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Don't miss the d'Linquint at Gulbar!The d'Linquint are a Kimberley, B.C.-based jazz trio consisting of longtime collaborators Bryan Reichert (guitar), Tess Reichert (bass), and Chad Andriowski (drums). After relocating to a small mountain town in the East Kootenays, they transformed their previous band, Tess and the d'Linquint, and embraced mountain adventures in Jazz.An opportunity to...
A story for anyone who has ever loved - and hesitated.Alter Ego Theatre, a Calgary-based theatre company bringing together artists from Ukraine and Canada, produced a psychological drama by Ivan Franko, written in 1905 and reimagined through the lens of contemporary sensibility.At the heart of the story are Maria and Khoma (Massino). Maria is emotionally...
Come join us poolside at Hotel Arts for live performances, a Beat Battle, a DJ, food, drinks and VIP group seating.Support local! Let's Build!
Barrio Kahadlok is in a frenzy – Kapitan Igme was found dead at the edge of the forest and all clues point to an aswang as the culprit! The barrio’s resident imbestigadora, Basyang, wants concerned citizens to come to the barangay hall to witness the proceedings where she interrogates Manananggal, Kapre, Tikbalang and Tiyanak to...
The Bluegrass Sessions is a long-running afternoon concert residency that showcases traditional bluegrass, old-time string music, and acoustic jams.Hosted by the house band, The 9th Avenue Allstars, the event recreates the spontaneous, collaborative vibe of a classic bluegrass jam circle.
An upscale weekend dedicated to enhancing lifestyles, encouraging romance, personal betterment, and all things Taboo — entertainment, educational seminars, unique shopping, fashion shows and demonstrations. Health, beauty, and wellness.
Embrace creativity and explore worlds, worlds, worlds by Curtis Talwst Santiago in our extended Weekend Drop-in Art Making Program this November! Join us every Saturday and Sunday throughout the month from 1–5 PM in the Flanagan Family Gallery. Materials and light instruction are provided.Our program encourages people of all ages to connect with modern and...
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...
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