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The Calgary International Film Festival's mission is “to entertain and engage audiences by curating the most innovative and compelling films and creating remarkable festival experiences.”Achieving our mission includes hosting a large number of participating filmmakers – both locally and from abroad – and connecting them with the audience through interactive post-screening Q&As, networking, panels and...
Head on a cinematic adventure with your Calgary Phil as they bring to life the unforgettable music of legendary film composer John Williams!Relive the wonder, excitement, and drama of Williams' award-winning movie scores spanning five decades of motion picture history, including Indiana Jones, Star Wars, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, and more!
Head on a cinematic adventure with your Calgary Phil as they bring to life the unforgettable music of legendary film composer John Williams!Relive the wonder, excitement, and drama of Williams’s award-winning movie scores spanning five decades of motion picture history, including Indiana Jones, Star Wars, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, and more!
Jono Zalay began his standup career in Boston, while simultaneously earning his Doctorate in Neuroscience (he gave cocaine to rats). Since dropping his science hobby to pursue comedy full-time, Jono has done standup for The Late Late Show on CBS, Netflix is a Joke, LMAOF on OFTV, been named one of Comedy Central’s ‘Comics to...
In Calgary, unforgettable nights are part of the everyday, especially when live music comes to town. Make a night of it when rock band Bring Me the Horizon takes the stage at Scotiabank Saddledome, with special guests The Plot In You and Motionless In White.
Night Light is a 3-night celebration of light and art in Calgary. Featuring local and global artists with all kinds of fun interactive art in Victoria Park.Learn more here: About Us
Celebrating Diversity Through Art and CultureThe Ethnik Festivals Association (EFA), in collaboration with local organizations across Alberta and surrounding communities, proudly presents the 2026 edition of “A Cultural Trilogy”—a vibrant, four-day cultural celebration held during Alberta Culture Days.Theme: “Culture in Motion: Connecting People, Ideas and Possibilities"This year’s theme celebrates the transformative power of culture to...
This 10-week program is designed to provide participants from all walks of life a non-judgmental space to practice their beginner to intermediate English skills. Starting September 23, 2026 - 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.Manchester 105j 58 Ave SEStarting September 24, 2026 - 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.Beltline 1003 11...
Tour Stampede Park, take in all the stories.Where else can you travel through time, lift the curtain on a legacy, and see how a legend was born?With BTS: Behind The Stampede, you’ll explore over a century of history, thrills, spills, characters and champions. Starting off at Sam Centre, this two-hour tour will take you on...
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,...
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