Where Calgary Magazine September / October 2018 | Page 10

EDITOR’S NOTE
OLD IS NEW
You better start swimming or you’ll sink like
a stone, for the times, they are a-changin’.
Calgary and Canada are making some big
leaps forward this year, from the reintroduction
of the King Edward as a live music venue
(page 20), to the nation-wide legalization of
cannabis (page 35).
Calgary is a young city and can often come
across as brash in its efforts to charge forward
into the future, but the new-old King Eddy is
a great example of how we’re finding ways to
treasure our past in a practical manner. It’s not
just about enshrining a monument, it’s about
giving it new life so that people can enjoy it
just as much now as they did back then —
and sometimes that involves literally and
figuratively taking the past apart brick by brick
and reassembling it with new, stronger mortar.
Southern Alberta’s First Nations groups are
finding new ways to reframe the past and use
it to build a stronger future too. The arts are
a big part of the way forward. The Making
Treaty 7 Cultural Society is using theatre to
explore the history of signing Treaty 7 in 1877
and applying those lessons to current events
in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission report (page 28).
Whether you’re looking to tread a well-
worn path or do some trail-blazing, Calgary
welcomes you!
RACHAEL FREY,
Editor
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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018
If you’re in the mood to do some repurposing
of your own, Calgary’s consignment shops
await (page 38). Consignment has gotten a
bad rep, but there’s another side to it — the
side where you can find mint designer clothing
for a song. You can also leave a consignment
store knowing that you have not contributed
to the ethical and environmental issues the
fashion industry is currently grappling with.