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Timeless: 100 years of Oscar Peterson
Timeless: 100 years of Oscar Peterson commemorates the centenary of one of Canada’s greatest musical legends. The exhibition celebrates the extraordinary life, music, and legacy of the virtuosic jazz pianist, composer, and humanitarian who captivated audiences around the world.
Unfamiliar Perspectives
Built around archival photographs, sketches, newspaper pages, personal journals and government records, this exhibit at The Confluence highlights lesser-known stories about the North-West Mounted Police.
Next Generation Artists of Alberta Exhibit
Created in partnership with ArtLaunch, check out artwork from young artists, plus two info panels on why community support for young artists matters across 160 feet of wall space outside of the former Hudson’s Bay storefront at Chinook Centre.
Stacking Crates to Reach a Banana
Through sculpture and video, Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens examine how bodies (human and nonhuman) are measured, valued and shaped by systems of data and performance, drawing on the visual language of modern science to trace the ethical stakes of systems that quantify lived experience into units of labour.
Erdem Taşdelen: Wounded in Three Acts
Marking Erdem Taşdelen’s return to Calgary, this multi-part exhibition spans audio, film, print and live performance to consider power, resistance and difference, inviting us to confront our own roles within today’s sociopolitical landscape.
Bomi Yook: K-DIALECTIC
This Esker Project Space photographic installation explores the afterlives of Japanese colonialism in Korea through archival materials and fragmented imagery. The exhibition reflects on memory, loss and how histories of trauma continue across generations.
New Sound In Town
This musical revue traces how pop, rock and country blended over the decades, from 1970s folk-rock and Willie Nelson’s crossover hits to Shania Twain’s ’90s country-pop and Taylor Swift’s genre-defying stardom. Celebrate the artists who blurred the lines and created new sounds!
Inglewood Night Market
The Inglewood Night Market is a modern market with locally sourced and handmade vendors selling diverse goods, from handmade crafts to vintage clothing, antiques & collectibles, artisan eats & more!
The Latest Edition: Senior Print Student Exhibition
Discover The Latest Edition 2026, an exhibition of print works by emerging artists from the Alberta University of the Arts and the University of Calgary. Featuring nine artists, the show explores themes of self, connection, and change through the layered, process-driven nature of printmaking.
Lasting Impressions
Alberta Printmakers is pleased to present Lasting Impressions, an annual member exhibition in the new Community Gallery! This exhibition features over 60 prints by artists who make up a growing and vibrant community.
ASA presents Overlooked” by Doris Charest
The Alberta Society of Artists presents “Overlooked,” featuring the work of Alberta artist Doris Charest. “Overlooked invites viewers to rediscover the hidden details of nature. Through this series, Charest highlight the delicate, often-invisible aspects of the environment, encouraging a deeper appreciation for these fleeting wonders.
Eco Arts Book Club
You’re invited to the Eco Arts Book Club! Read, reflect & create with natural materials. Slow, inspiring evenings at Canopy Studios Join artist and facilitator Andrea Merredew at Canopy Studios for a slow, spacious, and inspiring monthly practice that blends reading, reflection, and art‑making. Each workshop begins with a conversation about the book we’re exploring
Seep, Sew, Sprawl
SEEP SEW SPRAWL is an immersive installation using kinetic sculpture, projection and repurposed industrial materials to explore how nature persists within urban environments. It highlights the tension and overlap between ecological growth and industrial space.
Shrek the Musical
Shrek the Musical brings the hilarious and heartwarming tale of everyone’s favourite ogre to life on stage. Joined by a wisecracking Donkey and a spirited Princess Fiona, Shrek’s journey of self-acceptance and courage proves that true bravery lies in being unapologetically yourself.
Ripple
Christine Klassen Gallery is pleased to present Ripple, a pairing of two concurrent solo exhibitions. Working in painting and sculpture, respectively, Godenir and MacDonald explore the idea of ripple through pattern, repetition, and material process.
Joanne MacDonald: Ripple
Christine Klassen Gallery is pleased to present Ripple, a new solo exhibition by Calgary sculptor Joanne MacDonald. Through welded steel, reclaimed materials, and kinetic form, MacDonald explores the unseen currents created through human interaction: the way words, actions, memories, and relationships continue to echo outward long after the initial moment has passed. At the heart
Joann Godenir: Ripple
Christine Klassen Gallery is pleased to present Ripple, a new solo exhibition by Calgary artist JoAnn Godenir. Created in a new medium of oil and cold wax, the exhibition marks a shift toward a slower, more tactile process rooted in layering, carving, and excavation. Built gradually over many days, the paintings reveal accumulated marks, hidden
It Doesn’t Matter Doesn’t Matter
Experience an immersive exhibition exploring trauma, censorship and cultural erasure through installation, text, sound and moving image. Grounded in Guo’s lived experience, the work reflects on silence, memory and shared social conditions.
ᐃᔨ – Eyes – Shirley Moorhouse
Showcasing over 30 years of Moorhouse’s work, featuring distinctive wall hangings that incorporate materials like embroidery, beading and caribou hide. This exhibition draws from lived experience and cultural connections, exploring themes of environment, spirituality and community.
Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes
This features immersive installations that blend textiles, sculpture, light, and sound. Drawing on mythology, ecology and diasporic identity, this exhibition by Zadie Xa with Benito Mayor Vallejo invites reflection on intergenerational stories and connections to the natural world.
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Contact Calgary Arts Development’s communications team at 403.264.5330 ext. 118 or by email at events@calgaryartsdevelopment.com.
