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The Cheer Extravaganza brings together cheer and dance teams from across the country for a high-energy showcase of athleticism, spirit, and performance. The event celebrates the passion and talent that help fuel the excitement of Canadian football. Fans can expect an action-packed atmosphere filled with impressive routines, team pride, and plenty of entertainment.CFL cheer team...
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...
Learn how to make traditional plant-based Indigenous medicines and remedies in this hands-on workshop. Lead by traditional Knowledge Keeper of plant medicine Brenda Holder, participants will create five powerful medicines to support health and healing.Come learn, make, and take home medicines rooted in Indigenous knowledge and healing traditions.
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:...
The CFLPA Players’ HQ powered by USW, is a free, interactive fan experience hosted by the Canadian Football League Players’ Association during Grey Cup week. It brings CFL fans together with the most current players anywhere - in a fun, welcoming atmosphere to celebrate our Game.Fans can enjoy autograph signings, meet-and-greets, photo opportunities with players...
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...
Dust off your cowboy boots and saddle up!First of two rodeos, the Matinee Rodeo presented by Oil Sands Alliance will include bull riding, freestyle bullfighting, wild pony racing, saddle bronc and bareback riding.The rodeos will include a live country music performance by Alberta’s own Drew Gregory, which is presented by SiriusXM.
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.
The Onesie Run returns to Calgary’s East Village on November 14, bringing people together for a fun, family-friendly morning of costumes, movement and community spirit. Choose a 1 km or 5 km route, walk, jog or run in your favourite onesie, and enjoy music, food, prizes and cozy fire pits afterward. Best of all, the...
Experience an evening of jazz, R&B, and soul with Calgary vocalist Jannelle Lecomte and her dynamic quartet.Known for captivating live performances and expressive storytelling, the group brings a fresh, engaging energy to every stage, blending tight musicianship with heartfelt delivery.
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...
Set during the Great Depression, Icemen is a gripping thriller about power, wealth, class, love, and revenge. As people struggle to survive, desperation drives them to dangerous choices in a world where money determines who matters.Evening shows start at 7:30 pm, and matinees are at 2:00 pm. Doors open 30 mins before showtime.
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...
ZOOLIGHTS, presented by Olympia Trust Company, is celebrating its 30th anniversary!For three decades, the zoo has brought Calgarians together under the glow of lights to create memories, celebrate the holidays, and inspire connection to wildlife.This year, discover new ways to celebrate alongside returning favourites, from a glowing bamboo trail and prairie-inspired light displays to festive...
Discover the Taste of ZOOLIGHTS with an all-new food and beverage pass available every Thursday. Warm up and get into the spirit by sampling a variety of holiday drinks and food that are sprinkled around ZOOLIGHTS.Add it to your ZOOLIGHTS ticket at checkout!
The Community Cards Classic brings Calgary's business community together for a night of friendly poker, good company and giving back. Hosted in the Devonian Room at the Calgary Petroleum Club and presented by Thrive Creative, the evening is built around one idea: every hand supports two Calgary organizations doing important work in our community.Arrive, settle...
Saddle Up, Rider Nation — It's almost time to make our way west for the 2026 Grey Cup! Riderville is headed to Calgary for a week of festivities leading up to the biggest game of the year.It's clear to see that plenty of Albertans already bleed green — and we know Rider Nation travels better...
Touchdown Manitoba is your Bomber House the ultimate gathering place for Winnipeg Blue Bombers fans and all CFL fans during Grey Cup Festival in Calgary. Bringing a taste of Manitoba and the energy of Bombers game day to the heart of Grey Cup week.The space will feature live entertainment, DJs, food and drinks, and plenty...
The CFLPA Players’ HQ powered by USW, is a free, interactive fan experience hosted by the Canadian Football League Players’ Association during Grey Cup week. It brings CFL fans together with the most current players anywhere - in a fun, welcoming atmosphere to celebrate our Game.Fans can enjoy autograph signings, meet-and-greets, photo opportunities with players...
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.
The 2026 Stamps House is the official Grey Cup Party of the Calgary Stampeders! Dust off your cowboy hat, shine up your belt buckle, and pull on your boots - we’re bringing the Wild West to Calgary for Grey Cup 2026! Join us for an unforgettable celebration filled with Stamps spirit, Calgary pride, and the...
Get ready for the ultimate East Coast party! With Atlantic Schooners Kitchen Party and Eastern Social Hall. Enjoy nonstop Maritime energy with live East Coast music and three live bands- all day longюFan-favourite lobster rolls, live sports, interactive games and plenty of prizes. Get Screeched In and become an honorary Newfoundlander, soak up the full...
Step inside the Lions Den for the ultimate Grey Cup sports bar experience. Catch all the action on massive screens, battle it out in Madden tournaments and bar games, and enjoy the best VIP bar at the festival. This is the Lions’ house—come ready to play.
Spirit of Edmonton is a premier attraction at every Grey Cup Festival. From great live music and pipe bands to CFL Cheer Team performances, you're guaranteed to experience the best party CFL fans have to offer. We pride ourselves on being the place where all CFL fans, regardless of jersey colour, feel welcome.
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...
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.
The TELUS Family Zone, taking place in Halls A1/A2 within the BMO Centre, is home to a variety of free family-focused activations including blow-ups, bouncy castle, a toddler play zone, a fully programmed indoor turf, the CFL Hall of Fame, alumni autographs, and more! There will be a stroller parking section, as well as a...
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.The Strumbellas are set to start at 7:30 pm, with Alan Doyle performing around 9 pm.
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 of...
Thursday Night Jam Sessions are a welcoming space for musicians, poets, singers and attendees to play non-stop music with one another in an open circle, "living room" setting! Even if you don't jam, we have a variety of art supplies to get crafty during the show. This week's jam is hosted by Xhyrlle!
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...
The 2026 Stamps House is the official Grey Cup Party of the Calgary Stampeders! Dust off your cowboy hat, shine up your belt buckle, and pull on your boots - we’re bringing the Wild West to Calgary for Grey Cup 2026! Join us for an unforgettable celebration filled with Stamps spirit, Calgary pride, and the...
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?”...
Saddle Up, Rider Nation — It's almost time to make our way west for the 2026 Grey Cup! Riderville is headed to Calgary for a week of festivities leading up to the biggest game of the year.It's clear to see that plenty of Albertans already bleed green — and we know Rider Nation travels better...
Get ready for the ultimate East Coast party! With Atlantic Schooners Kitchen Party and Eastern Social Hall. Enjoy nonstop Maritime energy with live East Coast music and three live bands- all day longюFan-favourite lobster rolls, live sports, interactive games and plenty of prizes. Get Screeched In and become an honorary Newfoundlander, soak up the full...
Step inside the Lions Den for the ultimate Grey Cup sports bar experience. Catch all the action on massive screens, battle it out in Madden tournaments and bar games, and enjoy the best VIP bar at the festival. This is the Lions’ house—come ready to play.
Spirit of Edmonton is a premier attraction at every Grey Cup Festival. From great live music and pipe bands to CFL Cheer Team performances, you're guaranteed to experience the best party CFL fans have to offer. We pride ourselves on being the place where all CFL fans, regardless of jersey colour, feel welcome.
Touchdown Manitoba is your Bomber House the ultimate gathering place for Winnipeg Blue Bombers fans and all CFL fans during Grey Cup Festival in Calgary. Bringing a taste of Manitoba and the energy of Bombers game day to the heart of Grey Cup week.The space will feature live entertainment, DJs, food and drinks, and plenty...
The CFLPA Players’ HQ powered by USW, is a free, interactive fan experience hosted by the Canadian Football League Players’ Association during Grey Cup week. It brings CFL fans together with the most current players anywhere - in a fun, welcoming atmosphere to celebrate our Game.Fans can enjoy autograph signings, meet-and-greets, photo opportunities with players...
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,...
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