Check out what's happening in downtown Calgary!
With the Mid-Autumn Festival just around the corner, join us for a special lantern-making workshop to celebrate this beloved season and its traditions. Inspired by the moon and autumn stories, kids will design and craft their own lanterns to light the way for the season ahead.What to expect: We will begin the session with a...
With the Mid-Autumn Festival just around the corner, join us for a special lantern-making workshop to celebrate this beloved season and its traditions. Inspired by the moon and autumn stories, kids will design and craft their own lanterns to light the way for the season ahead.Our free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn...
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...
As part of Alberta Culture Days, this "Brushstrokes & Beats" performance will be taking place in the Shaikh Family Welcome Gallery at Central Library. Brushstrokes & Beats is a live painting demonstration by a renowned local artist, accompanied by live music performed by Mysterium Duo.
Immerse yourself in the magic of storytelling and poetry from September 17 to 20, 2026, at Festival Hall. Presented by the Calgary Spoken Word Society with the Stroll of Poets, this event is a celebration of artistry and unique voices.Wise Women: Magic Words brings people together through the power of poetry, music and storytelling. Whether...
Eat well, save money and make a difference! Proceeds support local charities and community groups!Hosted by the Calgary Produce Marketing Association (CalPMA), the Fall Harvest Sale brings together the produce industry from across Western Canada to provide Calgarians with exceptional value on fresh produce while supporting local charities and promoting Canadian agriculture. For more than...
Get red-y to start your day with a hearty pancake breakfast, fresh fruit, and other buffet favourites while learning about our beloved red pandas. Your ticket includes exclusive early zoo access, a delicious breakfast, an engaging interpretive talk, and a private viewing of our red pandas in their newly redeveloped Asian Highlands habitat. Perfect for...
Spend an awe-inspiring evening with your Calgary Phil! Naomi Woo leads the Orchestra in Sibelius’s Second Symphony, an epic musical journey from elemental beauty to desolate struggle to radiant triumph. Plus, experience Zosha di Castri’s reflection on human explorations of the Moon, and Stewart Goodyear brings his artistry centre stage in Grieg’s mighty Piano Concerto.
Chicago-based comedian Paul Farahvar delights audiences with his unique, quick-witted dry humour, centred on being a practical but aging bachelor and former litigator. After quickly becoming a staple on the Chicago Comedy Scene for years at his home club, Laugh Factory, he began touring, first as a feature for headliners like Demetri Martin and Gary...
Get ready to celebrate Navratri like never before! As a cornerstone of the Gujarati Mandal of Calgary’s historic 50th Golden Jubilee year, we are thrilled to bring you four spectacular nights of devotion, music, and dance at the BMO Centre, in downtown Calgary.With an exclusive, highly anticipated lineup of four mega musical artists already confirmed...
Step into the shadows of one of Calgary’s older neighbourhoods on this chilling walking tour through the East Village.Discover the untold stories behind the city's original red light district, where brothels, bootleggers, backroom deals and riots once shaped the streets. As we explore hidden corners, you'll hear tales of vice, scandal and conflict that reveal...
The 4th Street Night Market is located in the heart of The Beltline for 2026. Visit the lively main street neighborhood of 4th Street for food, fun, local finds, & friends at this family-friendly, free, pet-friendly night market all summer long! (May 16, June 20, July 18, August 22, September 19)
Dos Leches closes its 2026 season on Saturday, September 19 with a free, all-ages outdoor music event at The Confluence Historic Site & Parkland (formerly Fort Calgary). Bring the whole family, the dog, and a lawn chair.The evening will run until 10 p.m., with full lighting and sound, and a surprise live performance.The music is...
Hoeng Nong in Cantonese are traditional Chinese scented sachets. In this workshop we will learn how to make these sachets from scratch using everyday materials. This is a hand sewing workshop for adults that will inspire you on how to use up your fabric remnants and repurposed textiles while creating a functional cultural item. Take...
At first glance, it could be a person. It wears the uniform, moves through the shift like anyone else on the line. But something is off. What the station was for has always been uncertain, marked in history yet never quite understood, perhaps never fully known even then. All anyone knows it by is Vethro...
Join this workshop to learn how to vocalize and harmonize during a jam! This workshop is titled how to jam and will entail elements such as finding lyrics to sing at the jam, listening to musical instruments and trusting in your own musical awareness.This workshop is a space for beginner and intermediate singers to build...
Embrace creativity and exploration in our Saturday Drop-in Art Making program. This program is offered most Saturdays from 1-5 p.m. throughout the year. Materials and light instruction are provided, along with rotating themes and activities.Our program encourages people of all ages to connect with modern and contemporary art through enjoyable and interactive creative experiences.For September,...
Tour Stampede Park, take in all the stories.Where else can you travel through time, lift the curtain on a legacy, and see how a legend was born?With BTS: Behind The Stampede, you’ll explore over a century of history, thrills, spills, characters and champions. Starting off at Sam Centre, this two-hour tour will take you on...
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,...
One of many stops on the East Side Studio Crawl, we’re a hotel full of multidisciplinary artists. This is one of two days a year you get to see exactly what happens behind our doors.Each studio still holds the shape of its original hotel room, redesigned to reflect each artist. Walk the halls and you’re...
Please check the official event websites for the most up-to-date information regarding cancellations, rescheduling or other important updates.
Are you hosting an event in downtown Calgary? Whether it’s a concert, gallery opening, market or community gathering, we want to help spread the word!