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The year is 1910, and the Alberta Central Railway has begun construction on a new rail line across the heart of the province. There are fortunes to be made if you can predict where the tracks will run and get there first.Five desperate strangers converge at the Lucky Guest Hotel in Rocky Mountain House, each...
A half-century of music deserves a season premiere that bridges The Civic’s legacy with a brilliant future!
Join The Civic as we launch our landmark 50th season, featuring cellist Luka Coetzee, Brahms’ Symphony No. 1, and a stunning world premiere!Calgary Civic Symphony’s 50th Anniversary Season starts with a full circle, welcoming home world-renowned cellist Luka Coetzee. Once one of our “Rising Stars” as a young 12-year-old prodigy in 2014, Luka returns as...
From mass murders to executions, explore true crimes from across Alberta in this dark history, outdoor tour. Ponder gruesome cases that are still unsolved today and discover how the first and last hangings in the province were eerily similar.
Join us for a special workshop with artists Samantha Leriger and Monica Ila. Get ready to design, press, and create! Kids will explore colours and shapes as they turn a plain canvas tote into their own artwork in this vinyl heat press workshop. Inspired by the changes in nature and the autumn season, we will...
Kensington is getting into the Halloween spirit with its annual Pup Crawl. Dress your furry friend in their spookiest costume and head to Kensington for an afternoon of trick-or-treating at participating businesses. Along the way, stop by the outdoor plaza along Kensington Road for a spooky photo booth and a caricature of you and your...
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...
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...
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