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Halloween Haunt takes over Hudsons Calgary Downtown on October 31st for a full night of costumes, bad decisions and seeing people you know dressed as people you definitely don’t know.Expect a packed dance floor with party anthems, throwbacks, hip-hop, pop and Halloween favourites all night. Come dressed as Wednesday. Come dressed as Shrek. Come dressed...
Get ready for Calgary's biggest Halloween bash! Twisted Element is turning up the heat with a night full of scary thrills, killer beats, and fabulous costumes. This is the party you don’t want to miss!What to expect:2 Levels of Electrifying Fun – Party with DJs on both floors, spinning the hottest tracks to keep you...
Hang The DJ presents Halloween 2026 "I Choose You Too"Our annual Halloween party is the biggest Hang The DJ event of the year with full custom decor and storyline, a massive dance floor of 80s, 90s, and 2000s underground and alternative hits, the best costumes in town, and a ton of cash prizes. This is...
The doors creak open and Calgary's most haunted theatre comes alive.This Halloween, The Palace transforms into a house of chaos — dim lights, dark beats, instense fog, costumes that kill, and a dance floor possessed until 2am. Dress to haunt. Expect DJs, drink specials, costume contest, prizes, and a Palace you’ve never seen before.If you...
This Halloween, we welcome Airrica with special guests Guest Who and Nahuel. Costumes highly encouraged.
On October 31, as the veil between worlds grows thin, the LieLow Monsters Ball comes to life! A dark and decadent gathering where the strange, the spirited and the wonderfully unexpected are invited to cross over.The LieLow Monsters Ball brings that spirit to The GRAND: a little music festival gathering blended in creative collision and...
Ready for a frightfully good time? DJs, dancing, killer costumes, & wicked drinks await for a sinister Halloween night. 18+ Party!Your Halloween plans called… and staying home isn’t on the list.Halloween lands on a Saturday this year, which means no work the next morning and absolutely no excuse to miss out. Send this to the...
Join us Halloween weekedong for two-full nights of costumes, country music and Halloween chaos featuring LIONEER live on stage Friday and EN02 Saturday, with SO & SO DJs keeping the party going late both nights.Come dressed up, bring the whole crew and get ready for one seriously rowdy night.$15 presale tickets. Prices will increase—and tickets...
Palloween presents Riot City, Iron Kingdom, Mares of Thrace, Nuisance, Lover, The Cadavor DogWhere: Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club109 7 Avenue S.W Calgaryhttp://thepalomino.ca/18+ with government issued identificationWhen: Saturday October 31, 2026Doors: 8:00pm / Action 8:30pmAdmission: $20.00 advance at www.showpass.comNO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!!Riot CityScreaming Heavy Metalhttps://www.instagram.com/riotcityofficialIron KingdomPower Metalhttps://www.instagram.com/iron_kingdomMares of ThraceOutsider Hardcore Doomhttps://www.instagram.com/mares_of_thraceNuisanceGritty, High Voltage...
Join us for the legendary Carly's Angels Drag Show every Saturday night performing on the same stage for the past 26 years!Carly’s Angels – 27th Season at The AtticCarly’s Angels have been dazzling audiences here for 25+ years, and they’re back for another spectacular season! Join us for a night of glamour, laughter, and unforgettable...
Experience the ultimate Halloween scare with a screening of the 1922 silent horror classic Nosferatu, featuring live, bone-chilling improvised pipe organ accompaniment by Carlos Foggin at Knox United Church in Calgary.
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 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...
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....
October 31st tickets include admission to both the Cabaret and the LieLow Monster Ball. Guests are welcome to attend both events, or tailor the night however they’d like! Expect the unexpected at the Fluid Fest Horror Show, a deliciously strange cabaret presented with Springboard and CAMP.Come for the dark glamour, stay for the wonderfully unpredictable...
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...
With joyful urgency, we have co-imagined and co-designed an experience for curious minds seeking deeper connection to themselves, to one another, and to the world around them, through the inviting and transformative embrace of the arts.Together, we explore the questions we're often afraid to ask, but suspect everyone else is quietly wrestling with too. Think...
The Library's most adorable Halloween tradition is back this October 31!Join us with your fur family for a costumed pet parade through Central Memorial Park!Dress you and your fuzzy friends to paw-rfection and be entered to win one of our three prize draws. Plus, enjoy live music and treats — for pets and their humans!Registration...
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...
Calling all ghouls, gremlins and gays! We are back for A HAUNTED DRAG BRUNCH at PinBar. Are you ready for us to creep, crawl and captivate all of you at this KILLER show? Because The Marvelous Mo is bringing some blood sucking performers to start your Halloween down the right path. PinBar will be having...
Calling all ghouls, gremlins and gays! We are back for a haunted drag brunch at PinBar. Are you ready for us to creep, crawl and captivate all of you at this killer show? Because The Marvelous Mo is bringing some blood-sucking performers to start your Halloween down the right path.PinBar will be having a Boody...
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...
Take an exclusive tour backstage at Studio Bell and see music come to life in the National Music Centre’s recording studios!Catch a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the working spaces of our world-class recording facilities* and hear the stories behind notable artifacts — spanning 450 years of music innovation and technology — guided by NMC’s talented music...
Join us for a special Halloween-themed demonstration of the National Music Centre's 1924 Kimball Theatre Organ.Be bewitched by the organ's ghoulish and ghastly sounds! This monstrosity of an instrument was once used to create sound effects and music for silent films. Stitched together from hundreds of pipes, drums, and chimes, this 100-year-old organ now rests...
Join us on Halloween to step behind the scenes of sound and discover how everyday objects can become extraordinary sound effects!In these hands-on, drop-in Foley art activations, participants explore the creative world of Foley — the art of creating and recording sound effects for film and television. Using a mobile collection of props, instruments, and...
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