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Liner Notes: Inside the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio is part storytelling tour, part listening session, exploring the legendary albums recorded in the "Sistine Chapel of rock 'n' roll." Step back in time and experience Mystery to Me as it was recorded through the RSM.Guided by one of the National Music Centre's talented musician-educators, each tour...
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...
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...
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