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Sculpture Park
At Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre, nature is their gallery. Their sculpture park celebrates the relationship between sculpture and nature. Visitors experience large, medium and small-scale outdoor sculptures and site-specific commissions under the open sky. Book a guided tour or drop by to explore at your own pace!
Deborah Cox
This temporary exhibition celebrates the life and career of 2022 Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee Deborah Cox, the first Black woman to receive this national honour, through a larger-than-life Hall of Fame magazine-style spread using digital technologies. Check it out before it’s gone!
Music & Wellness
National Music Centre’s new permanent Music & Wellness exhibition taps into the power of music on mental and physical health. The exhibition explores these topics through a series of powerful video interviews that create an immersive sense of personal conversation between the viewer and a variety of experts.
Seasons End Liquidation Shop
Seasons End Liquidation Shop is a variety store, celebratory funeral, and ritual ending of part of Teresa Tam’s artistic practice. It is intended to consider many of the items used in Tam’s previous projects since 2013 and all connect thematically to the concept of various kinds of shops.
Chandelier Club Burlesque
Welcome to The Chandelier Club! Nestled inside Inglewood’s hottest cocktail lounge, The Attic Bar & Stage, join them as their effortlessly glamorous burlesque artists weave through the audience in this immersive performance every second Wednesday of the month. Grab your tickets now for this 18+ event!
The Garden of a Former House Turned Museum
Much of the work produced by Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau requires active collaboration with not only choreographers, musicians, and dancers, but with the objects they produce. Check out their latest exhibition at Esker Foundation!
Falling Off The Log
Robin Arseneault’s work is performative, provocative, and luxurious one minute, and silly, self-deprecating, and raw the next. Layers of meaning are first constructed—often through sketches, small collages of found photographs, and ink drawings—then information is intentionally wiped away, removed, torn apart, or erased.
From The Studio Floor
Gailan Ngan’s exhibition features hand-built and cast ceramic sculptures that broadly explore shape, surface treatment, and colour. It also presents a collection of industry by-products, organic and processed objects, and studio experiments contributing to a narrative of material influenced by the historically resource-rich West Coast.
Craft and Science
Craft and Science explores the interesting ways that science and craft intersect. Both fields rely on creative problem-solving skills, research, specialized training, traditional and innovative techniques and methodologies, imagination, and curiosity to fuel the search for answers. Check it out at Alberta Craft Gallery & Shop!
Come Paint Alberta
Come Paint Alberta is an artist-led community project promoting plein air painting in Alberta Led by Louise Lacey-Rokosh, Laurie Aldridge and Theresa Williams. The artists hosted paint outs in five iconic Alberta locations where they painted alongside the participants — these pieces anchor the exhibition. Check them out!
Night Lights
In Night Lights: The Wonder of the Northern Lights, Billie Rae Busby presents a new body of abstract landscapes to interpret her fascination with the aurora borealis. Using her signature painting style, the artworks capture the magic, beauty and energy of this natural phenomenon. Check them out!
More Than a Party
Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts), in partnership with ATB Financial, are showing their Pride with the exhibition titled More Than a Party. This exhibition focuses on equality regardless of sexuality or gender. It honours self-expression, celebrates victories, and advocates for 2SLGBTQ+. Check it out!
Artist’s Choice
The Alberta Society of Artists is proud to present the Artist’s Choice group exhibition featuring the works of their juried and life members. This annual show gives ASA members and some of Alberta’s finest visual artists the opportunity to submit a work of their choosing.
Sugar Burlesque Nights
Welcome to the rootin’ tootin’ burlesque rodeo so sweet it makes your teeth hurt! Sprinkle a little sugar on your week by enjoying unique, delicious, rum-soaked cocktails while Cabaret Calgary performers do their thing. Get your tickets now for this 18+ show taking place every other Thursday!
Free Live Music on Saturday Nights
Your Saturday Soundtrack! Enjoy unique rum-based cocktails and live music ranging from easy-listening to country to covers on Saturday Nights at Romero Distilling Co. featuring artist Gregg Bolger, John Shwaluik, Jim Baxter and more! Capacity is limited, so reserve your seat today!
Long Lost Friends
Norberg Hall is thrilled to open the fall season with a solo exhibition by Hamilton-based, multi-media artist Nathan Eugene Carson. Through portraiture, Carson’s paintings unpack the human experience as well as inter-species connectedness, illuminating his subjects with an expressive, tactile and iconic handling of paint and form.
Where Tiger Sleeps
Referencing ancient Greek terms mythos and logos, Carl White’s newest series of works positions himself as the conduit to the mythos — his lush handling of paint, striking use of colour and unique rendering provide us access to where each painting emerged from. Check them out!
Prairie Interlace
Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960 – 2000 is an ambitious travelling exhibition that examines the explosion of innovative textile-based art on the Canadian Prairies between 1960-2000. Curated by Michele Hardy, Timothy Long, and Julia Krueger, the exhibition is a collaboration between Nickle Galleries and the MacKenzie Art Gallery.
Misery
Romance novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued from a car crash by self proclaimed number one fan Annie Wilkes. As Annie’s obsession takes a dark turn, Paul realizes Annie has no intention of letting him go. Get your ticket to see the play based on Stephen King’s classic psychological thriller!
Wolves: The Art of Dempsey Bob
This exhibition features 65 works and is the first-ever retrospective of Bob’s career from the 1970s to the present. Visitors to the exhibition will discover a selection of masks, sculpture and regalia, complemented by Bob’s work in bronze casting and vestment production. Make sure to check it out!
Questions?
Contact Calgary Arts Development’s communications team at 403.264.5330 ext. 211 or by email at events@calgaryartsdevelopment.com.