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The Casualties The Drowns Rumkicks
2026-04-14 20:00 (America/Edmonton) | Dickens Calgary, 1000 9 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 2Y6, Canada
18+

MODO-LIVE, I am the Eggplant, New Ground Booking presents… THE CASUALTIES w/ Special Guests The Drowns, RUMKICKS & No Brainer Tuesday April 21st, 2026 Dickens Calgary, AB

Tickets:
https://www.ticketweb.ca/event/the-casualties-with-the-drowns-dickens-pub-tickets/14106934

UADA / MORTIIS - The Witches of Dystopia Tour MMXXVI with Rome & Wraith Knight
2026-04-13 20:00 - 23:30 | Dickens, 1000 9 Ave SW, Calgary, Canada
Monday April 13, 2026
UADA / MORTIIS – The Witches of Dystopia Tour MMXXVI
with Rome & Wraith Knight
Live @ DICKENS | Calgary, AB
Doors 6:00PM – 18+ No Minors
For more information, visit: https://concertworks.ca/en/uada-mortiis-dickens-calgary-ab-april-13/

Perspective Film Series: The Zone of Interest (2023), dir. Jonathan Glazer
2026-04-12 17:30 - 20:30 | Contemporary Calgary, 701 11 St SW, Calgary, Canada
Perspective Film Series:
The Zone of Interest (2023), dir. Jonathan Glazer
April 12
5:30 PM | Dome Theatre
The commandant of Auschwitz and his wife strive to build a dream life for their family in a house next to the camp. Off-screen sounds – gunshots, screams, industrial machinery – constantly intrude onto their lives, creating a disturbing contrast between normality and mass murder. By withholding graphic imagery, the film examines how extreme violence can coexist with ordinary life through denial, compartmentalization, and moral indifference. By coolly observing the everyday lives of those complicit in unimaginable crimes, The Zone of Interest confronts us with the chilling normality that underpins an unforgivable brutality.
Country: UK, Poland, US
105 minutes, in German, Polish, and Yiddish with English subtitles
Disclaimer: This film contains some difficult subject matter, including racism and strong references to violence, including sounds, which may be triggering for some viewers.
FREE for members. Non-members: $10—your ticket to this screening includes admission to Contemporary Calgary. Our galleries are open from 12-5 PM for viewing prior to attending the program.

Garret T. Willie and Guests
2026-04-11 20:00 - 23:30 | Palomino, 109 7 Ave SW, Calgary, Canada
Garret T. Willie and guests
Where: Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club
109 7 Avenue S.W Calgary
http://thepalomino.ca/
18+ with government issued identification
When: Saturday April 11, 2026
Doors: 8:00pm / Action 9:00pm
Admission: $16.00 advance at www.showpass.com
Artist Pre-Sale Date: Tues, February 3, 2026 @ 10am MT
General On-sale Date: Wed, February 4, 2026 @ 10am MT
NO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!!
Garret T. Willie
A 25 year old blues rock force from Alert Bay, BC, whose sound carries far beyond his years. His second album Bill’s Café recorded in Nashville with Grammy winning producer Tom Hambridge bridges his small town Indigenous roots with the fire
of Music City. Known for his gravel soaked vocals, ripping guitar solos, and electrifying live shows, Willie has already earned international acclaim, BBC Radio 2 airplay, Top 20 chart placements, and tour slots with legends like John Fogerty, Joe Bonamassa, and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
https://garrettwillie.com
https://www.instagram.com/garrettwilliemusic
In 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.
NO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!!

BROCK GEIGER // HERMITESS @ High Line Brewing
2026-04-11 19:00 - 22:30 | High Line Brewing, 1318 9 Ave SE #113, Calgary, Canada
Saturday April 11th
Doors at 7pm – Tickets $20
High Line Brewing HIS – 1318 9 Ave SE
For more information, visit: https://highlinebrewing.com/ and click “Events”

2 Litre Superpunk Single Release Party
2026-04-11 17:00 - 22:00 | Dickens, 1000 9 Ave SW, Calgary, Canada
2 Litre Superpunk Single Release
with Haunt the Stars, Zenith and Twani Bias

DOORS 5:00PM

$15

Local Menace Album release with Oranje, Eye of Newt and FACT
2026-04-11 14:00 - 18:00 | Palomino, 109 7 Ave SW, Calgary, Canada
Where: Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club
109 7 Avenue S.W Calgary
http://thepalomino.ca/
18+ with government issued identification
When: Friday April 11, 2026
Doors: 8:00pm / Action 8:30pm
Admission: $16.00 advance at www.showpass.com
NO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!!
Local Menace
Post-Rock Art Punk
https://localmenace.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/localmenace.mp3
Oranje
Art Rock Math Rock
https://oranjeband.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/oranjeband
Eye of Newt
Weird Indie Post-Punk
https://eyeofnewt.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/eyeofnewtshreds
FACT
No Wave Experimental Jazz Punk
https://thisisfact.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/__factband___
In 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.
NO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!

The Exploited (show #2) w/ Bootlicker, Motherf**kers and Glitter Glue
2026-04-10 19:00 - 23:30 | Dickens, 1000 9 Ave SW, Calgary, Canada
Scottish hardcore legends The Exploited celebrate their 48th year of mayhem with the second of two shows at Dickens Pub.
Support from Victoria, BC’s Bootlicker and local legends Motherfuckers and Glitter Glue.
Tickets $56.51 incl. fees on Eventbrite.
18+, no minors allowed.

Saint Whiskey
2026-04-09 13:30 - 16:00 | King Eddy, 438 9 Ave SE, Calgary, Canada
Saint Whiskey is Winnipeg’s rising 6-piece country-rock force, delivering high-energy performances built on soaring vocal harmonies and big, undeniable hooks. Blending outlaw grit with modern swagger, they channel the spirit of Hank Williams Jr. and Johnny Cash through the drive of Zac Brown Band and Brooks & Dunn, with a southern-rock edge inspired by CCR and Blackberry Smoke.
Thursday, April 9th
7:30 show
$15 cover
All Ages!

The Exploited (show #1) w/ Bootlicker and Death Knell
2026-04-08 19:00 - 23:30 | Dickens, 1000 9 Ave SW, Calgary, Canada
Scottish hardcore legends The Exploited celebrate their 48th year of mayhem with the first of two shows at Dickens Pub.
Support from Victoria, BC’s Bootlicker and locals Death Knell.
Tickets $56.51 incl. fees on Eventbrite.
18+, no minors allowed.

Run the Plank, Wesley Wilson & the Ghosts, Morosoph
2026-04-04 20:00 - 23:30 | Palomino, 109 7 Ave SW, Calgary, Canada
Run the Plank, Wesley Wilson & the Ghosts, Morosoph
Where: Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club
109 7 Avenue S.W Calgary
http://thepalomino.ca/
18+ with government issued identification
When: Saturday April 4, 2026
Doors: 8:00pm / Action 9:00pm
Admission: $15.00 advance at www.showpass.com
NO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!!
Run the Plank
https://runtheplank.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/runtheplankband
Wesley Wilson & the Ghosts
https://wesleywilsonandtheghosts.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/wesleywilsonandtheghosts
Morosoph
https://www.instagram.com/morosoph.band
In 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.
NO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!!

EXTENSIVE SLAUGHTER, LANGUID, DIVINE APPREHENSION, BANZAI
2026-04-03 20:00 - 23:30 | Palomino, 109 7 Ave SW, Calgary, Canada
EXTENSIVE SLAUGHTER, LANGUID, DIVINE APPREHENSION, BANZAI
Where: Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club
109 7 Avenue S.W Calgary
http://thepalomino.ca/
18+ with government issued identification
When: Friday April 3, 2026
Doors: 8:00pm / Action 9:00pm
Admission: $16.00 advance at www.showpass.com
NO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!!
EXTENSIVE SLAUGHTER (Vancouver)
The torch bearers of heavy crushing crust. Not unlike Doom, with a touch of Axegrinder/Deviated instinct. LIVE BY THE CRUST, DIE BY THE STENCH.
https://extensiveslaughter.bandcamp.com
LANGUID (Edmonton)
D-BEAT PUNK
https://languidpunk.bandcamp.com
DIVINE APPREHENSION (Calgary)
METAL THRASHING DEATH, THE EPITOME OF EVIL BORN OF THE FIRES OF DAMNATION
https://www.instagram.com/divineapprehension
BANZAI (Calgary)
DISGUSTING SPLATTER GRINDFREAKS
https://www.instagram.com/banzaigore
SUPPORT DIY PUNK
In 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.
NO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!!

MEATS’ Bad Thursday with Tired Cossak, Bluffing and Thee Canadian Distpatch
2026-04-02 20:00 - 23:30 | Palomino, 109 7 Ave SW, Calgary, Canada
MEATS’ Bad Thursday with Tired Cossak (Winnipeg), Bluffing and Thee Canadian Distpatch
Where: Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club
109 7 Avenue S.W Calgary
http://thepalomino.ca/
18+ with government issued identification
When: Thursday April 2, 2026
Doors: 8:00pm / Action 9:00pm
Admission: $16.00 advance at www.showpass.com
NO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!!
MEATS
Deli Rock
https://www.instagram.com/meats.bingo
Tired Cossak (Winnipeg)
Frigid lo-fi Post-Punk
https://tiredcossack.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/tiredcossack
Bluffing
Artgaze, Post-Indie, Jangle Pop
https://bluffing.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/bluffing.band
Thee Canadian Distpatch
Garage Punk, Noise Rock, Experimental, Garbage Surf
https://www.instagram.com/thee_canadian_dispatch
In 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.
NO JERK POLICY ALWAYS IN EFFECT!!

MAPPING HISTORY EXHIBIT LAUNCH PARTY
2026-04-02 18:30 - 20:30 | Lougheed House, 707 13 Ave SW, Calgary, AB, T2R 0K8, Canada
Step into the map with us as we celebrate the opening of Mapping History: The Calgary Atlas Project at Lougheed House.
Fill a plate with snacks, grab a drink at the bar, and explore the maps and their accompanying art pieces displayed throughout the museum! We’ll keep the party going from 6:30 pm (doors at 6:15 pm) until 8:30 pm.
Inspired 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!
April 2, 2026
Doors at 6:15 pm
Event from 6:30-8:30 pm

Peter & The Wolves
2026-04-02 14:00 - 17:00 | The Ironwood, 1229 9 Ave SE, Calgary, Canada
“Peter & the Wolves play old fashioned style rock and roll for folks young and old who want to shake it all night long.”
Thursday, April 2nd
8:00PM show
$15 cover
All Ages!

The Cherry Motel
2026-04-02 13:30 - 18:00 | King Eddy, 438 9 Ave SE, Calgary, Canada
Date: April 02, 2026
Time: 7:30 pm
Price: $10 cover
The Cherry Motel is a pop-rock project fronted by bilingual singer-songwriter Valerie Lopez and bassist-songwriter Kylah Floen. They find their roots in late night energy, emotional honesty, and guitar driven songs. Drawing from classic and modern rock influences with subtle country undertones, the project balances grit and melody. Their music lives somewhere between confidence and vulnerability, blending cultural depth with hook driven songs that invite their listeners to come as they are to the party and let loose or to find comfort in shared experience lending a shoulder to cry on.

Mapping History: The Calgary Atlas Project
2026-04-02 09:00 - 2026-05-17 17:00 | Lougheed House, 707 13 Ave SW, Calgary, AB, T2R 0K8, Canada
Navigate the past and present of Calgary at Lougheed House in collaboration with Calgary Institute for the Humanities! This Spring, Mapping History: The Calgary Atlas Project brings the CIH Atlas Projects maps to life.
Each map is literally a work of art, carefully crafted by local Calgarians like queer history expert, Kevin Allen, folk artist Karen Mills, and literary historian Shaun Hunter. From Adrian Stimson’s Bison Robe that maps the First Nations Stampede to Cheryl Foggo and Simone Elizabeth Saunders’ tapestry that weaves Making Place: A Map of Black Calgary, you’ll explore the art behind the paper here at the House from April 2nd until May 17th.
As if that weren’t enough, the artists themselves will be leading a series of tours, workshops, speaker series, and more to take you down to the basemap of the city you know and love. We guarantee you’ll re-emerge with a totally new view of Calgary, the people who give it so many living layers, and the many means of mapmaking.

Analogue Revolution: How Feminist Media Changed the World
2026-04-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Globe Cinema, 617 8 Ave SW, Calgary, Canada
A League of Their Own Presents: Analogue Revolution: How Feminist Media Changed the World (2023)

“Before there was #MeToo, there was Toronto’s Diva: A Quarterly Journal of South Asian Women, Montreal’s Groupe Intervention Vidéo and Dykes on Mykes Radio Show, and the women-led Studio D of the National Film Board of Canada.

The list extends into the hundreds. All Canadian, all feminist, and all trailblazing media of the late 60s to mid-90s.”

-Image et Nation Film Festival Catalogue

This feature-length documentary traces the rise and fall of analogue feminist communications that preceded the MeToo era. From Halifax to Vancouver, feminist storytellers of the 1970s to 1990s took hold of cutting-edge media technology to document everything from racism in the women’s movement, to how to insert a diaphragm.

The film includes rare archival footage, like African American feminist poet Audre Lorde’s speech at the Third International Feminist Book Fair (Montreal 1988) and pro-choice demonstrations in the 1980’s, leading to the film’s
climax: draconian cutbacks to women’s and lesbian organizations across Canada, following the massacre of women at École Polytechnique in Montreal, 1989. Cutbacks, racism, and moral panics then decimated an intricate, sophisticated, and world-changing feminist media movement.

The film concludes with a resurgence and a сall to action: young BIPOC feminists using analogue strategies to create new feminist digital networks.

Genre: Documentary

Director: Marusya Bociurkiw
Stars: Linda Abrahams, Leela Acharya, Zanana Akande
Running time: 1 hr 34 min
Rating: 14A (Nudity)

*Featuring a Q&A with the director Marusya Bociurkiw in attendance!*

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Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens Stacking Crates to Reach a Banana
2026-03-27 12:00 - 2026-08-16 19:00 | Contemporary Calgary, 701 11 St SW, Calgary, Canada
Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens
Stacking Crates to Reach a Banana
March 27—August 16, 2026
How are our bodies measured and valued?
How do we perform within systems that observe, record, and assign meaning to behaviour?
Stacking 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.
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.
Further, 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.
In 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.
Curated by Kanika Anand.

Erdem Taşdelen Wounded in Three Acts
2026-03-27 12:00 - 2026-08-16 19:00 | Contemporary Calgary, 701 11 St SW, Calgary, Canada
Erdem Taşdelen
Wounded in Three Acts
March 27—August 16, 2026
Setting 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.
Wounded 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.
An 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.
Frictions (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.
Punctuating 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.
Collectively, 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.
Wounded in Three Acts is generously supported through the Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Program.
Curated by Mona Filip.

Ben Sures, Suzie Ungerleider, Matt Patershuk live at the National Music Centre
2026-03-14 07:30 - 2026-04-15 00:00 | Studio Bell, 850 4 St. SE, Calgary, Canada
Ben Sures
Suzie Ungerleider
Matt Patershuk
Song & Stories In The Round Radios, Rayguns and Little White Lies
View All Concerts

National Music Centre

850 4 St SE
Calgary, Canada

Tickets and details on our website: https://www.borderlineculture.com/

Tickets: $30 advance, $35 at the door
All Ages

Sat 14 Mar. Calgary, AB, Canada

7:30 PM MDT

Gallery Exhibition: Ashes! Ashes! by Margaret Joba-Woodruff
2026-02-20 10:00 - 2026-04-10 17:00 | Alberta Printmakers Gallery, 460 42 Ave SE, Calgary, Canada
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
EXHIBITION TITLE AND ARTIST:
Ashes! Ashes!
DATES:
February 20 – April 10, 2026
LOCATION:
Alberta Printmakers Main Space Gallery
460 42 Avenue SE
Mohkinstsis/Calgary, AB
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
“Most prints are contact relics in this sense, inasmuch as they are essentially stains on one surface that attest to damage done to another surface.”
– Jennifer L. Roberts, Contact: Art and the Pull of Print
Soot on the inside of a fireplace. Drops of candle wax on a dining table. A felt blanket draped over the armrest of a chair. Ashes! Ashes! is an exhibition grounded in the materials of charcoal, beeswax, paper and wool combined with printed gestures of cutting, redrawing, and wiping away. As I reflect on the 14 houses that I have moved in and out of over the last decade, I turn to drawing as both an archival and speculative practice. The works exhibited here trace both real memories and imagined scenarios of these homes and the 25 people I shared them with, manipulating the images through techniques of monotype, collagraph, and mokulito to reveal themes of comfort, deterioration, and repair. For myself and many of those closest to me, our paths through the smog of urban housing precarity have been lined with neglectful landlords, deteriorating architecture, personal conflicts, unpaid debts, and threatening property managers. By sinking its teeth into moments in these spaces and the relationships made and lost in them, Ashes! Ashes! wonders — with uncertainty, grief, and sometimes hope— what is left behind, what do we take with us, and where do we go from here?
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Margaret Joba-Woodruff is a visual artist whose practice employs an interdisciplinary approach to printmaking to consider the intersections of land, body, family, memory, and labour. After completing a BFA in Visual Art at the University of British Columbia in 2020, she became a worker-owner of the Vancouver Artist Labour Union Cooperative before relocating to St John’s, Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland) to spend a year in residence as the ‘22-’23 Don Wright Scholar at St Michael’s Printshop. Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and Arts NL, and has been exhibited across Canada, in the UK, and Taiwan.
Born in Montréal and raised on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Joba-Woodruff is once again living in Vancouver, BC as a guest on the homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations after two meaningful years of living and working in Ktaqmkuk.

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Ashes! Ashes! by Margaret Joba-Woodruff
2026-02-20 10:00 - 2026-04-10 17:00 | Alberta Printmakers Gallery, 460 42 Ave SE, Calgary, Canada
Ashes! Ashes! by Margaret Joba-Woodruff
DATES:
February 20, 2026 to April 10, 2026
LOCATION:
A/P MAIN GALLERY & STUDIO
460 42 Avenue SE
Mohkinstsis/Calgary, AB T2G 1YG
OPEN HOURS/ADMISSION:
Wednesdays 10am – 8pm; Thursdays – Saturdays 10am – 5pm
Admission is FREE and all are welcome
EVENTS:
Opening Reception (artist in attendance)
Date: Friday, February 20, 2026
Time: 7pm – 9pm.
Location: In the A/P Main Gallery
Artist Printing Demonstration
Date: Saturday, February 21, 2026
Time: 1pm – 2pm
Location: In the A/P Studio
