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Light and Shadow moves through music as a journey from brightness into mystery.Pianist Dmitry Nesterov performs virtuosic solo works by Beethoven and Liszt, joined by his wife Olga Kotova for Prokofiev’s haunting Violin Sonata No. 1. Music that will inspire the imagination, from the grace and wit of Beethoven, the expressive lyricism of Liszt, and...
Join us for a conversation with director Ken Kwapis ahead of the Alberta premiere of We Are the Shaggs at the Calgary International Film Festival!We'll be discussing the new documentary We Are The Shaggs, as well as Kwapis' book But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct. Join us for an in-store ticket giveaway...
The GRAND and the Indian Society of Calgary present a special screening of 3 Idiots, one of Indian cinema’s most beloved films.Starring Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi, 3 Idiots follows three engineering students navigating friendship, academic pressure, family expectations and the pursuit of success. Through humour and heart, the film challenges conventional ideas...
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...
Join this workshop to learn how to conceptualize and create your own very comics!Comics Workshop: Concept to Comic’s goal is to challenge barriers surrounding comics, explore how diverse the art form is, and celebrate its rich history. Inspired by a workshop conducted at the Esker Foundation in April 2025, attendees will learn how to balance...
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...
River Hall YYC ☀️ Free open air community events along the Bow River 🎶 Entertainment • Activities • Wellness & more! 💫 Family + Dog friendly 🐾 📍 Lot 6, 311 8 ST SW Hours ✨ Thursdays & Fridays: 5–10 PM ✨ Saturdays & Sundays: 11 AM–10 PM Enjoy the best of summer...
On Sunday, September 27, bring your little ones and their favourite plushies to the zoo for some TLC. For just a $5 donation per stuffed toy, our dedicated Animal Health team, educators, and volunteers will help clear up the mystery of visiting the doctor’s office and explain the importance of regular medical care for both...
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