Transformation & Community

 
by Alliekat, allyouneedisbass.com

Dressed in their finest festival gear, everywhere you look there are people smiling. Some are busy chattering away and catching up with old friends while others are busy making new connections. There’s a palpable energy at this seventy five year old movie theatre in the heart of one of Calgary’s most diverse neighbourhoods. It’s comparable feeling to the lineup before a festival opens its gates. This is the Calgary premiere for Fundamental Frequencies, the first instalment of the much anticipated first episode of the documentary.

The event is hosted by Calgary’s very own roving arts and community initiative the Bassbus. Baran Faber from Bassbus explained: “We wanted to turn the entire night into a festival themed event to get everyone excited for the summer festival season ahead. The first episode was incredible and we [felt] so fortunate to [have] been able to watch it in such an inspiring setting.” As the moviegoers started to take their seats in the theatre the crowd quieted, the lights were dimmed, and the movie began.

While attending a movie is usually a solitary, bordering on isolating experience, The Bloom Premiere was as a collective of an experience as festival culture itself. The crowd moved together, laughed together, smiled together, danced around in their seats and was inspired together. Baran Faber remarked of his view of the crowd: “It was so amazing to see a 370 seat theater nearly full, entirely of like minded people from our community, all gathered together to see this movie. It was so cool that throughout the entire film we would see interviews or shots of familiar faces from our community. I think that was one of best parts, that many of the people sitting in the theater that night, were the characters of this amazing story that we are all a part of.

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