to you when it is 100% ready, we know you’ll be eager to see it firsthand. Contact us at info@coworkYYC.com to book a viewing. If you’d like to see the space sooner than later, you’ll have to keep your shoes on until the dust settles, but after that, it’ll be like Bert Cooper’s. You bring the cocktails, k?
OFFICELAND: Share-sies for Freelancers
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009We got some more really nice exposure in the media…this time from a national publication, Unlimited Magazine. As always, the anticipation is nice, but hopefully we have some concrete news to share with you soon.
The article is a profile of four Canadian coworking spaces and provides yet another succinct summary of the challenge met by coworking.
In spite of the freedom of setting your own hours, avoiding office politics and working in your slippers, a home office has its downsides. Where to meet customers for those appointments that you can’t schedule at the corner café? How to combat the isolation of being alone all day?
Co-working offices – places that try to answer these questions by providing independent workers and entrepreneurs with the space and utilities of a conventional office (think meeting rooms and copy machines, for starters) while letting them keep their autonomy.
read the rest of the article here: Unlimited Magazine
OFFICELAND: SHARE-SIES FOR FREELANCERS
Four co-working spaces that reinvent the cubicle farm
By Flavie Halais
Where in the world is coworking?
Monday, August 24th, 2009Coworking survey – last chance to respond
Friday, August 14th, 2009We’ve had the survey up for several weeks. The response turnout has been impressive, 148 respondents so far!
We plan to take it down Sunday, so if you have not already, your feedback is important to us. Here is the link:
http://www.askitonline.com/survey/coworkingyyc/
We’re busy compiling the results and look forward to sharing the ultimate end result: the best coworking space for Calgary’s freelance creative community.
A few key coworking links…
Saturday, August 8th, 2009These few links served as our basis of knowledge and understanding of coworking.
At first, we didn’t know what it was. We didn’t even have a word for it. After searching “office rental” or “shared office calgary” or “desk for rent” and every permutation therof, we cam across this made up word: coworking.
This article might be the first mention of coworking in this context:
Coworking – Community for Developers Who Work From Home Tuesday, August 09, 2005
“Traditionally, society forces us to choose between working at home for ourselves or working at an office for a company. If we work at a traditional 9 to 5 company job, we get community and structure, but lose freedom and the ability to control our own lives. If we work for ourselves at home, we gain independence but suffer loneliness and bad habits from not being surrounded by a work community.
Coworking is a solution to this problem. In coworking, independent writers, programmers, and creators come together in community a few days a week. Coworking provides the office of a traditional corporate job, but in a very unique way.”
It is from Brad Neuberg’s personal blog, one of the originators of the coworking movement, and one of the founders of the San Francisco coworking space, the Hat Factory. The concept has evolved into myriad forms, from cooperatives to profitable businesses, all built with community in mind.
The Coworking Community Blog and the Coworking Wiki are the essential starting points to see what’s out there and what resources you have in your city.
What is coworking?
Saturday, August 8th, 2009Coworking is an emerging trend for independent creative professionals. It brings together freelancers from relative isolation to offer them a working environment with collaborative, social and informal elements. A coworking space would fit on a spectrum somewhere between the cafe and the home office.
In short, it is community AND independence.
What’s your take on coworking?