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Hillhurst Sunnyside Farmers’ Market
The Hillhurst Sunnyside Farmers’ Market is Calgary’s longest-running, year-round neighbourhood market. Featuring direct-to-consumer vendors, ready-to-eat foods, local art, murals and live music, it’s a vibrant community hub that goes beyond food.
Secret Impro Show
The Moose is back with improvised comedy shows every Saturday evening! Their live comedy shows feature some of their most popular formats like Maestro Impro and Gorilla Theatre. The Secret Impro Show is recommended for ages 14 and up.
Neon Paint Night
This Biweekly Neon Paint Night at Y Not Today is a glow-in-the-dark painting experience set under UV lights, perfect for all skill levels. Enjoy music, desserts and a vibrant atmosphere as you create, connect, and let your creativity shine.
Art of Reclamation
Hotel Arts’ new collaboration with Whiskey Jack Gallery and artist Shannon Carla King brings you an installation that’s as thought-provoking as it is beautiful. These pieces celebrate the incredible work of reclamation experts, transforming forgotten lands into renewed spaces.
NMC Tours
Dive deeper into Canada’s music story and explore the National Music Centre’s collections, exhibitions, and studios through guided tours. Get up close with iconic instruments and artifacts on their Greatest Hits Tour, or do an exclusive Backstage Pass Tour and see music come to life in their recording studios!
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.
Acoustic Afternoons
Head over to Acoustic Afternoons at King Eddy every week and catch a new songwriter performing a family-friendly afternoon set to soundtrack your 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.
New Views
This exhibition celebrates a decade of new acquisitions from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Collection, now home to over 9,600 works. Featuring many pieces on public display for the first time, it showcases the diversity and creativity of Alberta’s artistic identity.
Fragment to Form | Katie Ohe and the Shape of Persistence
Explore the art of Katie Ohe at Devonian Gardens! This free exhibition showcases her public art alongside select pieces from her personal collection.
They Come Together & The People and the Lodge
Celebrate the voices and visions of contemporary Indigenous artists from across First Nations. These two exhibitions explore cultural memory, traditional knowledge, and connection to the land — expressed through digital and contemporary art.
Jana Sterbak: Dimensions of Intimacy
Dimensions of Intimacy is a retrospective celebrating nearly 50 years of Jana Sterbak’s influential career. The exhibition spans her groundbreaking sculptures, wearable works, films and rarely seen pieces from her personal collection.
Erik Olson: In the Garden
In the Garden is a series of large-scale oil paintings begun by Erik Olson in Düsseldorf, Germany during the early, uncertain months of the pandemic in 2020. The works draw on the historic Hofgarten—Germany’s oldest public park—as both a physical site and a psychological landscape.
Preston Pavlis: You There
You there—is it a greeting, a call, or a way of marking someone’s place? At once familiar and ambiguous, the phrase reflects the shifting dynamics at the heart of Preston Pavlis’ work: the act of seeing and being seen, the relation between self and other, and the distance between here and elsewhere.
Ecologies – Eveline Kolijn
Stimulated by her study of natural science as a creative force, Calgary-based artist and author Eveline Kolijn marries science with art; generating through printmaking, video and installation, a fantastical vision of our natural world.
Clothed: Until Further Notice
This thought-provoking exhibition by non-binary artist Lexi Hilderman examines clothing, identity and memory. Using thrifted garments and hand-printed paper dolls, the work invites reflection on how clothing shapes, and is shaped by, personal and social narratives.
Across Alberta
What happens when an artist turns the province into her studio? For Samantha Williams-Chapelsky, that means packing up her paints and easel and embarking on a year-long journey across Alberta to capture its diverse landscapes.
Surface all the way through: Arianna Richardson
Surface all the way through is a collection of sculptures made from discarded materials that look like pillows. While making this work with her sewing machine and knitting machine, Richardson was ruminating on waste, superficiality, sentimental materialism, distraction, accumulation and containment.
Pirates Of The River Saskatchewan
Set sail for laughter and adventure with Jubilations Dinner Theatre’s Pirates of the River Saskatchewan. Join Cap’n Jack and his rowdy crew for a musical comedy full of treasure, tunes and high-seas hijinks.
Laura Grier: Dene Aesthetics
Dene Aesthetics is both an exhibition and a theory that seeks to bridge complex Dene renderings of being and language, reaching across alter-Native realms of knowing to trace the outlines of a living, ongoing aesthetical theory.
December Exhibitions
Check out some of the new visual art exhibitions in Calgary this December — from inspiring group shows to seasonal... Read More
Free This Week
Get into the holiday spirit with visual art, storytimes and festive fun across Calgary! From exhibition openings and writer showcases,... Read More
Free This Week
This week brings a rich mix of visual art, film, music and festive gatherings. Learn about 17th-century Dutch art, celebrate... Read More
Free This Week
Explore art, music and more! Go behind the scenes to learn about the restoration of Katie Ohe’s Day and Night... Read More
Questions?
Contact Calgary Arts Development’s communications team at 403.264.5330 ext. 118 or by email at events@calgaryartsdevelopment.com.
