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In this family-friendly holiday mystery, a curious man loses his hat and goose in a late night scuffle. Sherlock Holmes is asked to pursue the case as the plot thickens when a prized, stolen gemstone is found inside the bird.In pursuit of the thief, Holmes and Watson find themselves out and about the streets of...
Embrace creativity and explore worlds, worlds, worlds by Curtis Talwst Santiago in our extended Weekend Drop-in Art Making Program this November! Join us every Saturday and Sunday throughout the month from 1–5 PM in the Flanagan Family Gallery. Materials and light instruction are provided.Our program encourages people of all ages to connect with modern and...
Contemporary Connections is a guided tour series designed to make art accessible and engaging for Calgary’s diverse communities. These events create a welcoming and inclusive space for participants to explore our exhibitions and connect with others, fostering meaningful relationships through the shared experience of contemporary art.Admission: Free with advance registration; walk-ins welcome, space permittingExhibition Tour:...
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...
Contemporary Connections is a guided tour series designed to make art accessible and engaging for Calgary’s diverse communities. These events create a welcoming and inclusive space for participants to explore our exhibitions and connect with others, fostering meaningful relationships through the shared experience of contemporary art.Contemporary Connections: French Tour is supported and co-presented by ALLIANCE...
“Rocks, soil, water, these are the materials of the Earth. They make up the physical substance that we dig in and travel on. Landscape, on the other hand, is the work of the mind. The landscapes in the exhibition “Still Haunted” are composed using images from a geographic place known as the Canadian Shield. Places...
Join a puppy yoga class in the Beltline. Each class lasts 60 minutes: 30 minutes of gentle, beginner-friendly yoga, then 15 minutes with the puppies roaming free on the mats and 15 minutes of cuddles and photos. Mats are provided and no experience is needed. Our team supervises the puppies the whole time.
This Toronto-based troubadour crafts big-hearted indie-folk songs for dreamers, wanderers and hopeless romantics. From fingerpicked confessionals to foot-stomping, full-band singalongs, his recent album Nomad captures his spirit. It’s rooted in the restless beauty of “inbetween-ness,” with Muirhead’s reflections on heartbreak, wanderlust, homesickness, nostalgia and self-discovery. As he says “These in-betweens are where we ask big...
Get in a “New York State of Mind” in this can’t-miss celebration of the iconic songs of Billy Joel!The debonair Tony DeSare joins the Calgary Phil as they perform unique takes on some of the “Piano Man’s” most beloved hits, including Uptown Girl, Don’t Ask Me Why, The Stranger, She’s Always a Woman, and many...
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...
They Say is Full Circle Theatre’s brand new, Bridgerton-inspired prequel to Much Ado About Nothing. Set before Beatrice and Benedick became Shakespeare’s most famously combative almost-lovers turned lovers, this original romantic drama imagines their first courtship, the pressures of reputation and favour, and the choices that helped shape the people we meet in Messina in...
In this family-friendly holiday mystery, a curious man loses his hat and goose in a late night scuffle. Sherlock Holmes is asked to pursue the case as the plot thickens when a prized, stolen gemstone is found inside the bird.In pursuit of the thief, Holmes and Watson find themselves out and about the streets of...
Watch as a cast of heartfelt performers create a web of festive love stories — full of missed connections, bold confessions, and holiday magic. One show, endless possibilities, and all the holiday feels... actually.
One of comedy’s fastest-rising global stars, Kyla Cobbler, is bringing her critically acclaimed debut show Gone Rogue to Canada this fall for her first-ever national tour.After exploding onto the scene with viral social media success, amassing over 250 million video views and a rapidly growing audience of nearly one million followers, Kyla Cobbler has quickly...
Take your next zoo visit from wild to wildly aglow. With Sunlight to ZOOLIGHTS, you can spend the day exploring the zoo and visiting your favourite animals before staying to experience the magic and wonder of ZOOLIGHTS, all with one discounted ticket.
Join us for thoughtful conversations about art books - a dynamic format where artists continue to push boundaries, considering the book not just as an object but as a portal into their creative practices. As pioneering curator Seth Siegelaub insightfully stated, “Books and exhibitions are not separate, but extensions of the same idea.” Our Art...
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...
Join our 8-week beginner-friendly Microsoft Excel program. Learn formatting, formulas, functions, data organization, charts, and workplace reporting. Starting September 22, 2026 (Beltline location) and September 25, 2026 (Manchester location).
Introducing babies to works of art lays the groundwork for visual, cognitive, and language development. Parents, caregivers, and babies are invited to join us for this relaxed baby tour. Afterwards, babies will have time to enjoy ‘tummy time’ social fun on artist Yvonne Mullock’s extraordinary interactive sensory blankets, created especially for babies.
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...
Double up on the Calgary sights with the Lights & Heights Pass! We’ve teamed up with the Calgary Tower to bring you one ticket to two of the city’s most iconic attractions.Take in the city from above at the Calgary Tower, then explore over one million lights aglow at ZOOLIGHTS. Two Calgary favourites, one unforgettable...
“Rocks, soil, water, these are the materials of the Earth. They make up the physical substance that we dig in and travel on. Landscape, on the other hand, is the work of the mind. The landscapes in the exhibition “Still Haunted” are composed using images from a geographic place known as the Canadian Shield. Places...
As an artist and a maker, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis, flux, and endless cycles of becoming, learning, and unlearning. In this new, site-specific installation, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight, gravity, and duration.load begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks, eggs, or...
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...
Step into Studio Bell for a heartfelt tribute to Marvin Gaye, one of soul music’s most iconic voices. Settle in, grab a drink, and enjoy live music celebrating the songs that helped define a generation.Hear favourites like “Let’s Get It On,” “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “What’s Going On?”...
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 rock out!Headlined by Alan Doyle and featuring The Strumbellas, the Thursday Night Concert will be high energy and an unforgettable night of live music.
They Say is Full Circle Theatre’s brand new, Bridgerton-inspired prequel to Much Ado About Nothing. Set before Beatrice and Benedick became Shakespeare’s most famously combative almost-lovers turned lovers, this original romantic drama imagines their first courtship, the pressures of reputation and favour, and the choices that helped shape the people we meet in Messina in...
The Single Onion wraps up its fall season with four excellent poets: Miranda Krogstad, Kathryn Lennon, Josephine LoRe, and Nisha Patel.About the Poets: Spoken word poet meets eternal optimist, Miranda Krogstad’s poetry ranges in topic from child’s play to empowerment, giving life’s obstacles a feel-good finish. A member of the 2014 slam team, a member...
One of comedy’s fastest-rising global stars, Kyla Cobbler, is bringing her critically acclaimed debut show Gone Rogue to Canada this fall for her first-ever national tour.After exploding onto the scene with viral social media success, amassing over 250 million video views and a rapidly growing audience of nearly one million followers, Kyla Cobbler has quickly...
Step into Studio Bell for a heartfelt tribute to Marvin Gaye, one of soul music’s most iconic voices. Settle in, grab a drink, and enjoy live music celebrating the songs that helped define a generation.Hear favourites like “Let’s Get It On,” “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “What’s Going 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,...
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...
“Rocks, soil, water, these are the materials of the Earth. They make up the physical substance that we dig in and travel on. Landscape, on the other hand, is the work of the mind. The landscapes in the exhibition “Still Haunted” are composed using images from a geographic place known as the Canadian Shield. Places...
As an artist and a maker, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis, flux, and endless cycles of becoming, learning, and unlearning. In this new, site-specific installation, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight, gravity, and duration.load begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks, eggs, or...
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...
One of comedy’s fastest-rising global stars, Kyla Cobbler, is bringing her critically acclaimed debut show Gone Rogue to Canada this fall for her first-ever national tour.After exploding onto the scene with viral social media success, amassing over 250 million video views and a rapidly growing audience of nearly one million followers, Kyla Cobbler has quickly...
At just 19, Keira Myer is already performing across Alberta on stages including the Big Valley Jamboree, CFCW’s Heartstrings & Honkytonks, and the Calgary Stampede. Blending heartfelt songwriting with a sound defined by depth, warmth, and a little grit, Myer centres her artistry on building genuine connections through authentic country storytelling.
Join us for a night of women-centric short ski films! You’ve heard of “Girl Dinner” – the perfectly chaotic spread of favourite snacks, little treats, and whatever sounds good at the moment. We wanted this film tour to carry that same energy: a lineup of short films with range. From big mountain skiing and storytelling...
Join Contemporary Calgary at our drop-in Open Studio Session for 55+ on Wednesdays in November.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 artists,...
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...
Remembrance Day is a time for inward contemplation, profound gratitude, and hope. This concert uses the music of Mozart, Schubert and Chopin to provide a backdrop of sound for the listener to reflect and remember.
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