by Derek Manns | Jan 13, 2023 | All posts
2022 had an arts renaissance. Or at least it felt that way to us at Stagehand. It was a year of collaboration with arts champions. It was also a year where we won a national award for our work with Music Mile! We kicked it off working with Calgary Arts Development and...
by Derek Manns | Nov 10, 2022 | All posts
DowntownVibe, a joint project of Stagehand and the City of Calgary, is an ongoing lunch hour music fest featuring talented local musicians performing in unconventional downtown spaces. Pre-pandemic, Stagehand worked with the Calgary and Edmonton Airports to host over...
by Derek Manns | Jun 7, 2021 | Technology
Written by Derek Manns and Dan Duguay “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them”. Alfred Whitehead. It can be called infrastructure… Most people recognize the value of the arts, they make...
by Derek Manns | Apr 21, 2021 | All posts
Written by Dan Duguay & Derek Manns In a recent blog, Chief Flaneuring Officer at Everyday Tourist, Richard White, mused about “crazy” ideas to make Calgary more interesting. One of his big crazy ideas that caught our eye was to activate the +15 walkway in...
by Derek Manns | Aug 26, 2020 | All posts
Written by Derek Manns, Co-founder & CEO, Stagehand Recently I have been listening to Dan Carlin’s podcast, Hardcore History. In his series about World War I, Carlin discusses how, for the first time, technology was a major factor in war. In 1914, the...
