Free This Week
Looking for some fun free events this week? From art auctions to zine-making, exhibition tours to live music, there’s something for everyone! Read on for a roundup of some exciting things to do in our city!
Nickle at Noon — Art Auctions 101
October 17, 2024, 12 – 1pm
Nickle Galleries (435 Campus Lane NW.)
Free to attend
Have you ever been curious about art auctions and how they work? Join Cheryl Sonley and Andrea Lowe to learn all about them as they cover everything from the place of art auctions in the art market to the shift to online vs. live auctions.
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Zine Making & Community
October 17, 2024, 1 – 3pm
Sparrow Artspace (36 4 St. NE)
Free to participate, registration required
Zines are community-building tools! Join cartoonist Sam Hester and journalist Jeremy Klaszus of The Sprawl for a zine-making workshop. Fold, write and draw your own zine or use their Curious Calgary zine templates to create a story about Calgary. Plus, test out The Sprawl’s vintage printing press!
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Constellations: Racial myths, land, and labour Exhibition Tour
October 17, 2024, 6 – 7pm
Esker Foundation (4th floor, 1011 9 Ave. SE)
Free to attend, registration required
Curated by Su-Ying Lee, the group exhibition Constellations: Racial myths, land, and labour begins with the flows of people and plants circulated through the routes of early European colonialism. Join Esker Foundation for a conversation and tour with Naomi Potter and Shauna Thompson. Register now!
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TRUCK Fall Exhibitions Opening
October 18, 2024, 6 – 9pm
TRUCK Contemporary Art (2009 10 Ave. SW)
Free to attend
Join TRUCK Contemporary Art for an artist talk followed by the opening reception for their fall exhibitions, Queer Newfoundland Hockey League (QNHL) by Lucas Morneau and Body Languages by Iván Acebo-Choy, Jillian Fleck and Patrick Moskwa!
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Acclaimed Fine Art Show
October 18 – 20, 2024
Crescent Heights Community Centre (1101 2 St. NW)
Free to explore
Come and meet 14 of Calgary’s talented artists at the Crescent Heights Community Centre, where they’ll will be showcasing hundreds of pieces of fine art from landscape to abstract.
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Creepin’ it Real: A/P Print Party
October 19, 2024, 11am – 4pm
Nvrlnd Boutique (1048 21 Ave. SE)
Select activities are free to participate
Join Alberta Printmakers for a full day of spectacular printmaking taking place at NVRLND Boutique! This all-ages party has a number of interactive and DIY printmaking activities.
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Barbara Milne: Season — Opening Reception
October 19, 2024, 2 – 5pm
Wallace Galleries (500 5 Ave. SW)
Free to attend
Season represents a continuum of work reflecting upon nature; as we encounter it and as we remember it. Artist Barbara Milne’s paintings are meditations on static and flux, the specific and the monumental, and the temporal nature of place. Check out the opening reception!
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Upward Spiral — Opening Reception
October 19, 2024, 2 – 4pm
Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art (730 11 Ave. SW)
Free to attend
Newzones present a solo exhibition of new work, Upward Spiral, by Canadian abstract painter Bradley Harms. Bringing together multiple series, this exhibition showcases Harms’ manipulation of paint in a delicate dance of flow and control. Join them for the opening!
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Tour — Recent Textile Acquisitions
October 21, 2024, 12 – 1pm
Nickle Galleries (435 Campus Lane NW.)
Free to attend
Nickle Galleries curator Michele Hardy leads this intimate, behind-the-scenes tour of the textile vault, sharing some exciting new additions to the collection. These include a incredibly rare Kurdish reed screen, Persian carpet samplers as well as contemporary art textiles.
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Rod Carley — RuFF w/ Deborah Willis
October 22, 2024, 7pm
Shelf Life Books (Suite 100, 1302 4 St. SW)
Free to attend
If you love Shakespeare, comedy and shenanigans, join award-winning author Rod Carley for the Calgary launch of his latest Shakespearean Comedy RuFF! Carley will be in conversation with award-winning and Calgary-based author Deborah Willis.
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Italian Concert featuring Concert Accordion, Soprano & Tenor
October 23, 2024, 12:10 – 1pm
Cathedral Church of the Redeemer (604 1 St. SE)
Free to attend
Soprano Lauren Woods, tenor Spencer Britten and accordionist Penny Sanborn come together to present an Italian concert. The Italian music will include traditional pieces like O Sole Mio, arias like Puccini’s O Mio Babbino Caro and duets like Verdi’s Libiamo from La Traviata.
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