Canada’s favourite redhead is coming to Rosebud in 2012

In addition to Anne of Green Gables, the musical, Rosebud’s 2012 season features the comedy $38,000 For a Friendly Face; My Name is Asher Lev, Tuesdays with Morrie and an original Christmas folk musical entitled May and Joe by Rosebud’s Morris Ertman, Heather Pattengale and Paul Zacharias.  www.rosebudtheatre.com

Twist Marketing to brand Village of Radium Hot Springs

Radium Hot Springs is home to 1,000 year-round-residents. On summer weekends, the population swells to about 5,000 due to the second home owner contingent and tourists staying at local hotels.  The hot pools also see about 35,000 visitors annually. Photo Credit Bram Rossman  www.twistmarketing.com

 

ITSportsNet partners with Gymnastics BC

Under the terms of the partnership, ITSportsNet will provide Gymnastics BC, with a central registration database and support to manage its 38,000 member registrations in 72 clubs throughout BC. It will also provide scheduling of classes & sessions, coach certification, custom administrative roles and other day-to-day activities.  www.ivrnet.com  www.itsportsnet.com

 

 

Ivrnet to acquire TxtMeNow, a leading mobile marketing company

Text messaging, mobile web development, and data analytics technologies to be integrated into the Ivrnet suite of products & services

At the core of the  ‘Do It In Canmore' campaign is a 98.5FM Virgin Radio Calgarypromotion and a new website (www.doitincanmore.com) Listeners can tune in to Virgin Radio to win daring prizes, including hotel stays, dining gift certificates and lift tickets as well enter to win weekly grand prize packages that include a Dogsledding Ride, Heli-Tour, Ski/Board Vacation, Ice Climbing Adventure, Romantic Getaway and a Snowga Package!

Human trafficking play goes X-Canada 12 cities - 7 provinces

Burnt Thicket Theatre & Raise Their Voice announce 12-city Canadian tour for 

She Has A Name. 

Waterton townsite & environs
Waterton townsite & environs

Waterton Lakes National Park - One of Alberta's Crown Jewels - Pristine 'n Pretty

Rugby Canada inks new three-year partnership with ITSportsNet

Rugby Canada inks new three-year partnership with ITSportsNet to provide online sports administration. ITSportsNet provides online registration & invoicing for 10 provincial Unions, 300+ member clubs & 23,000 members

Ivrnet signs letter of intent to acquire NeatWorx

Proprietary software seen as complementary to ITSportsNet brand that provides cutting edge sports administration software products that simplify and manage processes including registration, scheduling and website content.

Cool transportation app from cool Calgary tech compamny

“The new text messaging service will allow Calgary Transit riders to quickly and easily determine when their next bus or train will arrive,” says Hanif Mohamed, Ivrnet’s Director of Marketing and Commercialization. 

Ivrnet, the North American leader in online sports admin. inks deal with Gymnastics SK

Ivrnet is North American leader in online sports administration including registration and class management. Photo courtesy of Gymnastics Saskatchewan and Heather Sayers.

Burnt Thicket Theatre & Raise Their Voice announce 12-city Canadian tour for She Has A Name
Burnt Thicket Theatre & Raise Their Voice announce 12-city Canadian tour for She Has A Name

The critically acclaimed play about human trafficking to be seen in seven provinces May-October, 2012

Montgomerys Go For Gold

With Mission One accomplished, Canadian Olympic Gold Medal skeleton racer Jon Montgomery and his wife Darla Deschamps Montgomery have their collective eyes focused on a new prize: dual gold medals in skeleton at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. www.missionmontgomery2.com

 

Pacific University's Doctorate of Physical Therapy grad student Brett Bousquet (l) stars in YouTube video

Calgarian Brett Bousquet, a grad student in Pacific University's Doctorate of Physical Therapy co-wrote the lyrics for a rap, music & dance video about anatomy and rehab techniques learned in the classroom. The students created the video on their own time.

Cowbokes on the Range

They come for the nostalgia or the chance to fulfill a childhood dream. They come to strap saddles to horses, ride along fencelines, herd cattle to a new pasture. In the evenings, they dine on solid, hearty country fare... They are the guests at Alberta Country Vacation Association ranches, people who trade nine-to-five city jobs for a chance to holiday on working ranches. Gwendolyn Richards, Calgary Herald  www.albertacountryvacation.com

Badlands Rosebud Theatre
Toothena The Tooth Fairy
She Has A Name - Can Tour

She Has A Name 12-city Canadian tour bares chilling truths about human trafficking in sex trade

An international cast of five actors play dual roles in gritty, fast-paced, suspense filled drama

She Has A Name, by award winning playwright Andrew Kooman, is a fast-moving, episodic drama about a Canadian lawyer (Jason) working undercover to expose a human trafficking ring based in Thailand. To win his case, Jason must convince his key witness, a young prostitute known only as Number 18, to risk her life and testify. In partnership with Raise Their Voice, Burnt Thicket Theatre is proud to present She Has A Name in twelve cities and seven provinces across Canada from May 23 to October 6, 2012. 

“This chilling story is haunted by four Voices, the spirits of four female victims who did not survive the journey of a sex slave,” says Director Stephen Waldschmidt. “These Voices obsess Jason’s dreams. They also consume the mind of Number 18. The play weaves together a gritty realism with a heightened spirit-realm or dream world that, when combined, puts the audience – ‘up close and personal’ with the shocking reality of human trafficking. If She Has a Name were made into a movie, it would be billed as a suspense thriller.”

Adds Waldschmidt, “I believe audiences will relate to and be deeply impacted by this play on two levels – one the visceral experience of the story’s emotional, roller coaster journey that will ‘get under their skin’ and motivate people to take action against human trafficking.  The second is inspiration to keep on fighting the good fight – gained from the seemingly insurmountable challenges faced by both Jason and Number 18.”

 

Playwright Andrew Kooman comments, “The tragedy of Number 18's plight in She Has A Name highlights that real justice needs to be secured for the real victims around the world. It also suggests that justice can only be realized if real people know, care and take informed and decisive action. Telling stories that remind us of the immeasurable value of human life is the first step of many to transform real world stories of injustice and tragedy into stories of redemption and hope.”

 

She Has A Name has five actors playing 10 roles. The doubling of roles helps connect the Bangkok Thailand setting with Canada and the reality that trafficking persons for sex slavery is taking place right here in Canada. The underlying story line is that every victim and every perpetrator connected in the human traffic web is a human being that could easily touch anyone of us.

 

 

Evelyn Chew is #18

 

 

 

Carl Kennedy plays dual role 

as Jason (lawyer) and a pimp

 

 

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AlbertaSW Wins 3 Awards of Excellence

Celebrating Alberta SouthWest’s three Awards of Excellence from Economic Developers Alberta are (l to r) Shawn Patience AlbertaSW Chair & Mayor, Town of Fort Macleod; Bev Thornton, Executive Director, AlbertaSW Regional Economic Development Alliance, and Catherine Proulx Managing Director, Twist Marketing. 

With a little help from Twist Marketing the Alberta SouthWest Regional Alliance captured three Awards of Excellence at the recent Economic Developers Alberta (EDA) annual awards.The three awards included the following: 

Award of Excellence - Special Events, Programs or Campaigns (Large Community) -  for its Regional Marketing Campaign 

Award of Excellence - Creative Innovations (Large Community) – for its Man on the Street interviews and video project. 

Award of Excellence - Social Media in a Marketing Campaign (Large Community) – for its use of social media strategies

 

“As the marketing agency working with The Alberta SouthWest Regional Alliance, we are absolutely thrilled with their three Awards of Excellence,” says Catherine Proulx, Twist Marketing’s Managing Director. “We are delighted with the recognition that these three awards represent.  Working with AlbertaSW and its large stakeholder base challenged us in every way to achieve excellence. At the end of the day we helped them achieve the recognition they deserve for raising the economic development profile of the AlbertaSW region.”

 

 

We are very pleased at being recognized for our collective efforts,” says Bev Thornton, Executive Director, Alberta SouthWest Regional Economic Development Alliance.  “I think it just goes to show that rural municipalities, towns and villages can compete at a very high level when we work together as a team rather than trying to go it alone.  Twist Marketing provided the professional expertise, partnership and mentoring that helped us achieve our shared goals.”

 

Proulx explained that the theme for AlbertaSW’s overall marketing campaign was ‘Real People, Real Places, Real Alberta’. “Within that framework, we had several objectives which I believe we have achieved.” These included the following.

-Establish an online audience for future regional marketing activities

-Increase the volume and quality of traffic to the regional websites

-Enhance a collaborative environment for businesses and tourism operators to work together to promote AlbertaSW

-Engage youth, the business community, municipalities and the public in the AlbertaSW region

-Foster pride in the AlbertaSW region by celebrating its “real people and real places”

 

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