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Get crafty this spooky season! Join us at GRETA on October 28th at 8 PM for a fall-inspired night of pumpkin painting, pressed flowers, cocktails, and arcade games.Whether you’re going for cute and cozy or a little spooky, you’ll get to decorate your very own mini pumpkin with paint, craft supplies, and decorative pressed flowers....
Join us for Open Mic hosted by Earl Morgan every Wednesday from 8 PM to 11 PM.
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...
Ryan Fitzpatrick launches his new book ACE THEORY with Jani Krulc. Join us on October 28 at 7 PM at Shelf Life Books!
Join Chest Fever & friends for a tribute and celebration of The Band's 1976 iconic concert event - The Last Waltz. Featuring an all-star local horn section in Calgary and local guests performing the well loved roles of the original star studded cast including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and more. Follow Chest Fever...
Join Chest Fever & friends for a tribute and celebration of The Band's 1976 iconic concert event - The Last Waltz. Featuring an all-star local horn section in Calgary and local guests performing the well loved roles of the original star studded cast including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and more. Follow Chest Fever...
Tis Pity She’s a Whore follows the doomed tragedy of Giovanni and Annabella as the audience discovers their secrets. By the end, much like Romeo and Juliet, we are rooting for this doomed love to succeed even though in no sane world would it make sense for the two of them to end up together....
Join Tara Gereaux, Michelle Good, Nicholas Herring, Nazanine Hozar, and Patmeena Sabit, in conversation with host Shelley Youngblut.Between the Pages: An Intimate Evening with the Giller Prize Finalists will take audiences across Canada into the minds and creative lives of the shortlisted authors.
Create your own Halloween glass painting in our workshop.Beginner friendly! We provide all the materials and guide you step by step. Drinks and snacks are included. For this workshop, our studio will be decorated for Halloween 🎃👻Choose your own Halloween design from our references (or bring yours), and paint it on glass. Make it spooky,...
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...
An invitation for patrons and visitors to join us and experience the joy of the season through live performances by talented local artists!Experience the joy of the season in the Archway through live performances by talented local artists that bring music, energy, and connection to our outdoor space. This welcoming community activation invites patrons and...
Join Contemporary Calgary at our drop-in Open Studio Session for 55+ on Wednesdays in October. During 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...
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...
We are called Singers because calling us a choir seems a bit formal with its attendant expectation of trained singers with a high level of discipline. We’re a bunch of older Scotsmen who like to sing and have a lot of fun doing so.The program content was chosen to present a selection of Scottish songs,...
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...
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...
THRIVE Calgary is your go-to in-person conference for connecting, learning, and growing in Calgary.THRIVE Calgary ConferenceGlobal Talent. Stronger Businesses. Thriving Communities.Wednesday, October 28, 2026 | 9:30 AM–4:00 PMBest Western Premier Calgary Plaza Hotel & Conference Centre | Calgary, ABCalgary’s workforce is changing—and global talent is an important part of building the organizations, industries, and communities...
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...
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