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Acclaimed Canadian vocalist Dawn Pemberton celebrates the women who helped shape the jazz vocal tradition in Portraits of the First Ladies of Jazz. From Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday to Sarah Vaughan and more, this special performance honours some of jazz’s most celebrated voices and the music they made famous.A vibrant and soulful Canadian vocalist...
The Smashing Pumpkins: The Rats In A Cage Tour begins in September 2026. After kicking off in Columbus, Ohio, the Grammy-winning rock band will tour North America through early November before wrapping with a final show at the Darker Waves music festival at Huntington State Beach in Orange County, California.
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...
A vibrant weekly club meant for both first-time fabric artists and veterans. Bring your project and chat with out knitters and crocheters, or join us for an introductory lesson!Who We Are Carya is a social impact agency that has been responding to the evolving social needs of the Calgary community since 1910. Today, with over...
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...
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...
Join our 8-week beginner-friendly Microsoft Excel program. Learn formatting, formulas, functions, data organization, charts, and workplace reporting. Starting September 22, 2026 (Beltline location) and September 25, 2026 (Manchester location).
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...
Born from the womb of Y2K techno paranoia, dance-punk mega duo Death From Above 1979 have been a cathartic through-line since 2001. Every now and then they come to fly their jumbo jet sound into the skyscrapers that the zeitgeist has erected. In 2026, they once again blast off celebrating their 25th anniversary with a...
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...
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