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Get outside and enjoy the vibrancy of our city! Chinook Blast will heat up Calgary with a four-week celebration of community, culture, and civic pride! The best of Calgary’s art, music, theatre, sport, and recreation will be on display. Some activities are free

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.

February 10 to 12 & February 17 to 19; GLOW Downtown Winter Light Festival. This festival lights up imaginations with a one-of-a-kind experience featuring interactive light displays, art, entertainment, food trucks. glowfestyyc.ca

Hygge Hut - pronounced “hoo-ga” - is the East Village's Scandinavian-style space inspired by the Danish idea of Hygge, which means a special kind of well-being - a cozy, easy togetherness. This season, Hygge Hut was reimagined to be bigger, better, and cozier than ever and has a new home in C-Square! There are weekly interactive live ice carving demonstrations, pop-up food trucks, hot chocolate, fireside storytimes, community dog walks, live music, and no shortage of good company! Check out the website for weekly programming and pop-up activities. (You’ll know you’re in the right place when the familiar smell of campfire hits your nose and gives you all the camping and nature feels without having to leave the city.) Hygge Hut is open Fridays, 2 to 6pm, Saturdays, Sundays, and Statutory Holidays Noon to 6pm until March.

February 1 to 28; Calgary Meals on Wheels Presents, YYC Hot Chocolate Fest. Participating cafés, restaurants, and chocolatiers compete for the coveted titles of YYC’s Best Hot Chocolate, Best Spirited Hot Chocolate, and special Cup That Runneth Over Award. Sip a variety of hot cocoas and determine the blend that roasts them all! $1 to $3 from every cup sold supports Calgary Meals on Wheels.

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!

Company of Adventurers, in partnership with The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award, is proud to offer skill-building, backcountry expeditions to various locations in the Canadian Rockies. Our Practice and Qualifying expeditions will give you winter skills experience you crave while helping you learn the tools, methods, and confidence to get outside all winter long with friends and family. Skills include: Avalanche Awareness, Snowshoeing, XC-Skiing, Fire Lighting and Shelter Building. Our winter programs are suitable for all youth ages 14+, and satisfy the Duke of Edinburgh Award's Bronze and Silver requirements. Visit our website for more information!

Most people wonder how they would react in an emergency. Could you rescue a swimmer if you were the first on the scene with your jet ski? Now you can test your rescue instincts in 17 different interactive situations!

Be part of the energy! Locations across Calgary. Check the website for a complete schedule of sessions and classes offered during All Sport One City 2022! We have sessions for adults, kids, and new this year, sessions for families to try a sport together! Please note that information may be subject to change. All registered participants will receive reminder emails prior to the session with up-to-date information. REGISTRATION OPENS FEBRUARY 11

Celebrate Family Fishing Weekend in Alberta at Bow Habitat Station’s FISHtival! Join in activities and games and feed the fish in the Fish Hatchery. There will be indoor and outdoor Investigation Stations and special guest booths included with Discovery Centre Admission - fish feeding included. Family Fishing Weekend is for family and friends to connect with some of Alberta’s greatest natural resources: our lakes, rivers, streams, and the fish that live in them. Tickets must be booked ahead of time as space is limited. Please leave strollers at home for this event. Due to space limitations, strollers will not be permitted indoors. Coupons and vouchers do not apply to this event. Members: call ahead to reserve your tickets! All members must have tickets reserved. Final entry at 3:15pm. Stay up-to-date on COVID-19 restrictions by visiting www.bowhabitat.alberta.ca/visit/covid-19-response.aspx. Visitors must wear masks at all times while at Bow Habitat Station. All visitors 12 years of age and older must provide proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test.

The Calgary Zoo is starting the year off with waddle! The 2022 Penguin Walk, presented by RE/MAX, marks the 10th year of the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo's penguin walk. During the winter months, the king penguin colony heads out on zoo grounds for a daily enrichment walk to keep their brains and bodies healthy and visitors get to experience the fun! This incredible program allows you to get an up-close look at the group of king penguins as they explore, exercise, and waddle their way through the zoo. This is a free-choice activity for the penguins and is subject to weather conditions and animal inclination.

This year’s festival features compelling and diverse live sounds from Calgary’s own backyard, Canada, and the world! Let’s come together for a grassroots celebration with song and dance!

Fridays, 2 to 6pm, Saturdays, Sundays & Statutory Holidays, Noon to 6pm, until March; East Village is Bringing Cozy Back with Hygge Hut. Hygge Hut is bigger, better, and cozier than ever and has a new home in C-Square! There will be weekly interactive live ice carving demonstrations, pop-up food trucks, hot chocolate, fireside storytime, dog walks, live music, and more!

Expert speakers will deliver timely, credible information and best-practice strategies to support the development and mental health of a child or youth in your life. Previously recorded presentations are also available for viewing: https://youtu.be/tLbDa8Vlutk

Takes place November 19 to January 2 (excluding November 23, 28 & 30 and December 3, 25 & 31). ZOOLIGHTS, presented by Olympia Trust Company, is back for its 25th year! This year's ZOOLIGHTS will feature exciting new themed areas and activities including a 25th anniversary Memory Lane, the Nutcracker in the ENMAX Conservatory, and an all-new “Tunnel of Light,” a tribute to Canada’s wetland, a holiday Zoo Market, and a very special “Dinos at Night” experience like you have never seen before! Of course, the Zoo is bringing back all the classic activities everyone has come to love like the Skating Rink, Fire pits, and Rival Axe Throwing. ZOOLIGHTS comes to life at night with twinkling lights at every turn, including over 200 light figurines, along with interactive and choreographed light displays. The lights are turned on at 5pm nightly and run until 9pm. It takes approximately 90 minutes to 2 hours to experience all that ZOOLIGHTS has to offer - but you are able to stay for as little or as long as you like!

Go up Schipp’s Creek without a paddle! Whether you’re a fan of the show or just a fan of music and laughter, it will be a great time! Check website for showtimes.

Based on the popular Disney Channel Original Movies, Disney’s The Descendants: The Musical is a brand-new musical comedy featuring the beloved characters and hit songs from the films! It is present-day, and in the kingdom of Auradon, all of Disney’s beloved heroes and royalty are living happily ever after, safe from the terrifying villains and troublesome sidekicks they have banished to the magic-free Isle of the Lost. That is until Ben, the benevolent teenage son of Belle and King Adam (The Beast), offers a chance of redemption for the troublemaking offspring of the evilest villains. Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos - the children of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Cruella De Vil, and Jafar - are welcomed to Auradon Prep to attend school with the children of their parents’ sworn enemies. Now entering a completely foreign world and way of life, the four Villain Kids have a difficult choice to make: should they follow in their parents’ wicked footsteps or learn to be good? The show is planned to be presented at 50 percent capacity. Should provincial restrictions be lifted, more seats may be made available.