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100 People Project Interview with Harvey
June 5, 2010
I met with Harvey from Love Bucket Photography, who is not only an amazing photographer but is local to our Summerside Community, a couple weeks ago about his 100 People Project. He was in for a meeting with some clients when we started chatting and hit it off, leading to him asking if I’d wanted to participate in his 100 people project where he’s interviewing and doing a quick photo-shoot with two Edmonton residents a week for year. It’s a great project creating some exposure for Edmonton and the interesting people who reside here. Edmonton’s often overlooked for it’s cultural, artistic, and exciting people by those who don’t live here, but there’s a great scene to be discovered. Simply though our cafe working with Edmonton’s Pure Artists and U22 Productions alone it’s amazing how many musicians they are mentoring who have the potential to break onto the national scene.
I’ll leave you with a short extract from the interview and encourage you to follow the link to the article as it provides some good insight into the direction we want see our cafe evolve into a corner stone of the community as well as a hub for arts and cultures on the south side!
100 People Project :: A Coffee Man Starting an Edmonton Arts Scene and a Girl with a Hello Kitty Bicycle
Posted by Harvey on May 18, 2010
This week we are featuring Dustin and Blake. Dustin is the proud
owner of a brand new Good Earth Coffee House on 91 street and Ellerslie Road. I must say he has made his new coffee shop a super friendly, relaxing, and comfortable place to hang out… just what a good coffee house needs to be! Dustin also has some great plans for the place, for example, he is working on starting “gallery nights” where he will feature local artists and their work. He also invites local musicians to showcase their talents. One of his staff members actually plays guitar and sings as part of this initiative. I was in there last night hanging out and enjoying an awesome strawberry-mango smoothie (a special combo recommended by the barrista) and one staff member was sitting on the couch playing the guitar and singing away. She was awesome!! I can’t wait to see what Dustin does next to turn this place into a major artsy hangout on the south side of Edmonton. Moving on to Blake, there are so many things to say about Blake, she is also a photographer and actually rode her bike to my shoot. Her bike happens to be a “Hello Kitty” themed cruiser style bike. Very unique and funky just like Blake! We had a great time hanging out and snapping pictures mostly because she’s always so full of fun and laughter. Did I mention she basically biked up a mountain to come to this shoot! (Thanks for that Blake.) http://www.goodearthsummerside.ca/wp-admin/post-new.php
If you ever want to meet with us to talk about the project, we’ll gladly meet you at Good Earth Summerside and chat it up!!
Finally check out Harvey’s portrait photography website at www.lovebucketphotography.com and his commercial portraits/business profile site www.harveyrobot.com.
Friday Music Nights – Update
June 3, 2010
We are excited to welcome the musicians from Edmonton’s U22 to our Cafe June 4th and 11th, and Edmonton’s Pure Artists will be returning the weeks of June 18th and 25th.
For those of you aren’t familiar with U22 they are a group who Mentor, Inspire and Motivate young musicians into building successful careers in the music. You can learn more about them at http://u22.ca/about/what-we-do.html
Also I have to apologize for not having a chance to update the Featured artists section for the last couple rotations through our Cafe. However last week we saw Danielle Lowe, Payton Klassen and Sean Sonego perform in our cafe where not only there voices but their friendship, energy between each other filled our cafe. And the performance before that saw 5 artists perform a wide variety of music with Daylin, Hailey, Jordan, Joy, Quincy and Zana creating a fun filled night! I’ll update our featured artist section over the next couple day so you can learn a little more about these amazing musicians!
International Bike to Work Day
May 18, 2010
The 3rd Friday of May is internationally known as bike to work day to raise awareness for commuting on your bicycle. Why participate in the bike to work day. With the increasing trends of staying fit and healthy with our often sedentary jobs, increasing quality of life, concerns for the environment and price fluctuation of Gas Prices the reasons for commuting by bike are increasing. And personally I have to add the 25 minute ride home at the end of my day clears my mind most likely saving me multiple hours of therapy bills!
So this Friday to encourage commuting by bicycle we’ll give a free small coffee (or equivalent discount on other drink) card to anyone who bikes in to the cafe this Friday!!!!
Concrete Proof of Global Warming?
May 15, 2010
I thought this was an interesting article I picked up from the Guardian Newspaper in the UK that some of you may be interested in.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/13/catlin-arctic-survey-north-pole-water
Here’s an excerpts from it.
“Arctic explorers have taken the first-ever samples of ocean water at the north pole after a gruelling two-and–a-half 
month expedition across the polar ice…..
……The survey hopes to measure how fast the Arctic Ocean is acidifying due to rising CO2 levels and what effect it has on the region’s animals and plants. Setting out in early March, the three-strong explorer team trekked over 483 miles across sea ice off the coast of Greenland to the geographic north pole.”
Asim Chin’s Fogotten @ Good Earth Summerside
May 15, 2010
I mentioned last week that Asim showed early to last weeks artists showcase to record a song for his Youtube channel he updates weekly. I wanted to share it with all of you and invite you to check our his youtube channel to see a mix of amazing covers and originals at http://www.youtube.com/user/AsimChin#p/u/12/23aiEk9ZVKM . So I’ll stop making you read away and let you enjoy the song!
