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SUMMARY:Samantha Walrod: Off The Beaten Path
DESCRIPTION:Newzones is thrilled to present Off the Beaten Path\, an upcoming solo exhibition of new work by Albertan contemporary artist Samantha Walrod. \nOff the Beaten Path considers how humans view and interact with wildlife in the Canadian wilderness from a “close” distance. Motorists and hikers observe animals from cars and trails while the animals watch in return. Bears\, elk\, and wolves are depicted on the edge of the wilderness\, adjacent to roads and thoroughfares\, visible to humans before disappearing onto paths less accessible to human transportation. Walrod’s artwork represents a fleeting moment of human/animal interaction while observing the essential but shrinking distance between human/animal habitats. \nSamantha Walrod’s work is influenced by similarities and differences between imagined and reconstructed environments. She uses many layers of paint\, collage\, photography and inks\, as tactility is a very important element of her practice. Images are incorporated with collage and digital technologies\, while maintaining the exploration of paint. In reconstructing disparate images from various sources including art history\, popular culture and her own photos\, Walrod addresses the cultural construction of nature.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/f0ieddng8xn-samantha-walrod-off-the-beaten-path-occ-19026/
LOCATION:Newzones Gallery Of Contemporary Art\, 730 11 Ave Sw\, Calgary\, T2R 0E4
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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SUMMARY:40th Anniversary Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Wallace Galleries\, one of the region’s most established and respected contemporary art galleries\, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Over a forty-year legacy\, Wallace Galleries has championed the careers of Canadian artists\, cultivated passionate collectors\, and shaped how contemporary art is experienced. \nFeatured artists: Harold Town\, Kenneth Lochhead\, Wilf Perreault\, Ted Godwin\, Jennifer Hornyak\, Simon Andrew\, Robin Smith-Peck\, Elzbieta Krawecka\, William Duma\, and David Alexander to name a few. \nCome celebrate with us! \nShow from September 17 – October 14\, 2026. \nOpening reception: September 19\, 2026 from 2:00PM to 7:00PM. Artists in attendance.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/fwkyk6mfsn8-40th-anniversary-exhibition/2026-10-07/
LOCATION:724 11 Ave SW #100\, 724 11 Ave Sw\, Calgary\, T2R 0E4
CATEGORIES:Free,Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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ORGANIZER;CN="Wallace Galleries":MAILTO:info@wallacegalleries.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261007T170000
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SUMMARY:Samantha Walrod: Off The Beaten Path
DESCRIPTION:Newzones is thrilled to present Off the Beaten Path\, an upcoming solo exhibition of new work by Albertan contemporary artist Samantha Walrod. \nOff the Beaten Path considers how humans view and interact with wildlife in the Canadian wilderness from a “close” distance. Motorists and hikers observe animals from cars and trails while the animals watch in return. Bears\, elk\, and wolves are depicted on the edge of the wilderness\, adjacent to roads and thoroughfares\, visible to humans before disappearing onto paths less accessible to human transportation. Walrod’s artwork represents a fleeting moment of human/animal interaction while observing the essential but shrinking distance between human/animal habitats. \nSamantha Walrod’s work is influenced by similarities and differences between imagined and reconstructed environments. She uses many layers of paint\, collage\, photography and inks\, as tactility is a very important element of her practice. Images are incorporated with collage and digital technologies\, while maintaining the exploration of paint. In reconstructing disparate images from various sources including art history\, popular culture and her own photos\, Walrod addresses the cultural construction of nature.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/f0ieddng8xn-samantha-walrod-off-the-beaten-path/2026-10-07/
LOCATION:Newzones Gallery Of Contemporary Art\, 730 11 Ave Sw\, Calgary\, T2R 0E4
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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ORGANIZER;CN="Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art":MAILTO:registrar@newzones.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261007T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261007T170000
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SUMMARY:Jane Jin Kaisen: Burial of This Order
DESCRIPTION:Burial of This Order brings together three works by Jane Jin Kaisen that underscore her ongoing interest in ritual\, collectivity\, capitalist critique\, and the possibilities of social and political transgressions. \nThe exhibition centres on Kaisen’s titular video installation (2022)\, through which the audience is invited to follow a funerary procession gathered to ceremoniously bury a world order built upon hierarchy and division. The social actors called on to perform this duty\, including artists\, poets and activists\, transgress traditional ceremonial practices indicating that this ritualized enactment is a funeral without grievers\, assembled to dismantle unlivable structures\, rather than lament current conditions. \nThe exhibition’s central work is accompanied by Sorrow Waters This Land (2024) and Dokkaebi (2024). The former focuses on the setting for the procession – a derelict resort on Jeju Island that was abandoned following the IMF financial crisis of the 1990s\, now persisting as a crumbling ruin of capitalism. The latter features powerful Dokkaebi deities from Korean folklore\, unpredictable tricksters who dance suggestively through the space\, haunting or perhaps compelling the procession.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/yk8s_anpddf-jane-jin-kaisen-burial-of-this-order/2026-10-07/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 Street Southwest\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2P 2C4
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: "Swinguerra"
DESCRIPTION:For over a decade\, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema\, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives\, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory. \nThrough processes of listening and shared experience\, direction\, script\, costume\, and soundtrack are collectively conceived with each project’s participants. This horizontal methodology challenges dominant representational forms by revealing tensions between popular cultural practices and hegemonic structures of visibility. Their work offers a critical reflection on the performative gesture and its social\, aesthetic\, and political reverberations.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/c2l6mkn95k1-barbara-wagner-and-benjamin-de-burca-swinguerra/2026-10-07/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Theatre & performing arts
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DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261007T170000
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SUMMARY:Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves
DESCRIPTION:Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago\, his practice explores race\, queer culture\, migration\, protest\, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging\, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet\, part queer dance party\, part political protest\, while remaining grounded in collaboration and participation in order to find solidarity.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/s5k6xc1yf-t-brendan-fernandes-other-moves/2026-10-07/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Dance,Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Theatre & performing arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261007T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261007T180000
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SUMMARY:Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message\, the Message is Death
DESCRIPTION:Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades\, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films\, artefacts\, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media\, such as objects\, static and moving images\, transmit the equivalent “power\, beauty and alienation” embedded within forms of Black music in U.S. culture?
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/jicabsh1m3o-arthur-jafa-love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death-occ-21202/2026-10-07/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261007T213000
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SUMMARY:Improv 302: Story
DESCRIPTION:Improv 302: StoryThis is a six week course with sessions running 7:30-9:30 p.m. on the following Wednesdays:September 9\, 16\, 23\, 30; October 7\, 14. \nClasses are for students aged 18+ \nPlease register with your preferred name so we know who will be in the class and what to call you! \nPrerequisites: Improv 101 & 201\, or 30 hours of improv experience\, or equivalent. Email Jordan if you have questions about your level of improv. \nTelling effective and entertaining stories is what improvisers strive to do! A strong beginning\, surprising middle\, and satisfying ending are the equation to a great improvised story. Put your skills to work creating scenes your audience will love\, in this intermediate workshop. \nNote: If 13 or more registrations occur\, this class will be split into two separate classes running simultaneously in different rooms with different instructors. Students who register will be notified if this split occurs\, and will be given the option to indicate instructor and classmate preferences. \nInstructor (Class 1): Mark Laws \nA teacher by day\, performer by night: Mark (he/him) is excited to be your instructor! He started taking classes with The Kinkonauts in 2022 before being accepted into their Conservatory Programme that same year. He discovered that improv is a great way to build confidence\, find self-expression and create new neural pathways! Also that he likes to play pirates\, that kook! You may have seen him in Fringe Fest 2024’s Surprised by Love\, improvised film noir Secrets and Shadows\, Cage Match 2025-winning BassN’H\, and more! Known for his inclusivity\, self-deprecating wit\, and passion for the craft\, Mark hopes to create a safe space for his students to play games\, learn new skills\, and (most importantly) have fun!
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/voj4f-hwgtb-improv-302-story/2026-10-07/
LOCATION:The Kinkonauts\, 834 11 Ave SW\, Calgary\, Alberta\, T2R 0E5
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Education,Workshops
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DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261007T230000
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SUMMARY:OPEN MIC IS BACK!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Open Mic hosted by Earl Morgan every Wednesday from 8 PM to 11 PM.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/dkdlyixk9xn-open-mic-is-back/2026-10-07/
LOCATION:The Unicorn\, 223 8 Ave Sw\, Calgary\, Ab
CATEGORIES:Music & concerts
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