Calgary Dates for One or for Two

February 10, 2013
By Cody Battershill

Dates for One or for Two (or more, if you’re really living it up!)

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Event type: Various (improvising, learning, dancing)
Beret rating: 1 out of 5 (for low snobbery, not low quality)
Great for: Singles or couples
Location: Various

Dates for One or for Two

Love it or loathe it, Valentine’s weekend is fast approaching and the pressure is on to either find a date, impress a date, or come up with an excuse for why you were waaaay too busy to go on a date anyway! To that end, I’m dedicating this article to sharing some singles-inclusive Valentine events that will let you fall in love with love whether you’re flying solo, with your besties, or on the arm of your number-one crush.

Fake It ‘Til You Make It

A no-experience-necessary improv workshop guaranteed to improve your love life, even if you don’t have one! Now that’s a promise I can get behind! This playful, love-themed workshop is perfect for fun-loving singles or couples. Not quite as scary as it sounds, the art of improvisational theatre is the art of performing with little or no pre-planning. Maybe you’ve seen Drew Carey’s show Whose Line is It Anyway?, or watched theatre sports at Calgary’s Loose Moose Theatre? Improv is sort of like that, but don’t worry, you don’t have to be as funny as Colin Mochrie to have a blast at this event!

The Kinkonauts Fake It ‘Till You Make It workshop

February 14, 6-9pm
$40, in advance (includes appetizers and your first drink)
The House & Hound Neighborhood Pub, 1030 9th Avenue SE
www.kinkonauts.com

This is Your Brain on Love

Enjoy music and a glass of wine while you celebrate the fascinating science behind love and human emotion. Promising everything from a puppet peep show to a love lab, heart dissection and Cupid’s arrow demonstrations, this event is sure to get your oxytocin flowing!

Adults Only Night – Telus Spark Science Center

February 14, 6-10pm
$20
The new science center location - 220 St. George's Drive NE
www.sparkscience.ca

Just Dance!

Nothing promises romance quite like Latin dancing! Turn up the heat this weekend with a free dance class by Havana Cuban Dance Studio instructors and then groove the night away to the best Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, top 40 and Latin house. Again, go with your favorite dance partner, or meet someone new. Calgary’s Just Dance Meetup group will be there on the 15^th, so it doesn’t get any easier that that. Just join the group (totally free) on the meetup.com website, RSVP for the February 15^th event, and they’ll keep an eye out for you. The Just Dance meetup group is an ultra-friendly, inclusive group of 20-60 year olds – single and not – who like to go out dancing and have a great time. I have so many great things to say about meetup groups that I’ll save them for another article!