Thank You Barb Dacks and Legacy Magazine
Ms Blakeman:
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. In the mid-90s eight magazines produced by the department of culture had their funding cut and ceased publication, but Barb Dacks saw an opportunity and a need. She felt strongly that there were stories to be told and emerging artists to be nurtured in celebrating built heritage, arts and culture, and multiculturalism.
To honour what we have received from the past and what new creations would be carried forward into the future, she named her publication Legacy. For 14 years Barb Dacks has produced a visually stunning magazine filled with stories, feature articles, photos, submissions from new and emerging artists and writers, reviews, and information of all the possibilities to see, hear, and experience Alberta arts, architecture, and culture.
To meet Barb is to meet a stylish, enthusiastic whirlwind of energy and ideas. She’s fun, aware, and involved, and she is everywhere. She is also the first person to wax enthusiastic about her staff and collaborators at Legacy, and I must particularly recognize long-time graphic god Mark Dutton, associate editors Eva Radford and Naomi Lewis, and writer Ron Chalmers.
I think a special thank you is in order for her husband, Gurston, who has supported her in the magazine from the start. I also recognize the creative, imaginative people who inspired Barb. With them she shares that impulse to create and to share.
This is my thank you to you, Barb. With the most recent issue, winter 2009, Barb is ceasing publication of Legacy and moving on, moving on to plan a book or two and to welcome her first, not one but two, grandchildren, expected this February.
You have left us a great gift, a legacy indeed, which will still be available online. You have been a joy to watch and to get to know.
Many, many, many thanks from me and, I’m sure, my colleagues in the Assembly.
Thank you.
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