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Michael Bernard Fitzgerald is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter whose career has been defined by a combination of heartfelt songwriting, optimism, and genuine human connection.Since emerging from Calgary’s music scene in the mid-2000s, Fitzgerald has built an international following through six full-length albums, relentless touring, and performances across Canada, the United States, the UK and beyond,...
No minors. Must be 18+ with valid gov't issued ID for entry. Online tickets will go off sale at 4 p.m. day of show and will then be available to purchase starting at door time at the venue will call only (subject to availability).
Don't miss the d'Linquint at Gulbar!The d'Linquint are a Kimberley, B.C.-based jazz trio consisting of longtime collaborators Bryan Reichert (guitar), Tess Reichert (bass), and Chad Andriowski (drums). After relocating to a small mountain town in the East Kootenays, they transformed their previous band, Tess and the d'Linquint, and embraced mountain adventures in Jazz.An opportunity to...
Come join us poolside at Hotel Arts for live performances, a Beat Battle, a DJ, food, drinks and VIP group seating.Support local! Let's Build!
FILM SYNOPSES:To the Embers (Feu Fantôme): Seven years ago, the filmmaker was raped. Three years ago, the rapist wrote the filmmaker a letter to take responsibility for his actions. This film is their open letter to rape culture.Do Not Stay Silent: In Escuintla, Guatemala, where 4 out of every 10 victims of sexual violence are...
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...
Newzones is pleased to present In The Pines, a solo exhibition of new work by Canadian contemporary painter, Jack Bishop.In these new paintings segments of the Trans-Canada are like a topiary, where the tree lines carve out an ornamental landscape the highway cuts through. The liminal space through the wilderness in a commute. For a...
Join us at the Kerby Centre for the Authentically Curated Holiday Market, a weekend of holiday shopping, community, and Indigenous artistry. Shop from 40+ amazing local artists, with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit representation, and over 30 different Nations represented throughout the market.Discover beautiful gifts while supporting local artists and their businesses. Make it a...
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