BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//CJSW Radio - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cjsw.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for CJSW Radio
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Edmonton
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:MDT
DTSTART:20250309T090000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:MST
DTSTART:20251102T080000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:MDT
DTSTART:20260308T090000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20261101T080000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260327T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260816T190000
DTSTAMP:20260816T095934
CREATED:20260303T194856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T194856Z
UID:105810-1774612800-1786906800@cjsw.com
SUMMARY:Erdem Taşdelen Wounded in Three Acts
DESCRIPTION:Erdem Taşdelen\nWounded in Three Acts\nMarch 27—August 16\, 2026\nSetting up the stage with melodramatic flair\, Wounded in Three Acts marks a new chapter in Erdem Taşdelen’s artistic practice\, and his first return to Calgary since his 2019 exhibition at The Bows. Dramaturgic and narrative strategies ground Taşdelen’s work within the history of humanity’s examination of its own nature and the pursuit of catharsis through shared enactment. Using diverse media to articulate captivating fictions that never stray far from truth\, his projects graze veracity with a shrewdness that urges our attention toward contemporary sociopolitical realities. \nWounded in Three Acts weaves together elements of four recent bodies of work\, presenting an audio installation\, a film\, graphic prints\, and a live performance. Taşdelen’s artistic approach borrows from the languages of theatre\, contemporary fiction and collective action to engage with notions of power\, solidarity and resistance\, as well as human behaviour\, aspirations and limitations. Unmade Films (2022) is a series of posters for imaginary motion pictures never made. Under the guise of visual mimicry\, the series investigates cinematic tropes and invites viewers to imagine their own versions of the stories these films may tell. \nAn exercise in dramaturgy and dystopian reflection\, Taşdelen’s audio installation The Characters (2018-2021) – partly recorded in Calgary in collaboration with EMMEDIA –follows the self-indulgent and mordantly humorous narratives of a set of stock characters. With their defining traits taken from a text by ancient Greek philosopher and naturalist Theophrastus\, these fictional personas are recognizable archetypes. At Contemporary Calgary\, Taşdelen presents a condensed version of the project featuring ten idiosyncratic monologues\, portraying the less palatable aspects of humankind and generating a strangely familiar\, attention-grabbing clamour that holds an unflattering mirror to our contemporary society. \nFrictions (2024) is a moving image work that comprises twelve first-person narratives\, each reflecting on the psychological toll of living alongside strangers in an era marked by polarization\, technologically-mediated hostility\, and uncertainty about the future. Inspired by the artist’s own dreams involving social discomfort and anxiety\, the film’s narratives unfold against the backdrop of hazy\, dreamlike visual sequences\, punctuated with interludes of ambient soundscapes that reinforce a sense of unease. These small yet charged moments of friction expose deeper societal ruptures: the erosion of empathy\, the projection of personal insecurity onto others\, and the difficulty of meaningful social connection in a world saturated by suspicion and self-preservation. \nPunctuating the exhibition run at varying intervals\, A Long Dramatic Pause (2025-26) is Taşdelen’s first live performance work\, which premiered at Studio Voltaire in London\, UK this past fall. The narrative employs the lexicon of photography and theatre to explore strategies of resistance against ultranationalism and far-right politics. Twelve theatrical vignettes describe a photographic image never shown but brought to life through re-enactment and visual analysis by a solo performer. As the performer alternates between observing and embodying an antifascist figure in the photograph\, the narrative gradually implicates the audience\, shifting their focus towards their own agency and collective presence. For this iteration\, Taşdelen collaborated with performer Cindy Ansah to develop a unique\, site-specific version of A Long Dramatic Pause\, guided by a written script and a set of corresponding graphic scores that also feature in Taşdelen’s exhibition. \nCollectively\, the works in Wounded in Three Acts examine the ways in which we negotiate living alongside strangers whose histories\, beliefs and worldviews may be vastly different from our own. Examining culturally learned behaviours and drawing from unique historical accounts\, Taşdelen approaches these questions across different formats\, looking at narrative itself as a constructive device through which we make sense of our experiences and feelings\, both for ourselves and for others. His works do not attempt to instruct or persuade; instead\, they build situations in which we all must reckon with our positions and forms of complicity or solidarity. \nWounded in Three Acts is generously supported through the Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Program. \nCurated by Mona Filip.
URL:https://cjsw.com/event/erdem-tasdelen-wounded-in-three-acts/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 St SW\, Calgary\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art,Non-Music Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260327T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260816T190000
DTSTAMP:20260816T095934
CREATED:20260303T195029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T195029Z
UID:105814-1774612800-1786906800@cjsw.com
SUMMARY:Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens Stacking Crates to Reach a Banana
DESCRIPTION:Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens\nStacking Crates to Reach a Banana\nMarch 27—August 16\, 2026\nHow are our bodies measured and valued?\nHow do we perform within systems that observe\, record\, and assign meaning to behaviour? \nStacking Crates to Reach a Banana by Quebec-based artist duo Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens brings together works that examine the body—human and nonhuman—as a site of measurement\, performance\, and value. Their practice draws on the visual language of modern science—diagrams\, charts\, graphs\, and schematics that translate lived experience and bodily labour into data\, units\, and archetypes. Across the exhibition\, embodied movements are rendered into abstract models within systems that quantify and compare behaviour\, even as the artists’ reworking of these forms unsettles claims of human exceptionalism. \n The two-channel video piece Taming Chance (2012) sets the tone for the exhibition\, combining a sense of playfulness with serious inquiry. The artist-performers attempt to bring order out of chaos while they deliberately court risk through the manipulation of raw materials. The thirty architectural recreations that feature in the series Anthology of Performance Pieces for Animals (2018- present)\, cast animals as active performers within the framework of laboratory-based cognitive experiments done to study them. In another room is the series\, Each Number Equals One Inhalation and One Exhalation (2016–present)\, that includes graphical representations of diagrammatic studies that illustrate human productivity and labour\, drawn from disciplines ranging from work science\, scientific management\, economics and psychology. Punctuating these small\, abstract sculptures are five videos from Is there anything left to be done at all? (2014)\, subtly evoking the presence of a tangible body\, but through explorations of non-productive action. Staged during a residency at Trinity Square Video in Toronto that is dedicated to art production\, Ibghy and Lemmens invited four artists to workshop the generative potential of improvisations and creative outflow\, probing what forms of action or desire remain once goal\, effort\, and reward are uncoupled. Brought together in direct dialogue for the first time\, the sculptures and videos form a pictorial architecture in themselves\, paralleling the models they reference. In so doing\, the artists intentionally orchestrate the viewing experience to disrupt how meaning is derived from patterns. \nFurther\, by working with models of non-productivity and by granting material and animal bodies agency on the same plane as human bodies\, the duo reveals the limits and flaws of these systems. The handmade sculptures\, built from simple materials such as bamboo sticks and acetate sheets\, emphasize the provisional nature of all regimes of epistemological control. \nIn making visible how instruction operates as a pattern that scripts action\, the exhibition traces the ethical stakes of such systems: the hierarchies they embed\, the behaviours they normalize\, and the ways bodies are instrumentalized as resources to be optimized. Together\, the works offer a critical and timely reflection on processes of reduction\, interrogating how systems of knowledge abstract bodies into data\, variables\, and units of labour\, while opening a space to consider bodies as irreducible to the metrics used to measure and manage them. \nCurated by Kanika Anand.
URL:https://cjsw.com/event/richard-ibghy-marilou-lemmens-stacking-crates-to-reach-a-banana/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 St SW\, Calgary\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art,Non-Music Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260817
DTSTAMP:20260816T095934
CREATED:20260505T184359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260505T184359Z
UID:107400-1778104800-1786917599@cjsw.com
SUMMARY:Haig Aivazian: You May Own the Lanterns\, but We Have the Light
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit: Haig Aivazian’s You May Own the Lanterns\, but We Have the Light \nContamporary Calgary: #701 11th Street SW\, Calgary\, AB\, T2P 2C4 \nMay 7—August 16\, 2026 \nWho has the power to control light? In what ways can darkness be weaponized? \nYou May Own the Lanterns\, but We Have the Light (2022-ongoing) brings together three episodes of a cartoon mini-series by Haig Aivazian\, building on his ongoing examination of the public administration of light and darkness as a policing tool. \nDrawing on the history of public lighting\, the work considers artificial light not just as a means for illuminating the streets at night\, but as a mechanism of governance\, where visibility underpins surveillance\, authority\, and the staging and enforcement of social order in public space. \nMost civilizations have long understood the night as a realm of mystery. It belongs to creatures we have been trained to fear: gargoyles\, vampires\, and werewolves\, lurking through the shadows. They inhabit the darkness\, only to be banished by daylight – exposed\, vilified\, and cast as dangerous. But the night is also when we dream. Reality loosens its grip and other worlds begin to take shape. In dreams\, regimes can falter\, hierarchies dissolve\, and new orders come into being – if only for a moment\, before the day returns. \nYou May Own the Lanterns\, but We Have the Light is composed of fragments of found cartoons and animations from a wide range of sources\, all meticulously redrawn\, stitched together\, and reanimated in collaboration with a team of animators in Beirut\, with varying degrees of alteration to the original material. In this work\, the night becomes fertile ground for upheaval and resistance\, a space that allows for refuge and revolution\, where efforts to take it over and colonize it are met with acts of subversive escapism and defiance. \nThe exhibition looks at both the street and the nightclub as sites of disruption\, drawing parallels between dancing and protest as forms of communal resistance. But it also traces the moment when these gestures begin to fail – when dance\, gathering\, and dreaming are no longer sufficient to hold the weight of opposition. This moment demands that we consider the necessity of other modes of cultural production\, ones that are capable of fighting – and ultimately undoing – the conditions that allow an oppressive world order to persist. \nHere\, we are faced with a threshold: prevailing systems are about to collapse\, and new ones have yet to take shape. How can we reclaim power in the night?
URL:https://cjsw.com/event/haig-aivazian-you-may-own-the-lanterns-but-we-have-the-light/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 St SW\, Calgary\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art,Non-Music Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261109
DTSTAMP:20260816T095934
CREATED:20260505T185253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260528T160213Z
UID:107402-1780524000-1794175199@cjsw.com
SUMMARY:Adelita Husni Bey: Agency
DESCRIPTION:Exhibit: Adelita Husni Bey’s Agency \nJune 4—November 8\, 2026 \nContemporary Calgary: #701 11th Street SW\, Calgary\, AB\, T2P 2C4 \n2014\, Rome\, Italy. \nThirty-five students at Manara High School took part in a workshop modelled on a group exercise\, derived from a 1970s UK critical civic studies curriculum method. Led by Italian-Libyan artist Adelita Husni Bey\, the students were divided into five constituencies – politicians\, activists\, bankers\, journalists\, and workers – and asked to engage with pressing issues in contemporary Italian politics\, including unemployment\, snap elections\, and natural disasters. \nPresented more than a decade after its completion\, Husni Bey’s Agency (2014) is a documentation of this workshop\, reflecting on the nature of power; the ways in which it manifests and operates; and how it may (or may not) be effectively used. Both disquieting and astute\, the work resonates as urgently today as it did at the moment of its making\, 12 years ago.
URL:https://cjsw.com/event/adelita-husni-bey-agency/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 St SW\, Calgary\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art,Non-Music Events,Staff Picks
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260808T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260909T000000
DTSTAMP:20260816T095934
CREATED:20260721T181436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260806T202837Z
UID:109843-1786219200-1788912000@cjsw.com
SUMMARY:Really Much\, Given Name and Queen of the Worms
DESCRIPTION:Really Much\, Given Name (Hamilton\, Ontario) and Queen of the Worms \nWhere: Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club\n109 7 Avenue S.W Calgary\nhttp://thepalomino.ca/\n18+ with government issued identification\nWhen: Saturday August 8\, 2026\nDoors: 8:00pm / Action 9:00pm\nAdmission: $15.00 advance at www.showpass.com\nNO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!! \nReally Much\nFuzzy Power Pop\nhttps://reallymuch.bandcamp.com\nhttps://www.instagram.com/really.much \nGiven Name (Hamilton\, Ontario)\nFuzzed out pop from ‘The Hammer’\nhttps://givennamefanclub.bandcamp.com\nhttps://www.instagram.com/given_name_fanclub \nQueen of the Worms\nTimeless Power Pop\nhttps://www.instagram.com/queenoftheworms \nIn the spirit of reconciliation\, we acknowledge that we live\, work and play on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika\, Kainai\, Piikani)\, the Tsuut’ina First Nation\, the Iyarhe Nakoda (including Chiniki\, Bearspaw\, and Goodstoney First Nations)\, the Battle River Territory of the Métis Nation of Alberta Districts 5 & 6\, and all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta. \nNO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!!
URL:https://cjsw.com/event/really-much-given-name-and-queen-of-the-worms/
LOCATION:Palomino\, 109 7 Ave SW\, Calgary\, Canada
CATEGORIES:18+,Alternative Pop,Pop,Power Pop,Staff Picks
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260815T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260815T100000
DTSTAMP:20260816T095934
CREATED:20260804T184708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260804T184708Z
UID:110209-1786780800-1786788000@cjsw.com
SUMMARY:Tom Phillips
DESCRIPTION:Survivor and singer of cautionary tales. You want it\, you got it from Tom Phillips\, whose career’s turned itself inside out so often that at times he appears to be a shape shifter. During the past few years\, Phillips’ transformation was also physical as he swapped alcohol for coffee and his trademark cowboy boots and shirts for polished shoes and tailored suits. But appearances distract\, and Phillips is no shape shifter: if you took a musical x-ray during every incarnation\, you’d find song writing as the bedrock under the suits\, boots\, cowboy hats and skin. Which explains why revered blues artist Eric Bibb covered Phillips’ touchstone tune\, Ribbons and Bows\, on one of his albums. An esteemed statesperson of the Calgary music scene\, Phillips earned his laurels over decades. He recorded with Gordon Lightfoot’s band in Toronto before releasing several albums\, both live and in studio\, with his legendary long time honky-tonk band The Men of Constant Sorrow (MOCS). He also released an acoustic solo album\, paid homage to Hank Williams on the Sorrow Bound project\, and smashed his comfort zone with a daring\, darling album of cover songs from punk and rock territory. He’s often found anchoring musical gatherings that celebrate the songs of Haggard\, Dylan\, Springsteen and Lightfoot. The evolution continues on his most recent work with the D.T.’s (Difficult Transitions). The band formed serendipitously at bars and open stages\, learning Phillips’ most recent songs onstage just in time for his last record. With MOCS veteran Tim Leacock (The Co-Dependents)\, Ian Grant (Art Bergmann\, Cat Ranch)\, Geoff Brock and sisters Shaye and Sydney Zadravec\, the D.T.’s translate Phillips’ songs into live performances that deliver musical delights which offer style without flash. So take a musical walk with Phillips and gaze at life through his seasoned eyes. He’s got it covered with a hundred songs that undress truths so simple they’re frightening. Ever cheated on a lover\, driven home drunk\, been bucked off your horse\, or been the last person in the bar when the lights came up? If you’ve been stranded on the highway\, woken up in the wrong bed\, walked home barefoot in a ball gown in the morning rain\, or wished you could have a re-do on any of these choices\, Phillips has a song for you. MLW\n\n\nHighlights\n\nArt type: Live Music\nMusic type: Original Music \nWhat this Artist plays most of the time\n\nGenre: CountrySinger/SongwriterWestern\nHome base: Calgary\nAppeals most (but not limited) to: Appeals to anyone who likes a good honky tonk song.\n\n\n\n\nWHERE: Ironwood Stage & Grill \nWHEN: August 15\, 2026 \nTIME: 2:00pm – 4:00 \nNO COVER
URL:https://cjsw.com/event/tom-phillips/
LOCATION:The Ironwood\, 1229 9 Ave SE\, Calgary\, Canada
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Country,Singer-songwriter,Western
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260815T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260815T160000
DTSTAMP:20260816T095934
CREATED:20260804T191014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260804T191014Z
UID:110223-1786800600-1786809600@cjsw.com
SUMMARY:SPECIAL DOUBLE BILL: CONNOR GRANT BAND (ACOUSTIC SET) & JOLENE MARIE
DESCRIPTION:Live Vibes at The Attic on the Music Mile in historic Inglewood \n\n\n\n\nCONNOR GRANT WITH JAIDEN RILEY\nJoin us for an intimate evening of world-class music in one of the city’s coziest venues\, right on Music Mile. Numerous times a month\, Juno Award Winner Scott Morin curates and hosts a rotating lineup of top-tier musicians and songwriters – both instrumentalists and vocalists – from Calgary\, across Canada and around the world. All shows are guaranteed to feature incredible voices\, songs and storytelling from the best in the city\, all in the setting of the coolest little spot in town. \nThis series is meant to give Calgary soulful music fans a chance to hear specially-curated concerts and ensembles that you will not hear anywhere else. Each show is an experience filled with memorable moments\, mixed with a venue offering specially created cocktails and an incredible menu of pizza and pasta. \n🕢 | Saturday August 15\, 2026 | 7:30 PM Show Time | Two Sets of Music | Happy hour starts at 5pm 😉 \n📍 The Attic \nNote: \nGet your tickets under the SAME NAME\, no reservation required ! Your table will be ready 1 hour prior to showtime. \nIf you plan on arriving earlier\, OR if you accidentally purchase your tickets under different names\, just send us a note at hello@theatticyyc.ca so we know to seat you together or have your table ready earlier. \nCome early for a seat\, stay late for the vibe. Whether you’re a lifelong country lover or just looking for something new\, this night is not to be missed. \n  \n\nHighlights \n\n\n2 hours 30 minutes\nunder 16 with parent or legal guardian\nIn person\nFree parking\nDoors at 6:30 PM\nRefunds up to 5 days before event
URL:https://cjsw.com/event/special-double-bill-connor-grant-band-acoustic-set-jolene-marie/
LOCATION:The Attic Bar & Stage\, 1413 9 Ave SE\, Calgary\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Acoustic,All Ages,Folk,Singer-songwriter,Soul
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR