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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...
Gather with your friends and family at the Calgary Winter Market, a delightful destination for family and friends to gather, reminiscent of the charming European markets. Indulge in specialty food and beverages, perfect for enjoying on-site or taking home. Relax in cozy lounges and savor each other’s company.Located in Eau Claire Plaza for 26 days...
As an artist and a maker, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis, flux, and endless cycles of becoming, learning, and unlearning. In this new, site-specific installation, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight, gravity, and duration.load begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks, eggs, or...
In Otipemisiwak Fantasy, Riel Starr explores Métis culture through an Indigiqueer perspective. Starr unapologetically conceptualizes Métis futurism through traditionally crafted contemporary objects in order to honour their own personal connection to their culture, the land, and the survivance of historical Two-Spiritness.Opening reception: October 23rd, 2026, from 6:30 to 9 pmRiel Starr will give an exhibition...
Join us for the legendary Carly's Angels Drag Show every Saturday night performing on the same stage for the past 26 years!Carly’s Angels – 27th Season at The AtticCarly’s Angels have been dazzling audiences here for 25+ years, and they’re back for another spectacular season! Join us for a night of glamour, laughter, and unforgettable...
Master sleuths and criminal masterminds. A junior government clerk is found dead on the railway tracks. Papers found in his pocket contain closely guarded government secrets that Mycroft Holmes feels his brother Sherlock should investigate. As the case unfolds, a series of mysterious events lead to a rising body count among ‘The Scoundrels Assembly.’ At...
Award-winning violinist Maria Ioudenich joins conductor Ramon Tebar and your Calgary Phil for Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, also known as the Turkish Concerto, which transitions from delightful dialogue between soloist and orchestra to an enchanting evocation of rhythms wafting from an Istanbul cafe. Then, get carried away by Mahler's Fifth Symphony, a breathtaking musical...
In this family-friendly holiday mystery, a curious man loses his hat and goose in a late night scuffle. Sherlock Holmes is asked to pursue the case as the plot thickens when a prized, stolen gemstone is found inside the bird.In pursuit of the thief, Holmes and Watson find themselves out and about the streets of...
In this family-friendly holiday mystery, a curious man loses his hat and goose in a late night scuffle. Sherlock Holmes is asked to pursue the case as the plot thickens when a prized, stolen gemstone is found inside the bird.In pursuit of the thief, Holmes and Watson find themselves out and about the streets of...
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...
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