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Dive into the world of music technology and explore unique instruments from the National Music Centre’s world-renowned collection.This is your chance to see how music is made and experience one-of-a-kind instruments in action. Step beyond the exhibits as interpreters go behind the glass to demonstrate historic artifacts, revealing the mechanics, sounds, and stories that make...
Join us for a unique Calgary brunch experience in the heart of the zoo. You can enjoy both gourmet and comfort breakfast foods, including a free-flowing chocolate fountain with fresh fruit, eggs Benedict with Canadian bacon, a Belgian waffle bar, cooked to order omelets, and much more. Get your combo brunch and admission tickets today!
Get ready to elevate your night with SHEDM, a premier Electronic Dance Music experience featuring an incredible lineup of female DJs.SHE.DM IS BACK — BIGGER THAN EVERCalgary, we’re bringing SHE.DM back to Velvet Room for another night dedicated to the women behind the decks.This time, it’s an ALL-NEW FEMALE LINEUP bringing you everything from HOUSE,...
Astrology Girl, Ghostform, LENNY BRDWhere: Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club 109 7 Avenue S.W. Calgary18+ with government issued identificationWhen: Saturday October 10, 2026Doors: 8:00pm Action 9:00pmAdmission: $15.00 advance at www.showpass.comNO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!
Taurus Ranch Band takes over Whiskey Rose on Saturday, October 10!Hailing from the heart of Southern Alberta, Taurus Ranch Band blends country grit, folk storytelling and straight-ahead rock energy into a sound built for the stage. With rich vocals, infectious rhythms and an authentic prairie spirit, this rising roots quartet delivers the kind of live...
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...
Have you heard the ghost stories of Inglewood? Or the tales of spirits said to linger where the Bow and Elbow rivers meet? This October, join us at The Confluence for an evening of frightening tales, chilling stories and signature cocktails! Start the night in the 1888 Fort Calgary Barracks with a specialty cocktail to...
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...
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