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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.

Takes place July 6 & 7. Mexifest will showcase the diversity in Mexican gastronomy, arts, music, and culture! Admission is $10 in advance and $20 at the door. Admission is free for kids under 10 and adults over 70.

These free events are a great reason to enjoy a stay-cation during the Calgary Stampede 2018! New at Fluor Rope Square (7th Avenue and Macleod Trail SE) is two family movie nights on July 7 and July 14! This is an excellent chance for the family to spend an evening out. Events at Fluor Rope Square kick off on July 7, with the famous Chuckwagon Stampede breakfast and the Lammle’s World Champion Hat Stomp Competition. These events will continue July 9 to 14 and will also feature the Fluor Great Western Flapjack Flip Contest! Families can pick up free tickets to join the Parade of Old Time Rigs and enjoy their pancake breakfast in a horse-drawn carriage. Families can also kick the dust up with Fluor Square Dancers along Stephen Avenue Walk on July 7 and July 9 to 14, no experience necessary! Learn how to square dance like a pro. Members of the five tribes of Treaty 7 will also be performing in a First Nations Parade July 7 and July 9 to 14. Donning their traditional regalia, parade performers will start at 9th Avenue at 1 Street SW and travel to Fluor Rope Square and finish at 4th Avenue SW. This weather-permitting event teaches attendees of all ages about First Nation heritage and culture through song, dance, and commentaries. For further details and schedule, visit the website.

Register Now for the SunRype TRi KiDS Triathlon on July 22! This triathlon offers safe, non-competitive, confidence-building races for children and youth ages 3 to 15. TRi KiDS events combine 3 sports kids love: swimming, biking, and running! The triathlon begins at 9am. For more information and to register your child for the triathlon, visit the website.

Tickers on Sale Now! This Girl Can Expo, presented by Hurd Ventures, is for girls ages 5+ featuring health and wellness, sports activities, fashion, arts and design, science and technology, and safety and support. It will be in the Big Four Building on September 8. For more information and to purchase tickets to the expo, visit the website!

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.

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!

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

Celebrate Big Reds 1st Birthday and Granary Roads 1 year anniversary. There will be lots of games and activities for the whole family including the chicken dance, egg & spoon race, chicken walk races, painting & crafts, egg collecting at the chicken coop, a petting zoo and more! Big Red will also be making his first ever appearance!

Join OMO Teppan and Kitchen for their first annual Stampede Breakfast on July 7. Enjoy all the stampede breakfast staples, including green tea pancakes, hashbrowns, bacon, sausage, orange juice, and coffee. This is a by-donation breakfast, with all proceeds going to the Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Society. Join for live music, kids' activities, and prizes to be won all morning (including Luke Bryan, Grandstand show, and stampede ground tickets!). This is one stampede breakfast you won't want to miss!

Flooding events and the negative impact of park visitors walking off designated pathways both have serious implications for the health of the Fish Creek watershed. This tour takes you to visit the Friends’ riparian restoration sites to see the important work being done by volunteers that combats these issues and contributes to increased ecosystem health. Drew McKibben has been in the communications business for nearly 25 years as a journalist, a broadcaster and author of periodical nature stories for children. Before his communications career, Drew spent a decade in the backcountry as a fire lookout and lighthouse keeper, and as a foreman with federal and provincial parks building backcountry projects. He has also worked as an interpreter of cultural history at Calgary’s Heritage Park and is currently a river guide on the Bow River for Calgary’s River Watch program. Drew has been an avid volunteer with the Friends of Fish Creek since 2014.

We set up a reading tent at Riley Park every Saturday of the summer (weather permitting) to promote children's literacy June 23 to August 25! Children will be able to read books with volunteers and participate in crafts and face paint related to the weekly themes.