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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...
Enjoy soul-stirring music performed by your Calgary Phil. Karen Kamensek leads Tchaikovsky’s heart-rending final symphony, which the composer himself said “is the best and most sincere thing I have ever composed.” Arvo Pärt’s mesmerizing Fratres opens the concert, after which the Calgary Philharmonic Chorus joins the Orchestra in Vaughan Williams’s passionate plea for peace.
Show & Tell is an improv show inspired by the childhood classic we remember; bringing something weird, wonderful, or wildly important to the front of the class and telling everyone about it.From sentimental keepsakes and random trivia to stories you can’t help but share, we turn everyday memories into laughs, unexpected scenes, with a spattering...
Show & Tell is an improv show inspired by the childhood classic we remember; bringing something weird, wonderful, or wildly important to the front of the class and telling everyone about it. From sentimental keepsakes and random trivia to stories you can’t help but share, we turn everyday memories into laughs, unexpected scenes, with a...
Come cheer on the Calgary Flames as they take on the Anaheim Ducks.
Beakernight is Petri Dish’s adults-only opening night. Six hours, a drink in hand, and the whole of TELUS Spark open for you to explore. Watch combat robots and knights battle, dance at a digital immersion rave, hear a robot concert, sniff your way through an alchemy lab, and test some science on yourself. No kids,...
Join a panel of leading international scholars to explore how people engage with news across cultures, countries, and media systems.How do we decide which news sources to trust? How do our media habits shape the way we understand the world around us? And how can we navigate an information landscape where reliable journalism, opinions, and...
This is a documentary about a violent, state-run system of eugenics, racial absorption, and social assimilation in Twentieth Century, Western Australia. For the more than six decades between 1905 and 1972, thousands of mixed-race Aboriginal children in Western Australia were forcibly removed from their families.Systematically organized by the State, overwhelmingly supported by West Australian society,...
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...
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