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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...
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...
In honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, join JUNO Award-winning artist Jeremy Dutcher for an evening of music that transcends boundaries.A Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, ethnomusicologist, and Wolastoqiyik member of Tobique First Nation, Dutcher is dedicated to language revitalization.His award-winning music draws on archival recordings of his ancestors and is sung in...
Join us for Open Mic hosted by Earl Morgan every Wednesday from 8 PM to 11 PM.
In honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, join JUNO Award-winning artist Jeremy Dutcher for an evening of music that transcends boundaries.National Music Centre presents an evening with Jeremy Dutcher. A Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, ethnomusicologist, and Wolastoqiyik member of Tobique First Nation, Dutcher is dedicated to language revitalization.His award-winning music draws on...
Adam Tiller is a standup comedian, writer, and actor based out of Seattle, WA. Adam performs all across the U.S. and Canada at comedy clubs, private events, corporate events, casinos, fraternal organizations, correctional facilities, and breweries.Adam is known for his strong writing, and dark/clever comedic sensibility. He has opened for Kevin Nealon, Jay Mohr, and...
Improv 302: StoryThis is a six week course with sessions running 7:30-9:30 p.m. on the following Wednesdays:September 9, 16, 23, 30; October 7, 14.Classes are for students aged 18+Please register with your preferred name so we know who will be in the class and what to call you!Prerequisites: Improv 101 & 201, or 30 hours...
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...
This year, in celebration of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Elders of the Elders Story Project (ESP) are moving from Truth towards Reconciliation, featuring ceremonies that this group has never before shared with an audience.Also featuring a free Indigenous Makers Market and Powwow Showcase, join us on September 30th for a celebration of...
Join us every last Wednesday of the month at Business & Pleasure for live jazz in the back room. David Lavoie on bass and Aaron Shorr on guitar bring the room to life for two intimate sets at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Settle in with cocktails and wine from our bar team, plus sandwiches...
With joyful urgency, we have co-imagined and co-designed an experience for curious minds seeking deeper connection to themselves, to one another, and to the world around them, through the inviting and transformative embrace of the arts.Together, we explore the questions we're often afraid to ask, but suspect everyone else is quietly wrestling with too. Think...
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