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Human Sprawl

With this installation, Michelle Atkinson explores humanity’s tendency to live in excess with personal consumption impacting biodiversity. Born from industrial waste, animal sculptures were created from thick kiln-cast slabs of once broken office window glass destined for the landfill. Check it out!

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Lippan art

Join Y Not Today for an exciting showcase of Lippan art! Immerse yourself in the mesmerizing world of this traditional art form from Gujarat, India. Explore the intricate and geometric patterns — get hands-on experience and create your own Lippan art masterpiece to take home with you.

Showtime: 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: y not today (4339 Macleod Tr. SW)$39.99
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Cathy Daley: Gestures

Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art presents Gestures, a solo exhibition of work created by acclaimed Canadian figurative artist, Cathy Daley, marking the two-year anniversary of her passing. The exhibition showcases iconic images of billowing black dresses, tutus, and high-heels. Check it out!

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Location: Newzones Gallery (730 11 Ave. SW)Free
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22nd Annual Members Exhibition

Leighton Art Centre celebrates the incredible talent and creativity of their member artists. This year’s exhibition is a virtual ‘square foot show’, featuring over 100 works that are small in size and big on artistry! Most works featured in this exhibition are available for online purchase.

Location: Explore onlineFree
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Urban Nature

Urban Nature can be understood as areas in urban environments that are home to plants and non-human animals. The Alberta Society of Artists presents the group exhibition Urban Nature featuring the work of Contextural, a community of textile artists. . Reception and artist talks on March 9, 2-4 pm.  

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SpEATchless

The Alberta Society of Artists presents the exhibition SpEATchless featuring the work of Alberta artist Kimberly Jones. SpEATchlessis combines diorama and miniature artistry with food themes to create surreal scenes and vignettes to provoke introspection about scale and size as well as our relationship with food and waste.  

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Pysanky for Peace

Join us at Southcentre Mall for a remarkable celebration of art, culture, and solidarity at our third annual Pysanky for Peac‘ event. This initiative pays tribute to the Ukrainian Easter tradition of making or “writing” pysanky, carefully decorated Easter eggs featuring intricate designs in various styles and colours.  

During mall hours
Location: Southcentre Mall (100 Anderson Rd. SE)Free
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Nate McLeod: Slow Burn

Nate McLeod’s works draw upon tropes of classical painting by combining collected images of objects (found in personal photographs; screenshots of social media posts; his own past works and the works of other artists; AI-generated imagery, etc.) into a unified whole through the use of various framing devices.

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Location: Herringer Kiss Gallery (Suite #101, 1615 10 Ave. SW)Free
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Anton Ginzburg: Surface

Anton Ginzburg: Surface is a reflection on the use of technology as it relates to cultural labour, data aesthetics and machine learning. The three bodies of work deliberate on surfaces that range from the architectural to the digital screen and beyond, and are relevant to conversations around AI.

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Location: Contemporary Calgary (701 11th St. SW)With Admission
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Dance Lessons

Ranchmans offers free country dance lessons on the largest dance floor in Calgary. No reservations are needed, just join them on the dance floor! With decades of experience, their instructors can tailor dances to any age (18+) and ability.

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Location: Ranchmans Calgary (9615 Macleod Tr. S)Free
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Pop Mechanics

Explore the dichotomy of expression and communication through Bruce Watson’s sculptures, each emerging from playful experimentation, touching on themes of malice and alienation. Meanwhile Kenzie Housego’s interactive textile art delves into the evolution of flirting and courtship, weaving together embroidery, digital technology, and societal symbols of romantic communication.

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Location: Ruberto Ostberg Gallery (2108 18th St. NW)Free
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Patrick Dunford: Branch Lines

Norberg Hall is delighted to present Branch Lines, a new exhibition of paintings by Canadian artist Patrick Dunford. Through landscape painting the Winnipeg-born artist investigates human influences on the land and the industries that greatly alter it. Opening reception on March 16, 2 – 5pm.

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Location: Norberg Hall (Suite #333b, 36 Ave. SE)Free
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Joice M Hall: Nocturnal Light

This exhibition focuses on the subtleties and dramatic light in the evening and night skies of Kelowna, BC encountered by Joice M. Hall while playing with a digital camera’s night scene exposure from her deck. Opening reception March 16, 2024 from 2 – 5pm.

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Location: Wallace Galleries (500 5 Ave. SW)Free
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Shibboleth

In Shibboleth, Pedro Barbáchano reframes the collections of institutional museums in order to question the absence of nonconformist bodies and histories within them. Through his use of sculpture and photographic mediation, Barbáchano imagines how communities that have been historically persecuted can emerge and maintain their voices.

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Location: The New Gallery (208 Centre St. S)Free
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