On March 15th the Beer Parlour Project team visited the Clive Hotel, in Clive, Alberta. Sadly, my wife Margarit was unable to make it on this trip, as she was not feeling well. But Chris and Connie and I enjoyed the weekend; both the Saturday night outing in Clive, as well as the evening prior in Acme.
To me the trip was somewhat reminiscent of a previous Spring trip that I was involved in. That one was eight years ago in the spring of 2017. Chris and Connie and I, along with our friend Byron, and documentary film maker Rueben Tschetter travelled to eastern Alberta and western Saskatchewan to film the Forgotten Prairie documentary. Here is a link to that film on Youtube...
When I left Edmonton back in April of 2017 it had snowed heavily and it was very cold, blustery and miserable. I debated bailing out of the documentary, but pushed on. This time around, when we ventured out on the Beer Parlour Project outing, things were much the same. In Edmonton we got about 3 or 4 inches of snow the night before I left. The night time low temperatures dipped down to about -20C, and the daytime highs didn't really make it into the minus single digits. But we pushed on and made the best of it. There was a lot less snow as I travelled further to the south, but the temperatures were about the same, and it was rather unpleasant.
The Clive Hotel was very busy on Saturday night. There was not a chair left to be had as it seems all the locals showed up to play Classic Music Bingo. We arrived well in advance of the event and had some beers and something to eat and got started on our project. We managed to interview a few locals and take some photographs before the event got underway. Once it wrapped up, about three hours later, most of the patrons quickly bailed out. It was impossible for us to consider any work on our project during the event, so we just joined in and had fun. After it was over, we managed to continue with a little more work in the way of interviews and a few more photographs. By that point it was getting near closing time... 10:00PM, so we packed up our gear and said our goodbyes.
We drove back to Stettler and stayed there for the night. The next morning we had breakfast together and did a little scouting around before heading in opposite directions for home.
All in all it was a pretty good weekend. I didn't sleep well, and seemed to be coming down with a bit of a cold. But hopefully I captured some good images that will make it all seem worthwhile.
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