First Times: Karen Campos
“First Times” is a look at the pioneering spirit that animates the arts community in Edmonton, and provides our mission as an artist-run centre. We’re celebrating that spirit in the winter air on February 18 at our new annual fundraiser: the Parka Patio.
Karen Campos is a designer, artist and DJ here in Edmonton who we’ve worked with for a few events over the last couple of years. She writes two blogs: one about her projects at heart-beats.ca and a Tumblr. We talked to her about running events and what it takes to not give up.
Regulars to Latitude 53’s events will recognize you as DJ Campos—you just played at our McCauley skating event, “Dancing Under the Winter Stars”. Do you remember the first time you were involved with an event at Latitude 53?
That’s actually hard to recall. Latitude feels like such a staple for anyone involved in the arts in this city but I think officially, it was DJing “53 Ways To Leave Your Lover” in 2010. It was one of our very first paid gigs. Up to that point my DJ partner (smallcaps) and me were putting on events on our own so it was great to be recognized by a space we always admired and frequented. This is when we learned something still relevant after a few years of DJing all over the city: Latitude gigs have great food, drinks and crowds. In short: always a treat.
