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Kids Fair is an online consignment pop-up sale based in Calgary. This sale helps you sell or buy gently used kids clothing, toys, furniture and all related kid items from the comfort of your home.

Shakespeare’s fiery drama chronicles the cutthroat ascension of a king and the havoc he leaves in his wake as he gains power over the realm at Vertigo Theatre. Richard III is an unrelenting demonstration of the exercise of power.

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.

The 20th Anniversary Calgary Underground Film Festival will be an 11-day in-person celebration of film, and the biggest festival yet in terms of days, films shown, special events, parties, and guests in attendance at The Globe Cinema.

The Calgary Zoo has partnered with Bridgeland Distillery to bring you a delectable evening of delicious dining and alcohol pairings. Guests will indulge their senses with a meal curated by the zoo’s head chef as they learn about the attention and craftsmanship that takes the spirit pairings to the next level.

There’s no better place to make pter-iffic memories playing with adorable baby dinos, excavating fossils, or even training a raptor while surrounding by behemoths like sky-scraping Spinosaurus and, the King himself, Tyrannosaurus rex. Do it all at Jurassic Quest at the BMO Centre.

Enjoy a stroll through original artwork by 12 of Calgary’s professional fine artists. This beautiful show fills the Crescent Heights Community Centre with hundreds of paintings in a variety of styles, sizes and prices. The artists will all be in attendance to chat with you about their work and help you find the perfect piece for your home or office.

more than 2,000 pieces of preloved art – oil and acrylic paintings, prints (numbered prints and decorative), and photographic art, both framed and unframed at the Acadia Recreation Complex.

Based on the seminal 1980 hit movie, set in the late 70s this hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the rolodex era is outrageous, thought-provoking and even a little romantic.

the Made with Love Banff Food and Cocktail Festival will present events showcasing the local cocktail, mocktail and food scene, with special cocktail menus available in all participating restaurants during the festival.

The new Broadway adaptation of the classic musical. This contemporary take on the classic tale features Rodgers & Hammerstein’s most beloved songs, including “In My Own Little Corner,” “Impossible/It’s Possible” and “Ten Minutes Ago,” alongside an up-to-date, hilarious and romantic libretto by Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane.

Gasoline Alley Museum welcomes a new exhibit from January 14 to April 30; We Were Here: Stories from Early Chinatown. Bring your family and come learn about Chinese history on the prairies through art and imagination, discover fictional stories written by members of the Chinese community and explore two iterations of Chinatown in Calgary.

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

Ella Enchanted is a fairy tale musical about self-empowerment, perseverance, and an eagerness to learn! Along the way, she'll encounter nasty ogres, evil step-sisters, and – if she has time – a handsome prince.

A vibrant floor-to-ceiling journey inside a graphic novel that follows four Indigenous superheroes as they seek to bring back the balance of earth between humility and respect for the land, and the excessive destruction of human ego.

we’ve all attended a wedding or two. Which is why we could all relate to the classic movie about a 1980’s wedding singer who finally found a love of his own. By the 1990’s, the wedding singer has had lots of practice and is often called on to sing at the biggest weddings of the year. But what happens when he must sing at, what everyone says will surely be, the wedding of the millennium? Oh, and the millennium bride just happens to be his daughter.

Canada’s Filipino Restaurant Month is a chance for diners to explore the diverse culinary scene of the Philippines with participating restaurants across Canada.

A group of local artists led by pysanky master Daena Diduck, will design 14 three-dimensional eggs ranging from three to six feet tall, one for each month that the war has been ongoing in Ukraine. The eggs will be displayed at the mall as public art until the end of the month, when they will be sold in a silent auction with proceeds going to two Ukrainian support organizations.

Visit Tigerstedt & Friends to learn to make slime with all of the proceeds going to Calgary Fridge. $15 per person. Learn more by following @tigerstedtandfriends on Instagram.

?Imagine Performing Arts is excited to continue telling great stories - and creating great theatre - with our production of THE RAILWAY CHILDREN! Travel back in time with us to Edwardian England - 1910 - where a young family faces hard times but discovers a world filled with love, resilience and humanity - and always running through it is the railway, in particular the 9:15 to London… Suitable for ages 8 and up, this is a live theatre experience for the whole family - performed inside the historic Lantern Church.

The Calgary Philharmonic Chorus celebrates its 60th anniversary featuring music for chorus and the Jack Singer’s Carthy organ. The Chorus will be joined by Cantaré Children’s Choir for this special celebration.