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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...
Newzones is pleased to present In The Pines, a solo exhibition of new work by Canadian contemporary painter, Jack Bishop.In 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...
“Rocks, soil, water, these are the materials of the Earth. They make up the physical substance that we dig in and travel on. Landscape, on the other hand, is the work of the mind. The landscapes in the exhibition “Still Haunted” are composed using images from a geographic place known as the Canadian Shield. Places...
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...
Longtime musical collaborators Steve Pineo and Laura Jackson bring decades of shared musical history together with a blues-focused mix of roots, soul and Canadiana.A fixture of Calgary’s music scene for more than four decades, Pineo is a guitarist, singer and prolific songwriter whose music has crossed blues, roots, country, jazz and rock and roll. His...
Join us at The Comedy Cave for an evening of laughs in support of the Calgary Humane Society! Enjoy a delicious buffet, live stand-up comedy, and drink tickets included with admission, with a portion of all proceeds going directly to help animals in need.
Mark Christopher is an old-school comic with a modern sensibility (meaning he tells jokes but not the "dad" type). His meticulous writing ensures that each performance is packed with ingenious twists and turns that keep the audience guessing (and of course laughing).Mark is from Miami, but he started his comedy career in San Francisco, where...
Join us to celebrate the release of two Thistledown Press fall titles: Carpenter Creek by Fred Stenson and Apron Apocalypse by Jeanette Lynes. Fred and Jeanette will each read from their titles, then engage in a discussion about their writing process for these new releases.
Thursday Night Jam Sessions are a welcoming space for musicians, poets, singers and attendees to play non-stop music with one another in an open circle, "living room" setting! Even if you don't jam, we have a variety of art supplies to get crafty during the show.This week's jam is hosted by Jessie!
Join us for Cork's largest celebration of Champagne. Over 25 different cuvees will be poured on this bubbly night.Our biggest Champagne celebration is back for year two, and we’re popping even more corks.This is Canada’s biggest Champagne-only tasting: 25+ Champagnes - no Cava, no Prosecco, no Crémant, no sparkling wine padding. This is 100% Champagne,...
Begonia is a Winnipeg-born alt-pop and soul singer-songwriter. Known for a voice with "delicate sandpaper with iridescent grit," she blends vulnerable storytelling, pop-diva showmanship, and emotional depth.The Fantasy Life Tour is a technicolour, theatrical experience centered around a whimsical, over-the-top, and emotionally raw live atmosphere.
Drawing on archival materials from Lougheed House, this talk explores the experiences and daily lives of the Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC) members stationed at Lougheed Barracks, from the early days of CWAC recruitment and training to their duties and everyday life.Francesca Zambolin is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses...
Join us for the opening of the 21st Calgary Justice Film Festival (CJFF), a special moment honouring Indigenous voices, storytelling, culture, and filmmaking. Gather with community leaders, filmmakers, and other special guests at The Confluence for the launch of a weekend of documentary film, artist exhibits, performances, and important conversations.Please note: Registration for this CJFF...
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...
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