Today the boys and I headed to the airport for a field trip arranged by a local HS Mom: Spaceport! Spaceport is a little-known Calgary attraction, in the airport right beside the food court. It has tons of hands on things for kids to learn about space (and air) travel/exploration. We had a super day! [...]
Today was one of those days kids love—and apart from having to shovel the driveway, it was pretty fun for us adults too. We woke to a winter wonderland with a good dump of snow overnight; the sun came out; and it wasn’t too cold, just a few degrees below freezing. Finally, perfect tobogganing weather! [...]
Science Centres That Have Opened in Canada in the Past 25 Years Opening Date, Family Membership Prices and Benefits Telus Spark, Calgary 2011 $204 – $288 (‘green’ for a family of 4 – 6) $320 – $460 (‘gold’ for a family of 4-6) Ad*, News, Rad Ad, Disc, Inv, News, Park, Rad *Key [...]
Why Telus Spark Science Centre has Lost our Family as Members Yesterday, we purchased an annual family membership to Edmonton’s science centre. It cost $134.95 (+GST), and came with a slew of benefits, like 50% off IMAX movies. Membership at Calgary’s new Telus Spark science centre with comparable benefits would have cost our 4-person [...]
I’ve excerpted from the facebook page People for An Affordable Calgary Science Centre that I started. If you too believe science education, enrichment and experience should be accessible to all in our city, come “like” us and join the conversation. Click here. For those wanting only to see the media coverage on this issue, scroll [...]
Over the weekend, we made a visit to the free Rock and Fossil Show at the Signal Hill library. We’d been to one of their shows before (see here), and were again very impressed. There was lots to see, lots to do, and most importantly for my two—lots to touch! There was a nice range [...]
You may recall my post from a few months ago, discussing how expensive the new Calgary Science Centre was going to be. That blogpost got a fair amount of attention, and led to a reporter contacting me and doing an interview; the piece ran last Friday and you can read the online version (with pic [...]
This afternoon the boys and I took advantage of this sunny fall holiday (it is Canadian Thanksgiving today), and went for a long nature walk at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. This gave Jim a quiet house in which to get some recording work done—and I am choosing to be grateful that he has so much [...]
Our family went to see Bugs Bunny at the Symphony, presented as part of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra’s line-up this year. It was wonderful, and all of us—from the 6-year-old to the 41-year-old—enjoyed it. We got there a bit early to pick up tickets from the box office, and they had some live rabbit entertainment [...]
This past weekend the family took part in one of many free “Alberta Arts Days’ celebrations around the province. We were at the Louise Riley branch of the library, where Calgary’s own ‘Birdman’, Andrew Stiles, put on a workshop. (You can read more about him at his blog here.) It was fantastic! He began with [...]