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A thrilling Vegas Showgirl themed Halloween Drag Show! Come decked in your best costume for the costume contest!This Halloween, Burn Block Social Club is becoming the undead Vegas strip!Join host Divina Diefor and local undead divas Mona Moore, Bea Lissima, Irene Curtain & Sienna Towers for a glittery, glamorous, and gloriously spooky Vegas showgirl-themed drag...
Revel in beautiful symphonic sound in this Calgary Phil concert, which culminates with Robert Schumann’s Fourth Symphony — a free-flowing fantasy. Michelle Di Russo also leads the Orchestra in Gabriela Ortiz’s vibrant tribute to pioneering musical figure Clara Schumann. Columbian cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia stars in Édouard Lalo's theatrical concerto.
Five college students visit an abandoned cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. It’s up to Ash (a housewares employee, turned demon-killing hero), and his trusty chainsaw to save the day.A wildly entertaining Canadian adaptation of the cult-classic horror comedy, Evil Dead The Musical explodes onto...
In Every Universe We are Improvisors: A multiverse-traversing theatrical exploration of identity. Inspired by real relationships from our audience, every night our ragtag cast of improvisors craft a brand new, improvised, character-driven, multiverse jumping, narrative play that has never been seen before and will never be seen again.
If you’re joining us for Evil Dead II on Monday, October 26, why not come back for the sequel on Friday? See Ash go from one very bad night at a cabin to one very bad time in medieval England. They’re completely different movies, but together they make for a pretty great Halloween double feature...
Get ready to celebrate Navratri like never before! As a cornerstone of the Gujarati Mandal of Calgary’s historic 50th Golden Jubilee year, we are thrilled to bring you four spectacular nights of devotion, music, and dance at the BMO Centre, in downtown Calgary.With an exclusive, highly anticipated lineup of four mega musical artists already confirmed...
Tis Pity She’s a Whore follows the doomed tragedy of Giovanni and Annabella as the audience discovers their secrets. By the end, much like Romeo and Juliet, we are rooting for this doomed love to succeed even though in no sane world would it make sense for the two of them to end up together....
Frights & Delights is coming to you this October at The Confluence! More than a Halloween market, join us where the rivers meet in downtown Calgary for two days of frighteningly good times for spirits of all ages. On October 30, drive your hearse down to an adults-only night market packed with creepy activations for...
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...
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