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They Say is Full Circle Theatre’s brand new, Bridgerton-inspired prequel to Much Ado About Nothing. Set before Beatrice and Benedick became Shakespeare’s most famously combative almost-lovers turned lovers, this original romantic drama imagines their first courtship, the pressures of reputation and favour, and the choices that helped shape the people we meet in Messina in...
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.Central to the Contemporary Calgary presentation...
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,...
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.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...
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.The 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...
Introduce your baby to art during this relaxed gallery tour for babies, parents, and caregivers. After the tour, babies can enjoy tummy-time play on artist Yvonne Mullock’s interactive sensory blankets, created especially for them.The gallery welcomes babies year-round. If the program is sold out, families are welcome to visit another time and enjoy the gallery’s...
Gather with your friends and family at the Calgary Winter Market, a delightful destination for family and friends to gather, reminiscent of the charming European markets. Indulge in specialty food and beverages, perfect for enjoying on-site or taking home. Relax in cozy lounges and savor each other’s company.Located in Eau Claire Plaza for 26 days...
Holiday MC 2026 takes place December 4–6 and December 11–13 at the BMO Centre, Hall D.We're accepting applications for artists, makers, designers, vintage curators, food vendors, and interactive experiences.Thoughtfully curated. Exceptional craftsmanship.
Master sleuths and criminal masterminds. A junior government clerk is found dead on the railway tracks. Papers found in his pocket contain closely guarded government secrets that Mycroft Holmes feels his brother Sherlock should investigate. As the case unfolds, a series of mysterious events lead to a rising body count among ‘The Scoundrels Assembly.’ At...
Bilbo Baggins is swept from his cozy Hobbit Hole and into a perilous quest across Middle-earth to help a band of dwarves reclaim their home under the Lonely Mountain from a treacherous dragon. Faced with trolls, goblins, elves, giant spiders and the mysterious creature Gollum, Bilbo discovers his own resourcefulness and courage, and grows into...
So many of our favourite holiday traditions began in the Victorian era - sending Christmas cards, decorating trees, and hanging stockings might be classic features of the season for us, but they were new to the Victorians! Take a tour through time in the spectacularly decorated Lougheed House this holiday season and learn about the...
Victoria BC-based Jesse Roper is a modern-day troubadour with an authentic and adventurous spirit. He and longtime bandmates the Pretty Good Band have travelled the highways, byways and backroads of North America, bringing modern, indie-infused Americana blues to fervent audiences across the continent. Known for his powerhouse, electrifying live performances, his soulful vocals expand across...
ZOOLIGHTS, presented by Olympia Trust Company, is celebrating its 30th anniversary!For three decades, the zoo has brought Calgarians together under the glow of lights to create memories, celebrate the holidays, and inspire connection to wildlife.This year, discover new ways to celebrate alongside returning favourites, from a glowing bamboo trail and prairie-inspired light displays to festive...
Discover the Taste of ZOOLIGHTS with an all-new food and beverage pass available every Thursday. Warm up and get into the spirit by sampling a variety of holiday drinks and food that are sprinkled around ZOOLIGHTS.Add it to your ZOOLIGHTS ticket at checkout!
Hosted by The Bookshop at Esker in collaboration with the Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Youth Committee.The Emerging Writers’ Café is a quarterly meet-up for local emerging writers of all genres to develop projects and ideas. Share your work, practice giving and receiving feedback, access...
The Under $100 Art Show is coming to Calgary December 3-6 & December 10-13 with art of all kinds — paintings, photography, textiles, mixed media, ceramics, handmade accessories, and so much more! Don’t miss your chance to discover amazing local art and one-of-a-kind finds!Live music all weekend (stay tuned for the lineup). Kids 16 and...
They Say is Full Circle Theatre’s brand new, Bridgerton-inspired prequel to Much Ado About Nothing. Set before Beatrice and Benedick became Shakespeare’s most famously combative almost-lovers turned lovers, this original romantic drama imagines their first courtship, the pressures of reputation and favour, and the choices that helped shape the people we meet in Messina in...
Take your next zoo visit from wild to wildly aglow. With Sunlight to ZOOLIGHTS, you can spend the day exploring the zoo and visiting your favourite animals before staying to experience the magic and wonder of ZOOLIGHTS, all with one discounted ticket.
The 2026 Stamps House is the official Grey Cup Party of the Calgary Stampeders! Dust off your cowboy hat, shine up your belt buckle, and pull on your boots - we’re bringing the Wild West to Calgary for Grey Cup 2026! Join us for an unforgettable celebration filled with Stamps spirit, Calgary pride, and the...
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,...
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.Central to the Contemporary Calgary presentation...
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,...
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.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...
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.The 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...
Gather with your friends and family at the Calgary Winter Market, a delightful destination for family and friends to gather, reminiscent of the charming European markets. Indulge in specialty food and beverages, perfect for enjoying on-site or taking home. Relax in cozy lounges and savor each other’s company.Located in Eau Claire Plaza for 26 days...
Double up on the Calgary sights with the Lights & Heights Pass! We’ve teamed up with the Calgary Tower to bring you one ticket to two of the city’s most iconic attractions.Take in the city from above at the Calgary Tower, then explore over one million lights aglow at ZOOLIGHTS. Two Calgary favourites, one unforgettable...
As an artist and a maker, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis, flux, and endless cycles of becoming, learning, and unlearning. In this new, site-specific installation, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight, gravity, and duration.load begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks, eggs, or...
In Otipemisiwak Fantasy, Riel Starr explores Métis culture through an Indigiqueer perspective. Starr unapologetically conceptualizes Métis futurism through traditionally crafted contemporary objects in order to honour their own personal connection to their culture, the land, and the survivance of historical Two-Spiritness.Opening reception: October 23rd, 2026, from 6:30 to 9 pmRiel Starr will give an exhibition...
Join us for Open Mic hosted by Earl Morgan every Wednesday from 8 PM to 11 PM.
Master sleuths and criminal masterminds. A junior government clerk is found dead on the railway tracks. Papers found in his pocket contain closely guarded government secrets that Mycroft Holmes feels his brother Sherlock should investigate. As the case unfolds, a series of mysterious events lead to a rising body count among ‘The Scoundrels Assembly.’ At...
Bilbo Baggins is swept from his cozy Hobbit Hole and into a perilous quest across Middle-earth to help a band of dwarves reclaim their home under the Lonely Mountain from a treacherous dragon. Faced with trolls, goblins, elves, giant spiders and the mysterious creature Gollum, Bilbo discovers his own resourcefulness and courage, and grows into...
Fuel your creativity with movies on the big screen at Classics and Crafts! Bring your current craft project and join us for a nostalgic trip down memory lane with beloved classic films in the Burnswest Theatre.Meet fellow makers, enjoy the cinematic vibes and tackle your work-in-progress with us! Whether you’re a die-hard movie fan or...
Fuel your creativity with movies on the big screen at Classics and Crafts! Bring your current craft project and join us for a nostalgic trip down memory lane with beloved classic films in the Burnswest Theatre. Meet fellow makers, enjoy the cinematic vibes and tackle your work-in-progress with us! Whether you’re a die-hard movie fan...
ZOOLIGHTS, presented by Olympia Trust Company, is celebrating its 30th anniversary!For three decades, the zoo has brought Calgarians together under the glow of lights to create memories, celebrate the holidays, and inspire connection to wildlife.This year, discover new ways to celebrate alongside returning favourites, from a glowing bamboo trail and prairie-inspired light displays to festive...
Discover the Taste of ZOOLIGHTS with an all-new food and beverage pass available every Thursday. Warm up and get into the spirit by sampling a variety of holiday drinks and food that are sprinkled around ZOOLIGHTS.Add it to your ZOOLIGHTS ticket at checkout!
They Say is Full Circle Theatre’s brand new, Bridgerton-inspired prequel to Much Ado About Nothing. Set before Beatrice and Benedick became Shakespeare’s most famously combative almost-lovers turned lovers, this original romantic drama imagines their first courtship, the pressures of reputation and favour, and the choices that helped shape the people we meet in Messina in...
Take your next zoo visit from wild to wildly aglow. With Sunlight to ZOOLIGHTS, you can spend the day exploring the zoo and visiting your favourite animals before staying to experience the magic and wonder of ZOOLIGHTS, all with one discounted ticket.
The 2026 Stamps House is the official Grey Cup Party of the Calgary Stampeders! Dust off your cowboy hat, shine up your belt buckle, and pull on your boots - we’re bringing the Wild West to Calgary for Grey Cup 2026! Join us for an unforgettable celebration filled with Stamps spirit, Calgary pride, and the...
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,...
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.Central to the Contemporary Calgary presentation...
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,...
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.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...
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.The 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...
Double up on the Calgary sights with the Lights & Heights Pass! We’ve teamed up with the Calgary Tower to bring you one ticket to two of the city’s most iconic attractions.Take in the city from above at the Calgary Tower, then explore over one million lights aglow at ZOOLIGHTS. Two Calgary favourites, one unforgettable...
As an artist and a maker, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis, flux, and endless cycles of becoming, learning, and unlearning. In this new, site-specific installation, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight, gravity, and duration.load begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks, eggs, or...
In Otipemisiwak Fantasy, Riel Starr explores Métis culture through an Indigiqueer perspective. Starr unapologetically conceptualizes Métis futurism through traditionally crafted contemporary objects in order to honour their own personal connection to their culture, the land, and the survivance of historical Two-Spiritness.Opening reception: October 23rd, 2026, from 6:30 to 9 pmRiel Starr will give an exhibition...
Master sleuths and criminal masterminds. A junior government clerk is found dead on the railway tracks. Papers found in his pocket contain closely guarded government secrets that Mycroft Holmes feels his brother Sherlock should investigate. As the case unfolds, a series of mysterious events lead to a rising body count among ‘The Scoundrels Assembly.’ At...
Bilbo Baggins is swept from his cozy Hobbit Hole and into a perilous quest across Middle-earth to help a band of dwarves reclaim their home under the Lonely Mountain from a treacherous dragon. Faced with trolls, goblins, elves, giant spiders and the mysterious creature Gollum, Bilbo discovers his own resourcefulness and courage, and grows into...
ZOOLIGHTS, presented by Olympia Trust Company, is celebrating its 30th anniversary!For three decades, the zoo has brought Calgarians together under the glow of lights to create memories, celebrate the holidays, and inspire connection to wildlife.This year, discover new ways to celebrate alongside returning favourites, from a glowing bamboo trail and prairie-inspired light displays to festive...
Discover the Taste of ZOOLIGHTS with an all-new food and beverage pass available every Thursday. Warm up and get into the spirit by sampling a variety of holiday drinks and food that are sprinkled around ZOOLIGHTS.Add it to your ZOOLIGHTS ticket at checkout!
They Say is Full Circle Theatre’s brand new, Bridgerton-inspired prequel to Much Ado About Nothing. Set before Beatrice and Benedick became Shakespeare’s most famously combative almost-lovers turned lovers, this original romantic drama imagines their first courtship, the pressures of reputation and favour, and the choices that helped shape the people we meet in Messina in...
A vibrant weekly club meant for both first-time fabric artists and veterans. Bring your project and chat with out knitters and crocheters, or join us for an introductory lesson!Who We Are Carya is a social impact agency that has been responding to the evolving social needs of the Calgary community since 1910. Today, with over...
Take your next zoo visit from wild to wildly aglow. With Sunlight to ZOOLIGHTS, you can spend the day exploring the zoo and visiting your favourite animals before staying to experience the magic and wonder of ZOOLIGHTS, all with one discounted ticket.
The 2026 Stamps House is the official Grey Cup Party of the Calgary Stampeders! Dust off your cowboy hat, shine up your belt buckle, and pull on your boots - we’re bringing the Wild West to Calgary for Grey Cup 2026! Join us for an unforgettable celebration filled with Stamps spirit, Calgary pride, and the...
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.Central to the Contemporary Calgary presentation...
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.The 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...
Double up on the Calgary sights with the Lights & Heights Pass! We’ve teamed up with the Calgary Tower to bring you one ticket to two of the city’s most iconic attractions.Take in the city from above at the Calgary Tower, then explore over one million lights aglow at ZOOLIGHTS. Two Calgary favourites, one unforgettable...
As an artist and a maker, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis, flux, and endless cycles of becoming, learning, and unlearning. In this new, site-specific installation, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight, gravity, and duration.load begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks, eggs, or...
In Otipemisiwak Fantasy, Riel Starr explores Métis culture through an Indigiqueer perspective. Starr unapologetically conceptualizes Métis futurism through traditionally crafted contemporary objects in order to honour their own personal connection to their culture, the land, and the survivance of historical Two-Spiritness.Opening reception: October 23rd, 2026, from 6:30 to 9 pmRiel Starr will give an exhibition...
We are all made up of many parts.There may be a part of us that takes care of everyone, a part that strives to get things right, a playful part, a creative part, a part that worries, or a part that longs for something more.The Inner Gallery is a monthly creative series inviting you to...
ZOOLIGHTS, presented by Olympia Trust Company, is celebrating its 30th anniversary!For three decades, the zoo has brought Calgarians together under the glow of lights to create memories, celebrate the holidays, and inspire connection to wildlife.This year, discover new ways to celebrate alongside returning favourites, from a glowing bamboo trail and prairie-inspired light displays to festive...
Discover the Taste of ZOOLIGHTS with an all-new food and beverage pass available every Thursday. Warm up and get into the spirit by sampling a variety of holiday drinks and food that are sprinkled around ZOOLIGHTS.Add it to your ZOOLIGHTS ticket at checkout!
Every MondayTime: 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.Location: Werklund Centre, formerly Arts Commons, 205 8 Ave S.E.Room: Arts Learning CentreAge: 18+Cost: FreeSchedule:5:00-5:30 p.m. - Snack, Chill, Network5:30-6:00 p.m. - Smudge6:00-6:30 p.m. - Mini Workshop6:30-7:30 p.m. - Cypher
They Say is Full Circle Theatre’s brand new, Bridgerton-inspired prequel to Much Ado About Nothing. Set before Beatrice and Benedick became Shakespeare’s most famously combative almost-lovers turned lovers, this original romantic drama imagines their first courtship, the pressures of reputation and favour, and the choices that helped shape the people we meet in Messina in...
With joyful urgency, we have co-imagined and co-designed an experience for curious minds seeking deeper connection to themselves, to one another, and to the world around them, through the inviting and transformative embrace of the arts.Together, we explore the questions we're often afraid to ask, but suspect everyone else is quietly wrestling with too. Think...
Take your next zoo visit from wild to wildly aglow. With Sunlight to ZOOLIGHTS, you can spend the day exploring the zoo and visiting your favourite animals before staying to experience the magic and wonder of ZOOLIGHTS, all with one discounted ticket.
During this four-week guitar class, participants will explore a range of songwriting possibilities using one string! Artists will listen to popular one-string riffs (think “Smoke on the Water”) to inspire their own original compositions.Please note that this class is best suited for artists who:Are comfortable with tasks that require focused attention, repetition, and the development...
The 2026 Stamps House is the official Grey Cup Party of the Calgary Stampeders! Dust off your cowboy hat, shine up your belt buckle, and pull on your boots - we’re bringing the Wild West to Calgary for Grey Cup 2026! Join us for an unforgettable celebration filled with Stamps spirit, Calgary pride, and the...
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.Central to the Contemporary Calgary presentation...
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.The 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...
Double up on the Calgary sights with the Lights & Heights Pass! We’ve teamed up with the Calgary Tower to bring you one ticket to two of the city’s most iconic attractions.Take in the city from above at the Calgary Tower, then explore over one million lights aglow at ZOOLIGHTS. Two Calgary favourites, one unforgettable...
As an artist and a maker, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis, flux, and endless cycles of becoming, learning, and unlearning. In this new, site-specific installation, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight, gravity, and duration.load begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks, eggs, or...
In Otipemisiwak Fantasy, Riel Starr explores Métis culture through an Indigiqueer perspective. Starr unapologetically conceptualizes Métis futurism through traditionally crafted contemporary objects in order to honour their own personal connection to their culture, the land, and the survivance of historical Two-Spiritness.Opening reception: October 23rd, 2026, from 6:30 to 9 pmRiel Starr will give an exhibition...
Wavelength is an immersive performance bringing together contemporary dance, live rock music, and immersive art in an unconventional performance environment at the Lougheed Building, located directly beside The GRAND Theatre.Five contemporary dancers and a four-piece live band come together in the same space, creating a visceral collision of movement, sound, and art. Part concert, part...
Master sleuths and criminal masterminds. A junior government clerk is found dead on the railway tracks. Papers found in his pocket contain closely guarded government secrets that Mycroft Holmes feels his brother Sherlock should investigate. As the case unfolds, a series of mysterious events lead to a rising body count among ‘The Scoundrels Assembly.’ At...
ZOOLIGHTS, presented by Olympia Trust Company, is celebrating its 30th anniversary!For three decades, the zoo has brought Calgarians together under the glow of lights to create memories, celebrate the holidays, and inspire connection to wildlife.This year, discover new ways to celebrate alongside returning favourites, from a glowing bamboo trail and prairie-inspired light displays to festive...
Discover the Taste of ZOOLIGHTS with an all-new food and beverage pass available every Thursday. Warm up and get into the spirit by sampling a variety of holiday drinks and food that are sprinkled around ZOOLIGHTS.Add it to your ZOOLIGHTS ticket at checkout!
A 4-week musical theatre intensive for ages 9–17, building skills in singing, dance, acting, storytelling, and stage confidence. Ages 9–12 attend 2:00–3:30 p.m.Ages 13–17 attend 4:00–5:30 p.m.
They Say is Full Circle Theatre’s brand new, Bridgerton-inspired prequel to Much Ado About Nothing. Set before Beatrice and Benedick became Shakespeare’s most famously combative almost-lovers turned lovers, this original romantic drama imagines their first courtship, the pressures of reputation and favour, and the choices that helped shape the people we meet in Messina in...
Take your next zoo visit from wild to wildly aglow. With Sunlight to ZOOLIGHTS, you can spend the day exploring the zoo and visiting your favourite animals before staying to experience the magic and wonder of ZOOLIGHTS, all with one discounted ticket.
Embrace creativity and explore worlds, worlds, worlds by Curtis Talwst Santiago in our extended Weekend Drop-in Art Making Program this November! Join us every Saturday and Sunday throughout the month from 1–5 PM in the Flanagan Family Gallery. Materials and light instruction are provided.Our program encourages people of all ages to connect with modern and...
The 2026 Stamps House is the official Grey Cup Party of the Calgary Stampeders! Dust off your cowboy hat, shine up your belt buckle, and pull on your boots - we’re bringing the Wild West to Calgary for Grey Cup 2026! Join us for an unforgettable celebration filled with Stamps spirit, Calgary pride, and the...
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,...
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.Central to the Contemporary Calgary presentation...
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,...
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.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...
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.The 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...
Gather with your friends and family at the Calgary Winter Market, a delightful destination for family and friends to gather, reminiscent of the charming European markets. Indulge in specialty food and beverages, perfect for enjoying on-site or taking home. Relax in cozy lounges and savor each other’s company.Located in Eau Claire Plaza for 26 days...
Double up on the Calgary sights with the Lights & Heights Pass! We’ve teamed up with the Calgary Tower to bring you one ticket to two of the city’s most iconic attractions.Take in the city from above at the Calgary Tower, then explore over one million lights aglow at ZOOLIGHTS. Two Calgary favourites, one unforgettable...
Join a puppy yoga class in the Beltline. Each class lasts 60 minutes: 30 minutes of gentle, beginner-friendly yoga, then 15 minutes with the puppies roaming free on the mats and 15 minutes of cuddles and photos. Mats are provided and no experience is needed. Our team supervises the puppies the whole time.
As an artist and a maker, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis, flux, and endless cycles of becoming, learning, and unlearning. In this new, site-specific installation, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight, gravity, and duration.load begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks, eggs, or...
In Otipemisiwak Fantasy, Riel Starr explores Métis culture through an Indigiqueer perspective. Starr unapologetically conceptualizes Métis futurism through traditionally crafted contemporary objects in order to honour their own personal connection to their culture, the land, and the survivance of historical Two-Spiritness.Opening reception: October 23rd, 2026, from 6:30 to 9 pmRiel Starr will give an exhibition...
Your favourite characters from Bob's Burgers but make it drag! And Christmas!Oh, burger, it’s Christmas! Get ready to flip out as your favourite dysfunctional burger family gets the drag treatment in a holiday extravaganza that’s juicier than a Bob’s Burger special! Join your hosts Divina Diefor & Anne Xiety, alongside Vane Merkury, Angelina Starchild and...
Join us for the legendary Carly's Angels Drag Show every Saturday night performing on the same stage for the past 26 years!Carly’s Angels – 27th Season at The AtticCarly’s Angels have been dazzling audiences here for 25+ years, and they’re back for another spectacular season! Join us for a night of glamour, laughter, and unforgettable...
Wavelength is an immersive performance bringing together contemporary dance, live rock music, and immersive art in an unconventional performance environment at the Lougheed Building, located directly beside The GRAND Theatre.Five contemporary dancers and a four-piece live band come together in the same space, creating a visceral collision of movement, sound, and art. Part concert, part...
Set during the Great Depression, Icemen is a gripping thriller about power, wealth, class, love, and revenge. As people struggle to survive, desperation drives them to dangerous choices in a world where money determines who matters.Evening shows start at 7:30 pm, and matinees are at 2:00 pm. Doors open 30 mins before showtime.
In 2015, award-winning soprano Sarah Jo Kirsch delivered a tour-de-force performance of Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre that left our audience breathless and the Calgary Herald declaring: “Ms. Kirsch’s performance itself was the masterpiece.”Along with conductor Claude Lapalme, and to kick off our 30th anniversary season, she returns for a reprise Ligeti’s legendary composition in...
The Alberta Dance Theatre Youth Artists present "The Wanderer," a dance and theatre adaptation of Peter Van den Ende's original picture book.A fragile paper boat sets sail. Adventure awaits in coral reefs and deep sea dives. Friends and foes are tossed amongst ocean waves. Journey with the paper boat through loneliness and connection, cruelty and...
Master sleuths and criminal masterminds. A junior government clerk is found dead on the railway tracks. Papers found in his pocket contain closely guarded government secrets that Mycroft Holmes feels his brother Sherlock should investigate. As the case unfolds, a series of mysterious events lead to a rising body count among ‘The Scoundrels Assembly.’ At...
ZOOLIGHTS, presented by Olympia Trust Company, is celebrating its 30th anniversary!For three decades, the zoo has brought Calgarians together under the glow of lights to create memories, celebrate the holidays, and inspire connection to wildlife.This year, discover new ways to celebrate alongside returning favourites, from a glowing bamboo trail and prairie-inspired light displays to festive...
Discover the Taste of ZOOLIGHTS with an all-new food and beverage pass available every Thursday. Warm up and get into the spirit by sampling a variety of holiday drinks and food that are sprinkled around ZOOLIGHTS.Add it to your ZOOLIGHTS ticket at checkout!
The Alberta Dance Theatre Youth Artists present "The Wanderer," a dance and theatre adaptation of Peter Van den Ende's original picture book.A fragile paper boat sets sail. Adventure awaits in coral reefs and deep sea dives. Friends and foes are tossed amongst ocean waves. Journey with the paper boat through loneliness and connection, cruelty and...
Hailed as one of Canada’s best big bands, Ninth Avenue Band consists of 18 full-time members, and performs live in Calgary, Alberta, and across Canada. The band has a wide range of repertoire suited for audiences of all ages and musical tastes, from traditional jazz charts to funk, R & B, and Latin.The band’s members...
The Alberta Dance Theatre Youth Artists present "The Wanderer," a dance and theatre adaptation of Peter Van den Ende's original picture book.A fragile paper boat sets sail. Adventure awaits in coral reefs and deep sea dives. Friends and foes are tossed amongst ocean waves. Journey with the paper boat through loneliness and connection, cruelty and...
They Say is Full Circle Theatre’s brand new, Bridgerton-inspired prequel to Much Ado About Nothing. Set before Beatrice and Benedick became Shakespeare’s most famously combative almost-lovers turned lovers, this original romantic drama imagines their first courtship, the pressures of reputation and favour, and the choices that helped shape the people we meet in Messina in...
Turn up the music and shake it out! Join us in PlayLab where we'll be moving and grooving to a new style of dance each session.---11:00 am and 1:00 pmFree admission on Level 1---About Kym Butler:Kym has been a dance educator/movement instructor for almost 40 years. If it involves moving the body, then she has...
Take your next zoo visit from wild to wildly aglow. With Sunlight to ZOOLIGHTS, you can spend the day exploring the zoo and visiting your favourite animals before staying to experience the magic and wonder of ZOOLIGHTS, all with one discounted ticket.
Embrace creativity and explore worlds, worlds, worlds by Curtis Talwst Santiago in our extended Weekend Drop-in Art Making Program this November! Join us every Saturday and Sunday throughout the month from 1–5 PM in the Flanagan Family Gallery. Materials and light instruction are provided.Our program encourages people of all ages to connect with modern and...
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