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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...
Calling all ghouls, gremlins and gays! We are back for A HAUNTED DRAG BRUNCH at PinBar. Are you ready for us to creep, crawl and captivate all of you at this KILLER show? Because The Marvelous Mo is bringing some blood sucking performers to start your Halloween down the right path. PinBar will be having...
Calling all ghouls, gremlins and gays! We are back for a haunted drag brunch at PinBar. Are you ready for us to creep, crawl and captivate all of you at this killer show? Because The Marvelous Mo is bringing some blood-sucking performers to start your Halloween down the right path.PinBar will be having a Boody...
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...
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 us for a special Halloween-themed demonstration of the National Music Centre's 1924 Kimball Theatre Organ.Be bewitched by the organ's ghoulish and ghastly sounds! This monstrosity of an instrument was once used to create sound effects and music for silent films. Stitched together from hundreds of pipes, drums, and chimes, this 100-year-old organ now rests...
Join us on Halloween to step behind the scenes of sound and discover how everyday objects can become extraordinary sound effects!In these hands-on, drop-in Foley art activations, participants explore the creative world of Foley — the art of creating and recording sound effects for film and television. Using a mobile collection of props, instruments, and...
Dive into the world of music technology and explore unique instruments from the National Music Centre’s world-renowned collection.This is your chance to see how music is made and experience one-of-a-kind instruments in action. Step beyond the exhibits as interpreters go behind the glass to demonstrate historic artifacts, revealing the mechanics, sounds, and stories that make...
A book club for conservatives and liberals who want to get out of their echo chambers and bridge the great divide. Buy the book, read it, and come join us for a lively discussion.About the book: Enshittification: It’s not just you— the internet sucks now. It’s been enshittified. That was no accident, and it’s not...
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