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SUMMARY:Artist Talk and Workshop: Safety\, Vigilance & the Stories We Carry
DESCRIPTION:Free Artist Talk & Creative Workshop with Suzanne Piechotta \nHave you ever walked with your keys between your fingers\, changed your route home\, called someone while walking alone\, or asked for help because you felt unsafe? \nSuzanne’s work explores the quiet ways we protect ourselves when we feel vulnerable. In this free artist talk and workshop\, she’ll share the ideas behind her work and invite participants to anonymously share their own experiences of safety\, vigilance\, unwanted attention\, and self-protection. \nUsing remnants from Suzanne’s quilts\, we’ll turn these often-unspoken experiences into a collective visual artwork. \nShare a story\, create\, listen\, or simply be part of the conversation. You only share what feels comfortable.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/u5ugs3jgsx1-artist-talk-and-workshop-safety-vigilance-and-the-stories-we-carry/
LOCATION:Canopy Studios\, 1723 9th St SW\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2T 3C1
CATEGORIES:Free,Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261018T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261018T143000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105927
CREATED:20261002T000039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261002T000039Z
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SUMMARY:NMC Tours: Greatest Hits
DESCRIPTION:Dive into the world of music technology and explore unique instruments from the National Music Centre’s world-renowned collection. \nThis is your chance to see how music is made and experience one-of-a-kind instruments in action. Step beyond the exhibits as interpreters go behind the glass to demonstrate historic artifacts\, revealing the mechanics\, sounds\, and stories that make each instrument extraordinary. \nPlus\, this tour includes a sneak peek into NMC’s recording studios! For an in-depth studio experience\, check out the Backstage Pass tours. \nStudio Bell admission is required.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/ewflit5px-nmc-tours-greatest-hits/2026-10-18/
LOCATION:Studio Bell\, 850 4 St SE\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2G 0L8
CATEGORIES:Education,Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261018T133000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105927
CREATED:20261002T000053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261002T000053Z
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SUMMARY:NMC Tours: Backstage Pass
DESCRIPTION:Take an exclusive tour backstage at Studio Bell and see music come to life in the National Music Centre’s recording studios! \nCatch a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the working spaces of our world-class recording facilities* and hear the stories behind notable artifacts — spanning 450 years of music innovation and technology — guided by NMC’s talented music educators. \nVisitors will gain insight into some of NMC’s most treasured items — that few members of the public have seen — from the earliest instruments in the NMC Collection\, such as a 16th-century Trasuntino Harpsichord\, to modern electronics\, like TONTO\, considered to be the ‘holy grail’ of synthesizers. \nPlus\, you’ll get to see the legendary Rolling Stones Mobile Studio\, where countless hit records were made.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/wzorzkgof-nmc-tours-backstage-pass/2026-10-18/
LOCATION:Studio Bell\, 850 4 St SE\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2G 0L8
CATEGORIES:Education,Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261018T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105927
CREATED:20260831T000039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000046Z
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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/2026-10-18/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 Street Southwest\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2P 2C4
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261018T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105927
CREATED:20260903T000630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000120Z
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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/2026-10-18/
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:20261018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261018T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105927
CREATED:20260903T000642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000120Z
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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/2026-10-18/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Dance,Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Theatre & performing arts
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261018T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105927
CREATED:20260909T000033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000119Z
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SUMMARY:Curtis Talwst Santiago: worlds\, worlds\, worlds
DESCRIPTION:worlds\, worlds\, worlds explores how stories are held and carried across the vestiges of history and memory. Rooted in a form of world-building where inherited imagination meets critical fabulation¹\, the exhibition celebrates polyphonic identities that negotiate different geographies across time\, weaving the material\, the fragmentary\, and the ever-evolving within storytelling. \nCentral to the Contemporary Calgary presentation is a focused survey of Santiago’s dioramas. Begun in 2008 and collectively known as the Infinity Series\, these intimate works move fluidly between personal memories of Caribbean community life: basement dance parties\, the quintessential barbershop\, figures dreaming in the grass\, and broader collective histories such as migration crises and the rise of territorialism in its many forms. These scenes are portrayed as something precious and deliberately sheltered\, worlds that can be held in the palm of a hand\, inviting careful observation of details often overlooked.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/_qnn2kces0x-curtis-talwst-santiago-worlds-worlds-worlds/2026-10-18/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 Street Southwest\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2P 2C4
CATEGORIES:Education,Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261018T180000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105927
CREATED:20260903T000633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260903T000634Z
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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-21202/2026-10-18/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261019T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105927
CREATED:20260831T000039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000046Z
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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/2026-10-19/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 Street Southwest\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2P 2C4
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261019T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261019T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105927
CREATED:20260909T000033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000119Z
UID:10008995-1792411200-1792429200@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Curtis Talwst Santiago: worlds\, worlds\, worlds
DESCRIPTION:worlds\, worlds\, worlds explores how stories are held and carried across the vestiges of history and memory. Rooted in a form of world-building where inherited imagination meets critical fabulation¹\, the exhibition celebrates polyphonic identities that negotiate different geographies across time\, weaving the material\, the fragmentary\, and the ever-evolving within storytelling. \nCentral to the Contemporary Calgary presentation is a focused survey of Santiago’s dioramas. Begun in 2008 and collectively known as the Infinity Series\, these intimate works move fluidly between personal memories of Caribbean community life: basement dance parties\, the quintessential barbershop\, figures dreaming in the grass\, and broader collective histories such as migration crises and the rise of territorialism in its many forms. These scenes are portrayed as something precious and deliberately sheltered\, worlds that can be held in the palm of a hand\, inviting careful observation of details often overlooked.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/_qnn2kces0x-curtis-talwst-santiago-worlds-worlds-worlds/2026-10-19/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 Street Southwest\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2P 2C4
CATEGORIES:Education,Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261020T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261020T173000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105927
CREATED:20260903T000646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000209Z
UID:10008829-1792490400-1792517400@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Elzbieta Krawecka – A Space that Remembers
DESCRIPTION:A Space That Remembers reflects my belief that places can inhabit us as much as we inhabit them. “Through painting\, I seek to create spaces where observation\, memory\, emotion\, and imagination come together—spaces that invite us to look closely\, to reflect\, and to consider what a landscape carries\, what it has witnessed\, and what we carry with us”\, Elzbieta. \nShow from October 15 to November 4\, 2026. \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, October 17th from 2-5 PM; artist in attendance.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/26ooqxwdxfo-elzbieta-krawecka-a-space-that-remembers/2026-10-20/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261020T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261020T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105927
CREATED:20260729T000243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000213Z
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SUMMARY:Jack Bishop: In The Pines
DESCRIPTION:Newzones is pleased to present In The Pines\, a solo exhibition of new work by Canadian contemporary painter\, Jack Bishop. \nIn these new paintings segments of the Trans-Canada are like a topiary\, where the tree lines carve out an ornamental landscape the highway cuts through. The liminal space through the wilderness in a commute. For a fleeting moment the light changes\, and the familiar surroundings emote a sense of nostalgia\, romanticism or déjà vu. \nInspired by scrubby roadside foliage\, these landscapes reimagine surrounding ditches and medians into nuanced spaces where colour\, light\, and gesture take centre stage. Moving away from realism and photographic references\, the paintings embrace an intuitive approach from memory and lived experience. The tree lines become embellished forms\, while thick impasto and fluorescent palettes activate the painted surface\, creating landscapes that oscillate between figuration\, abstraction\, and sensation.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/1febp_7eevz-jack-bishop-in-the-pines-occ-19025/2026-10-20/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261020T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261020T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105927
CREATED:20260831T000039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000046Z
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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/2026-10-20/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 Street Southwest\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2P 2C4
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261020T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261020T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105927
CREATED:20260909T000033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000119Z
UID:10008996-1792497600-1792515600@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Curtis Talwst Santiago: worlds\, worlds\, worlds
DESCRIPTION:worlds\, worlds\, worlds explores how stories are held and carried across the vestiges of history and memory. Rooted in a form of world-building where inherited imagination meets critical fabulation¹\, the exhibition celebrates polyphonic identities that negotiate different geographies across time\, weaving the material\, the fragmentary\, and the ever-evolving within storytelling. \nCentral to the Contemporary Calgary presentation is a focused survey of Santiago’s dioramas. Begun in 2008 and collectively known as the Infinity Series\, these intimate works move fluidly between personal memories of Caribbean community life: basement dance parties\, the quintessential barbershop\, figures dreaming in the grass\, and broader collective histories such as migration crises and the rise of territorialism in its many forms. These scenes are portrayed as something precious and deliberately sheltered\, worlds that can be held in the palm of a hand\, inviting careful observation of details often overlooked.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/_qnn2kces0x-curtis-talwst-santiago-worlds-worlds-worlds/2026-10-20/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 Street Southwest\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2P 2C4
CATEGORIES:Education,Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261021T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261021T173000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105928
CREATED:20260903T000646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000209Z
UID:10008830-1792576800-1792603800@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Elzbieta Krawecka – A Space that Remembers
DESCRIPTION:A Space That Remembers reflects my belief that places can inhabit us as much as we inhabit them. “Through painting\, I seek to create spaces where observation\, memory\, emotion\, and imagination come together—spaces that invite us to look closely\, to reflect\, and to consider what a landscape carries\, what it has witnessed\, and what we carry with us”\, Elzbieta. \nShow from October 15 to November 4\, 2026. \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, October 17th from 2-5 PM; artist in attendance.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/26ooqxwdxfo-elzbieta-krawecka-a-space-that-remembers/2026-10-21/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261021T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261021T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105928
CREATED:20260729T000243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000213Z
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SUMMARY:Jack Bishop: In The Pines
DESCRIPTION:Newzones is pleased to present In The Pines\, a solo exhibition of new work by Canadian contemporary painter\, Jack Bishop. \nIn these new paintings segments of the Trans-Canada are like a topiary\, where the tree lines carve out an ornamental landscape the highway cuts through. The liminal space through the wilderness in a commute. For a fleeting moment the light changes\, and the familiar surroundings emote a sense of nostalgia\, romanticism or déjà vu. \nInspired by scrubby roadside foliage\, these landscapes reimagine surrounding ditches and medians into nuanced spaces where colour\, light\, and gesture take centre stage. Moving away from realism and photographic references\, the paintings embrace an intuitive approach from memory and lived experience. The tree lines become embellished forms\, while thick impasto and fluorescent palettes activate the painted surface\, creating landscapes that oscillate between figuration\, abstraction\, and sensation.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/1febp_7eevz-jack-bishop-in-the-pines-occ-19025/2026-10-21/
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261021T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105928
CREATED:20260831T000039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000046Z
UID:10008291-1792584000-1792602000@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
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/2026-10-21/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 Street Southwest\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2P 2C4
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261021T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105928
CREATED:20260903T000630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000120Z
UID:10008645-1792584000-1792602000@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
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/2026-10-21/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Theatre & performing arts
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261021T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105928
CREATED:20260903T000642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000120Z
UID:10008780-1792584000-1792602000@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
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/2026-10-21/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Dance,Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Theatre & performing arts
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261021T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105928
CREATED:20260909T000033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000119Z
UID:10008997-1792584000-1792602000@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Curtis Talwst Santiago: worlds\, worlds\, worlds
DESCRIPTION:worlds\, worlds\, worlds explores how stories are held and carried across the vestiges of history and memory. Rooted in a form of world-building where inherited imagination meets critical fabulation¹\, the exhibition celebrates polyphonic identities that negotiate different geographies across time\, weaving the material\, the fragmentary\, and the ever-evolving within storytelling. \nCentral to the Contemporary Calgary presentation is a focused survey of Santiago’s dioramas. Begun in 2008 and collectively known as the Infinity Series\, these intimate works move fluidly between personal memories of Caribbean community life: basement dance parties\, the quintessential barbershop\, figures dreaming in the grass\, and broader collective histories such as migration crises and the rise of territorialism in its many forms. These scenes are portrayed as something precious and deliberately sheltered\, worlds that can be held in the palm of a hand\, inviting careful observation of details often overlooked.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/_qnn2kces0x-curtis-talwst-santiago-worlds-worlds-worlds/2026-10-21/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 Street Southwest\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2P 2C4
CATEGORIES:Education,Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261021T180000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105928
CREATED:20260903T000633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260903T000634Z
UID:10008713-1792584000-1792605600@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
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-21202/2026-10-21/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261021T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261021T160000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105928
CREATED:20261007T000018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261007T000019Z
UID:10011235-1792587600-1792598400@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Open Studio Sessions for 55+ | October
DESCRIPTION:Join Contemporary Calgary at our drop-in Open Studio Session for 55+ on Wednesdays in October.  \nDuring this informal art-making drop-in session\, participants are invited to bring their own projects along with any art and craft materials they are currently using. This time can be used not only for creating but also for connecting with other artists\, fostering collaboration and inspiration.  \nFor adults age 55+.  \nFREE and no registration is required; simply check in with a gallery attendant at the front desk by signing your name each time on the sign-in sheet. \n*If you have questions about this workshop\, please reach out to Vanessa Lamb\, TD Education Program Coordinator\, at vanessa@contemporarycalgary.com \nOCTOBER SCHEDULE: \n\nOctober 7\nOctober 14\nOctober 21\nOctober 28\n\n \nThis month we are offering a tour of selected work from our Curtis Talwst Santiago exhibition worlds\, worlds\, worlds on October 21 from 2:00-3:00 PM.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/4v_ewjmcyv-open-studio-sessions-for-55-or-october/2026-10-21/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 Street Southwest\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2P 2C4
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261023
DTSTAMP:20261013T105928
CREATED:20260929T000040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260929T000040Z
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SUMMARY:Damien Eagle Bear: when you see it
DESCRIPTION:How do we see the world and how do we come to understand it? The significance of Indigenous knowledges and their deep relationship to the land should come as no surprise. However\, the appreciation of these ancient sciences and ways of knowing continues to be minimized despite having been the backbone of survival on this land since time out of memory. \nwhen you see it contemplates a personal and cultural relationship to the land. Audiences are asked to confront their own comprehensions and connections to the land through these portraits of significant areas in Blackfoot territory. \nDrawing from his experience as a documentary filmmaker\, Damien Eagle Bear challenges the formal standards of the medium to embrace a Blackfoot gaze of the land. \nDamien Eagle Bear is Contemporary Calgary’s 2026-2027 Ksahkomiitapiiks resident artist.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/7ytt4a-pxnj-damien-eagle-bear-when-you-see-it/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 Street Southwest\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2P 2C4
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261022T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261022T173000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105928
CREATED:20260903T000646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000209Z
UID:10008831-1792663200-1792690200@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Elzbieta Krawecka – A Space that Remembers
DESCRIPTION:A Space That Remembers reflects my belief that places can inhabit us as much as we inhabit them. “Through painting\, I seek to create spaces where observation\, memory\, emotion\, and imagination come together—spaces that invite us to look closely\, to reflect\, and to consider what a landscape carries\, what it has witnessed\, and what we carry with us”\, Elzbieta. \nShow from October 15 to November 4\, 2026. \nOpening Reception: Saturday\, October 17th from 2-5 PM; artist in attendance.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/26ooqxwdxfo-elzbieta-krawecka-a-space-that-remembers/2026-10-22/
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261022T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261022T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105928
CREATED:20260729T000243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000213Z
UID:10010309-1792665000-1792688400@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Jack Bishop: In The Pines
DESCRIPTION:Newzones is pleased to present In The Pines\, a solo exhibition of new work by Canadian contemporary painter\, Jack Bishop. \nIn these new paintings segments of the Trans-Canada are like a topiary\, where the tree lines carve out an ornamental landscape the highway cuts through. The liminal space through the wilderness in a commute. For a fleeting moment the light changes\, and the familiar surroundings emote a sense of nostalgia\, romanticism or déjà vu. \nInspired by scrubby roadside foliage\, these landscapes reimagine surrounding ditches and medians into nuanced spaces where colour\, light\, and gesture take centre stage. Moving away from realism and photographic references\, the paintings embrace an intuitive approach from memory and lived experience. The tree lines become embellished forms\, while thick impasto and fluorescent palettes activate the painted surface\, creating landscapes that oscillate between figuration\, abstraction\, and sensation.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/1febp_7eevz-jack-bishop-in-the-pines-occ-19025/2026-10-22/
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261022T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261022T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105928
CREATED:20260831T000039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000046Z
UID:10008292-1792670400-1792688400@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
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/2026-10-22/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 Street Southwest\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2P 2C4
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261022T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261022T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105928
CREATED:20260903T000630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000120Z
UID:10008646-1792670400-1792688400@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
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/2026-10-22/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Theatre & performing arts
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261022T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261022T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105928
CREATED:20260903T000642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000120Z
UID:10008781-1792670400-1792688400@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
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/2026-10-22/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Dance,Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Theatre & performing arts
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261022T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261022T170000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105928
CREATED:20260909T000033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000119Z
UID:10008998-1792670400-1792688400@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Curtis Talwst Santiago: worlds\, worlds\, worlds
DESCRIPTION:worlds\, worlds\, worlds explores how stories are held and carried across the vestiges of history and memory. Rooted in a form of world-building where inherited imagination meets critical fabulation¹\, the exhibition celebrates polyphonic identities that negotiate different geographies across time\, weaving the material\, the fragmentary\, and the ever-evolving within storytelling. \nCentral to the Contemporary Calgary presentation is a focused survey of Santiago’s dioramas. Begun in 2008 and collectively known as the Infinity Series\, these intimate works move fluidly between personal memories of Caribbean community life: basement dance parties\, the quintessential barbershop\, figures dreaming in the grass\, and broader collective histories such as migration crises and the rise of territorialism in its many forms. These scenes are portrayed as something precious and deliberately sheltered\, worlds that can be held in the palm of a hand\, inviting careful observation of details often overlooked.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/_qnn2kces0x-curtis-talwst-santiago-worlds-worlds-worlds/2026-10-22/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 Street Southwest\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2P 2C4
CATEGORIES:Education,Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261022T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261022T180000
DTSTAMP:20261013T105928
CREATED:20260903T000633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260903T000634Z
UID:10008714-1792670400-1792692000@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
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-21202/2026-10-22/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR