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Tour the world without leaving the city!It's a fantastic opportunity to discover new foods from around the globe and enjoy all that International Avenue has to offer!!The Around the World in 35 Blocks Food Tour has been delighting participants for over 25 years. This fun tour will take you to five or six different ethnic...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
Join Nada Nuff and some of Calgary’s favourite local Queens for an unforgettable Drag Brunch high above the Bow River.Enjoy spectacular rooftop views, delicious food, fabulous performances, and plenty of laughs as you brunch the afternoon away. Gather your friends, sip, dine, and get ready for a fun-filled celebration you won't want to miss!
Presented by Springboard Performance and Esker Foundation as part of Fluid Fest 2026Omote (面) is a co-creation between Vancouver dance artist Shion Skye Carter and Halifax mask maker Miya Turnbull. By choreographing with hand-crafted paper-mâché masks of each of their faces, coming in myriad shapes and facial expressions, the artists explore their mixed Japanese Canadian...
Join us for a painting workshop with Saloni Sharma! Spend some time getting creative and enjoy an afternoon of painting and artistic exploration.In this relaxing painting workshop, participants will create their own autumn landscape using acrylic paints. We will explore warm fall colours, simple painting techniques, and ways to create trees, leaves, and a beautiful...
Hailed as one of Canada’s best big bands, Ninth Avenue Band consists of 18 full-time members, and performs live in Calgary, Alberta, and across Canada. The band has a wide range of repertoire suited for audiences of all ages and musical tastes, from traditional jazz charts to funk, R & B, and Latin.The band’s members...
An elegant and celebratory evening that launches Revv52’s 75th Anniversary Season. The Diamond Gala brings the audience into the heart of the ensemble with a program built from member-selected repertoire, highlighting the voices, personalities, and musical moments that have shaped the group.Set in the intimate and historic Grand Theatre, the evening combines high-energy performances with...
An elegant and celebratory evening that launches Revv52’s 75th Anniversary Season. The Diamond Gala brings the audience into the heart of the ensemble with a program built from member-selected repertoire, highlighting the voices, personalities, and musical moments that have shaped the group.Set in the intimate and historic Grand Theatre, the evening combines high-energy performances with...
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