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  • Contemporary Kids: Flute Toot-torial

    Contemporary Kids: Flute Toot-torial
    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    Join us for a special flute workshop with Jiajia Li. For its simplicity, flute is one of the oldest instruments since the dawn of civilization. In this workshop, award-winning flutist Jiajia Li will guide us on how to make a DIY “flute,” teach some basic playing techniques, and show the beauty of the instruments connecting...

  • Deadly Alberta True Crime Tour

    The Confluence Historic Site & Parkland 750 9 Avenue Southeast, Calgary, Ab

    From mass murders to executions, explore true crimes from across Alberta in this dark history, outdoor tour. Ponder gruesome cases that are still unsolved today and discover how the first and last hangings in the province were eerily similar.

    $20
  • Liner Notes: Inside the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio — ‘Led Zeppelin III’

    King Eddy 438 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Liner Notes: Inside the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio is part storytelling tour, part listening session, exploring 'Led Zeppelin III' and other legendary albums recorded in the RSM. Guided by one of the National Music Centre's talented musician-educators, each tour will highlight a different landmark record from Deep Purple, Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin,...

    $45
  • Contemporary Kids: Flute Toot-torial

    Contemporary Kids: Flute Toot-torial
    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    Join us for a special flute workshop with Jiajia Li. For its simplicity, flute is one of the oldest instruments since the dawn of civilization. In this workshop, award-winning flutist Jiajia Li will guide us on how to make a DIY “flute,” teach some basic playing techniques, and show the beauty of the instruments connecting...

  • Curtis Talwst Santiago: worlds, worlds, worlds

    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    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: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    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,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    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...

  • Jane Jin Kaisen: Burial of This Order

    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    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...

  • Caught On The Web? Be A Neighbourhood Hero Instead!

    Alcove Centre for the Arts 244 7 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Get off your feed and into your community at Caught On the Web YYC, a drop-in meetup for youth ages 18–30. Meet new people, try fun activities, and discover how you can become a local hero while making a difference in your community. Plus, you could win raffle prizes!P.S. First 40 to arrive get free...

  • NMC Tours: Backstage Pass

    Studio Bell 850 4 St SE, Calgary, Ab

    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...

    $10 – $16
  • NMC Tours: Greatest Hits

    Studio Bell 850 4 St SE, Calgary, Ab

    Dive into the world of music technology and explore unique instruments from the National Music Centre’s world-renowned collection.This is your chance to see how music is made and experience one-of-a-kind instruments in action. Step beyond the exhibits as interpreters go behind the glass to demonstrate historic artifacts, revealing the mechanics, sounds, and stories that make...

    Free – $12
  • G-Pol @ Commonwealth Bar & Stage

    731 10 Ave SW 731 10 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    G-Pol is a multi-genre DJ and producer with a recognizable sound that blends club energy with a distinctive production style. Everyone is playing his tracks.His unofficial rework of the iconic hip-hop track "Renegade Master" quickly gained momentum after being played by Dom Dolla, Odd Mob and Acraze. After discovering the record, Don Diablo proposed an...

    $27.02 – $42.85
  • Carly’s Angels Drag Show Season 27 at The Attic Bar & Stage

    1413 9 Ave SE 1413 9 Avenue Southeast, Calgary, Ab

    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...

    $32.71 – $55.07
  • Steve Hackman’s Beethoven X Beyoncé

    Jack Singer Concert Hall Werklund Centre, Calgary, Ab

    Experience the ultimate royal summit as the sounds of pop's reigning queen and classical music's king meet in this thrilling fusion by innovative conductor and creator Steve Hackman. Beethoven’s joyful Seventh Symphony becomes the vibrant canvas for Beyoncé hits like Crazy in Love, Single Ladies, Halo, and Texas Hold ’Em.Joined by three powerhouse vocalists, your...

    $39 – $109
  • Standup Comedian Adam Tiller Returns to Calgary!

    Comedy Cave 1020 8 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Adam Tiller is a standup comedian, writer, and actor based out of Seattle, WA. Adam performs all across the U.S. and Canada at comedy clubs, private events, corporate events, casinos, fraternal organizations, correctional facilities, and breweries.Adam is known for his strong writing, and dark/clever comedic sensibility. He has opened for Kevin Nealon, Jay Mohr, and...

    $15.00
  • Steve Hackman’s Beethoven X Beyoncé

    Jack Singer Concert Hall 225 8 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Experience the ultimate royal summit as the sounds of pop's reigning queen and classical music's king meet in this thrilling fusion by innovative conductor and creator Steve Hackman. Beethoven’s joyful Seventh Symphony becomes the vibrant canvas for Beyoncé hits like Crazy in Love, Single Ladies, Halo, and Texas Hold ’Em. Joined by three powerhouse vocalists,...

    $34 – $99
  • Ulster American by David Ireland

    Ulster American by David Ireland
    215 14 Ave SW 215 14 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    From award-winning playwright David Ireland comes a dark comedy of our time. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, as long as it’s the right one. Absurd and uncomfortably familiar, Ulster American turns our obsession with identity, politics and being on the right side of history into a question of who gets to decide what anyone...

    $36
  • Outer Limits

    625 11 Ave SW #150 625 11 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Big live music, closer to home. Outer Limits brings all-ages shows, local artists and touring bands to communities across Calgary. Come enjoy music by artists like Cherry Pick and Witch Victim.

    $12
  • Eclipse Tour Kickoff Jam

    Alcove Core 244 7 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    A community jam for musicians, dancers and art enjoyers of all levels to celebrate the beginning of The Eclipse Tour; a multi-date Alberta Tour throughout October featuring (un)decided, Yasin Elahee, Polo Sho and The Fog of Sound! Take professionally shot photos in our photo booth, dance the night away in our dance circle and jam...

  • Gin, Jail & Justice

    Gin, Jail & Justice
    The Confluence Historic Site & Parkland 750 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Between 1875 and 1914, thousands of prisoners crossed through the Fort Calgary prisons, each with their own story and accused crime. Gin, Jail & Justice follows a handful of these stories, examining some of the most interesting and prevalent crimes and criminals of Calgary during the 39-year occupation of Fort Calgary.At Gin, Jail & Justice,...

    $55
  • Couples Clownselling: Calgary

    Vern's 622 8 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Hunny, this isn't working, I think it's time we go to Couples Clownselling!An evening of domestic blunders, bloopers, and baggage awaits as professional stand-up comedians and their partners take the stage to air out their dirty laundry, while getting the best possible advice from the most (un)qualified, fully (not fully at all) licensed, (non)professionals.Audiences will...

    $29
  • Couples Clownselling: Calgary

    622 8 Ave SW 622 8 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Hunny, this isn't working, I think it's time we go to Couples Clownselling!An evening of domestic blunders, bloopers, and baggage awaits as professional stand-up comedians and their partners take the stage to air out their dirty laundry, while getting the best possible advice from the most (un)qualified, fully (not fully at all) licensed, (non)professionals.Audiences will...

    $25 – $30
  • Ulster American by David Ireland

    Ulster American by David Ireland
    215 14 Ave SW 215 14 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    From award-winning playwright David Ireland comes a dark comedy of our time. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, as long as it’s the right one. Absurd and uncomfortably familiar, Ulster American turns our obsession with identity, politics and being on the right side of history into a question of who gets to decide what anyone...

    $36
  • Artist2Artist: Connecting with Media

    Alcove Centre for the Arts 244 7 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Join Tsering Asha Leba, Senior Editor at Avenue Magazine, and Alicia L'Archeveque, Editor of The Scene, to learn the basics of connecting with local media and gain confidence in sharing your story!This workshop is designed to help artists at all levels better understand the media process, from making connections to pitching your work and building...

    By Donation
  • Behind The Stampede: An Insider Tour of the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth

    Sam Centre 632 13 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Tour Stampede Park, take in all the stories.Where else can you travel through time, lift the curtain on a legacy, and see how a legend was born?With BTS: Behind The Stampede, you’ll explore over a century of history, thrills, spills, characters and champions. Starting off at Sam Centre, this two-hour tour will take you on...

    $25 – $49
  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    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,...

  • Curtis Talwst Santiago: worlds, worlds, worlds

    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    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: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    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,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    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...

  • Jane Jin Kaisen: Burial of This Order

    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    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...

  • Samantha Walrod: Off The Beaten Path

    Samantha Walrod: Off The Beaten Path
    Newzones Gallery Of Contemporary Art 730 11 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Newzones is thrilled to present Off the Beaten Path, an upcoming solo exhibition of new work by Albertan contemporary artist Samantha Walrod.Off the Beaten Path considers how humans view and interact with wildlife in the Canadian wilderness from a “close” distance. Motorists and hikers observe animals from cars and trails while the animals watch in...

  • Whispers of Ancestors — Community Screening

    The Plaza Theatre 1133 Kensington Road Northwest, Calgary, Ab

    Join us for a screening of Whispers of the Ancestors, celebrating Indigenous voices while raising funds to support Indigenous communities.Whispers of the Ancestors is an Indigenous women-led short documentary featuring Cheryle Chagnon-Greyeyes, Reagan Markwell, and Chantal Chagnon, whose personal stories explore ancestral knowledge, cultural traditions, identity, healing, and the responsibility of carrying these teachings forward.

    $12.06 – $16.33
  • NMC Tours: Backstage Pass

    Studio Bell 850 4 St SE, Calgary, Ab

    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...

    $10 – $16
  • PlayLab: Rhythm Playground

    Studio Bell 850 4 St SE, Calgary, Ab

    Step into PlayLab and explore rhythm through hands-on, high-energy music-making.This free drop-in program invites participants ages 4-12 to experiment with beat, patterns, and group music-making with boomwhackers, djembes, and wooden spoons.Come for a few minutes or stay awhile and make some noise!About PlayLabPlayLab is a hands-on sound playground where young visitors can discover how music...

  • NMC Tours: Greatest Hits

    Studio Bell 850 4 St SE, Calgary, Ab

    Dive into the world of music technology and explore unique instruments from the National Music Centre’s world-renowned collection.This is your chance to see how music is made and experience one-of-a-kind instruments in action. Step beyond the exhibits as interpreters go behind the glass to demonstrate historic artifacts, revealing the mechanics, sounds, and stories that make...

    Free – $12
  • 40th Anniversary Exhibition

    724 11 Ave SW #100 724 11 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Wallace Galleries, one of the region’s most established and respected contemporary art galleries, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Over a forty-year legacy, Wallace Galleries has championed the careers of Canadian artists, cultivated passionate collectors, and shaped how contemporary art is experienced.Featured artists: Harold Town, Kenneth Lochhead, Wilf Perreault, Ted Godwin, Jennifer Hornyak, Simon Andrew,...

  • Wild Walk

    Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo 210 St. George's Drive Ne, Calgary, Alberta

    Join us at the Wilder Institute’s Calgary Zoo on October 3 for Wild Walk 2026, powered by Booster Juice. We’ll be taking a big step for conservation during a morning filled with family-fun, fresh air, and wildlife.Encounter special animal enrichment moments, photo opportunities, and live entertainment from the Wilder Bunch during an unforgettable morning in...

    $40 – $60
  • Calgary International Film Festival

    Globe Cinema 617 8 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    Taking place in the #4 spot for The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker by Moviemaker Magazine and celebrating its 27th anniversary, the 11-day Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) has grown to be the biggest film festival in Alberta and the fifth-largest in Canada.Offering over $60,000 in cash and prizes, the festival...

    Free – $750
  • Calgary International Film Festival

    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    The biggest event of the year for Alberta moviegoers is back! The Calgary International Film Festival, presented by Servus Credit Union, is bringing the year’s most acclaimed and talked-about films—from Cannes and other leading film festivals around the world—to Calgary audiences from September 24 to October 4, 2026.Whether you’re attending a handful of screenings or...

  • CIFF 2026

    Delta Hotels Calgary Downtown 209 4 Ave Se, Calgary, Ab

    The Calgary International Film Festival's mission is “to entertain and engage audiences by curating the most innovative and compelling films and creating remarkable festival experiences.”Achieving our mission includes hosting a large number of participating filmmakers – both locally and from abroad – and connecting them with the audience through interactive post-screening Q&As, networking, panels and...

    $85 – $240
  • Samantha Savage Smith with Guests Cassia Hardy and Ava Wild

    The Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club 109 7th AVE SW, Calgary, Alberta

    Samantha Savage Smith is a singer-songwriter from Calgary, Alberta, but few things are ever simple. To put it more complexly – which is to say accurately – she's also a multi-instrumentalist, producer, concert curator, and co-producer of her last seven music videos. Her new album is called Little Place, and it's a collection of nine...

    $16
  • Standup Comedian Adam Tiller Returns to Calgary!

    Comedy Cave 1020 8 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Adam Tiller is a standup comedian, writer, and actor based out of Seattle, WA. Adam performs all across the U.S. and Canada at comedy clubs, private events, corporate events, casinos, fraternal organizations, correctional facilities, and breweries.Adam is known for his strong writing, and dark/clever comedic sensibility. He has opened for Kevin Nealon, Jay Mohr, and...

    $15.00
  • Ulster American by David Ireland

    Ulster American by David Ireland
    215 14 Ave SW 215 14 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    From award-winning playwright David Ireland comes a dark comedy of our time. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, as long as it’s the right one. Absurd and uncomfortably familiar, Ulster American turns our obsession with identity, politics and being on the right side of history into a question of who gets to decide what anyone...

    $36
  • In Every Universe We Are Improvisors

    The Kinkonauts 834 11 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    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.

    $11.30 – $16.50
  • Gin, Jail & Justice

    Gin, Jail & Justice
    The Confluence Historic Site & Parkland 750 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Between 1875 and 1914, thousands of prisoners crossed through the Fort Calgary prisons, each with their own story and accused crime. Gin, Jail & Justice follows a handful of these stories, examining some of the most interesting and prevalent crimes and criminals of Calgary during the 39-year occupation of Fort Calgary.At Gin, Jail & Justice,...

    $55
  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    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,...

  • Curtis Talwst Santiago: worlds, worlds, worlds

    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    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: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    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,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    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...

  • Jane Jin Kaisen: Burial of This Order

    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    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...

  • Samantha Walrod: Off The Beaten Path

    Samantha Walrod: Off The Beaten Path
    Newzones Gallery Of Contemporary Art 730 11 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Newzones is thrilled to present Off the Beaten Path, an upcoming solo exhibition of new work by Albertan contemporary artist Samantha Walrod.Off the Beaten Path considers how humans view and interact with wildlife in the Canadian wilderness from a “close” distance. Motorists and hikers observe animals from cars and trails while the animals watch in...

  • 40th Anniversary Exhibition

    724 11 Ave SW #100 724 11 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Wallace Galleries, one of the region’s most established and respected contemporary art galleries, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Over a forty-year legacy, Wallace Galleries has championed the careers of Canadian artists, cultivated passionate collectors, and shaped how contemporary art is experienced.Featured artists: Harold Town, Kenneth Lochhead, Wilf Perreault, Ted Godwin, Jennifer Hornyak, Simon Andrew,...

  • Calgary International Film Festival

    Globe Cinema 617 8 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    Taking place in the #4 spot for The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker by Moviemaker Magazine and celebrating its 27th anniversary, the 11-day Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) has grown to be the biggest film festival in Alberta and the fifth-largest in Canada.Offering over $60,000 in cash and prizes, the festival...

    Free – $750
  • Calgary International Film Festival

    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    The biggest event of the year for Alberta moviegoers is back! The Calgary International Film Festival, presented by Servus Credit Union, is bringing the year’s most acclaimed and talked-about films—from Cannes and other leading film festivals around the world—to Calgary audiences from September 24 to October 4, 2026.Whether you’re attending a handful of screenings or...

  • CIFF 2026

    Delta Hotels Calgary Downtown 209 4 Ave Se, Calgary, Ab

    The Calgary International Film Festival's mission is “to entertain and engage audiences by curating the most innovative and compelling films and creating remarkable festival experiences.”Achieving our mission includes hosting a large number of participating filmmakers – both locally and from abroad – and connecting them with the audience through interactive post-screening Q&As, networking, panels and...

    $85 – $240
  • Standup Comedian Adam Tiller Returns to Calgary!

    Comedy Cave 1020 8 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Adam Tiller is a standup comedian, writer, and actor based out of Seattle, WA. Adam performs all across the U.S. and Canada at comedy clubs, private events, corporate events, casinos, fraternal organizations, correctional facilities, and breweries.Adam is known for his strong writing, and dark/clever comedic sensibility. He has opened for Kevin Nealon, Jay Mohr, and...

    $15.00
  • Ulster American by David Ireland

    Ulster American by David Ireland
    215 14 Ave SW 215 14 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    From award-winning playwright David Ireland comes a dark comedy of our time. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, as long as it’s the right one. Absurd and uncomfortably familiar, Ulster American turns our obsession with identity, politics and being on the right side of history into a question of who gets to decide what anyone...

    $36
  • Behind The Stampede: An Insider Tour of the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth

    Sam Centre 632 13 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Tour Stampede Park, take in all the stories.Where else can you travel through time, lift the curtain on a legacy, and see how a legend was born?With BTS: Behind The Stampede, you’ll explore over a century of history, thrills, spills, characters and champions. Starting off at Sam Centre, this two-hour tour will take you on...

    $25 – $49
  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    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,...

  • Curtis Talwst Santiago: worlds, worlds, worlds

    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    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: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    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,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    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...

  • Jane Jin Kaisen: Burial of This Order

    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    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...

  • Samantha Walrod: Off The Beaten Path

    Samantha Walrod: Off The Beaten Path
    Newzones Gallery Of Contemporary Art 730 11 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Newzones is thrilled to present Off the Beaten Path, an upcoming solo exhibition of new work by Albertan contemporary artist Samantha Walrod.Off the Beaten Path considers how humans view and interact with wildlife in the Canadian wilderness from a “close” distance. Motorists and hikers observe animals from cars and trails while the animals watch in...

  • 40th Anniversary Exhibition

    724 11 Ave SW #100 724 11 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Wallace Galleries, one of the region’s most established and respected contemporary art galleries, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Over a forty-year legacy, Wallace Galleries has championed the careers of Canadian artists, cultivated passionate collectors, and shaped how contemporary art is experienced.Featured artists: Harold Town, Kenneth Lochhead, Wilf Perreault, Ted Godwin, Jennifer Hornyak, Simon Andrew,...

  • Calgary International Film Festival

    Globe Cinema 617 8 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    Taking place in the #4 spot for The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker by Moviemaker Magazine and celebrating its 27th anniversary, the 11-day Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) has grown to be the biggest film festival in Alberta and the fifth-largest in Canada.Offering over $60,000 in cash and prizes, the festival...

    Free – $750
  • Calgary International Film Festival

    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    The biggest event of the year for Alberta moviegoers is back! The Calgary International Film Festival, presented by Servus Credit Union, is bringing the year’s most acclaimed and talked-about films—from Cannes and other leading film festivals around the world—to Calgary audiences from September 24 to October 4, 2026.Whether you’re attending a handful of screenings or...

  • CIFF 2026

    Delta Hotels Calgary Downtown 209 4 Ave Se, Calgary, Ab

    The Calgary International Film Festival's mission is “to entertain and engage audiences by curating the most innovative and compelling films and creating remarkable festival experiences.”Achieving our mission includes hosting a large number of participating filmmakers – both locally and from abroad – and connecting them with the audience through interactive post-screening Q&As, networking, panels and...

    $85 – $240
  • OPEN MIC IS BACK!

    The Unicorn 223 8 Ave Sw, Calgary, Ab

    Join us for Open Mic hosted by Earl Morgan every Wednesday from 8 PM to 11 PM.

  • Standup Comedian Adam Tiller Returns to Calgary!

    Comedy Cave 1020 8 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Adam Tiller is a standup comedian, writer, and actor based out of Seattle, WA. Adam performs all across the U.S. and Canada at comedy clubs, private events, corporate events, casinos, fraternal organizations, correctional facilities, and breweries.Adam is known for his strong writing, and dark/clever comedic sensibility. He has opened for Kevin Nealon, Jay Mohr, and...

    $15.00
  • Improv 302: Story

    The Kinkonauts 834 11 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta

    Improv 302: StoryThis is a six week course with sessions running 7:30-9:30 p.m. on the following Wednesdays:September 9, 16, 23, 30; October 7, 14.Classes are for students aged 18+Please register with your preferred name so we know who will be in the class and what to call you!Prerequisites: Improv 101 & 201, or 30 hours...

    $312.69
  • Ulster American by David Ireland

    Ulster American by David Ireland
    215 14 Ave SW 215 14 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    From award-winning playwright David Ireland comes a dark comedy of our time. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, as long as it’s the right one. Absurd and uncomfortably familiar, Ulster American turns our obsession with identity, politics and being on the right side of history into a question of who gets to decide what anyone...

    $36
  • The Oratory: Live at Kipling Square!

    Kipling Square 10 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    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...

    Pay what you can
  • Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    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,...

  • Curtis Talwst Santiago: worlds, worlds, worlds

    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    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: Other Moves

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    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,...

  • Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: “Swinguerra”

    Esker Foundation 1011 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    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...

  • Jane Jin Kaisen: Burial of This Order

    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    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...

  • Samantha Walrod: Off The Beaten Path

    Samantha Walrod: Off The Beaten Path
    Newzones Gallery Of Contemporary Art 730 11 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Newzones is thrilled to present Off the Beaten Path, an upcoming solo exhibition of new work by Albertan contemporary artist Samantha Walrod.Off the Beaten Path considers how humans view and interact with wildlife in the Canadian wilderness from a “close” distance. Motorists and hikers observe animals from cars and trails while the animals watch in...

  • 40th Anniversary Exhibition

    724 11 Ave SW #100 724 11 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Wallace Galleries, one of the region’s most established and respected contemporary art galleries, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Over a forty-year legacy, Wallace Galleries has championed the careers of Canadian artists, cultivated passionate collectors, and shaped how contemporary art is experienced.Featured artists: Harold Town, Kenneth Lochhead, Wilf Perreault, Ted Godwin, Jennifer Hornyak, Simon Andrew,...

  • Calgary International Film Festival

    Globe Cinema 617 8 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    Taking place in the #4 spot for The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker by Moviemaker Magazine and celebrating its 27th anniversary, the 11-day Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) has grown to be the biggest film festival in Alberta and the fifth-largest in Canada.Offering over $60,000 in cash and prizes, the festival...

    Free – $750
  • Calgary International Film Festival

    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    The biggest event of the year for Alberta moviegoers is back! The Calgary International Film Festival, presented by Servus Credit Union, is bringing the year’s most acclaimed and talked-about films—from Cannes and other leading film festivals around the world—to Calgary audiences from September 24 to October 4, 2026.Whether you’re attending a handful of screenings or...

  • CIFF 2026

    Delta Hotels Calgary Downtown 209 4 Ave Se, Calgary, Ab

    The Calgary International Film Festival's mission is “to entertain and engage audiences by curating the most innovative and compelling films and creating remarkable festival experiences.”Achieving our mission includes hosting a large number of participating filmmakers – both locally and from abroad – and connecting them with the audience through interactive post-screening Q&As, networking, panels and...

    $85 – $240
  • Standup Comedian Adam Tiller Returns to Calgary!

    Comedy Cave 1020 8 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Adam Tiller is a standup comedian, writer, and actor based out of Seattle, WA. Adam performs all across the U.S. and Canada at comedy clubs, private events, corporate events, casinos, fraternal organizations, correctional facilities, and breweries.Adam is known for his strong writing, and dark/clever comedic sensibility. He has opened for Kevin Nealon, Jay Mohr, and...

    $15.00