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Create your own Halloween glass painting in our workshop.Beginner friendly! We provide all the materials and guide you step by step. Drinks and snacks are included. For this workshop, our studio will be decorated for Halloween 🎃👻Choose your own Halloween design from our references (or bring yours), and paint it on glass. Make it spooky,...
We are all made up of many parts.There may be a part of us that takes care of everyone, a part that strives to get things right, a playful part, a creative part, a part that worries, or a part that longs for something more.The Inner Gallery is a monthly creative series inviting you to...
An invitation for patrons and visitors to join us and experience the joy of the season through live performances by talented local artists!Experience the joy of the season in the Archway through live performances by talented local artists that bring music, energy, and connection to our outdoor space. This welcoming community activation invites patrons and...
Join Contemporary Calgary at our drop-in Open Studio Session for 55+ on Wednesdays in October. During this informal art-making drop-in session, participants are invited to bring their own projects along with any art and craft materials they are currently using. This time can be used not only for creating but also for connecting with other...
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...
We are called Singers because calling us a choir seems a bit formal with its attendant expectation of trained singers with a high level of discipline. We’re a bunch of older Scotsmen who like to sing and have a lot of fun doing so.The program content was chosen to present a selection of Scottish songs,...
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...
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