It's been a quiet start to 2019 and so we want to remind you we're here

and you're always welcome at Loft 112--to use the space for your own work 

and/or

to come and support the work of others.

Thank you 

to our ongoing groups who call Loft 112 'home' and kept the lights on (literally) these past two months

East Village Writers*, Long Table Creative*, Night Writer*, Sid & Coco, TALES Tellaround*, FosterMak*, The Indie YYC, East Village Lifelong Learners, The Western Muslim Initiative, Calgary Story Slam, Alyssa Truong Photography, Untitled Arts Society

& all new friends.

We really appreciate everyone who walks through our door

*indicates those that have been coming to Loft 112 regularly for over 3 years

Tent Peg Writing Series presents

Writing Calgary / Writing Home

March 3, 2019

2:30-5pm

“Who lives in such an impossible city, brash, arrogant, indelibly new?”
– Aritha van Herk, Restlessness

Join Calgary author Shaun Hunter for an afternoon of writing the city we call home. Crack open the clichés, plumb the city’s depths, and savour its particularities.

Shaun Hunter is the author of 'Calgary through the Eyes of Writers' (Rocky Mountain Books) as well as five biographies for young readers. Her work has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies. Her essay “Skin Deep” was a finalist for the 2013 James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction. Based in Calgary, Shaun turns up local literary treasures here

Tickets $5 include workshop, tea & cookies

All ages encouraged

Storytellers

March 6, 2019 7-9pm

Cafe Koi 

1011 1ST St SW T2R 1J2 

The Indie YYC is a new creative community dedicated to inspiring local artists in pursuit of independent creativity, independent thought, and independent life.
 

Storytellers is a creative crossroads and meeting place for local artists from 3 distinct communities; Songwriters, Poets, and Authors. The event is hosted by Lisa Murphy Lamb and will present a central story-theme performed as an organic collaboration of artists from each community; telling the story in 3 dimensions.

Inner City Stories

With Vivian Hansen

Doors Open 5pm

Reading 5:30pm

Chapbooks $5

Refreshments, a reading, discussion, and a fine way to end the week!

This FREE event is the third in a series of 12 talks to take place on the second Tuesday of each month.

This March, join artist Heather Urness and writer Elena Schacherl as they discuss their artist book, Swimming with Sharks.

Come see the Print(ed) Word display for the first time, or the eighth time and hear the stories of the collaboration.

WHEN: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 from 7 - 8pm
WHERE: Central Library - Level 4 - Simmons-Harvie Community Living Room

REGISTER YOUR SPOT:

Welcome Short Story Dispenser

The Central Library has a new way to read and it is a machine that prints out free, original stories on demand. Stories written by Calgary writers.

The Library has partnered with Loft 112 to solicit stories from local writers, which provide the content for the dispenser and we will add new stories throughout the year

It is located adjacent to Lukes Café, inside the Central Library, Level 1. Readers have the option to choose a 1, 3, or 5 minute story simply by pressing a button and within moments an original short story is printed on a piece of thick paper about the size of a long receipt. The dispenser uses heavier paper to encourage people to keep the story, instead of throwing it away. In cases where readers don’t want to keep the story, Loft 112 is investigating whether they can be redistributed to organizations in East Village (or if you have an idea, please contact me: loftonetwelve@gmail.com)
 

We encourage you to take a trip to the Calgary's Central library, sit and enjoy a short story while having a drink or snack. 

Here's a one minute story by Clem Martini for you to enjoy!