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Melissa Martens (she/her) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist based in Calgary. Her writing and musical style is most often acoustic pop, with a hint of folk, country and soft rock. Melissa started singing and writing music at a young age, and picked up guitar as a teenager. In 2011, her first six-track EP, Standstill, was...
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...
Founded in Calgary in 2004, the Mount Royal Zhi-Yin Choir is a non-profit community choir brought together by a shared love of singing, friendship, and cultural connection.Led by founder and conductor Shana Yang, our choir is made up of adults from diverse backgrounds and professions. Though we come from different walks of life, we are...
Join us for a special edition of Forever Young: Seniors' Wednesdays at Studio Bell, home of the National Music Centre, featuring interactive experiences for all ages that spark memories, inspire creativity, and create connections across generations.Experience an engaging live performance with Canadian folk-roots group the Carolyn Harley Trio.About Carolyn Harley TrioCarolyn Harley is a singer/songwriter/storyteller....
Newzones is thrilled to present Off the Beaten Path, an upcoming solo exhibition of new work by Albertan contemporary artist Samantha Walrod.Off the Beaten Path considers how humans view and interact with wildlife in the Canadian wilderness from a “close” distance. Motorists and hikers observe animals from cars and trails while the animals watch in...
Wallace Galleries, one of the region’s most established and respected contemporary art galleries, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Over a forty-year legacy, Wallace Galleries has championed the careers of Canadian artists, cultivated passionate collectors, and shaped how contemporary art is experienced.Featured artists: Harold Town, Kenneth Lochhead, Wilf Perreault, Ted Godwin, Jennifer Hornyak, Simon Andrew,...
Calgary is changing - fast. More people. New cultures. New industries and ambitions. New pressures on the places and systems we already share.So, for this year's Future of the City, we're getting a room full of curious Calgarians together to ask three big questions.Join us for a salon-style night about Calgary and where it's headed....
Open HDMI is a free projection show-and-share event. Think open mic, but for digital art. Featuring a special presentation from MAPPERZ organizer and media artist Mackenzie Bedford, sharing their in-progress sound-reactive projection installation "Wishful Thinking".From WIPs to polished projections, if you can beam it, you can bring it to Open HDMI! With up to four...
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