OPEN MIC IS BACK!
Join us for Open Mic hosted by Earl Morgan every Wednesday from 8 PM to 11 PM.
Join us for Open Mic hosted by Earl Morgan every Wednesday from 8 PM to 11 PM.
Five college students visit an abandoned cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. It’s up to Ash (a housewares employee, turned demon-killing hero), and his trusty chainsaw to save the day.A wildly entertaining Canadian adaptation of the cult-classic horror comedy, Evil Dead The Musical explodes onto...
Join Chest Fever & friends for a tribute and celebration of The Band's 1976 iconic concert event - The Last Waltz. Featuring an all-star local horn section in Calgary and local guests performing the well loved roles of the original star studded cast including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and more. Follow Chest Fever...
Tis Pity She’s a Whore follows the doomed tragedy of Giovanni and Annabella as the audience discovers their secrets. By the end, much like Romeo and Juliet, we are rooting for this doomed love to succeed even though in no sane world would it make sense for the two of them to end up together....
Arthur Jafa is an artist and filmmaker. Across three decades, Jafa has developed a dynamic practice comprising films, artefacts, and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being. Underscoring the many facets of Jafa’s practice is a recurring question: how can visual media, such as objects, static and moving images,...
worlds, worlds, worlds explores how stories are held and carried across the vestiges of history and memory. Rooted in a form of world-building where inherited imagination meets critical fabulation¹, the exhibition celebrates polyphonic identities that negotiate different geographies across time, weaving the material, the fragmentary, and the ever-evolving within storytelling.Central to the Contemporary Calgary presentation...
Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized Canadian artist working at the intersection of dance and visual art. Based in Chicago, his practice explores race, queer culture, migration, protest, and other forms of collective movement. Seeking to create new spaces for agency and belonging, Fernandes’ work often takes hybrid forms; part ballet, part queer dance party,...
For over a decade, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca have developed a collaborative practice across cinema, visual arts and performance. Their videos and installations are created in dialogue with diverse artists and collectives, combining documentary strategies with narrative layers of fantasy and allegory.Through processes of listening and shared experience, direction, script, costume, and soundtrack...
Burial of This Order brings together three works by Jane Jin Kaisen that underscore her ongoing interest in ritual, collectivity, capitalist critique, and the possibilities of social and political transgressions.The exhibition centres on Kaisen’s titular video installation (2022), through which the audience is invited to follow a funerary procession gathered to ceremoniously bury a world...
Newzones is pleased to present In The Pines, a solo exhibition of new work by Canadian contemporary painter, Jack Bishop.In these new paintings segments of the Trans-Canada are like a topiary, where the tree lines carve out an ornamental landscape the highway cuts through. The liminal space through the wilderness in a commute. For a...
A Space That Remembers reflects my belief that places can inhabit us as much as we inhabit them. "Through painting, I seek to create spaces where observation, memory, emotion, and imagination come together—spaces that invite us to look closely, to reflect, and to consider what a landscape carries, what it has witnessed, and what we...
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...
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