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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....
Murder Mystery Dinner at Lougheed HouseYou’re invited to a Town Hall meeting unlike any other…The community has gathered, opinions are strong, tensions are rising, and it seems everyone has something to say. But when the evening takes an unexpected and deadly turn, this ordinary Town Hall quickly becomes the scene of a murder mystery.With secrets...
An elegant and celebratory evening that launches Revv52’s 75th Anniversary Season. The Diamond Gala brings the audience into the heart of the ensemble with a program built from member-selected repertoire, highlighting the voices, personalities, and musical moments that have shaped the group.Set in the intimate and historic Grand Theatre, the evening combines high-energy performances with...
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...
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...
Join us in PlayLab and make music by building circuits and experimenting with synthesizers.In this hands-on drop-in program, participants build simple circuits and create sounds they can hear instantly.Try things out, make changes, and see what happens as you explore how sound is shaped through play and experimentation. Kids discover how electricity and circuits become...
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...
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