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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...
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...
Double up on the Calgary sights with the Lights & Heights Pass! We’ve teamed up with the Calgary Tower to bring you one ticket to two of the city’s most iconic attractions.Take in the city from above at the Calgary Tower, then explore over one million lights aglow at ZOOLIGHTS. Two Calgary favourites, one unforgettable...
As an artist and a maker, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis, flux, and endless cycles of becoming, learning, and unlearning. In this new, site-specific installation, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight, gravity, and duration.load begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks, eggs, or...
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...
Master sleuths and criminal masterminds. A junior government clerk is found dead on the railway tracks. Papers found in his pocket contain closely guarded government secrets that Mycroft Holmes feels his brother Sherlock should investigate. As the case unfolds, a series of mysterious events lead to a rising body count among ‘The Scoundrels Assembly.’ At...
Get in a “New York State of Mind” in this can’t-miss celebration of the iconic songs of Billy Joel!The debonair Tony DeSare joins the Calgary Phil as they perform unique takes on some of the “Piano Man’s” most beloved hits, including Uptown Girl, Don’t Ask Me Why, The Stranger, She’s Always a Woman, and many...
Five college students visit an abandoned cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. It’s up to Ash (a housewares employee, turned demon-killing hero), and his trusty chainsaw to save the day.A wildly entertaining Canadian adaptation of the cult-classic horror comedy, Evil Dead The Musical explodes onto...
They Say is Full Circle Theatre’s brand new, Bridgerton-inspired prequel to Much Ado About Nothing. Set before Beatrice and Benedick became Shakespeare’s most famously combative almost-lovers turned lovers, this original romantic drama imagines their first courtship, the pressures of reputation and favour, and the choices that helped shape the people we meet in Messina in...
With Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson, and Eliza Scanlen as the fiercely individual March sisters, Gerwig weaves between childhood memories and adult aspirations, capturing the joys and heartbreaks of a family determined to make their own way in the world.Forget the corsets and calling cards. These women have things to say, art to make,...
Welcome to Barbieland, where the houses are dream-sized, the outfits are immaculate, and every day is the best day ever. That is, until Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie) has an existential crisis, her feet go flat, and thoughts of death start interrupting the dance parties.From writer-director Greta Gerwig comes Barbie, the gloriously pink, delightfully absurd, and...
Celebrate the Grey Cup at Poolside by Freestyle at Hotel Arts on Sunday, November 15!Join us for the ultimate Grey Cup Watch Party featuring big-screen football action, a live DJ, beer pong championships, prizes, giveaways and delicious game-day bites.With Molson Canadian bringing the cold beers and game-day atmosphere, it's the perfect place to catch Canada's...
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