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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...
Introducing babies to works of art lays the groundwork for visual, cognitive, and language development. Parents, caregivers, and babies are invited to join us for this relaxed baby tour. Afterwards, babies will have time to enjoy ‘tummy time’ social fun on artist Yvonne Mullock’s extraordinary interactive sensory blankets, created especially for babies.
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...
Step into Studio Bell for a heartfelt tribute to Marvin Gaye, one of soul music’s most iconic voices. Settle in, grab a drink, and enjoy live music celebrating the songs that helped define a generation.Hear favourites like “Let’s Get It On,” “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “What’s Going On?”...
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...
Get ready to rock out! Headlined by Alan Doyle and featuring The Strumbellas, the Thursday Night Concert will be high-energy and an unforgettable night of live music.The Strumbellas are set to start at 7:30 pm, with Alan Doyle performing around 9 pm.
Get ready to rock out!Headlined by Alan Doyle and featuring The Strumbellas, the Thursday Night Concert will be high energy and an unforgettable night of live music.
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...
The Single Onion wraps up its fall season with four excellent poets: Miranda Krogstad, Kathryn Lennon, Josephine LoRe, and Nisha Patel.About the Poets:Spoken word poet meets eternal optimist, Miranda Krogstad’s poetry ranges in topic from child’s play to empowerment, giving life’s obstacles a feel-good finish. A member of the 2014 slam team, a member of...
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 Xhyrlle!
One of comedy’s fastest-rising global stars, Kyla Cobbler, is bringing her critically acclaimed debut show Gone Rogue to Canada this fall for her first-ever national tour.After exploding onto the scene with viral social media success, amassing over 250 million video views and a rapidly growing audience of nearly one million followers, Kyla Cobbler has quickly...
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...
Step into Studio Bell for a heartfelt tribute to Marvin Gaye, one of soul music’s most iconic voices. Settle in, grab a drink, and enjoy live music celebrating the songs that helped define a generation.Hear favourites like “Let’s Get It On,” “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “What’s Going On?”...
Saddle Up, Rider Nation — It's almost time to make our way west for the 2026 Grey Cup! Riderville is headed to Calgary for a week of festivities leading up to the biggest game of the year.It's clear to see that plenty of Albertans already bleed green — and we know Rider Nation travels better...
Get ready for the ultimate East Coast party! With Atlantic Schooners Kitchen Party and Eastern Social Hall. Enjoy nonstop Maritime energy with live East Coast music and three live bands- all day longюFan-favourite lobster rolls, live sports, interactive games and plenty of prizes. Get Screeched In and become an honorary Newfoundlander, soak up the full...
Step inside the Lions Den for the ultimate Grey Cup sports bar experience. Catch all the action on massive screens, battle it out in Madden tournaments and bar games, and enjoy the best VIP bar at the festival. This is the Lions’ house—come ready to play.
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