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Get ready for Calgary's biggest Friday Halloween yet! 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...
Saigon Nights Halloween takes over Rumur on Friday, October 30th — the ultimate dress-up party heading into Halloween night!Dance floor-heavyweight HUY LE headlines the night, with special sets from FWIND, BN, and B.VONG keeping the energy locked at maximum until close. Expect big beats, massive drops, and a sea of costumes lighting up the room.This...
A Night of DJ Duos. We’re taking over Sub Rosa this Halloween for a full night of back-to-back energy with:PINEO & LOEBAVERAGE CITIZENSROGUE2 — Freddy J & Underdog
Disco Divine Friday, October 30th at 9PMThis Halloween, Sweet Loretta invites you through the pearly gates to enter an afterlife of desire, decadence, and heavenly temptation. Come dressed to ascend; an angel, a god, or whatever form your higher self takes. Blessings from us await the truly devoted. DJs:Main Floor - JADÉ x Sie_SieBasement -...
This is Halloween, but make it emo.Emo Halloween is taking over Hudsons Calgary Downtown for a Halloween night dedicated to the songs that raised us, ruined our MySpace bios and somehow still know exactly what we’re going through.Expect My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Avril Lavigne, Bring Me The Horizon, Pierce The Veil, blink-182...
Freddy J & Friends are taking over on Friday, October 30 for a full night of DJ Duos with Pineo & Loeb, Average Citizens, and Rogue2. Come dressed up. Come ready to dance.
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...
Formerly known as ROSEDALE, Lioneer is a cosmic musical journey by Mike Liorti and friends. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Mike Liorti transplanted to San Diego in 2019 after working his way onto Warped Tour stages and bringing his DIY tours to Southern California in the 2010s.Lioneer delivers an exemplary message but in a unique, cosmic...
Get ready for the 4th Annual Halloweird — this year, we’re taking over The Legion #1 for a night that’s guaranteed to get weird. What started as an annual Halloween party has grown into one of our favorite nights of the year, and we’re bringing it back bigger and louder than ever before. Expect big...
A hollow figure in human shape, bound in tattered rags and nailed to the earth, its silhouette a prison of straw and silence. Abandoned and unmoving, it watches fields where winds whisper secrets and strangeness lurks beyond the rows. It stands, an effigy of the harvest's end, of decay and rebirth, of Halloween. Descend into...
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...
Join us at Spanky’s Halloween weekend for a howlin’ good time! We’re throwin’ a costume contest with prizes up for grabs, so dust off those boots and show us your best spooky look! 👻We’ve got The Calverts playing all weekend long With DJ Alejandro and DJ Kevin Hayes keepin’ the dance floor alive! Plus featured...
A thrilling Vegas Showgirl themed Halloween Drag Show! Come decked in your best costume for the costume contest!This Halloween, Burn Block Social Club is becoming the undead Vegas strip!Join host Divina Diefor and local undead divas Mona Moore, Bea Lissima, Irene Curtain & Sienna Towers for a glittery, glamorous, and gloriously spooky Vegas showgirl-themed drag...
The Fright Crawl takes over Calgary on Friday, October 30th, 2026: a host who runs the night, a live crawl map that always knows where the party is, and up to 800 people in costume moving through the city together. Crawl Stops: Four Dogs Brewing Company, Commonwealth Bar & Stage, Velvet Room, Rumur (Our New...
This Halloween weekend, The Petroleum Club transforms for The Phantom Cabaret — an intimate gala experience where fashion, live music, nightlife and performance share the same stage.The evening unfolds through a live runway presentation, performances from AIREGIN & DDI LIVE, sounds by PAYE4PREZ & DJ BADGYAL, cabaret-style stage dancers, a curated vendor market and immersive...
Revel in beautiful symphonic sound in this Calgary Phil concert, which culminates with Robert Schumann’s Fourth Symphony — a free-flowing fantasy. Michelle Di Russo also leads the Orchestra in Gabriela Ortiz’s vibrant tribute to pioneering musical figure Clara Schumann. Columbian cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia stars in Édouard Lalo's theatrical concerto.
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...
Join us for another season of unforgettable live jazz and soul with The Lovebullies Halloween Show.Whether you're a lifelong jazz enthusiast or simply looking for an unforgettable night out, Jazz & Soul at The Attic offers an intimate listening-room experience with exceptional musicianship, craft cocktails, and the warm atmosphere of Calgary's Music Mile.
In Every Universe We are Improvisors: A multiverse-traversing theatrical exploration of identity. Inspired by real relationships from our audience, every night our ragtag cast of improvisors craft a brand new, improvised, character-driven, multiverse jumping, narrative play that has never been seen before and will never be seen again.
If you’re joining us for Evil Dead II on Monday, October 26, why not come back for the sequel on Friday? See Ash go from one very bad night at a cabin to one very bad time in medieval England. They’re completely different movies, but together they make for a pretty great Halloween double feature...
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...
Dungeon Wrestling returns on Friday, Oct 30th, for an action-packed night of wrestling at the Victoria Pavilion.
Get your cameras ready for a spooky crawl through East Village & Chinatown on Oct 30th!Join us on October 30th at 7 pm for a Spooky Halloween Photo Walk!Costumes are encouraged, and anyone dressed up gets a free Neat sticker. We recommend bringing a camera with a flash since it will be dark for much...
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....
Join us for an evening of music, celebration, and spectacle as four artists from distinctly different musical worlds come together for one night.Victoria LiesVictoria Lies is a Canadian metalcore band whose music blends cinematic atmosphere, melody, and storytelling to create a world of its own. Their music invites you to leave the familiar behind and...
Join us for an evening of music, celebration, and spectacle as four artists from distinctly different musical worlds come together for one night. Victoria Lies is a Canadian metal-core band whose music blends cinematic atmosphere, melody, and storytelling to create a world of its own. Their music invites you to leave the familiar behind and...
Frights & Delights is coming to you this October at The Confluence! More than a Halloween market, join us where the rivers meet in downtown Calgary for two days of frighteningly good times for spirits of all ages. On October 30, drive your hearse down to an adults-only night market packed with creepy activations for...
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...
New art. New shows. New pop ups.For more than a decade, Art on 9th has been popping up in great spaces and filling the walls with original work by talented Western Canadian artists. Art on 9th heads back to Inglewood with 26 artists and more than 250 pieces of original art.
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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