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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art":MAILTO:registrar@newzones.com
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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/2026-10-08/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261008T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261008T170000
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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/2026-10-08/
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:20261008T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261008T124500
DTSTAMP:20260904T222907
CREATED:20260702T000138Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond the History Books: Exploring Stories of the Land
DESCRIPTION:Explore stories carried by the rivers\, rooted in the plants\, and uncovered through archaeology. Learn how Indigenous Peoples\, the original stewards of the land\, lived and prospered at this important gathering place\, and how the arrival of the North-West Mounted Police in 1875 changed everything. \nThrough a guided storytelling tour\, teachings with an Indigenous Knowledge Keeper and an exclusive tour of The Confluence archaeological collection\, you’ll discover the complex and many histories of the site that became known to many as Fort Calgary. You’ll also gain insight into Indigenous ways of knowing and how The Confluence is working to tell a more complete story of the past\, present\, and future of the land.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/omcoey4j_-beyond-the-history-books-exploring-stories-of-the-land/2026-10-08/
LOCATION:The Confluence Historic Site & Parkland\, 750 9 Avenue Southeast\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2G 5E1
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261008T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261008T170000
DTSTAMP:20260904T222907
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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/2026-10-08/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 Street Southwest\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2P 2C4
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261008T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261008T170000
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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/2026-10-08/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Theatre & performing arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261008T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261008T170000
DTSTAMP:20260904T222907
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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/2026-10-08/
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:20261008T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261008T180000
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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-21202/2026-10-08/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261008T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261008T143000
DTSTAMP:20260904T222907
CREATED:20260807T000014Z
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SUMMARY:Behind The Stampede: An Insider Tour of the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth
DESCRIPTION:Tour Stampede Park\, take in all the stories. \nWhere else can you travel through time\, lift the curtain on a legacy\, and see how a legend was born? \nWith BTS: Behind The Stampede\, you’ll explore over a century of history\, thrills\, spills\, characters and champions. Starting off at Sam Centre\, this two-hour tour will take you on a nostalgic trolley ride through some of the highlights of Stampede Park: The Tipi sculpture in Community Park East to learn about the deep connections between Stampede and the First Nations People of Treaty 7\, an exclusive experience at the chuckwagon track and rodeo chutes\, and a few other surprises along the way. You’ll understand how Calgary’s history and the Stampede’s legacy are forever intertwined.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/bluyprkvpl5o-behind-the-stampede-an-insider-tour-of-the-greatest-outdoor-show-on-earth/2026-10-08/
LOCATION:Sam Centre\, 632 13 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 1C5
CATEGORIES:Education
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