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Hitmaker and multi-platinum selling artist D.O.D. brings his tour to The Palace on Sunday, October 11th with support from Titus1, Art Official, and Crivelli B2B Sonny Setz! Date: Sunday, October 11th, 2026 Doors: 9:00 pm18+ only with valid government issued ID
Sundays Unplugged is your weekly dose of live, anything-can-happen entertainment. Each Sunday features a mix of improv, comedy, and surprise performances — no scripts, no rules, just pure fun and creativity. Join us and see what unfolds when creativity takes the stage — no two Sundays are ever the same.
Celebrate the season in style with Fall Harvest Dinner! Join us for a cozy fall day exploring the zoo, followed by a delicious four-course turkey dinner. The best part? You’ll spend the day with family and friends instead of being stuck in the kitchen! Children under 3 can enjoy Fall Harvest Dinner for free.
Step back into the golden age of Vegas with a live jazz tribute to Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and the legendary Rat PackCalgary, get ready for one unforgettable night with the Rat Pack. Step into the golden age of Vegas for a LIVE jazz tribute to Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis...
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.
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...
Celebrate Science Week with STEM activities that are fun for the whole family!Enjoy hands-on STEM activities for kids age 4-10 (from 12 to 4 pm). Empower young readers to explore science and engineering in this engaging event for the whole family.In partnership with Alberta Women's Science Network.
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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