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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...
Simply Complex: A guided Negroni tastingStep inside Shelter in Calgary's Beltline for an immersive Negroni Week experience. Explore the flavours and story of one of the world's most iconic cocktails through a guided Negroni tasting. You can enjoy a Classic Negroni, explore three unique twists from the Negroni Family Tree, savour curated food parings, and...
A chance for both members and non-members to meet, network, and start to plan their next great thing. Whether you're a long-time member or just curious about what the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers is all about, our Monthly Hangout is the perfect place to connect, share, and get inspired. Held at the CSIF offices,...
Discover your home’s true potential at the Calgary Fall Home Show! Whether your latest home purchase is a fixer-upper or a brand-new build, it’s where décor dreams, trusted advice, and fresh inspiration unite. Meet hundreds of trusted home professionals at the BMO Centre, including HGTV star Sarah Baeumler. Get inspired with stunning displays, fresh project...
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...
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...
Newzones is thrilled to present Off the Beaten Path, an upcoming solo exhibition of new work by Albertan contemporary artist Samantha Walrod.Off the Beaten Path considers how humans view and interact with wildlife in the Canadian wilderness from a “close” distance. Motorists and hikers observe animals from cars and trails while the animals watch in...
Wallace Galleries, one of the region’s most established and respected contemporary art galleries, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Over a forty-year legacy, Wallace Galleries has championed the careers of Canadian artists, cultivated passionate collectors, and shaped how contemporary art is experienced.Featured artists: Harold Town, Kenneth Lochhead, Wilf Perreault, Ted Godwin, Jennifer Hornyak, Simon Andrew,...
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