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Move beyond Romeo and Juliet and discover love stories, poems, and traditions from cultures around the world. Through folklore, legendary romances, and poetry, storytellers will share tales of love, longing, sacrifice, and hope across generations and borders.The evening will end with an open mic, where audience members are invited to share their own stories, songs,...
Set the stage for an unforgettable fall evening with a 60-minute, after-hours tour of the zoo, followed by a cozy 90-minute private dining experience inside your very own Garden Globe on Grazers Lawn.Led by knowledgeable guides, you’ll take part in an exclusive tour of our grounds, learning about the wildlife that call us home and...
Join us for a day of movies, music, and family fun under the open sky! CIFF is taking over Eau Claire Plaza for a FREE all-ages event packed with activities, entertainment, and three beloved films on the big screen.Bring the whole family to see a 20th anniversary screening of SPACE JAM (3PM) to start the...
Paint your own tote bag and turn it into something personal.Beginner friendly! We provide all the materials and guide you step by step.Coffee, tea, and soft drinks are included.Choose a design from our studio references or bring your own idea. We’ll help you transfer your design and paint it on a strong cotton tote bag.No...
Join us for FRESH FRAMES as we celebrate Quickdraw's youth animation filmmakers, with a selection of colourful, creative, and sometimes ridiculous films made in our classes, workshops and camps. Directly following the youth filmmaker screening, we'll also be sharing a selection of kid-friendly films by local and international professional animators taken from our GIRAF4YOUTH showcase....
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...
Embrace creativity and exploration in our Saturday Drop-in Art Making program. This program is offered most Saturdays from 1-5 p.m. throughout the year. Materials and light instruction are provided, along with rotating themes and activities.Our program encourages people of all ages to connect with modern and contemporary art through enjoyable and interactive creative experiences.For September,...
Sober Runway is an unforgettable event featuring fashion, inspiration and transformation. It creates a space where recovery and creative expression intersect, using fashion and storytelling to celebrate resilience and restore hope - because every recovery story deserves to be seen, heard and celebrated.The professionally curated fashion show celebrates and features six local designers and 30...
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,...
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,...
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