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

Photo: Jenna Pullen

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Faye Heavyshield at the Oldman River in southern Alberta.

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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

Applications Open: Art Bus RFQ 2025

Artists and artist collectives are invited to submit qualifications for an opportunity to wrap the exterior of one of seven public transit buses with new artwork. The deadline to apply is December 4, 2024.Read more

Artist Call: Art for Social Change Facilitation

We are looking for five artists (individuals or collectives) whose artistic and creative practice centres around Art for Social Change to each lead a 90-minute breakout session at this year's Living a Creative Life Congress in December 2024. The deadline for proposals is November 14, 2024.Read more

"What is Public Art?" Community Conversation

In partnership with Calgary Arts Development, join Alcove Centre for the Arts for a community conversation around the topic of public art. Join the Producer's Live jam and talk led by Nick Wise and take…Read more

Artist2Artist Admin Work Café

Alcove Centre for the Arts hosts the next event in its Artist2Artist Admin Work Café series on October 20, 2024 from 2 – 6pm. This is a drop-in session, no registration required, in collaboration with The…Read more

Equity Town Hall: Imagining the Unimaginable

A conversation with artist/activist Toyin Oladele on Imagining the Unimaginable: Equity for newcomers and immigrants in the arts sector. Toyin talks about her upbringing and how it brought her to successes, failures and current grappling…Read more

New Create Calgary Magazine Available Now

The latest Create Calgary magazine is out! Read about an Indigenous artist making history, elementary school students with a new-found appreciation for opera, how arts and culture influence us, building community through public art, and…Read more

Spotlight on Arts Audiences: Wave 3 Research

Find out the results from the third wave of research on the current engagement of arts audiences in the province following the pandemic. Rozsa Foundation and arts-supporting organizations in Calgary and Edmonton contracted research firm…Read more

2024 Cultural Leaders Legacy Arts Awards Recipients 

The 2024 Cultural Leaders Legacy Arts Awards were announced at the Celebration for the Arts hosted by Mayor Gondek on Friday, October 4 at the Jack Singer Concert Hall. This year, 56 outstanding artists and organizations were…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.