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Presents: Witches ElementStarring Farrah Nuff, Nada Nuff & Mona MooreDoors open at 8 p.m. | Drag show starts at 9:30 p.m.Join us in the Dungeon for Scaryoke after the Show!Dancing until 3 a.m. Drag show reservations must be present with seats claimed by 9:15 p.m.Reservations that fail to claim their tables/seats by 9:15 risk their...
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...
No one is more excited than Joshua Whitehead that Jordan Tannahill has added Calgary to his North American tour. Okay, maybe everyone who was lucky enough to see them on the Wordfest stage in 2018—and we’ve been dreaming ever since about pairing them again in a show. A playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and performance artist,...
General Admission Standing No Minors 18+
Come watch as the Calgary Wranglers take on Laval Rocket.
Join us on Thursday, Oct. 29 at the Burnswest Theatre for a screening of Jim Sharmon’s one-of-a-kind 1975 film on the big screen! This iconic cult classic takes newly wed couple Brad and Janet on a strange journey through the deranged house of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, filled with curious characters, sensational songs, and innuendo that will...
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....
Where gesture becomes music and listening becomes physical—Microphone Controller reimagines the rock concert for Deaf and hearing audiences through choreography, embodiment and language. In this 55-minute work, voice is displaced from sound and thrown into the body.Rooted in CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) identity, the work draws on cultural immersion, responsibility, and translation between worlds....
We're bringing our Halloween trivia back from the dead... and it's scarier than ever!Test you knowledge about iconic horror books and movies and historic Halloween traditions. Costumes are encouraged (but please no masks or prop weapons!). This is a free, adults-only (18+) event - no registration is required. Seating is limited, so tables are available...
An Aussie indie-folk singer-songwriter living between Melbourne and Calgary, pairing soulful vocals and guitar with honest songs about connection, identity and finding home.NOAH. is an Australian indie-folk singer-songwriter living between Melbourne and Calgary. Over the past three years, his travels through Canada and beyond have shaped songs inspired by movement, changing landscapes, unexpected connections and...
Step into a world where sensuality meets remembrance, where we honour the mysteries of death by celebrating the vibrancy of life.Inspired by the Mexican tradition of Día de Muertos, this burlesque night invites you to explore how cultures across the globe embrace the dance between mortality and passion. Through glittering costumes, evocative movement, and stories...
Halloween is about to get ugly in Calgary. On October 29, AAPWeen is bringing the screams to Whiskey Rose for a night of glory and professional wrestling. Alberta Arts Pro Wrestling returns with your spookiest show yet. Doors at 6, bell at 7.
Join us as we kick off the celebrations leading to our 50th Anniversary — honouring decades of impact and the bright future ahead for children, youth and adults diagnosed with Autism and their families. This exclusive evening brings together community leaders, supporters, families, and partners for an inspiring celebration of progress and purpose.
Every Canadian alive right now is shaping this country. Not passively but actively. Through the choices we make, the communities we build, the conversations we have or avoid, and the Canada we hand to the people who come after us. This exhibition asks you to sit with that.What version of Canada are you building?Numerous Calgarian...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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