It’s a popular Canadian pastime, but not many people have played it, so that’s why the Calgary Curling Club opened its doors to guests on Sunday.
The facility, located at 730 Third Street N.W., invited visitors to participate in a friendly bonspiel and experience the sport that has gained recognition through a number of major events, including the Olympics.
“We hope to grow the sport by appealing to those for whom curling may be a new cultural experience,” officials said in a release.
The event, held between 1 and 3:30 p.m., included a basic introduction to curling through some simple instruction followed by a quick game with some experienced players.
More information about the club and its activities can be found online.
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout has started their April events leading up to a big announcement. Apparently Silent, “the greyest of the Blunderdome’s mysterious Showrunners“, wants to launch a satellite into the sky above the Blunderdome and any players that help out will get exclusive rewards.
When will the Fall Guys April events begin?
Starting from today, April 4, players can take part in the Satellite Stars: Adapt! event, which is a “grab bag of classic rounds and variations“. Those who manage to complete all of the challenges during the event will earn the Star Princess costume. The event will end on April 10.
After a gap of eight days, the second event will begin on April 18. Satellite Stars: Logic! is a playlist set exclusively in the jungle. Successful players will need to find shortcuts and perfectly calculate their way past stampeding rhinos. Those who are successful will get the Star Detective costume, but you only have until April 24 to grab it.
The final event begins on May 4. Satellite Stars: Bravery! is a series of Sweet Thieves challenges where players find the final pieces of the satellite. Completing these challenges earns the final costume in the set: Star Guy. Star Guy will be the bean in charge of taking the team into space to finish building the satellite. Once that’s done, there will be a big announcement, although Mediatonic isn’t dropping any hints as to what that might be.
In other news, Ron Gilbert and LucasFilm Games have announced a new title in the Monkey Island franchise. Return to Monkey Island is a direct sequel to Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge and will feature Guybrush Threepwood and Murray the Demonic Skull. Elsewhere, World of Tanks and World of Warships developer Wargaming has announced they will be withdrawing from Russia and Belarus, shutting down their Minsk studio in the process.
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – The Santa Barbara International Film Festival kicked off its closing day with a Women’s Panel on Saturday.
SBIFF said the Women’s Panel is where “Oscar-nominated women from all corners of film production, from editing, directing, costuming, casting, production design, and producing, come together to discuss their unique experiences in the film industry.”
The panelists for today’s event included:
Jessica Kingdon, Director of the documentary “Ascension”
Lynn Harris, Producer of the film “King Richard”
Diane Warren, Composer of Oscar-Nominated Original Song “Somehow You Do”
Amber Richards, Production Design for “Power of the Dog”
Elizabeth Mirzaei, Director of the Oscar-Nominated Short Film “Three Songs for Benzair”
A series of virtual events celebrating Black History Month and being presented by the African Caribbean and International Association of Eastern Ontario is underway.
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An opening ceremony and welcome words of participants in their languages was held early on Tuesday evening, the first of five days of events.
“The big day is Saturday,” said Calixte Yepseu, the ACIAEO president. “There’ll be quite a few activities.”
Following the opening Tuesday, cooking workshops were held, and the virtual events on Zoom will continue on Wednesday.
The ACIAEO, based in Cornwall, lists as one of its purposes and objectives implementing programs designed to create and maintain a sense of cultural pride among its members. The organization looks to develop and implement cultural exchange programs and activities within the community, and provide a supportive and safe forum assisting in members’ integration efforts – culturally, socially, economically, professionally, and academically.
Yepseu said the ACIAEO was founded in 2015, and it’s had Black History Month activities each year, but of course has had to pivot in format.
“For the last two years our events have been (virtual),” Yepseu said.
Speakers during the week will include Cornwall Mayor Glen Grant, Yepseu, ACIAEO founder Kemi Micho, MP Eric Duncan, ACIAEO vice-president Jacinta Gwanyama, and CMHA-Champlain East mental health promoter Angele D’Alessio.
Wednesday’s programming is from 6-7 p.m. and will be a presentation focusing on mental health and COVID-19. On Thursday, from 6:10 to 6:40 p.m., there’s an ACIAEO presentation in French, and on Friday (6:25 to 7:55 p.m.) there’ll be an ACIAEO English presentation.
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The series wraps up on Saturday, beginning at 4 p.m. and concluding with closing remarks at 5:45 p.m. Grant and Duncan will both speak on Saturday, and there will be various presentations, including on the Black History Month theme, African culture and African dance.
The ACIAEO on its information page says “we’ve all immigrated to Canada to discover the Canadian culture and make the country our new home. We are all African descendants including the Caribbeans through birth or marriage. All of us are hard-working, very creative, highly intelligent and have a good education background. We are very sociable, we share in the joy and suffering of anyone and everyone around us. We enjoy living together, we are proud and happy to be Canadians.”
The ACIAEO says it is an apolitical organization, one providing a forum for members to share information about current events in their various heritage, but not promoting nor bashing the agenda of a political organization.
The Black History Month events can be accessed by the Zoom link, or by phone at 613-808-8090 (password 300333).
