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  • W&M Physical Theatre’s La Luna

    W&M Physical Theatre’s La Luna
    Decidedly Jazz Danceworks 111 12 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    A story of moonlight, wonder, and the bond between parent and child, La Luna reflects W&M's long commitment to community-engaged professional dance and to bringing young performers onto the professional stage.Choreographed and directed by Melissa Monteros, La Luna began as a short work for the children of Miles Avenue Elementary in Huntington Park, Los Angeles...

    $10 – $25
  • 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
  • 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...

  • All Aboard the Brain Train!

    Shaikh Family Welcome Gallery - Central Library 800 3rd Street Southeast, Calgary, Ab

    Celebrate Brain Health Awareness Week with fun learning activities for the whole family!In celebration of Brain Health Awareness Week, join experts from the Alberta Children's Epilepsy Program to learn all about your brain!Challenge your brain with interactive games, learn about mental health conditions like ADHD, meet service dogs, build your own Lego neuron, and try...

  • 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...

  • National Depression Screening Day: Inside Out 2

    Patricia A. Whelan Performance Hall - Central Library 800 3 Street Southeast, Calgary, Ab

    Mental health tips for kids and families, followed by a free movie screening.It can be a struggle for little humans to handle big emotions — and for caregivers to provide calm and consistent support when emotions are high.Bring the whole family to learn healthy anxiety-reducing exercises and coping strategies from Calgary Counselling Centre experts, followed...

  • 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: DIY Sound Factory

    Studio Bell 850 4 St SE, Calgary, Ab

    In PlayLab, young participants become sound scientists as they create simple DIY instruments like shakers and “sound sandwiches” using everyday materials.Through play and experimentation, kids explore ideas like vibration, rhythm, and volume while turning ordinary materials into instruments they can use right away.Designed for ages 5-9, DIY Sound Factory is all about curiosity, creativity, and...

  • 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,...

  • Dead Pioneers ft PEST & Guests

    Dickens Lower 1000 9 Ave SW, Calgary, Ab

    Supporting the release of their third album "Wagon Burner," American punk band Dead Pioneers is bringing their voice and energy to Calgary.

    $25.87
  • Disney’s Moana Live-To-Film Concert

    Disney’s Moana Live-To-Film Concert
    Jack Singer Concert Hall 225 8 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Go on an unforgettable journey across the ocean with Disney’s Moana in concert, featuring the Grammy®-winning soundtrack performed live-to-picture by your Calgary Phil. Grammy®-winning composer Mark Mancina scored the vibrant soundtrack for this beloved tale about a spirited and courageous young navigator who sets sail on a daring quest to save her people and her...

    $34 – $99
  • Hatch: An Art Party + Laura Hickli Album Launch

    Festival Hall 1215 10 Ave SE, Calgary, Alberta

    Hatch: An Art PartyOn October 9 at Festival Hall, Hatch:An Art Party brings dance, visual art, new discoveries and surprises, transforming Festival Hall into an entirely new experience. It features Touching, the artistic alias of songwriter and producer Michael Falk; Hermitess; Cuban-born dancer, educator, and choreographer Mara Liao Esnard; dancer, choreographer, and producer Catherine Hayward;...

    $29.60
  • 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
  • Hatch

    Festival Hall 1215 10 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Hatch: An Art Party brings dance, visual art, new discoveries and surprises, transforming Festival Hall into an entirely new experience.It features Touching, the artistic alias of songwriter and producer Michael Falk; Hermitess; Cuban-born dancer, educator, and choreographer Mara Liao Esnard; dancer, choreographer, and producer Catherine Hayward; flutist, improvisor, composer, curator and Ginger Beef co-leader Jiajia...

    $25 – $30
  • 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
  • Hocus Pocus | The GRAND

    608 1 St SW 608 1 St Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Gather your favourite witches, ghosts and Halloween lovers for a special screening of the 1993 cult classic Hocus Pocus at The GRAND.When Max Dennison accidentally resurrects the Sanderson Sisters on Halloween night, he and his little sister Dani must find a way to stop the three witches before they steal the lives of Salem’s children....

    $15
  • Hocus Pocus

    The GRAND 608 1 St SW, Calgary, Alberta

    Gather your favourite witches, ghosts and Halloween lovers for a special screening of the 1993 cult classic Hocus Pocus at The GRAND.When Max Dennison accidentally resurrects the Sanderson Sisters on Halloween night, he and his little sister Dani must find a way to stop the three witches before they steal the lives of Salem’s children....

    $20.48
  • W&M Physical Theatre’s La Luna

    W&M Physical Theatre’s La Luna
    Decidedly Jazz Danceworks 111 12 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    A story of moonlight, wonder, and the bond between parent and child, La Luna reflects W&M's long commitment to community-engaged professional dance and to bringing young performers onto the professional stage.Choreographed and directed by Melissa Monteros, La Luna began as a short work for the children of Miles Avenue Elementary in Huntington Park, Los Angeles...

    $10 – $25
  • Honest Heart Collective w/ Guests TBA

    Modern Love 613 11 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta

    The Honest Heart Collective showing at the Modern Love in Calgary, CA on Friday Oct 9, 5:00pm.Tickets starting at $24.60

    $24.60
  • Honest Heart Collective w/ Guests TBA

    Modern Love 613 11 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta

    Hailing from Thunder Bay, Ontario, The Honest Heart Collective has spent more than a decade crafting heartfelt, anthemic rock rooted in honest storytelling and blue-collar grit. Formed by brothers Ryan and Nic MacDonald alongside a close-knit group of longtime friends, the band blends the spirit of classic heartland rock with modern indie energy, drawing comparisons...

    $24.60
  • ICAI Calgary Panel Discussion: Belonging & Exhibiting Artists’ Reception

    Festival Hall 1215 10 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Calgary, we’re bringing art, conversation and community together for one special evening.Join us for a powerful panel discussion on belonging, followed by an Exhibiting Artists’ Reception where you can experience the artwork, meet the artists and connect with Calgary’s creative community. Before we turn up for Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation’s 7th anniversary, we’re creating...

  • 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,...

  • Paranormal Activities / Spark After Dark (18+)

    TELUS Spark Science Centre 220 Saint Georges Drive Northeast, Calgary, Alberta

    The lights are low. The music is up. Your friends are convinced they saw something. Your brain is doing its weird little brain thing. And somewhere between the party, the experiments and the unexplained, you might start questioning what you can actually trust.Come wander through a world of paranormal activity, curious experiments, strange encounters and...

    $15 – $36.95
  • Super Sonic Hearts

    The Unicorn 223 8 Ave Sw, Calgary, Ab

    We’re live music experts, wedding enthusiasts, and party starters. We’re an award-winning, customizable 3 to 14 piece band specializing in high-energy music for festivals, weddings, corporate events, and private functions–at a sensible price. We infuse every event with energy and fun and pride ourselves on filling dance floors.

  • ChamberFest West’s Annual Fundraiser: An Intimate Gathering of Extraordinary Talent

    Top of the Bow Tower 500 Centre Street S, Calgary, Ab

    Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and wine while experiencing an intimate performance by violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti and drummer and percussionist Steve Moretti, joined by an exceptional gathering of musicians for a unique evening of music.In this exclusive setting, audiences will experience the performers up close in a wide-ranging program that moves from Telemann, Mozart and Bartók...

    $250
  • ChamberFest West Annual Fundraiser 2026

    The Bow 500 Centre St S, Calgary, Alberta

    ChamberFest West's Annual Fundraiser: An Intimate Gathering of Extraordinary TalentEnjoy hors d’oeuvres and wine while experiencing an intimate performance by violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti and drummer and percussionist Steve Moretti, joined by an exceptional gathering of musicians for a unique evening of music.In this exclusive setting, audiences will experience the performers up close in a...

    $250.00
  • Wayfinding Album Release ft. Raleigh and Wayne P Garrett

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

    Wayfinding album release with Raleigh and Wayne P GarrettWhere: Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club, 109 7 Avenue S.W. Calgary18+ with government issued identificationWhen: Thursday October 8, 2026Doors: 7:00pmAction 8:00pmAdmission: $15.00 advance at www.showpass.comNO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!

    $16.82
  • Flywheel: Ian Fitzgerald and David Martin

    Shelf Life Books 1302 4 St Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Dania Idriss and David Martin read Thursday, October 8th, 7 pm, at Shelf Life Books. Discussion to follow, music by Doug Waite. Hosted by Jani Krulc.

  • Calgary Flames vs. Colorado Avalanche

    Scotiabank Saddledome 555 Saddledome Rise SE, Calgary, Alberta

    Cheer on the city's professional hockey team, the Calgary Flames, as they face off against the Colorado Avalanche.

    $38 – $284
  • Secondhand Dreamcar

    The GRAND 608 1st St SW, Calgary, Ab

    Secondhand Dreamcar, an explosive soul/roots/blues band from Edmonton, is a true superband, a consummate constellation of Canadian music veterans who have worked on some of the finest jazz, funk, folk, soul, and blues projects ever created in Alberta. Collectively, they craft a distinct, funky, and lyrically-driven sound that journalist and programmer Peter North called the...

    $40
  • Nekrogoblikon

    The Palace Theatre 219 8th Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta

    Nekrogoblikon celebrates 20 years at The Palace on Thursday, October 8th with special guests Rivers of Nihil & Cyborg Octopus!Date: Thursday, October 8th, 2026Doors: 7:00PM18+ only with valid government issued ID

  • Elemental Poetry Lab – Hosted by Wakefield Brewster

    Bow & Bend Rooftop 833 4 Ave Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Poet Wakefield Brewster hosts Elemental Poetry Lab at Bow & Bend Rooftop, bringing an evening of live spoken word to the rooftop bar and lounge. Local poets David Blankenstyn, Laura-Jeanne Stollery, Zrinka Maria Poljicak and Samantha Thompson take the stage to go head to head with fiery verses, bringing passion, rhythm and raw talent to...

    $11.98
  • Wordfest presents Cory Doctorow

    Memorial Park Library, 2nd Floor 1221 2 St SW, Calgary

    Wordfest showcases the world’s most intriguing authors (in every genre!) from January through December. For more information about this show and others coming up soon to Calgary, visit wordfest.com.

    $27.46
  • Fall Blackfoot Traditions: A Conversation with Andrew Pretty Young Man

    Lougheed House National & Provincial Historic Site 707 13 Avenue Southwest, Calgary, Alberta

    Gather at Lougheed House for a conversation with Andrew Pretty Young Man from the Siksika First Nation as he shares his knowledge of traditional Blackfoot practices of preparing fall and winter. Throughout the conversation, audience members will hear stories of Andrew’s experience and his family’s traditions and have the opportunity to ask questions in a...

  • Panel Discussion: Have We Failed Contemporary Art?

    Esker Foundation 4th Floor, 1011 – 9th Avenue S.E., Calgary, Ab

    This new annual initiative of talks and panels emerges out of an ongoing attempt to grapple with the state of contemporary art.Demands placed on contemporary art—for directness, spectacle, or a reduction to economic functionality—will be central to these conversations. This series is interested in thinking through how these pressures inflect not only the production of...

  • National Depression Screening Day: Mental Health Care for Turbulent Times

    Patricia A. Whelan Performance Hall - Central Library 800 3 Street Southeast, Calgary, Ab

    Get tips for maintaining your mental health in an increasingly challenging world.It's easy to feel helpless in the face of global challenges. Stressful world events like climate change, financial crises, political unrest, and information overload can have a detrimental impact on our mental health.In this discussion, hear from experts at the Calgary Counselling Centre to...

  • 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...

  • Beyond the History Books: Exploring Stories of the Land

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

    Explore stories carried by the rivers, rooted in the plants, and uncovered through archaeology. Learn how Indigenous Peoples, the original stewards of the land, lived and prospered at this important gathering place, and how the arrival of the North-West Mounted Police in 1875 changed everything.Through a guided storytelling tour, teachings with an Indigenous Knowledge Keeper...

    $45
  • 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,...

  • 2026 Alberta Liquor Industry Conference

    Calgary Marriott Downtown Hotel 110 9 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Join liquor retailers, suppliers, regulators, and industry partners from across Alberta for the Alberta Liquor Industry Conference 2026.The Alberta Liquor Industry Conference (ALIC) returns on Thursday, October 8, 2026, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Calgary Marriott Downtown Hotel in Calgary, Alberta. As Alberta's premier educational and networking event for liquor retailers, suppliers,...

    $135.45
  • 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.

  • Slow Leaves

    Festival Hall 1215 10 Ave SE, Calgary, Alberta

    Joined by opener Jolene Marie, Winnipeg’s Grant Davidson explores human vulnerability around themes of love, loss, death, connection, loneliness, family, memory and time. His folk and psych-rock inclinations, rooted fingerpicking traditions, are unbound in today’s post-genre landscape. “I don’t write sad songs, I write lonely songs,” he muses regarding his record, In Solitude, For Company....

    $34.89
  • ALT CTRL

    Dickens 1000 9 Ave SW, Calgary, Ab

    Gateway Events Presents: ALT CTRL on Oct 7th in Calgary at Dickens!7:00 pm doors8:00 pm show18+ALT CTRL altctrltheband.comALT CTRL is a band consisting of Jeremy Taggart formerly of Our Lady Peace, andRising Frontman, Andre Pettipas and a rotating cast of world class players.They bring the nostalgia and music of the 90's greatest hits to life.

    $35
  • Yukyuks Calgary presents: Young Stars All Guns, a standup comedy showcase

    Yuk Yuk's Calgary 218 18 Ave Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Young Stars All Guns is a standup comedy show featuring some of Canada's (and Calgary's) most exciting up and comers. Appearing in festivals and comedy clubs all across the country, these young guns and all stars of comedy are sure to impress with standup that is fresh, exciting, and one of a kind.Featuring Zac Wiggins,...

    $10
  • 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
  • Book Launch: Hallelujah Anyhow

    Shelf Life Books 1302 4 St Sw, Calgary, Alberta

    Reading with Lisa Lopez Smith for her debut poetry collection, Hallelujah Anyhow, followed by a Q&A Moderated by paulo da costa. About the book: Debut collection of lovingly attentive poems about life in kinship with the land and cohabitants in little known corners of Mexico.Rural Mexico is practically a co-author of Hallelujah Anyhow, a debut...

  • The Inspector Cluzo

    The Palomino Smokehouse 109 7th Avenue SW, Calgary, California

    The Inspector Cluzo is a French rock-blues duo formed in 2008, known for their high-energy music blending Alternative Rock, Funk, and Soul-infused Blues.

    $35
  • Halloween Mosaic Workshop

    Doma Studio 1212 1st St Se, Calgary, Alberta

    We will help you to create your own design, and we will show you how to assemble a mosaic coaster. We provide all the materials you need.Choose any themed design you like. It can be something classic like a pumpkin or ghost, or something completely your own. Then create your mosaic with colourful tiles.Come with...

    $47.68
  • Melissa Martens

    Cafe Gravity - Inglewood 909 10 St Se, Calgary, Ab

    Melissa Martens (she/her) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist based in Calgary. Her writing and musical style is most often acoustic pop, with a hint of folk, country and soft rock. Melissa started singing and writing music at a young age, and picked up guitar as a teenager. In 2011, her first six-track EP, Standstill, was...

  • Music Under the Archway

    Music Under the Archway
    Central Library - Under the Archway 800 3 Street Se, Calgary, Ab

    An invitation for patrons and visitors to join us and experience the joy of the season through live performances by talented local artists!Experience the joy of the season in the Archway through live performances by talented local artists that bring music, energy, and connection to our outdoor space. This welcoming community activation invites patrons and...

  • Open Studio Sessions for 55+ | October

    Contemporary Calgary 701 11 Street Southwest, Calgary, Ab

    Join Contemporary Calgary at our drop-in Open Studio Session for 55+ on Wednesdays in October. 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...

  • 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...

  • Mount Royal Zhi-Yin Choir

    The Cathedral Church of the Redeemer 604 1st St Se, Calgary, Alberta

    Founded in Calgary in 2004, the Mount Royal Zhi-Yin Choir is a non-profit community choir brought together by a shared love of singing, friendship, and cultural connection.Led by founder and conductor Shana Yang, our choir is made up of adults from diverse backgrounds and professions. Though we come from different walks of life, we are...

  • Forever Young: Carolyn Harley Trio

    Studio Bell, home of the National Music Centre 850 4 Street Southeast, Calgary, Alberta

    Join us for a special edition of Forever Young: Seniors' Wednesdays at Studio Bell, home of the National Music Centre, featuring interactive experiences for all ages that spark memories, inspire creativity, and create connections across generations.Experience an engaging live performance with Canadian folk-roots group the Carolyn Harley Trio.About Carolyn Harley TrioCarolyn Harley is a singer/songwriter/storyteller....

    $65
  • 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,...

  • Knitting & Crochet Club by Carya Village Commons

    Carya Village Commons 610 8 Avenue Southeast, Calgary, Ab

    A vibrant weekly club meant for both first-time fabric artists and veterans. Bring your project and chat with out knitters and crocheters, or join us for an introductory lesson!Who We Are Carya is a social impact agency that has been responding to the evolving social needs of the Calgary community since 1910. Today, with over...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • Monday Rap Night by Tribe Cypher

    Werklund Centre 205 8th Avenue SE, Calgary

    Every MondayTime: 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.Location: Werklund Centre, formerly Arts Commons, 205 8 Ave S.E.Room: Arts Learning CentreAge: 18+Cost: FreeSchedule:5:00-5:30 p.m. - Snack, Chill, Network5:30-6:00 p.m. - Smudge6:00-6:30 p.m. - Mini Workshop6:30-7:30 p.m. - Cypher