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SUMMARY:Natalie Gerber: load
DESCRIPTION:As an artist and a maker\, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis\, flux\, and endless cycles of becoming\, learning\, and unlearning. In this new\, site-specific installation\, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight\, gravity\, and duration. \nload begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks\, eggs\, or celestial bodies. The forms are slip-cast\, a process wherein liquid clay is poured into a mold\, forming a skin-like surface which is revealed when the mold is released. Close inspection of the ceramics reveal the gradations within Gerber’s process\, particularly the slow deterioration of the slip-cast molds. Suspended above the ceramic forms is a sculptural silk lattice that cascades down the space akin to a net\, veil\, or shroud. To create the lattice\, Gerber laser-cuts individual modules of fused silk with a pattern that allows the two-dimensional fabric to expand into three-dimensions when pinned together and draped. In turn\, the silk lattice will evolve slowly across the duration of the installation\, gradually expanding like a lung or a ribcage. \nWhile the body is not represented directly\, it imbues Gerber’s work\, appearing in the dimpled flesh of the ceramics\, and the corporeal drape and fascia-like web of the silk lattice. Like the fallible\, malleable human body\, her work is never fixed or static either. Rather\, it is continuously shaped and re-shaped by the unrelenting forces of gravity and time.
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SUMMARY:Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: "Swinguerra"
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThrough processes of listening and shared experience\, direction\, script\, costume\, and soundtrack are collectively conceived with each project’s participants. This horizontal methodology challenges dominant representational forms by revealing tensions between popular cultural practices and hegemonic structures of visibility. Their work offers a critical reflection on the performative gesture and its social\, aesthetic\, and political reverberations.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/c2l6mkn95k1-barbara-wagner-and-benjamin-de-burca-swinguerra/2026-11-14/
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SUMMARY:Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves
DESCRIPTION: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\, part political protest\, while remaining grounded in collaboration and participation in order to find solidarity.
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LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
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SUMMARY:Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message\, the Message is Death
DESCRIPTION: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\, transmit the equivalent “power\, beauty and alienation” embedded within forms of Black music in U.S. culture?
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/jicabsh1m3o-arthur-jafa-love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death-occ-21202/2026-11-14/
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SUMMARY:Natalie Gerber: load
DESCRIPTION:As an artist and a maker\, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis\, flux\, and endless cycles of becoming\, learning\, and unlearning. In this new\, site-specific installation\, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight\, gravity\, and duration. \nload begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks\, eggs\, or celestial bodies. The forms are slip-cast\, a process wherein liquid clay is poured into a mold\, forming a skin-like surface which is revealed when the mold is released. Close inspection of the ceramics reveal the gradations within Gerber’s process\, particularly the slow deterioration of the slip-cast molds. Suspended above the ceramic forms is a sculptural silk lattice that cascades down the space akin to a net\, veil\, or shroud. To create the lattice\, Gerber laser-cuts individual modules of fused silk with a pattern that allows the two-dimensional fabric to expand into three-dimensions when pinned together and draped. In turn\, the silk lattice will evolve slowly across the duration of the installation\, gradually expanding like a lung or a ribcage. \nWhile the body is not represented directly\, it imbues Gerber’s work\, appearing in the dimpled flesh of the ceramics\, and the corporeal drape and fascia-like web of the silk lattice. Like the fallible\, malleable human body\, her work is never fixed or static either. Rather\, it is continuously shaped and re-shaped by the unrelenting forces of gravity and time.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/d1qfxx_hcra-natalie-gerber-load/2026-11-15/
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SUMMARY:Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: "Swinguerra"
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SUMMARY:Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves
DESCRIPTION: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\, part political protest\, while remaining grounded in collaboration and participation in order to find solidarity.
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SUMMARY:Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message\, the Message is Death
DESCRIPTION: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\, transmit the equivalent “power\, beauty and alienation” embedded within forms of Black music in U.S. culture?
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/jicabsh1m3o-arthur-jafa-love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death-occ-21202/2026-11-15/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
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SUMMARY:Natalie Gerber: load
DESCRIPTION:As an artist and a maker\, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis\, flux\, and endless cycles of becoming\, learning\, and unlearning. In this new\, site-specific installation\, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight\, gravity\, and duration. \nload begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks\, eggs\, or celestial bodies. The forms are slip-cast\, a process wherein liquid clay is poured into a mold\, forming a skin-like surface which is revealed when the mold is released. Close inspection of the ceramics reveal the gradations within Gerber’s process\, particularly the slow deterioration of the slip-cast molds. Suspended above the ceramic forms is a sculptural silk lattice that cascades down the space akin to a net\, veil\, or shroud. To create the lattice\, Gerber laser-cuts individual modules of fused silk with a pattern that allows the two-dimensional fabric to expand into three-dimensions when pinned together and draped. In turn\, the silk lattice will evolve slowly across the duration of the installation\, gradually expanding like a lung or a ribcage. \nWhile the body is not represented directly\, it imbues Gerber’s work\, appearing in the dimpled flesh of the ceramics\, and the corporeal drape and fascia-like web of the silk lattice. Like the fallible\, malleable human body\, her work is never fixed or static either. Rather\, it is continuously shaped and re-shaped by the unrelenting forces of gravity and time.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/d1qfxx_hcra-natalie-gerber-load/2026-11-16/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 4th Floor\, 1011 – 9th Avenue S.E.\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2G 0H7
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SUMMARY:Natalie Gerber: load
DESCRIPTION:As an artist and a maker\, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis\, flux\, and endless cycles of becoming\, learning\, and unlearning. In this new\, site-specific installation\, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight\, gravity\, and duration. \nload begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks\, eggs\, or celestial bodies. The forms are slip-cast\, a process wherein liquid clay is poured into a mold\, forming a skin-like surface which is revealed when the mold is released. Close inspection of the ceramics reveal the gradations within Gerber’s process\, particularly the slow deterioration of the slip-cast molds. Suspended above the ceramic forms is a sculptural silk lattice that cascades down the space akin to a net\, veil\, or shroud. To create the lattice\, Gerber laser-cuts individual modules of fused silk with a pattern that allows the two-dimensional fabric to expand into three-dimensions when pinned together and draped. In turn\, the silk lattice will evolve slowly across the duration of the installation\, gradually expanding like a lung or a ribcage. \nWhile the body is not represented directly\, it imbues Gerber’s work\, appearing in the dimpled flesh of the ceramics\, and the corporeal drape and fascia-like web of the silk lattice. Like the fallible\, malleable human body\, her work is never fixed or static either. Rather\, it is continuously shaped and re-shaped by the unrelenting forces of gravity and time.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/d1qfxx_hcra-natalie-gerber-load/2026-11-17/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 4th Floor\, 1011 – 9th Avenue S.E.\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Natalie Gerber: load
DESCRIPTION:As an artist and a maker\, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis\, flux\, and endless cycles of becoming\, learning\, and unlearning. In this new\, site-specific installation\, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight\, gravity\, and duration. \nload begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks\, eggs\, or celestial bodies. The forms are slip-cast\, a process wherein liquid clay is poured into a mold\, forming a skin-like surface which is revealed when the mold is released. Close inspection of the ceramics reveal the gradations within Gerber’s process\, particularly the slow deterioration of the slip-cast molds. Suspended above the ceramic forms is a sculptural silk lattice that cascades down the space akin to a net\, veil\, or shroud. To create the lattice\, Gerber laser-cuts individual modules of fused silk with a pattern that allows the two-dimensional fabric to expand into three-dimensions when pinned together and draped. In turn\, the silk lattice will evolve slowly across the duration of the installation\, gradually expanding like a lung or a ribcage. \nWhile the body is not represented directly\, it imbues Gerber’s work\, appearing in the dimpled flesh of the ceramics\, and the corporeal drape and fascia-like web of the silk lattice. Like the fallible\, malleable human body\, her work is never fixed or static either. Rather\, it is continuously shaped and re-shaped by the unrelenting forces of gravity and time.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/d1qfxx_hcra-natalie-gerber-load/2026-11-18/
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SUMMARY:Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: "Swinguerra"
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThrough processes of listening and shared experience\, direction\, script\, costume\, and soundtrack are collectively conceived with each project’s participants. This horizontal methodology challenges dominant representational forms by revealing tensions between popular cultural practices and hegemonic structures of visibility. Their work offers a critical reflection on the performative gesture and its social\, aesthetic\, and political reverberations.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/c2l6mkn95k1-barbara-wagner-and-benjamin-de-burca-swinguerra/2026-11-18/
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SUMMARY:Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves
DESCRIPTION: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\, part political protest\, while remaining grounded in collaboration and participation in order to find solidarity.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/s5k6xc1yf-t-brendan-fernandes-other-moves/2026-11-18/
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SUMMARY:Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message\, the Message is Death
DESCRIPTION: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\, transmit the equivalent “power\, beauty and alienation” embedded within forms of Black music in U.S. culture?
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/jicabsh1m3o-arthur-jafa-love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death-occ-21202/2026-11-18/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Natalie Gerber: load
DESCRIPTION:As an artist and a maker\, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis\, flux\, and endless cycles of becoming\, learning\, and unlearning. In this new\, site-specific installation\, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight\, gravity\, and duration. \nload begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks\, eggs\, or celestial bodies. The forms are slip-cast\, a process wherein liquid clay is poured into a mold\, forming a skin-like surface which is revealed when the mold is released. Close inspection of the ceramics reveal the gradations within Gerber’s process\, particularly the slow deterioration of the slip-cast molds. Suspended above the ceramic forms is a sculptural silk lattice that cascades down the space akin to a net\, veil\, or shroud. To create the lattice\, Gerber laser-cuts individual modules of fused silk with a pattern that allows the two-dimensional fabric to expand into three-dimensions when pinned together and draped. In turn\, the silk lattice will evolve slowly across the duration of the installation\, gradually expanding like a lung or a ribcage. \nWhile the body is not represented directly\, it imbues Gerber’s work\, appearing in the dimpled flesh of the ceramics\, and the corporeal drape and fascia-like web of the silk lattice. Like the fallible\, malleable human body\, her work is never fixed or static either. Rather\, it is continuously shaped and re-shaped by the unrelenting forces of gravity and time.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/d1qfxx_hcra-natalie-gerber-load/2026-11-19/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 4th Floor\, 1011 – 9th Avenue S.E.\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: "Swinguerra"
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThrough processes of listening and shared experience\, direction\, script\, costume\, and soundtrack are collectively conceived with each project’s participants. This horizontal methodology challenges dominant representational forms by revealing tensions between popular cultural practices and hegemonic structures of visibility. Their work offers a critical reflection on the performative gesture and its social\, aesthetic\, and political reverberations.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/c2l6mkn95k1-barbara-wagner-and-benjamin-de-burca-swinguerra/2026-11-19/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Theatre & performing arts
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261119T170000
DTSTAMP:20261020T022032
CREATED:20260903T000642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000120Z
UID:10008801-1795089600-1795107600@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves
DESCRIPTION: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\, part political protest\, while remaining grounded in collaboration and participation in order to find solidarity.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/s5k6xc1yf-t-brendan-fernandes-other-moves/2026-11-19/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Dance,Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Theatre & performing arts
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261119T180000
DTSTAMP:20261020T022032
CREATED:20260903T000633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260903T000634Z
UID:10008734-1795089600-1795111200@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message\, the Message is Death
DESCRIPTION: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\, transmit the equivalent “power\, beauty and alienation” embedded within forms of Black music in U.S. culture?
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/jicabsh1m3o-arthur-jafa-love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death-occ-21202/2026-11-19/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261121
DTSTAMP:20261020T022032
CREATED:20260930T000108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261001T000114Z
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SUMMARY:Natalie Gerber: load
DESCRIPTION:As an artist and a maker\, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis\, flux\, and endless cycles of becoming\, learning\, and unlearning. In this new\, site-specific installation\, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight\, gravity\, and duration. \nload begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks\, eggs\, or celestial bodies. The forms are slip-cast\, a process wherein liquid clay is poured into a mold\, forming a skin-like surface which is revealed when the mold is released. Close inspection of the ceramics reveal the gradations within Gerber’s process\, particularly the slow deterioration of the slip-cast molds. Suspended above the ceramic forms is a sculptural silk lattice that cascades down the space akin to a net\, veil\, or shroud. To create the lattice\, Gerber laser-cuts individual modules of fused silk with a pattern that allows the two-dimensional fabric to expand into three-dimensions when pinned together and draped. In turn\, the silk lattice will evolve slowly across the duration of the installation\, gradually expanding like a lung or a ribcage. \nWhile the body is not represented directly\, it imbues Gerber’s work\, appearing in the dimpled flesh of the ceramics\, and the corporeal drape and fascia-like web of the silk lattice. Like the fallible\, malleable human body\, her work is never fixed or static either. Rather\, it is continuously shaped and re-shaped by the unrelenting forces of gravity and time.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/d1qfxx_hcra-natalie-gerber-load/2026-11-20/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 4th Floor\, 1011 – 9th Avenue S.E.\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261120T170000
DTSTAMP:20261020T022032
CREATED:20260903T000630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000120Z
UID:10008667-1795176000-1795194000@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: "Swinguerra"
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThrough processes of listening and shared experience\, direction\, script\, costume\, and soundtrack are collectively conceived with each project’s participants. This horizontal methodology challenges dominant representational forms by revealing tensions between popular cultural practices and hegemonic structures of visibility. Their work offers a critical reflection on the performative gesture and its social\, aesthetic\, and political reverberations.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/c2l6mkn95k1-barbara-wagner-and-benjamin-de-burca-swinguerra/2026-11-20/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Theatre & performing arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/6f406d80-14a0-437a-97be-393dd317dc3d-1400.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261120T170000
DTSTAMP:20261020T022032
CREATED:20260903T000642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000120Z
UID:10008802-1795176000-1795194000@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves
DESCRIPTION: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\, part political protest\, while remaining grounded in collaboration and participation in order to find solidarity.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/s5k6xc1yf-t-brendan-fernandes-other-moves/2026-11-20/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Dance,Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Theatre & performing arts
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261120T180000
DTSTAMP:20261020T022032
CREATED:20260903T000633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260903T000634Z
UID:10008735-1795176000-1795197600@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message\, the Message is Death
DESCRIPTION: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\, transmit the equivalent “power\, beauty and alienation” embedded within forms of Black music in U.S. culture?
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/jicabsh1m3o-arthur-jafa-love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death-occ-21202/2026-11-20/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261120T200000
DTSTAMP:20261020T022032
CREATED:20260922T000134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260923T000238Z
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SUMMARY:Performance | Brendan Fernandes: Noise See
DESCRIPTION:Noise See is a performance work by Canadian visual artist and choreographer Brendan Fernandes. Originally commissioned by The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia\, the work explores themes of visibility\, protest\, the legacy of empire\, and embodied resistance. \nCentral to the performance are vibrant quilted tapestry costumes that evoke textiles commonly associated with contemporary Maasai culture in Kenya yet rooted in British colonial influence. \nPresented alongside the exhibition Other Moves\, Noise See is performed as a duet: two dancers engage in a choreographic dialogue—merging and separating\, concealing\, and revealing—through their bodily interaction with one another and their own biomorphic form as they inhabit their costume. These dynamic textiles become agents of action\, shaping and being shaped by the dancers’ movements. \nNoise See reclaims a colonial textile legacy and transforms it into a site of protest\, protection\, and presence. Here\, Fernandes insists that silence is not absence but a resonant and radical form of resistance. \nNo registration required; just drop by the exhibition.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/8cnitge56zu-performance-or-brendan-fernandes-noise-see/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Dance,Free
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261122
DTSTAMP:20261020T022032
CREATED:20260930T000108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261001T000114Z
UID:10011095-1795219200-1795305599@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Natalie Gerber: load
DESCRIPTION:As an artist and a maker\, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis\, flux\, and endless cycles of becoming\, learning\, and unlearning. In this new\, site-specific installation\, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight\, gravity\, and duration. \nload begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks\, eggs\, or celestial bodies. The forms are slip-cast\, a process wherein liquid clay is poured into a mold\, forming a skin-like surface which is revealed when the mold is released. Close inspection of the ceramics reveal the gradations within Gerber’s process\, particularly the slow deterioration of the slip-cast molds. Suspended above the ceramic forms is a sculptural silk lattice that cascades down the space akin to a net\, veil\, or shroud. To create the lattice\, Gerber laser-cuts individual modules of fused silk with a pattern that allows the two-dimensional fabric to expand into three-dimensions when pinned together and draped. In turn\, the silk lattice will evolve slowly across the duration of the installation\, gradually expanding like a lung or a ribcage. \nWhile the body is not represented directly\, it imbues Gerber’s work\, appearing in the dimpled flesh of the ceramics\, and the corporeal drape and fascia-like web of the silk lattice. Like the fallible\, malleable human body\, her work is never fixed or static either. Rather\, it is continuously shaped and re-shaped by the unrelenting forces of gravity and time.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/d1qfxx_hcra-natalie-gerber-load/2026-11-21/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 4th Floor\, 1011 – 9th Avenue S.E.\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261121T170000
DTSTAMP:20261020T022032
CREATED:20260903T000630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000120Z
UID:10008668-1795262400-1795280400@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: "Swinguerra"
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThrough processes of listening and shared experience\, direction\, script\, costume\, and soundtrack are collectively conceived with each project’s participants. This horizontal methodology challenges dominant representational forms by revealing tensions between popular cultural practices and hegemonic structures of visibility. Their work offers a critical reflection on the performative gesture and its social\, aesthetic\, and political reverberations.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/c2l6mkn95k1-barbara-wagner-and-benjamin-de-burca-swinguerra/2026-11-21/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Theatre & performing arts
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/6f406d80-14a0-437a-97be-393dd317dc3d-1400.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261121T170000
DTSTAMP:20261020T022032
CREATED:20260903T000642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000120Z
UID:10008803-1795262400-1795280400@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves
DESCRIPTION: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\, part political protest\, while remaining grounded in collaboration and participation in order to find solidarity.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/s5k6xc1yf-t-brendan-fernandes-other-moves/2026-11-21/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Dance,Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Theatre & performing arts
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261121T180000
DTSTAMP:20261020T022032
CREATED:20260903T000633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260903T000634Z
UID:10008736-1795262400-1795284000@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message\, the Message is Death
DESCRIPTION: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\, transmit the equivalent “power\, beauty and alienation” embedded within forms of Black music in U.S. culture?
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/jicabsh1m3o-arthur-jafa-love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death-occ-21202/2026-11-21/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261121T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261121T140000
DTSTAMP:20261020T022032
CREATED:20261020T000702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T000702Z
UID:10011549-1795266000-1795269600@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Brendan Fernandes
DESCRIPTION:How can movement create new spaces for connection and belonging? What stories do our bodies tell?  \nJoin artist Brendan Fernandes for a conversation about his creative practice at the intersection of dance and visual art. Fernandes will discuss how his work engages themes of migration\, identity\, queer culture\, protest\, and collective movement. His projects often take hybrid forms\, described as “part ballet\, part queer dance party\, part political protest\,” and are rooted in collaboration and fostering solidarity. We invite you to reflect on how creativity\, movement\, and collective action can shape how we relate to each other and ourselves.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/z49y7-pc8s-artist-talk-with-brendan-fernandes/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 4th Floor\, 1011 – 9th Avenue S.E.\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Community,Theatre & performing arts
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261123
DTSTAMP:20261020T022032
CREATED:20260930T000108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261001T000114Z
UID:10011096-1795305600-1795391999@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Natalie Gerber: load
DESCRIPTION:As an artist and a maker\, Natalie Gerber is interested in metamorphosis\, flux\, and endless cycles of becoming\, learning\, and unlearning. In this new\, site-specific installation\, Gerber brings together ceramic and textile to consider the transformative potential of weight\, gravity\, and duration. \nload begins with a constellation of ceramic forms that alternately evoke rocks\, eggs\, or celestial bodies. The forms are slip-cast\, a process wherein liquid clay is poured into a mold\, forming a skin-like surface which is revealed when the mold is released. Close inspection of the ceramics reveal the gradations within Gerber’s process\, particularly the slow deterioration of the slip-cast molds. Suspended above the ceramic forms is a sculptural silk lattice that cascades down the space akin to a net\, veil\, or shroud. To create the lattice\, Gerber laser-cuts individual modules of fused silk with a pattern that allows the two-dimensional fabric to expand into three-dimensions when pinned together and draped. In turn\, the silk lattice will evolve slowly across the duration of the installation\, gradually expanding like a lung or a ribcage. \nWhile the body is not represented directly\, it imbues Gerber’s work\, appearing in the dimpled flesh of the ceramics\, and the corporeal drape and fascia-like web of the silk lattice. Like the fallible\, malleable human body\, her work is never fixed or static either. Rather\, it is continuously shaped and re-shaped by the unrelenting forces of gravity and time.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/d1qfxx_hcra-natalie-gerber-load/2026-11-22/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 4th Floor\, 1011 – 9th Avenue S.E.\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20261122T170000
DTSTAMP:20261020T022032
CREATED:20260903T000630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260910T000120Z
UID:10008669-1795348800-1795366800@calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com
SUMMARY:Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: "Swinguerra"
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThrough processes of listening and shared experience\, direction\, script\, costume\, and soundtrack are collectively conceived with each project’s participants. This horizontal methodology challenges dominant representational forms by revealing tensions between popular cultural practices and hegemonic structures of visibility. Their work offers a critical reflection on the performative gesture and its social\, aesthetic\, and political reverberations.
URL:https://calgarydt-seeker.paperleaftest.com/event-calendar/c2l6mkn95k1-barbara-wagner-and-benjamin-de-burca-swinguerra/2026-11-22/
LOCATION:Esker Foundation\, 1011 9 Ave Se\, Calgary\, T2G 0H7
CATEGORIES:Museums, galleries & exhibitions,Theatre & performing arts
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END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR