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Embrace your eerie side this scary season by catching your favourite family movies on the big screen! Join us in the Burnswest Theatre at The Confluence for two afternoons of free popcorn and family fun!Tickets include a small bag of popcorn, movie screening, and admission to The Confluence Cultural Centre. Additional snacks and drinks will...
From mass murders to executions, explore true crimes from across Alberta in this dark history, outdoor tour. Ponder gruesome cases that are still unsolved today and discover how the first and last hangings in the province were eerily similar.
Try your hand at subtractive 3D sculpting on a pumpkin with Carlos Roche. We will mainly be doing portraiture or a face of some sort! Levels beginner to advanced.This is an advanced level of sculpting, however it is geared to any level as we will set it up in a way that you can take...
Free swing dance lessons at Calgary Public Library with Swing Dance Calgary.Swingin' Sundays at the Library!Learn to swing dance with our beginner-friendly introductory lessons starting at 1 pm, and social dancing from 2 - 4 pm. No partner or experience required.In partnership with Swing Dance Calgary.
Have you ever been curious about synthesizers? Join the Musical Artist in Residence Easy HD for a hands-on workshop breaking down the history of synthesis, as well as the core concepts of how to play and interact with these instruments.Participants will be able to experiment on a variety of synths from the Artist in Residence’s...
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...
Take an exclusive tour backstage at Studio Bell and see music come to life in the National Music Centre’s recording studios!Catch a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the working spaces of our world-class recording facilities* and hear the stories behind notable artifacts — spanning 450 years of music innovation and technology — guided by NMC’s talented music...
Join Calgary icon Carly York Jones and a rotating cast of fabulous special guests every month for outrageous performances, hilarious comedy, fierce lip-syncs, and the most unapologetically fun Sunday you'll have all month.Whether you're celebrating a birthday, planning the ultimate bachelorette party, rounding up your brunch crew, or simply looking for a Sunday Funday you'll...
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