Jane's Walks May 4, 5

[newsposter]

The Calgary Foundation is looking for Jane's Walks leaders. It's a great opportunity to highlight local heritage and its contribution to placemaking and urbanism. May 4, 5. Click below for information.

http://thecalgaryfoundation.org/news-events

[newsposter]

The Jane's Walk schedule for May 4 and 5 weekend is starting to form up, and it looks like there are a number of walks already posted related to heritage. Here is a link to the walk list... more walks to come:

http://janeswalk.net/index.php/walks/canada/calgary/

[cjane]

CHI President, Cynthia Klaassen, is looking forward to co-leading the History+Parkour Mash-Up on Saturday at Century Gardens.

http://janeswalk.net/index.php/walks/ca ... kour-mash/

[cjane]

Atlantic Cities explains what Parkour and heritage preservation have in common:

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighb ... etes/5393/.

From the article:

"Century Gardens is one of the coolest locations around for parkour. Not just in Calgary, but Canada-wide, and internationally," says Steve Nagy, editor of the Calgary-based parkour magazine Breathe and co-owner of a local parkour gym. The Netherlands-based MunkiMotion parkour group also included it in their YouTube series, "Best Parkour Spots in the World":

Nagy and his parkour buddies are unlikely allies for the Calgary Heritage Initiative. This is a sport, after all, that involves jumping on and off existing pieces of urban infrastructure, and is often likened to skateboarding in its ability to annoy older generations. But after meeting each other at the city’s stakeholder meetings about the park’s future, they realized they had a common desire to preserve it, despite their radically different interests.

"There has been some perception that the park is unused by the general public, and [the parkourers] have proven loud and clear that that’s not the case at all," says Cynthia Klaassen, president of the Calgary Heritage Initiative. "It’s still very relevant today, just as relevant as when it was first built."

Come and see for yourself on Saturday at 4.