Olympic Plaza Schedule!
Sled Island is excited to announce the Olympic Plaza schedule for Friday, June 22 from 5 - 11pm and Saturday, June 23 from 2 - 11pm. Olympic Plaza is the fully-licensed and all-ages outdoor main stage featuring performances by the festival's top headliners including Feist, The Hold Steady, and Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks. Entering it's sixth year, Sled Island is proud to present the centrepiece to it's programming in the heart of downtown, as the city, its residents and festival goers embrace Sled Island as both a vital part of life in Calgary and a premiere destination festival.
Friday, June 22 (gates at 6pm):
9:30 Feist
8:15 Timber Timbre
7:00 Wake Owl **
Saturday, June 23 (gates at 2pm):
9:45 The Hold Steady
8:00 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
6:30 The Dudes **
5:15 Shabazz Palaces **
4:00 Bonjay
3:00 Parlovr
** just announced
Olympic Plaza tickets are on sale for $45 plus fees per day via Ticketmaster and select retail outlets. Admission to Olympic Plaza is included with the purchase of a Festival Discovery Pass, Festival Discovery Plus Pass or an All Ages Pass. Festival passes are available at the shop, shop.sledisland.com.
East Village Block Party
Sled Island is excited to present the East Village Block Party, a free outdoor event taking place on the East Village River Walk from 4 - 10pm on Thursday, June 21. The event will feature live performances on a stage curated by the HiFi Club, a street-style skateboard competition hosted by Vans Shoe Company and The Source, a special edition of Calgary's favourite community arts market hosted by the Market Collective and YYC Food Trucks on site to provide festival goers with locally-made sustenance throughout the event.
9:00 Flosstradamus **
8:15 HUMANS
7:30 Max Ulis **
6:45 Calamalka **
5:45 Smalltown DJs **
5:15 Vinny Slappers **
4:30 Pho (DJ from Bonjay) **
4:00 DJ Teddy Celebration **
** just announced
RSVP for the East Village Block Party here.
Boris, Shabazz Palaces and More!
Sled Island is pleased to announce several new additions to the festival lineup including legendary Japanese genre-bending band Boris, avant-rap duo Shabazz Palaces (members of Digable Planets), Ninja Tune recording-artist Daedelus, Calgary's own indie rockers The Dudes, featuring festival curator Danny Vacon, NYC punk rockers K-Holes plus more. Sled Island 2012 now features over 238 musical performers including 83 based in Alberta, and 70 from Calgary. In addition to music at the festival, Sled Island features an impressive comedy lineup, an excellent film program that runs June 18 - 20 and a comprehensive art program that will be announced on May 22.
Festival passes are available at the shop for $199 for the Fesitval Discovery Pass, $349 for the Festival Discovery Plus Pass and only $50 for an All Ages Pass. Olympic Plaza Tickets are on sale for $45 at Ticketmaster and select retail outlets. A limited amount of Single Show Tickets are available at Prime Box Office. Get your passes and or tickets today before it's all sold out!
Green Island T Shirt Design Contest!
Sled Island is looking for your help in establishing the Green Island Culture! Are you familiar with Green Island? If not, check out the Green Island page here.
Here’s how it will work: As part of our efforts to become a more environmentally and socially responsible festival we are planning to produce Green Island T-shirts made of 100% recycled polyester cotton. Using the guidelines below, your challenge is to create a T-shirt design/illustration that will incorporate the Sled Island 2012 aerial theme and the Green Island culture with sustainable thinking. The winning design will be printed on all of our Green Island volunteer T-shirts, and the winning designer will receive a complimentary Festival Discovery Pass.
Rules
1. This competition is open to all Sled Islanders – past, present and future!
2. You can enter as many designs as you like.
3. Your design/illustration MUST BE YOUR OWN. By submitting an entry you confirm that it is your own work!
4. Submit your masterpiece to green@sledisland.com as either a vector file (eps, pdf) or a 15*15" at 300dpi JPG.
5. By entering the competition, you agree to give Sled Island non-exclusive rights to publish your work on our website and use your design on our Green Island volunteer T-shirt.
6. All entries must be submitted by Thursday May 17, and the winner will be announced that Friday May 18 via facebook.
Remember Less = More. If you can create a deadly design in ONE color, you will already be ahead of the competition. Judges will be selecting the winning design based on creativity and practicality. Design something you would be proud to wear yourself.
TEDxYYC After Party
Ideas worth spreading should be given free reign. And they certainly shouldn’t be curtailed before dinner. That’s why TEDxYYC doesn’t end with the last speaker to grace our stage. Thanks to a partnership with the East Village and a musical line-up curated by Sled Island, they’re creating an environment rife with opportunity to make more connections and take ideas from tadpole to toad.
Join us at the historic Simmons Building in the heart of the East Village along the brand new Riverwalk for the TEDxYYC after party. Surrounded by some of the best bricks and morter in Calgary, it will be an evening of local music talent and more interesting people than you can shake a mattress at. Mattress, Simmons, get it?
Sled Island has teamed up with TEDxYYC to match ideas with music. Local acts Lab Coast, Extra Happy Ghost!!! and a memorable guest DJ will be mixed with Village Brewery libations, and as of yet unconfirmed, but sure to be tasty, YYC food trucks. Space at this iconic venue is limited, so hop on your bikes and head down early.
Where: Simmons building, East Village. 618 Confluence Way, S.E.
When: May 25, 7 pm - 11 pm
How: $5 at the door, 18+, cash bar
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