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BIRDY, a captivating dance piece by LAI Hung-chung, explores the interplay of freedom and limitations within Taiwan's communities. LAI delves into the subtle influences of emotions and historical echoes on social harmony through a blend of societal dynamics and personal narratives. Using a cage and dreamer metaphor, LAI bridges personal struggles with broader societal contexts.The...
Taiwan’s Hung Dance transforms the striking imagery of ancient Chinese opera into a visually stunning contemporary dance experience, blending traditional movement, electronic and classical music, and breathtaking feathered headpieces. Through a powerful interplay of freedom and constraint, BIRDY explores the tension between tradition and modernity, inviting us to question the boundaries that shape our identities...
Join Mount Royal University’s Faculty of Arts in discussion of the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Creative Arts.For some, to travel is to invite change and difference. For others, to travel is to indulge and find the familiar. For some, adventure is to look, to seek, to engage. For others, adventure is to escape, to forget,...
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...
Take your next zoo visit from wild to wildly aglow. With Sunlight to ZOOLIGHTS, you can spend the day exploring the zoo and visiting your favourite animals before staying to experience the magic and wonder of ZOOLIGHTS, all with one discounted ticket.
Take a break from your day and experience the artistry of 2025 Honens Bronze Laureate Anastasia Vorotnaya in a special Piano Project YYC lunch-hour concert at CORE Shopping Centre.As the holiday season begins to shimmer on the horizon, Anastasia brings a program of elegance, colour, and imagination, featuring works by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Modest...
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...
Gather with your friends and family at the Calgary Winter Market, a delightful destination for family and friends to gather, reminiscent of the charming European markets. Indulge in specialty food and beverages, perfect for enjoying on-site or taking home. Relax in cozy lounges and savor each other’s company.Located in Eau Claire Plaza for 26 days...
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