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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...
Join us on Sunday November 1st for a brunch screening of Paul Feig’s 2011 comedy Bridesmaids, a film that somehow manages to be completely ridiculous, genuinely heartfelt and even funnier every time you watch it.Gather your besties, leave the kids with the fam and come out for a few hours that are entirely your own....
Join us for a unique Calgary brunch experience in the heart of the zoo. You can enjoy both gourmet and comfort breakfast foods, including a free-flowing chocolate fountain with fresh fruit, eggs Benedict with Canadian bacon, a Belgian waffle bar, cooked to order omelets, and much more. Get your combo brunch and admission tickets today!
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...
Halloween Haunt takes over Hudsons Calgary Downtown on October 31st for a full night of costumes, bad decisions and seeing people you know dressed as people you definitely don’t know.Expect a packed dance floor with party anthems, throwbacks, hip-hop, pop and Halloween favourites all night. Come dressed as Wednesday. Come dressed as Shrek. Come dressed...
Get ready for Calgary's biggest Halloween bash! Twisted Element is turning up the heat with a night full of scary thrills, killer beats, and fabulous costumes. This is the party you don’t want to miss!What to expect:2 Levels of Electrifying Fun – Party with DJs on both floors, spinning the hottest tracks to keep you...
Hang The DJ presents Halloween 2026 "I Choose You Too"Our annual Halloween party is the biggest Hang The DJ event of the year with full custom decor and storyline, a massive dance floor of 80s, 90s, and 2000s underground and alternative hits, the best costumes in town, and a ton of cash prizes. This is...
This Halloween, we welcome Airrica with special guests Guest Who and Nahuel. Costumes highly encouraged.
On October 31, as the veil between worlds grows thin, the LieLow Monsters Ball comes to life! A dark and decadent gathering where the strange, the spirited and the wonderfully unexpected are invited to cross over.The LieLow Monsters Ball brings that spirit to The GRAND: a little music festival gathering blended in creative collision and...
Join us Halloween weekedong for two-full nights of costumes, country music and Halloween chaos featuring LIONEER live on stage Friday and EN02 Saturday, with SO & SO DJs keeping the party going late both nights.Come dressed up, bring the whole crew and get ready for one seriously rowdy night.$15 presale tickets. Prices will increase—and tickets...
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