ArtiSaNs , A little writing about Art and its connection to local music and history.

Calgary Artisans 2014 +

by Brad Douglas Kidd A.K.A Sysko Kidd

(This is what I have been starting to write over the holidays :))
I have not put real feeling into a lot of my talks about outside music and art but I beleive that this can possible effect our art and community, you can agree or dissagre . I believe that the Calgary music community has been falling apart like raggs for some time and every once and a while someone steps up to patch it back together the best way they can .
I can remember when I started involving myself in the industries the same feeling of dissasosiation between bands, venues, artists, etc in the art and music industry but loving everything about all of it! . the plan I had at first was to help but my plan had changed to promoting , then to running shows then to managing and finally blogging about our local scene that is visualised by the arts/music communnity world wide .. the thought I had after taking a step back and noticing the dismay thay have towards us is the reason i have been tanasius about sacrificing 5 years of my life and time i could have spent on other things than helping a scene that has had many of people like me retreate when they fail.
I watch what happens because I care about what people do in the system but for what they contribute to a larger good. eg, we cannot all play at local venues and plan a future while knowing that everyone that is at the show are local and have seen you play a thousand times.. It is time for the musicians and artists to be able to come together and show people what this part of our city is capable of! I am not the only one that will say the same things .. there are many of us .. so what I project is another collaberative that can help everyone in music in calgary connect to others through not just a biased recording studio but a company that will help put calgary on the map by having a program to have av students , law studends , art and music students along with buiseness students apply to involve themselves into the change that we look for. finding investors and marketors accross canada to run something that we run on our own under the right laws for the right people that will take a chance on something amazing for the city we love. the city that has endless talent to create something amazing in which we can all be cogs in a mass machine that we can refurbish and renovate so that we can be proud of it massively.
The vision is to expand on what we have and turn a city that we love into what everyone is looking for through sacrifice .. Help , recognition, beleif and respect earned..
Every one like us is looking for something that cannot be explained but we follow it to its bitter end through the trials and tribulations we devoutly go through in the greater good and follow the dream through signs given to us by the universe .. that being said I beleive that my place is to help unite and progress our local music and arts industry so that we can all become what we dream to be.
The goal I have may seem strange due to everyone having their indeferences, stress, home lives and family but though a planned intergration we can help everyone through empathy love and knowledge instead of greed, self importance, Antistructure, sabatauge, hate and manipulation.... Sounds pretty crazy hahaha yeah I know but I will try anyway knowing the HUGE! chance of failure is there.
True dreams can only be acheived if you put your neck on the line and I know that there are others out there looking for change who do not know how to do it!
I am but just one person looking for change and need some help. I do not know everything I should or probably never will but I do know that this sacrifice of my life will become something I will never outlive because a journey will always be followed by another just like me and those who beleive that art of any kind is important to mind, soul, body, continuity of man and the greater good of man itself.
History tells us that artists and artisans have forever been the the standpoint of evolution from every thing from the articulation of fire building to architecture of the pyrimids in eygypt, the strutures in pumapunku bolivia, cave drawings in ancient cave spanning the globe, the lourve in paris and the greatest in my mind to reprisent the history of man the smithsonian. this is all art and is an expression of humanity as a whole. so when you think of words and life you have to know that this our existance and artists are out future and past.
My respect for artisans and loyalty to the art surpasses me in many ways but I know that it is in everyone of us to help create something new , beit music,art,beauty,conversation,thought or experimentation of human nature.
Some call it alternative but I call it evolution.
Calgary and its artisans can become anything they want knowing that it may change the lives of others and create something that can inspire greatness in others the way great people have done before.
I love you Calgary .. Do what you can to make things the way you need or want them to be!
Cheers! - BSK