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With the Mid-Autumn Festival just around the corner, join us for a special lantern-making workshop to celebrate this beloved season and its traditions. Inspired by the moon and autumn stories, kids will design and craft their own lanterns to light the way for the season ahead.What to expect: We will begin the session with a...
Join us for Alcove's first outdoor festival, Alcove Fest, in partnership with BLOX Arts Centre!Alcove Fest will take place in the East parking lot beside Alcove Beltline and BLOX Arts Centre (838 11 Ave SW).Check out local artists, The Petty Larceneers, Hip Hip Thursday, and artists of Tribe Artists Society, then join in on a...
With the Mid-Autumn Festival just around the corner, join us for a special lantern-making workshop to celebrate this beloved season and its traditions. Inspired by the moon and autumn stories, kids will design and craft their own lanterns to light the way for the season ahead.Our free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn...
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...
As part of Alberta Culture Days, this "Brushstrokes & Beats" performance will be taking place in the Shaikh Family Welcome Gallery at Central Library. Brushstrokes & Beats is a live painting demonstration by a renowned local artist, accompanied by live music performed by Mysterium Duo.
River Hall YYC ☀️ Free open air community events along the Bow River 🎶 Entertainment • Activities • Wellness & more! 💫 Family + Dog friendly 🐾 📍 Lot 6, 311 8 ST SW Hours ✨ Thursdays & Fridays: 5–10 PM ✨ Saturdays & Sundays: 11 AM–10 PM Enjoy the best of summer...
Join us for a Garden Afternoon Tea as we celebrate the final days of summer inspired by the beautiful Beaulieu Gardens. While the tea service will take place indoors, guests can still enjoy the gardens and grounds as the seasons begin to change. Enjoy a selection of seasonal sweets and savouries along with garden-inspired tea...
Immerse yourself in the magic of storytelling and poetry from September 17 to 20, 2026, at Festival Hall. Presented by the Calgary Spoken Word Society with the Stroll of Poets, this event is a celebration of artistry and unique voices.Wise Women: Magic Words brings people together through the power of poetry, music and storytelling. Whether...
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