Howdy y’all, it’s Zach here with your newsletter this week.
I don’t know about you, but I was excited thinking we had finally gotten through winter. Evidently, the cold had a little more fight in it as a snowstorm brought us right back into the thick of winter this week.
A lot has happened in the last week, but I wanted to highlight some political news that’s taken place recently.
As some of you may be aware, Rachel Notley is stepping down as leader of the Alberta NDP. Calgary Journal reporter Emma Miller broke down the news, and everything it means for the party in this article on the Journal’s website:
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Hot news this week!
CBC – The City of Calgary is preparing for the arrival of the recall petition, getting set to higher up to 10 staff to assist with the verification process.
CTV – A climatetologist said Canada experienced its warmest Winter in 77 years, what does that mean for the sping?
Global News – An 81-year old rookie powerlifter is breaking records and inspiring the community in Calgary.
CityNews – The United Nations say that ‘famine is imminent’ in Northern Gaza as conflict in the region rages on.
Get busy!
March 29 is the final day of the SAMRU Winter Food Drive. If you are wanting to contribute, make sure you do so soon!
Trivia Tuesday at Westgate Social this week is on True Crime! come down, have a drink, and enjoy some true crime trivia.
Join Luminous Voices on March 29 and hear a special performance of Mozart’s Requiem.
If you’re interested in learning about and celebrating indigenous traditions in and around Treaty 7 territory, join the MRU and Iniskim Centre Round Dance
Artist highlight
This week’s artist highlight is Julya Hajnoczky, a visual artist and photographer based in Calgary. Their work has been featured in the January issue of National Geographic. I’m looking at her work she takes in a lot of things from nature and sets them on their own. Individual pieces of nature we see like shrubs flowers dried leaves, pine needles, and mushrooms are set apart, contrasted by negative space and the high-quality telephoto lenses. Her portfolio boasts a wide range of projects but there is a central theme of using organic natural elements and interweaving them with negative space to make striking vignettes of Alberta wildlife. Some of her work goes even deeper and she takes a different approach in each project whether it’s a juxtaposition between plastic waste and the spore prints of mycelium. You can find more of her work in her portfolio here.
– by Mofe Adeniran
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