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An annual festival of free, community-led walking tours inspired by Jane Jacobs. Explore your city, share stories about your community and connect with your neighbors on any of the hundreds of Jane’s Walks taking place across the world.

Stampede came early this year at Revv52. Revvin’ Country will turn the Bella Concert Hall into a country dance hall. Learn more at .

Scripted by Col Cseke with development support from Inside Out Theatre and Quest Theatre. Produced by Inside Out Theatre and presented by Quest Theatre. A play created by artists with disabilities, inspired by stories of children with disabilities. Charlotte Bubble feels like the world just doesn’t make any sense to her, “I feel like something is wrong, like the world and me just don’t fit.”? Wishing she could imagine a whole new world made just for her, she visits the Make Believers Maker Space where she discovers stories of hope, gems of hilarity, battles with equality, and triumphs of the human spirit. Will Charlotte’s imagination be the key to holding space for herself, articulating what she needs, and inviting others into?her?world?

The Calgary Book Drive & Sale in support of RESET Society is back for two weekends at Crossroads Market. You can help make a difference for women and children experiencing the violence and trauma of sexual exploitation, as they turn the page and start a new chapter of their story. Come shop over 100,000 books.

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.

Master of the Macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, battled addiction, tragedy and poverty, all while creating some of the most influential works in genre fiction. Bizarrely beautiful and whimsically witty, NEVERMORE uses haunting song, poetic storytelling, and surreal imagery to explore the events that shaped Poe’s career and ignited his lifelong battle with “visions dark and sinister” at The Playhouse.

All aboard! It will be full steam ahead for a day with this Really Useful Engine! Imagine how far you’ll go, with big dreams and even bigger smiles. The highlight of the day is riding in an interactive train pulled by Thomas himself but there are plenty of other special activities.

The Calgary Baby and Tot Show is a premier parenting event designed to bring everything you need under one roof at the BMO Centre. Featuring local and national exhibitors showcasing the latest in services, products, apparel, and toys. Assisting parents and caregivers every step of the way. Join industry experts as they discuss everything from pregnancy to preschool followed by an afternoon of children's interactive entertainment.

Give your old books new life! The sale’s main book donation site is the Calgary Curling Club. If you can’t make it to the Calgary Curling Club between April 28 and May 7, organizers also host stuff-a-truck events across Calgary.

The first Saturday in May each year when participating comic book shops across North America and around the world give away comic books free to anyone who comes into their stores. Every comic shop has its own rules and selection may vary.

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!

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.

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.

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

The show takes place in the Tower of London where Colonel Fairfax is wrongly accused of sorcery and sentenced to death within the hour. Fairfax hatches a plan to secretly marry a strolling singer, who now expects to be a wealthy widow upon Fairfax’s imminent demise, leaving her free to marry her lover, the jester Jack Point. However, Fairfax miraculously escapes his fate and chaos ensues.

A classic that is loved by all, young and old. The Painted Fish Theatre Company Presents at La Cité des Rocheuses Theater.

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 Loose Moose Theatre Company makes going to the theatre an experience that is truly magical for children four to ten years old, as well as fun and entertaining for parents. Plan an affordable family time out that everyone can enjoy.

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.

Donate, consign or buy a new set of wheels at Calgary Bike Swap at Genesis Place. Sell your bike(s) from 8am to 2pm. Buy from 2:30pm to 4pm or donate your bike(s) from 8am to 5pm.

A celebration of great ideas worth spreading, with more than a dozen speakers and performers bringing their high-energy ideas to the stage at the beautiful Ampersand building in downtown Calgary.

Explore 32 local vendors, including artists, artisans, and makers around the centre during mall hours.

Looking for special handmade items? Mother’s Day is approaching fast. Four local vendors are hosting a show and sale at Shaganappi Community Association.

Visit participating Cineplex theatres near you and watch a favorite family film each week for only $2.99.

Celebrate May the 4th and bring your young padawans in-store to learn legendary lightsaber moves. Kids can engage in lightsaber training sessions to hone their Jedi powers and get a personalized certificate to certify their Jedi Knight status. At select stores, you can snap pics of your padawans in front of a Star Wars backdrop.

The second annual Spring Market showcases more than 45 artisans, makers and micro businesses. From home, lifestyle and garden decor to bath and beauty, baking and everything in between. Supporting local home businesses in Calgary, Airdrie and surrounding areas.

Calgary Rock & Lapidary Club will present the 61st Annual Rock & Mineral Show at Vivo for Healthier Generations on May 5 – 7, 2023, featuring over 50 vendors from around the world, live demonstrations, activities, silent auction and more. Since 1959, the CRLC has been dedicated to creating a community for those who love earth sciences & the arts. The 61st Calgary Rock & Mineral Show is a major fundraiser for the Calgary Rock & Lapidary Club. Operated by volunteers, the show hosts over 50 dealers from across the globe that showcase rare rocks, gems, minerals, fossils, crystals, jewellery & beads. Volunteers also perform live demonstrations as they show off their craft and attendees learn and become inspired. There will be entertainment and activities for whole family with a gem hunt for the kids and a silent auction. For over 60 years this event has been entertaining and educating the Calgary community as Calgary’s only not-for-profit Rock & Mineral show. Tickets can be purchased now online (see www.crlc.ca/show ) or at the door for a low price of $7 for adults, $5 for students & seniors, and kids under 12 are FREE. Weekend passes are also available.

Join us for an evening of extraordinary Irish dance performed by the students of MJP Academy of Irish dance on Saturday, May 6th, 2023 at 2:30pm. Let us take you on a journey through the life of a young dancer as she navigates her way through childhood and the competitive world of Irish dance. DOORS OPEN at 2:00pm Ticket information: http://www.mjpacademy.com/PDF/MJP YE show ticket and flower order.pdf

The year-end event will be held at Rozsa Centre at the University of Calgary. Tickets are $24.

Closer to Home, Calgary Police Service and Simon House Recovery Centre are hosting the first annual All My Relations Healing Pow Wow at Bowness Community Association with a collaborative goal of bringing all Nations and families together to heal and connect through this gathering.

This annual gala is an elegant evening at Hudson in downtown Calgary. The event celebrates the families who have received fertility assistance through the Regional Fertility Program and raises money for the Generations of Hope Fertility Assistance Fund. Enjoy welcome bubbles, games of chance, a full dinner by The Guild Restaurant, live and silent auctions and more.

Attention all space explorers and wildlife enthusiasts! Are you ready for an out-of-this-world adventure? Well, buckle up for a galactic mystery game. Wild After Hours presents an adult-only evening of fun at Revenge of the Sixth.

Calling all dreamers! CH Financial is pleased to present: ”SPARK - One Life. A Million Dreams.” with Youth Singers of Calgary. Join their company of performers ages 8 to adult as they take to the stage in a magical, musical journey – from the moment that initial fire of artistic passion is lit, to the final spectacle of a dream realized on stage. A performer’s story is one that is imitated in life: we all have a dream and the power to realize it, if we only just trust and follow our spark.

The Heebee-jeebees™ are an internationally acclaimed, award-winning, comic a cappella group born and raised in Calgary. Celebrating 30 years together in 2023, they have released eight CDs and have won three international CARA awards – the Grammys of a cappella. The Heebee-jeebees have sung thousands of live performances and have appeared on local, national and international radio and television.

This will be an evening of two choral/orchestral works, one sacred and the other secular – J.S. Bach’s stirring ‘Ascension’ Oratorio/Cantata no. 11 and ‘Hunt’ Cantata no. 208 featuring the beloved ‘Sheep May Safely Graze’.

Enjoy an evening of songs and music from the Great American Songbook. Soprano Amanda HIllestad, Claire Butler on piano, Stefano Valdo on bass and Reuben Grendus on drums fill your night with songs and music arrangements of the great jazz legends. Learn more at jazzyyc.com.

Experience the passionate intensity of Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto, as interpreted by award-winning Canadian cellist Stéphane Tétreault. Composed in the aftermath of WWI, it is a wistful but compassionate reflection on human suffering. Conductor Ramón Tebar then leads the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s final orchestral masterpiece, the Symphonic Dances. Combining big melodies, harmonic lushness, and rhythmic drive, it’s a sonic feast for the ears!