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Experience the ultimate Halloween scare with a screening of the 1922 silent horror classic Nosferatu, featuring live, bone-chilling improvised pipe organ accompaniment by Carlos Foggin at Knox United Church in Calgary.
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...
Get ready to celebrate Navratri like never before! As a cornerstone of the Gujarati Mandal of Calgary’s historic 50th Golden Jubilee year, we are thrilled to bring you four spectacular nights of devotion, music, and dance at the BMO Centre, in downtown Calgary.With an exclusive, highly anticipated lineup of four mega musical artists already confirmed...
Tis Pity She’s a Whore follows the doomed tragedy of Giovanni and Annabella as the audience discovers their secrets. By the end, much like Romeo and Juliet, we are rooting for this doomed love to succeed even though in no sane world would it make sense for the two of them to end up together....
October 31st tickets include admission to both the Cabaret and the LieLow Monster Ball. Guests are welcome to attend both events, or tailor the night however they’d like! Expect the unexpected at the Fluid Fest Horror Show, a deliciously strange cabaret presented with Springboard and CAMP.Come for the dark glamour, stay for the wonderfully unpredictable...
We are all made up of many parts.There may be a part of us that takes care of everyone, a part that strives to get things right, a playful part, a creative part, a part that worries, or a part that longs for something more.The Inner Gallery is a monthly creative series inviting you to...
With joyful urgency, we have co-imagined and co-designed an experience for curious minds seeking deeper connection to themselves, to one another, and to the world around them, through the inviting and transformative embrace of the arts.Together, we explore the questions we're often afraid to ask, but suspect everyone else is quietly wrestling with too. Think...
The Library's most adorable Halloween tradition is back this October 31!Join us with your fur family for a costumed pet parade through Central Memorial Park!Dress you and your fuzzy friends to paw-rfection and be entered to win one of our three prize draws. Plus, enjoy live music and treats — for pets and their humans!Registration...
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...
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