Own a piece of history! – I’m selling off the remaining posters from Calgary’s first flamenco festival in 2000. They are hand silk-screened, 18” x 23”, $35 each (the same price they were back in 2000), and available until December after which the remainder will be destroyed. There are 4 designs total. Really it’s 2 designs with and without the artists names. You can click on the individual images below for a better look.
Just a few years after graduating with a BFA in visual art, I was the graphic designer for this festival and these posters were hand silkscreened by me in my now in-laws garage (with the generous help of Jenny Conway Fisher). Victoria dancer, Veronica Maguire, graciously allowed me to use her image for the design.
The Oeste Canada Flamenco Festival was the brain child of Diane Colton whom I met as a fellow student of Marilyn Malinsky in 1997. It was ten days with artists from across Canada, the United States, and Mexico. There were artist performances, student performances, evening juergas at the local latin restaurant, and an array of workshops in multiple levels covering theory, flamenco dance, spanish dance, cante …
As with all festivals there’s a lot of fascinating stories that came out of it – how it came to have the name and tagline it did, who was and ultimately wasn’t involved, how it came to dissolve a few years later, and it’s long term impact on flamenco in Calgary and Alberta. Good stories and not so good stories, successes and failures, healthy community building and also lots of drama and division. A snapshot in time of Calgary’s flamenco trajectory at the turn of the century.
I learned a lot from the experience of being on the organizing committee for this festival and definitely took a lot of that learning with me when I co-founded and became the Artistic Director of the Edmonton Flamenco Festival in 2015.
The posters ended up in storage when I moved to Edmonton a month after the Calgary festival. It’s time to clear them out. If you are interested, please message me directly via the CONTACT page and we can figure out how to get one to you. I live in Edmonton, am frequently in Calgary, and will be out in Vancouver for the show honouring Oscar Nieto in November.
Flamenco with Jane 