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Step inside the Lions Den for the ultimate Grey Cup sports bar experience. Catch all the action on massive screens, battle it out in Madden tournaments and bar games, and enjoy the best VIP bar at the festival. This is the Lions’ house—come ready to play.
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,...
The CFLPA Players’ HQ powered by USW, is a free, interactive fan experience hosted by the Canadian Football League Players’ Association during Grey Cup week. It brings CFL fans together with the most current players anywhere - in a fun, welcoming atmosphere to celebrate our Game.Fans can enjoy autograph signings, meet-and-greets, photo opportunities with players...
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...
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...
Dust off your cowboy boots and saddle up!First of two rodeos, the Matinee Rodeo presented by Oil Sands Alliance will include bull riding, freestyle bullfighting, wild pony racing, saddle bronc and bareback riding.The rodeos will include a live country music performance by Alberta’s own Drew Gregory, which is presented by SiriusXM.
Contemporary Connections is a guided tour series designed to make art accessible and engaging for Calgary’s diverse communities. These events create a welcoming and inclusive space for participants to explore our exhibitions and connect with others, fostering meaningful relationships through the shared experience of contemporary art.Contemporary Connections: French Tour is supported and co-presented by ALLIANCE...
Join us at Studio Bell, home of the National Music Centre, for Synth Soundbath, a new monthly series exploring the intersection of wellness and music technology.SYNC 2026: Sound and Image Conference is bringing electronic music, digital art, live visuals, and video together all day and into the night on November 14. It’s your chance to...
The TELUS Family Zone, taking place in Halls A1/A2 within the BMO Centre, is home to a variety of free family-focused activations including blow-ups, bouncy castle, a toddler play zone, a fully programmed indoor turf, the CFL Hall of Fame, alumni autographs, and more! There will be a stroller parking section, as well as a...
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