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Join Contemporary Calgary at our drop-in Open Studio Session for 55+ on Wednesdays in November.During this informal art-making drop-in session, participants are invited to bring their own projects along with any art and craft materials they are currently using. This time can be used not only for creating but also for connecting with other artists,...
Join JUNO-nominated pianist Anthony D'Alessandro and seven-time YYC Music Award-winning vocalist and radio host Kate Stevens for their return to the Honens stage presented in partnership with JazzYYC, performing a mix of jazz & soul by the likes of George Gershwin, Oscar Peterson, Edith Piaf, and more!The performance takes place inside the CORE Shopping Centre...
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...
“Spirit of Ukraine” returns to ProArts@Noon by special request, featuring vocalists Stephania Romaniuk and Lyudmyla Heath, violinist Anastasiia Lykhosherstova, pianist Olesia Voloshchuk Gural and members of Korinnya and Pereveslo Ukrainian choirs of Calgary.This non-traditional vocal recital that recounts through music the two months before, and the two months following, the fully fledged invasion of Ukraine....
Newzones is pleased to present In The Pines, a solo exhibition of new work by Canadian contemporary painter, Jack Bishop.In these new paintings segments of the Trans-Canada are like a topiary, where the tree lines carve out an ornamental landscape the highway cuts through. The liminal space through the wilderness in a commute. For a...
A Space That Remembers reflects my belief that places can inhabit us as much as we inhabit them. "Through painting, I seek to create spaces where observation, memory, emotion, and imagination come together—spaces that invite us to look closely, to reflect, and to consider what a landscape carries, what it has witnessed, and what we...
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...
Acclaimed Canadian vocalist Dawn Pemberton celebrates the women who helped shape the jazz vocal tradition in Portraits of the First Ladies of Jazz. From Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday to Sarah Vaughan and more, this special performance honours some of jazz’s most celebrated voices and the music they made famous.A vibrant and soulful Canadian vocalist...
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