Faye Heavyshield at the Oldman River in southern Alberta.

Photo: Candice Ward

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Telling Stories: The importance of sharing Indigenous culture through art and fashion.

Photo: Jenna Pullen

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Artist Cassie Suche collected fingerprints from East Village community members to create Touch Traces, a public art project along the RiverWalk.

Photo: Candice Ward

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Announcements

Artist2Artist Admin Work Café

Alcove Centre for the Arts offers a drop-in session for you to do your own admin work in a supportive environment led by The Oratory. This session on December 8, 2024 from 2 – 6pm does…Read more

We're Hiring: Public Art Project Leads

Calgary Arts Development is seeking multiple Public Art Project Leads as qualified consultants and contractors to assist the public art team in managing and delivering public art projects and programs. For best consideration, apply by…Read more

Spotlight on Arts Audiences: Wave 3 Research

The Rozsa Foundation and arts-supporting organizations in Calgary and Edmonton contracted research firm Stone-Olafson to conduct in-depth research on the current engagement of arts audiences in the province following the pandemic.Read more

Equity Town Hall: Artists as Changemakers

Join us for a discussion about making change through art while embedded in the community. This session will explore what’s working, what isn’t, and current grappling with trying to make the world a more equitable…Read more

Public Art Discussion with Karen Tam & Henry Heng Lu 

Artist Karen Tam shares insights into her public art project, Agnes Street Park, currently underway in New Westminster, British Columbia, which honours and pays tribute to the municipality’s early Chinese Canadian community as part of…Read more

Imagining the Unimaginable: Video and Transcript

Led by Disability activist/artist Toyin Oladele, founder and Innovator of the Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation (ICAI), the latest in our series of 2024 Equity Town Halls saw Toyin discuss her to successes, failures and…Read more

Artist2Artist Admin Work Café

Alcove Centre for the Arts hosts the next event in its Artist2Artist Admin Work Café series on November 20, 2024 from 6:30 – 9pm with Jared Tobias Herring. This is a drop-in session, no registration required,…Read more

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Karen Tam: Sea of Clouds

Artist Karen Tam explores the Chinese diaspora through installations that reflect "cultural encounters." Her latest…Read more

Meet Adrian Stimson

Get to know Adrian Stimson, a member of the Siksika Nation, a residential school survivor…Read more

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Our Commitment to Equity

Our commitment to Indigenous reconciliation, racial equity, disability justice, and gender and sexual diversity.

We acknowledge that the land we gather on, Mohkinsstsis, is the ancestral territory of the Siksikaitsitapi — the Blackfoot people — comprising the Siksika, Kainai and Piikani Nations, as well as Treaty 7 signatories, the Tsuut’ina Nation and the Îyârhe Nakoda Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney First Nations. Today this land is home to the Otipemisiwak Métis Government Districts 5 and 6 as well as many First Nations and Inuit from across Turtle Island.

We acknowledge that there has been art, music, dance, storytelling and ceremony on this land since time immemorial and it is in the spirit of this land and its people that we do our work.

Please see our full Commitment to Equity, including the sections on our aspirations, accountability, current initiatives and EDIA history.