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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.
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 units of labour.
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.
It Doesn’t Matter Doesn’t Matter
Experience an immersive exhibition exploring trauma, censorship and cultural erasure through installation, text, sound and moving image. Grounded in Guo’s lived experience, the work reflects on silence, memory and shared social conditions.
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 show
Cowboys Music Festival
Cowboys Music Festival is an annual 11-day music festival featuring a diverse line-up of the world’s top artists across a variety of genres, including Hip Hop, Rock, Pop and Country.
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 bring creativity into everyday life separate from
Visual Verse
The Alberta Society of Artists is pleased to present the group exhibition “Visual Verse” featuring the work of SPECTRA Textile Arts. “Spectra is a group of like-minded Fibre Artists who are committed to the exploration and presentation of textiles as art.
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 passage, mining of resources, and military access.
Calgary Stampede Powwow
Experience Cultures. Experience Community. Experience Celebration. Experience Competition. Featuring the best dancers and drummers from across Canada and the United States, this extraordinary competition will highlight the diversity of Indigenous dancing, singing, and drumming.
Current // Process + Place
Current is a new series of public art activations presented by The New Gallery (TNG), transforming the Bow River pathway into a flowing corridor of creativity. Connecting Calgary’s cultural landmarks and natural landscapes, these activations merge art, nature, and community through installation, performance, and interactive projects. It invites audiences to experience the city through the
John Summit
Cowboys Music Festival is going all out for its 30th birthday! Catch DJ legend John Summit light up the CMF Stage with bangers like ‘Where You Are’, ‘Shivers’, ‘Go Back’ & more!
Art Community Pancake Palooza
Head over to cSPACE Marda Loop’s Art Park for Calgary’s only Stampede Breakfast created by artists, for arts champions. This vibrant, all-ages morning gathering will serve up classic pancakes, live music and lively conversations, with a generous helping of community spirit.
Songs In The Saddle: A Stampede Songwriters Showcase w/ Elliot C Way & Carter Felker
This special event brings together two of Western Canada’s finest songwriters for an evening that celebrates the craft of storytelling through song. Whether you’re drawn to the outlaw spirit of country music or the rich storytelling traditions of folk and Americana, this is a night designed for listeners who appreciate songs with something to say.
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