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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,...
Contemporary Connections is a guided tour series designed to make art accessible and engaging for Calgary’s diverse communities. These events create a welcoming and inclusive space for participants to explore our exhibitions and connect with others, fostering meaningful relationships through the shared experience of contemporary art.Admission: Free with advance registration; walk-ins welcome, space permittingExhibition Tour:...
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...
Take your next zoo visit from wild to wildly aglow. With Sunlight to ZOOLIGHTS, you can spend the day exploring the zoo and visiting your favourite animals before staying to experience the magic and wonder of ZOOLIGHTS, all with one discounted ticket.
In this family-friendly holiday mystery, a curious man loses his hat and goose in a late night scuffle. Sherlock Holmes is asked to pursue the case as the plot thickens when a prized, stolen gemstone is found inside the bird.In pursuit of the thief, Holmes and Watson find themselves out and about the streets of...
In this family-friendly holiday mystery, a curious man loses his hat and goose in a late night scuffle. Sherlock Holmes is asked to pursue the case as the plot thickens when a prized, stolen gemstone is found inside the bird.In pursuit of the thief, Holmes and Watson find themselves out and about the streets of...
They Say is Full Circle Theatre’s brand new, Bridgerton-inspired prequel to Much Ado About Nothing. Set before Beatrice and Benedick became Shakespeare’s most famously combative almost-lovers turned lovers, this original romantic drama imagines their first courtship, the pressures of reputation and favour, and the choices that helped shape the people we meet in Messina in...
Close out the festival with the Saturday Night Country Concert, presented by Bud Light. Featuring a country music headliner, this concert brings Calgary's Western roots and Grey Cup Festival spirit together.We aren't revealing the artist just yet… but trust us, you’re going to want a ticket. This is one secret you’ll want to be in...
Five college students visit an abandoned cabin in the woods and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. It’s up to Ash (a housewares employee, turned demon-killing hero), and his trusty chainsaw to save the day.A wildly entertaining Canadian adaptation of the cult-classic horror comedy, Evil Dead The Musical explodes onto...
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