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Free swing dance lessons at Calgary Public Library with Swing Dance Calgary.Swingin' Sundays at the Library!Learn to swing dance with our beginner-friendly introductory lessons starting at 1 pm, and social dancing from 2 - 4 pm. No partner or experience required.In partnership with Swing Dance Calgary.
Have you ever been curious about synthesizers? Join the Musical Artist in Residence Easy HD for a hands-on workshop breaking down the history of synthesis, as well as the core concepts of how to play and interact with these instruments.Participants will be able to experiment on a variety of synths from the Artist in Residence’s...
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...
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...
This event features a curated selection of artwork from the top 70 selling artists who have participated in the Under $100 Shows across Alberta.Expect art of all kinds - paintings, photography, textiles, mixed media, ceramics, handmade accessories, and more.Get excited about live music, a bar, and photo booths.Walk-ins welcome after 7 p.m. on the opening...
Cult-favourite Vancouver denim brand Decade Studio is popping up at Fieldstudy for one weekend only! This will be an exclusive opportunity for Calgary locals to shop the brand’s AW26 collection and experience a one-on-one fitting with the founder and designer, Molly Spittal.
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...
The Origami and Movement Workshop, co-facilitated by visual artist Miya Turnbull (Halifax) and dance artist Shion Skye Carter (Vancouver), is presented in conjunction with their performance Omote (面). Participants will learn how to fold Miya’s self-portrait origami designs, shaping the paper portraits into interactive designs, emphasizing identity as something formed through gesture, pressure, and process....
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