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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...
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...
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...
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.
Napoleon: Art, Money & War
This exhibition explores how Napoleon Bonaparte built and projected power through material culture. Coins, medals, artworks, books, and official documents show how finance underpinned military ambition, and how visual language helped legitimize authority. Money funded war, medals rewarded service,...
Bridge Space | metamorphose
“What does transformation mean to you?” Our youth artists’ response to this question is encapsulated in the animations they created. Using mixed media animation, they drew on lived experience as well as fairytales, mythology, and science, and used these frameworks as a gateway to express...
ROOTS – Mixed Media Art Inspired by Nature
Barb DeRousie is delighted to present a comprehensive body of work for the first time in Calgary at cSPACE Marda Loop. Barb will be present to welcome visitors at a reception held on Thursday, July 30 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for refreshments and a chance to view the artwork.
Calgary Fringe Theatre Festival
Calgary’s favourite summer theatre festival is back! The Calgary Fringe Theatre Festival unfolds over nine vibrant days beginning on the Friday of the August long weekend, showcasing performers from around the world. All the acts are selected by random draw or by first come, first served...
Ugly Privilege | Jessica Pigeau
Award-winning comedian Jessica Pigeau brings her show “Ugly Privilege” to the Calgary Fringe Festival. Drawing from her experience of growing up disabled and gender non-conforming in rural Alberta, this show is equal parts hilarious, heartfelt and honest.
2026 Bump Urban Art Conference
Launched in 2017 as the Beltline Urban Murals Project, BUMP Festival has evolved into Calgary’s most expansive public art initiative, reshaping neighborhoods with cutting-edge installations and progressive public programming. Artist-led and community-powered, BUMP pioneers a new vision for...
Discover Modern Square Dancing
Square dancing is just walking to music. No partner necessary. Experienced caller will introduce you to the basic steps of today’s Square Dancing. Bring a water bottle. Wear comfortable shoes.
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Free This Week
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August Exhibitions
Check out new visual art exhibitions in Calgary — from oil paintings exploring identity to work created during a residency... Read More
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Contact Calgary Arts Development’s communications team at 403.264.5330 ext. 118 or by email at events@calgaryartsdevelopment.com.
