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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 SW

Please 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 Corporation

For 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

Check it out on amazon: Laptop Steering Wheel Desk

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.

…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:

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?

We wanted to suggest a few things with our logo: that we celebrate our individuality as professional freelancers, that we’re a community that seeks to share our creative resources, and that we’re creating a friendly space to call home (away from home, the agency, the coffee shop, or your parent’s basement…). So, mark the page, hang up the awning and become part of the swarm! We hope our new logo becomes a familiar visual fixture in supporting and encouraging your next steps as creative entrepreneur.

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

Blankspaces is a pretty swish coworking space in Los Angeles and these commercials are testament to that. Here is our favourite:

Fired up! from BLANKSPACES on Vimeo.

And check out the rest of their commercials here.

View Google Coworking Map in a larger map

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.