containR 2023
Play. Experience. Occupy
Located at the heart of Calgary, near the Sunnyside CTrain station, containR is designed, developed and curated by Springboard Performance. It’s a pop-up arts and culture hub for people of all identities and ages championing local artistic and creative ideas. containR features an Art Park, performance series, community instigations and mural installations made of retrofit shipping containers. It is a vibrant meeting place, providing access to art and encouraging grass roots community engagement.
containR was awarded the Placemaking Award at the Mayor’s Lunch for Arts Champions, and has been featured at the IETM Conference (Italy), CINARS (Montreal), Calgary Arts Congress, and York University’s Arts, Placemaking, and Policy Conference (Toronto). containR was recently awarded a CCVO Innovation Award from the Calgary Chamber of Voluntary Organizations, for “disruptive, adaptive, and innovative programming”.
Murals
Where Shipping containers become a Canvas for Performance, Community, and Art Installations"
Designed and hand crafted by Stoney Nakoda metalsmith artist Andrew Holloway of Yethka Metalworks.
ContainR is an outdoor art park and performance venue with 7,840 sq ft of usable space that has reinvigorated an empty city-owned lot since 2013. With an open-air theatre, murals painted by local Calgarians on the retrofitted shipping containers, gardens, and a courtyard suitable for safe artistic expression, ContainR is a hive for community gatherings, cultural events, and unique performances.
containR Park Event Rentals
Curated by Springboard Performance, containR has all you need for a perfect outdoor eventincluding Festivals, Concerts, Markets, Workshops, Corporate events.
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