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Songsmith Sundays with Carter Felker
Every week, country-folk singer-songwriter Carter Felker presents a chill weekend set with a rotating cast of guests. This family-friendly show is best paired with King Eddy’s delicious Sunday brunch!
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.
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...
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.
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.
Music in the Plaza
Come enjoy an evening enjoying live music in the Heritage Plaza, where each week, one of the best emerging live bands in Calgary will take the stage! Watch from the Selkirk patio as you enjoy dinner, or explore the shops of the Haskayne Mercantile Block before you setup your lawn chair and enjoy...
The ASA Presents 2026 Artist in Residence: Sarah Almquist
Throughout her residency, Sarah will explore using rest and relaxation as a form of protest and examine how that practice can exist within an institution. Her work highlights various artists who engage in this sort of practice as inspiration, while exploring how she practices self-care and how to...
Visual Verse
The Alberta Society of Artists is pleased to present the group exhibition “Visual Verse” featuring the work of SPECTRA Textile Arts. “Spectra is a group of like-minded Fibre Artists who are committed to the exploration and presentation of textiles as art.
Baseline by Anna Gaby-Trotz
This installation features a collection of images gathered while examining the changing climate through the North West Passage. These waters – situated between Kugluktuk, Nunavut and Greenland – have a deep history of colonial conquest and now, once impassable due to ice, are open to commercial...
Current // Process + Place
Current is a new series of public art activations presented by The New Gallery (TNG), transforming the Bow River pathway into a flowing corridor of creativity. Connecting Calgary’s cultural landmarks and natural landscapes, these activations merge art, nature, and community through installation,...
Night Nurse (2026)
Globe Cinema Presents: Night Nurse (2026) At the start of her new job in a luxury retirement community, Eleni (Cemre Paksoy) is drawn into a series of scam calls targeting the elderly residents, a pull she can’t quite name or resist. As the community’s strange rhythms close around her,...
Summer Exhibition: Chroma
Christine Klassen Gallery’s Chroma, is its annual summer exhibition exploring colour as a force for curiosity, connection, and reinvention. This year’s exhibition brings together new work by Carl White, Steve Speer, Bryce Krynski, and others, alongside Chrissy Nickerson’s new Bridges...
Markets in the Plaza
Thousands of people come to shop at Heritage Park every year – and now we’re bringing the market to you! Come shop our local vendors, explore the shops in the Plaza, grab a bite to eat and be entertained at Markets in the Plaza! Markets in the Plaza is a pet-friendly event, so make sure
Cinema Explorers: Summer Blockbusters
In this class facilitated by Katie Wackett, participants will embark on a guided tour of summer Blockbuster movies. Each week we will watch a film and discuss its meaning. Each screening will have a special snack to go along with the film. This class is ideal for artists who enjoy watching and...
Fiestaval Latin Festival
Fiestaval Latin Festival is a free, family-friendly celebration held in downtown Calgary that brings the energy and diversity of Latin America to the city. The festival features live music, dance performances, DJs, authentic Latin American food, artisan vendors, and cultural activities for all...
Mush Love Art Exhibition & Market Event
Mush Love is back for our 4th annual event focused on bringing people together to celebrate the fabulous world of fungi and the magic of mushroom culture! This artist-run initiative is a creative platform that combines an inclusive, group art exhibition with a mushroom-inspired market featuring...
SPOTLIGHT: Anna Burger-Martindale
Anna Burger-Martindale’s exhibition Before They’re Gone is a love letter to the biodiversity of our planet. It is an ongoing and far-reaching series of handmade jewellery featuring endangered animals from around the world beautifully captured in silver wire.
Perspective Film Series: A Separation (2011)
A Separation (2011) follows Nader and Simin, whose marriage dissolves when they disagree on emigrating. When Nader hires a religious woman to care for his Alzheimer’s-stricken father, a chain of lies and a tragic incident lead to an intense legal battle that explores class, faith, and...
Multicultural Life Drawing with Yu Chen
This drawing session invites participants to draw from life while models wear traditional attire from different cultural backgrounds. The session focuses on close observation of form, texture, and detail, while also encouraging awareness of the cultural context behind what is being drawn.
Free This Week
Soak up another week of free arts and culture across Calgary! Celebrate Harvey Nichol’s new mural at containR, explore the... Read More
Free This Week
Keep the Stampede spirit strong for another week of free arts and culture events in Calgary! Fuel up at Contemporary... Read More
July Exhibitions
Check out new visual art exhibitions in Calgary — from wood engravings and colour woodcuts to illustrations for unwritten and... Read More
Free This Week
Soak up another week of free arts and culture across Calgary! Celebrate Harvey Nichol’s new mural at containR, explore the... Read More
July Exhibitions
Check out new visual art exhibitions in Calgary — from wood engravings and colour woodcuts to illustrations for unwritten and... Read More
Questions?
Contact Calgary Arts Development’s communications team at 403.264.5330 ext. 118 or by email at events@calgaryartsdevelopment.com.
