Métis playwright, director, actor, and overall theatre rat Caleigh Crow had to learn to love her hometown. For her, Calgary is made best by the creative talents who live here and reject the status quo to be unabashedly themselves.
She discovered at a young age that drama and performance felt second nature to her, more so than any of her school subjects. Just last year, her play There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama.
The award is not only an honour for Crow, but she feels it comes with the responsibility to uphold the Canadian theatre landscape and be one of the unabashed talents for others to look up to.
- “Calgary Momo House. It is deep in the northeast, northeast of the airport. They make these bomb momos like I have never experienced. It was my first momo experience, and I was so impressed. I won’t even try to explain the flavours; they must be experienced.”
- “I love the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. I used to go all the time with my mom, and it’s the kind of thing where I have enough knowledge that I can enjoy it, but I can also pick a random concert and just know I’m gonna get a unique experience.”
- “I think Calgary also has some really unique [outdoor] opportunities to walk around and enjoy our beautiful rivers. I love The Confluence and where the Fort is. I like walking around there and around St. Patrick’s Island.”
- “I’m a gamer … I love Minecraft. I really feel like Minecraft is a proof-of-concept for video games, as a medium. Every aspect of it, I love.”
- “Over the summer, I read a book called Wild Theater by Martin Morrow. It’s a book about One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre … According to this book, people would say, ‘How could you have this avant-garde theatre festival in Calgary? It’s full of all these stuffy corporate people,’ and they would say, ‘Well, we do it every year, and people come.’ That’s something I agree with.”
