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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...
Looking for a way to kick-start your crafting journey, need motivation to tackle that work-in-progress or simply want to meet like-minded people? The Confluence Craft Club is the cozy, community crafting experience you’ve been looking for! Whether you knit, cross-stitch, scrapbook or do anything in-between, come spend a relaxing afternoon sharing your craft and socializing...
Join Calgary icon Carly York Jones and a rotating cast of fabulous special guests every month for outrageous performances, hilarious comedy, fierce lip-syncs, and the most unapologetically fun Sunday you'll have all month.Whether you're celebrating a birthday, planning the ultimate bachelorette party, rounding up your brunch crew, or simply looking for a Sunday Funday you'll...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Get in a “New York State of Mind” in this can’t-miss celebration of the iconic songs of Billy Joel!The debonair Tony DeSare joins the Calgary Phil as they perform unique takes on some of the “Piano Man’s” most beloved hits, including Uptown Girl, Don’t Ask Me Why, The Stranger, She’s Always a Woman, and many...
Five college students visit an abandoned cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. It’s up to Ash (a housewares employee, turned demon-killing hero), and his trusty chainsaw to save the day.A wildly entertaining Canadian adaptation of the cult-classic horror comedy, Evil Dead The Musical explodes onto...
Close out the festival with the Saturday Night Country Concert, presented by Bud Light. Featuring a country music headliner, this concert brings Calgary's Western roots and Grey Cup Festival spirit together.We aren't revealing the artist just yet… but trust us, you’re going to want a ticket. This is one secret you’ll want to be in...
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