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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,...
Halloween in Southern Alberta has a history of traditions and celebrations that can be traced back before Lougheed House was even built! Tricks, Treats, & Traditions: A History of Halloween in Southern Alberta is the newest of our free, outdoor pop-up exhibits on display from September 25 until November 5 in the gardens at Lougheed...
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...
Calgary’s five-day food festival ‘Feast on Fourth’ (September 23-27) invites food lovers to embark on a walkable, budget-friendly culinary adventure along vibrant and bustling 4th Street, with more than 30 food and retail businesses joining the festivities.With a wide variety of restaurants and cafés participating, the festival offers an opportunity to explore a unique range...
Celebrated but impetuous film director Guido Contini, succumbing to the pressures of filming his latest film epic (a musical version of the Casanova story), suffers a midlife crisis. One by one, women from his past and present – including his mother, his wife, his mistress, and his leading lady – haunt, instruct, scold, seduce and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.Whether you’re attending a handful of screenings or diving into the festival’s complete lineup, CIFF...
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,...
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