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Takes place May 10 to 12, check website for hours. CBC Calgary Reads Big Book Sale. Shop for the books, stay for the fun! It’s a literacy carnival with live music, children’s story corner, and book-browsing for all! For more information, visit the website.

Takes place May 10 to 12, check website for schedule; May Classic II at Spruce Meadows. The May Classic Tournament welcomes horses and riders to the first outdoor tournament of the season - Calgary Spring weather-permitting! Competitions in this tournament range from 0.8m to 1.40m. For more information and schedule, visit the website.

Skate To Great National Skate Drive Returns to Calgary in advance of the Stars on Ice show. The spring skate drive launches on May 11 at Scotiabank Saddledome, offering an opportunity to kick-start your spring cleaning and donate gently used skates to local kids who need them! Bring your items to the Scotiabank Saddledome on May 11 anytime after 6:30pm. Skate To Great organizers and FedEx Express Canada will be collecting used kids hockey and figure skates, helmets and hockey sticks. To kick off the drive, organizers will be collecting items at Scotiabank Saddledome, where Stars on Ice will be performing. After the kick-off date on May 11, bring your items for donation to one of Skate To Great’s collection locations until May 31. To find a location near you and for more information, visit the website below

Purchase your tickets now for Day Out With Thomas at Heritage Park, taking place May 4, 5, 10, 11 & 12, 9am to 5pm. Everyone’s favorite blue engine, Thomas the Tank Engine, is chugging into Heritage Park for two weekends of fun! Take a 20-minute ride with Thomas, meet Sir Topham Hatt, and enjoy a day full of Thomas and Friends activities. To purchase tickets and for more information, visit the website.

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

Purchase your tickets now for the all new Royal Canadian family Circus Spectac!® 2019 Tour, taking place June 14 to 23. The all new Royal Canadian family Circus Spectac!® is coming CrossIron Mills, under the Big Top, for 12 spectacular shows. This internationally-renowned circus will bring thrilling acts featuring Chinese Acrobats Flying Trapeze, Wheel of Destiny, Comedy, Motorcycle Globe, Hula Hoops, MotoSwing and Aerialists. (This is an animal-free show.) For more information and to purchase 2 for 1 tickets, visit the website below (promo code: calgaryschild).

Takes place May 2 to 16, 6am to 6pm. Join for the 32nd Annual Exhibition of Children’s Art from North Mount Pleasant and Wildflower Arts Centres. Celebrate the sculpture, painting, drawing, and mixed media artworks created by young artists, ages 3 to 17. Opening reception takes place May 2 at 5:30pm where the artists will be in attendance. Takes place at the Municipal Building Atrium.

International Migratory Bird Day at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. Celebrate the return of our feathered friends. Learn about migration and conservation from local birding experts, enjoy nature-themed games and crafts, and go on a guided sanctuary tour. Bring the family out to enjoy this international celebration dedicated to birds and their habitats!

Just in time for a Mother's Day Family Show, Shrek, The Musical comes to vibrant life for four performances only on May 10, 11, and 12. Online tickets range from $15 to $20. For more information, including show times, and to purchase tickets, visit the website.

Celebrate Mother's Day with beautiful music by the Calgary Boys' Choir. Free Admission! Celebrate 45 years of the Calgary Boys' Choir with special guests The Heebee-jeebees and a chorus made of choir alumni and friends. And with it also being Mother's Day, the boys will have something special for all mothers and mother figures.Admission is free so bring all of your friends and family! They will also have birthday cake and light refreshments! For more information, call 403-710-0688 or visit the website.

A Mother’s Day treat, the final concert of the Kensington Sinfonia’s 2019 season will present Reverie - music of dreams and fantasy. This concert honors the creative expressions of female composers with pieces by Wu Man, Angela Morley, and Canadians Norma Beecroft and Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté. The concert will also feature the young winner of this year’s Kensington Sinfonia Concerto Competition: 14-year-old Isabelle Robinson and 13-year-old Anna Stube. They will be performing selections from Vivaldi's iconic “Four Seasons.” Bring your children to an afternoon of beautiful chamber music. Free admission for children 12 and under! To purchase tickets, visit the website.