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Free Online Coding Workshop for Grade 1-12 Students Daily starts at 18 PM Dive into the magical world of coding with personalized guidance from expert mentors! What Will You Learn? Game Development Animation Website Development App Development Book a free coding session: https://cdg.al/iVf5P Session Highlight: 1:1 live online session Hands-on, learning with an expert mentor STEM.org-accredited certification for participation

Calgary Unplugged is an annual family-friendly Earth Hour event. Date: Saturday, March 23, 2024 Time: 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Location: Central Library (800 3 Street SE) Join us for music, entertainment, and opportunities to experience what environmental actions you can take in Calgary. Pedal power midway games and experience how our natural world affects our daily lives. Bring personal lighting and dance to the DJ when the lights go down for the Earth Hour party! Calgary Unplugged is hosted by The Arusha Centre's Climate Program, with support from The City of Calgary and community agencies. If you can't make it to the event, turning off nonessential lights, "unplug" from electronics at 8:30 and reconnect with people, games or hobbies! After Earth Hour, share your participation with #EarthHour and #EarthHourYYC. Email programs@arusha.org with questions.

A Wicked Throwback Halloween Party for the 35+ crowd! All in support of AARCS (Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society) This Party has EVERYTHING! Old school Halloween games, Scavenger Hunt, burlesque performances, dancing to hits from 70's to 90's. Win 2 tickets anywhere Westjet flies!

Check website for show times. Celebrate the holidays with a fun new show for the whole family! Thanks to a fairy-tale time machine, Edward travels from the olden days to modern Calgary where he meets Cinderella. She’s a young go-getter, and he has become the handsome Eddie Prince, and – wait a minute – his uncle is the Fairy Godmother! Will Cinderella or her selfish sisters win the Stampede talent show? Will Cinderella’s crazy step-mom even let her perform? Recommended for ages Kindergarten and up. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the website below.

Join us at Southcentre Mall from June 3rd to 23rd for our fourth annual Indigenous History Month celebration in partnership with Authentically Indigenous. This month-long event will foster understanding, appreciation, and celebration of Canada’s Indigenous Peoples. Experience educational activities, cultural displays, and storytelling sessions that connect both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians. The celebrations will include: Full-Size Tipi: Step inside a tipi adorned with tapestries representing decades of Indigenous contributions to Calgary’s culture. Storytelling: Be moved by traditional stories from elders, delight in puppet shows by Indigenous authors, and explore virtual reality experiences by the Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth. Artisan Market: Discover the vibrancy of Indigenous creativity at our artisan market on June 7th and 8th. Enjoy music, dance, and locally crafted goods. Educational Information Walls: Learn and engage with displays that provide deeper insights into Indigenous culture.

Come and enjoy an afternoon listening to stories and some of Canada’s finest musicians. Storyteller/Musician Samantha Whelan Kotkas and her friends will entertain you and your children with musical interactive tales of child-accessible hikes in the Rocky Mountains. Teach your child about courage, unity, joyfulness, and caring in an afternoon of fun and adventure. An event for the whole family that you will want to be a part of. Recommended for children aged 5 to 12, but created with the entire family in mind. Come one hour before the show & enjoy family friendly activities. Stay after to meet the performers. Created and Narrated by Samantha Whelan Kotkas Music by Tyler Hornby Puppets by Green Fools Theatre Video by Joel Goundry Tyler Hornby - Drums, Chris Andrew - Piano, Pat Belliveau - Saxophones, Aaron Shore - Guitar, Stephen Shepard - Bass

Let us show you how we empower our students to reach their full potential! Hear stories from staff, current students, and parents before learning about how you can be a part of our wonderful community. Rundle Studio is an online learning environment built to help students with diagnosed learning disabilities thrive. Let us show you how we empower our students to reach their full potential!

Ring in 2017 early with your little ones! Perfect for Calgarians with early bedtimes. Enjoy a day jam-packed with family fun, live science demonstrations, and experiences including a special countdown at Noon! Included with membership and/or admission. Free for children 3 and under.

December 31, Gymnasium from 4:30 to 6:30pm and Pool Party from 5:30 to 8:30pm. Play, swim, jump, splash, and slide! Come for arts & crafts, games, obstacle course, bouncy house, and the ‘take a selfie’ photo booth! Then join in the waterpark where there will be a DJ pumping out the tunes as families enjoy the wave pool, slides, hot tub, and AquaPlay structure! Stay until the very end to enjoy the pool party countdown!

Welcome the New Year with the whole family from in Turner Valley! This fun, free, family-friendly New Year’s Eve celebration will feature face painting, outdoor skating, hot dogs, hot chocolate, hay wagon rides, music, and fireworks.

Running throughout the Holiday Season, Spruce Meadows invites your entire family - together with your Christmas guests - to enjoy the Christmas Lights at Spruce Meadows. Experience Christmas Season magic with a quarter of a million lights, blanketing Spruce Meadows from west to east. The 2-kilometre drive through the grounds includes Tournament Lane, The Courtyard, Traffic Circle, the Nations Flag Park, Congress Hall, Riders Chapel and the Pond with strings of lights measuring nearly 80 kilometres. Step out of your car or away from the skating rink to enjoy a hot chocolate or coffee together with a pastry in the warm comfort of the Founders Plaza each evening during the Christmas Lights from 5 to 8pm. For more information and to view the map, visit the website.

During the month of December, Calgary’s Community of the Year, Legacy, will be hosting their 2nd Annual Family-Friendly Christmas Light Parade with over 80,000 lights! For some classic winter fun, drive through the entire community to experience the tunnels of lights, Christmas displays, and an outdoor skating rink! Toy Mountain donations can also be made at the Calbridge show homes.

November 25 to January 8 (excluding December 25), 6 to 9pm; Experience over 1.5 million lights, 200 displays, crackling fire pits, steamy hot chocolate, and four fun-filled activity zones (with many new additions!), transforming the Zoo into a magical winter wonderland. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the website.

Family Dance Party at Municipal Building, 7 to 9pm; Outdoor Celebrations at Olympic Plaza, 7pm to Midnight. To kick-off the start of Canada’s sesquicentennial year in 2017, The City of Calgary will host free, family-friendly New Year’s Eve festivities! Activities include live ice carving demonstrations, performance artists, Canadian art, family dance party, inflatable obstacle course, glow-in-the-dark resolution wall, under-five-play area, ice skating, ice slide, and more! Early countdown for kids at 9pm. The main stage will feature live performances from Canadian artists and will culminate in a 2017 countdown and fireworks display at midnight to ring in the start of a year of celebrations for Canada’s 150th Anniversary! Proudly Sponsored in Part by Calgary's Child Magazine! For more information, visit the website.