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Head on a cinematic adventure with conductor Tristan Rais-Sherman and your Calgary Phil as they bring to life the unforgettable music of legendary film composer John Williams! Relive the wonder, excitement, and drama of Williams' award-winning movie scores spanning five decades of motion picture history, including Indiana Jones, Star Wars, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park,...
Jono Zalay began his standup career in Boston, while simultaneously earning his Doctorate in Neuroscience (he gave cocaine to rats). Since dropping his science hobby to pursue comedy full-time, Jono has done standup for The Late Late Show on CBS, Netflix is a Joke, LMAOF on OFTV, been named one of Comedy Central’s ‘Comics to...
Red Bull BC One Canada National Final brings together the country's top B-Boys and B-Girls for an electrifying 1v1 breaking competition.
After 20-plus albums as a collaborator and sidewoman, JUNO-award winning clarinetist Virginia MacDonald is releasing her long-awaited debut album as a bandleader. In Search of... is a compelling showcase of Virginia’s distinctive and modern artistic voice which has earned widespread international acclaim.
Night Light is a 3-night celebration of light and art in Calgary. Featuring local and global artists with all kinds of fun interactive art in Victoria Park.Learn more here: About Us
Celebrating Diversity Through Art and CultureThe Ethnik Festivals Association (EFA), in collaboration with local organizations across Alberta and surrounding communities, proudly presents the 2026 edition of “A Cultural Trilogy”—a vibrant, four-day cultural celebration held during Alberta Culture Days.Theme: “Culture in Motion: Connecting People, Ideas and Possibilities"This year’s theme celebrates the transformative power of culture to...
Move beyond Romeo and Juliet and discover love stories, poems, and traditions from cultures around the world. Through folklore, legendary romances, and poetry, storytellers will share tales of love, longing, sacrifice, and hope across generations and borders.The evening will end with an open mic, where audience members are invited to share their own stories, songs,...
Set the stage for an unforgettable fall evening with a 60-minute, after-hours tour of the zoo, followed by a cozy 90-minute private dining experience inside your very own Garden Globe on Grazers Lawn.Led by knowledgeable guides, you’ll take part in an exclusive tour of our grounds, learning about the wildlife that call us home and...
Embrace creativity and exploration in our Saturday Drop-in Art Making program. This program is offered most Saturdays from 1-5 p.m. throughout the year. Materials and light instruction are provided, along with rotating themes and activities.Our program encourages people of all ages to connect with modern and contemporary art through enjoyable and interactive creative experiences.For September,...
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...
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...
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