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SUMMARY:Ashes! Ashes! by Margaret Joba-Woodruff
DESCRIPTION:Ashes! Ashes! by Margaret Joba-Woodruff\nDATES:\nFebruary 20\, 2026 to April 10\, 2026\nLOCATION:\nA/P MAIN GALLERY & STUDIO\n460 42 Avenue SE\nMohkinstsis/Calgary\, AB T2G 1YG\nOPEN HOURS/ADMISSION:\nWednesdays 10am – 8pm; Thursdays – Saturdays 10am – 5pm \nAdmission is FREE and all are welcome \nEVENTS:\nOpening Reception (artist in attendance) \nDate: Friday\, February 20\, 2026\nTime: 7pm – 9pm.\nLocation: In the A/P Main Gallery \nArtist Printing Demonstration\nDate: Saturday\, February 21\, 2026\nTime: 1pm – 2pm\nLocation: In the A/P Studio
URL:https://cjsw.com/event/ashes-ashes-by-margaret-joba-woodruff/
LOCATION:Alberta Printmakers Gallery\, 460 42 Ave SE\, Calgary\, Canada
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Art,Staff Picks
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SUMMARY:Open Studio for 55+
DESCRIPTION:Open Studio for 55+\nMarch 2026\nWednesdays | 1:00-4:00 PM\nJoin Contemporary Calgary at our drop-in Open Studio for 55+ on Wednesdays in March. \nDuring this informal art-making drop-in session\, participants are invited to bring their own projects along with any art and craft materials they are currently using. This time can be used not only for creating but also for connecting with other artists\, fostering collaboration and inspiration. \nFor adults age 55+. \nFREE and no registration is required; simply check in with a gallery attendant at the front desk by signing your name each time on the sign-in sheet. \n*If you have questions about this workshop\, please reach out to Vanessa Lamb\, Education Program Assistant\, at vanessa@contemporarycalgary.com \nMARCH SCHEDULE: \n\n\nMarch 4\, 2026 \n\n\nMarch 11\, 2026 \n\n\nMarch 18\, 2026 \n\n\nMarch 25\, 2026 \n\n\nThis month\, we are offering materials and guidance on exploring watercolour pencils as a medium on March 25 from 1:30-2:30 pm. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy checking in with us at front desk to participate in this session\, you agree to: \n\n\nFollow Contemporary Calgary staff instructions. \n\n\nTreat all staff\, participants\, and other visitors with respect. \n\n\nBehave in a safe and prudent manner. \n\n\nParticipants who do not comply with these rules may be temporarily or permanently suspended from the program.
URL:https://cjsw.com/event/open-studio-for-55/
LOCATION:Palomino\, 109 7 Ave SW\, Calgary\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art,Non-Music Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260328T170000
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SUMMARY:Drop-in Art Making
DESCRIPTION:Drop-in Art Making\nMarch 2026\nSaturdays | 1-5 PM\nEmbrace creativity and exploration in our Saturday Drop-in Art Making program. This program is offered most Saturdays from 1-5 PM throughout the year. Materials and light instruction are provided\, along with rotating themes and activities. \nOur programs encourage children\, youth\, and families to connect with modern and contemporary art through enjoyable and interactive creative experiences. \nThese are drop-in sessions running from 1 PM to 5 PM. Come anytime — no registration is required. \n*If you have questions about this workshop\, please reach out to Vanessa Lamb\, TD Education Program Assistant  at vanessa@contemporarycalgary.com  \nMARCH SCHEDULE \n\n\nMar 7: Join us to make tessellations \n\n\nMar 14: NO SESSION \n\n\nMar 21: Join us to make paper puppets \n\n\nMar 28: Join us to make mini weavings \n\n\n*In addition to the above activities\, there will be both a collage and drawing station available for creative free time during each session. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy checking in with us at front desk to participate in this session\, you agree to: \n\n\nFollow Contemporary Calgary staff instructions. \n\n\nTreat all staff\, participants\, and other visitors with respect. \n\n\nBehave in a safe and prudent manner. \n\n\nParticipants who do not comply with these rules may be temporarily or permanently suspended from the program. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout our Education Facilitators\nVanessa Lamb\n(she/her)\nTD Education Program Coordinator\nVanessa Lamb graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor’s degree in Art History and a minor in Museum and Heritage Studies. She has a deep passion for art\, especially the conversations and change it can spark\, leading her to have a people-centred approach in her work\, and an unending curiosity to learn more. In her career\, Vanessa has experience in arts administration\, visitor experience\, and both designing and implementing public programs\, art workshops and elementary school programs. Her curiosity is visible in her own creative practice where she explores different mediums\, subject matters and new techniques. Vanessa’s work often explores themes of memory\, grief\, and identity. When not working\, she can be found embroidering\, painting or exploring nature. \nRiddhi Patel\n(she/her)\nTD Education Facilitator\nRiddhi Patel has training in both visual and performing arts\, holding a Master of Fine Arts (Painting) from the University of Alberta\, a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda\, India\, and a diploma in Kathak Dance. She also works with the Alberta Network of Immigrant Women\, where she manages creative projects\, and has taught undergraduate drawing at the University of Alberta. Her artistic research explores movement through drawing and investigates ways to bring together her dance and drawing practices. Currently\, she is committed to promoting art-making in community settings with people of all ages. In her leisure time\, Riddhi enjoys baking pies and capturing fleeting moments around the city. \nVicky Xingyu Gu\n(she/her)\nTD Education Facilitator\nVicky Xingyu Gu is a Chinese animator who holds a BFA in Animation from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA in Digital Arts & Animation from the University of Southern California. During her studies\, she explored narrative\, documentary\, and experimental forms of animation. Her works draw inspiration from cultural conflicts\, emotional struggles\, and societal issues\, while experimenting with both digital and traditional media to create layered\, hybrid\, and provocative forms of storytelling. Since relocating to Calgary\, she has become an active participant in the local arts community. She has been teaching various forms of animation with Quickdraw Animation Society and enjoys guiding participants of all ages through creative practices such as drawing\, collage\, mixed media\, and visual storytelling. In her free time\, she enjoys cooking and baking\, watching animated movies\, and playing horror games.
URL:https://cjsw.com/event/drop-in-art-making/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 St SW\, Calgary\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art,Non-Music Events
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Kids: Duet for Children and Parents
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary Kids: Duet for Children and Parents\nMarch 22\n1-2:30 PM\nHeather Edwards Theatre\nJoin us for a special CCKids workshop with W&M Physical Theatre. In this 90-minute experience\, families will share movement\, laughter\, and a little creative adventure together while learning a contemporary dance duet created especially for a parent and child — playful in spirit\, yet filled with quiet moments of trust and connection. \nFacilitated by Melissa Monteros and Wojciech Mochniej\, with guest artist Nicole Charlton Goodbrand and her young student\, the workshop gently guides participants through partnering\, shared balance\, and simple lifts. The duet is set to the luminous “Peace Piece” by Bill Evans. \nNo dance experience is necessary. \nPlease note: One parent or guardian per child is required for this workshop. Parents should feel comfortable lifting their child at moments during the dance; however\, adaptations will be offered so everyone can participate. \nOur Free onsite Contemporary Kids programs invite children to learn about modern and contemporary art through unique and engaging art activities. \nFor children ages 5-12. Maximum group of 20 children\, with one guardian per child. \nQuestions? Please visit our FAQ page. \nContemporary Calgary Educational Programs are often photographed. This photography includes the participants\, parents or guardians and their creations. If you wish not to be photographed\, please let Contemporary Calgary education staff know upon arrival\, and they will assist you.
URL:https://cjsw.com/event/contemporary-kids-duet-for-children-and-parents/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 St SW\, Calgary\, Canada
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Art,Non-Music Events
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SUMMARY:IITSIINIIKSI’NAATSIN/STORY ROBE
DESCRIPTION:Blackfoot story robes were recorded on hides\, mainly Iini/Bison. Historically the drawings were created using natural inks derived from plants\, rocks\, animal fat\, and other materials. Today Blackfoot artists still use historical materials yet also use contemporary dyes\, paints\, and materials. The stories that were told were often war exploits\, personal accomplishments\, historical events (Winter Counts)\, and symbolic representations. Warriors or artists often painted the robes\, they became our living encyclopedias\, moving around camps\, animating our histories leaving a permanent record. Adrian will speak about his journey as an artist which lead him to being transferred the rights to create these robes\, a continuum of Blackfoot ways of being. \nDescription provided by Adrian Stimson. \nInspired to explore Calgary through new eyes? Pick up a copy of any of the maps on display from the gift shop and prepare to get to know the city in a whole new way! \nThis is a FREE event. Registration is required.\nMay 14\n7:00-8:30 pm\, doors at 6:30 pm\nThis is an 18+ event.
URL:https://cjsw.com/event/iitsiiniiksinaatsin-story-robe/
LOCATION:Lougheed House\, 707 13 Ave SW\, Calgary\, AB\, T2R 0K8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:18+,Art,Non-Music Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260816T190000
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260328T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260328T190000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Tour with Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Tour with Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens\nMarch 28\nFlanagan Family Gallery | 12 PM\nJoin Quebec-based artists Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens for a guided tour of Stacking Crates to Reach a Banana. The artists will lead visitors through the exhibition’s four interconnected bodies of work\, reflecting on their practice and its exploration of the performing body across conditions of productive and non-productive labour. \nAdmission is free with registration; however\, space is limited\, so we encourage you to reserve your spot early.
URL:https://cjsw.com/event/exhibition-tour-with-richard-ibghy-and-marilou-lemmens/
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 St SW\, Calgary\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Art,Non-Music Events
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