What's On in Calgary

Check out this outdoor farmers market in the heart of the inner-city, with local vendors offering treats and artisan wares. Shop the market and enjoy what cSPACE has to offer. Come and get to know your local farmers and meet your local makers!

Eat & Seek is an inventive, interactive outdoor dining space featuring artwork from local Alberta artists. Explore vibrant interactive designs and wordplay that will inspire you to hunt for hidden messages in a larger-than-life word search, attempt an unconventional hopscotch, and more!

A 30-foot tapestry, cherry red and bubble-gum pink, Molly JF Caldwell’s site-specific installation is a love letter to Penelope from Homer’s Odyssey who repeatedly wove, unraveled, and rewove a tapestry to avoid suitors while awaiting her husband’s return.

The RBC Emerging Visual Artists Program provides key mentoring, exhibition, and networking opportunities for artists looking to establish their careers in the Calgary arts community, and its spring exhibitions are officially open—virtually! Artists include Samuel Obadero and Tamara Eaker.

The Bows presents works by artist Les Ramsay, reflecting images of organic states of fractured evolution, text and figure that mingle in lucid landscapes. Ramsay creates his works by recycling the excess of everyday ideas and domestic objects using constructive and deconstructive strategies.

This group exhibition explores the multiple and complex meanings of the idea of the diaspora, its condition, and its experiences as expressed in painting, offering a selection of works by artists who address the question from various points of view.

Winnie Truong’s newest series of works continues her exploration of the female form within natural yet often surreal and imagined worlds. Truong uses intricate pencil crayon drawings to create cut paper collages, resulting in intense and beautiful created environments.

The Dark Arts is a group art exhibition showcasing sculpture, painting, fashion design, photography, and performance from Calgary’s best local, established, and emerging artists including Sinéad Ludwig-Burgess, Debbie Oh, Johnny Lee, Maggie Hall, and more.

#ourbrandiswild is the grassroots communications initiative behind this feature exhibition with local Alberta artists Deanna Lavoie and Mark Cromwell. The project began with an art contest and social media campaign focused on the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies and can now be viewed online.

In partnership with Colouring It Forward Reconciliation Society, experience a month-long art exhibit culminating in a commemorative event in honour of Orange Shirt Day and the first observance of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Calgary calligraphy master and contemporary artist Simon Wong shares his works depicting the 12 Chinese Zodiac symbols which are an integral part of Asian culture. The collection of 32 pieces includes calligraphy art of Chinese characters, paintings, and bronze sculptures.

Braids in the front, braids in the back was once used between the Chinese and Indigenous communities in their respective languages to refer to each other. This work by Annie Wong recalls an obscured history of mutual aid and kinship between the two.

The Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists (SNAP) and Alberta Printmakers are celebrating Alberta Culture Days by offering a variety of free, interactive, and engaging online printmaking programming for all ages, including live artist demos, interactive print party, and online showcase! Check out the schedule.

Come and see over 200 handknotted rugs from Pakistan! Each rug is beautifully made by fairly paid adults in over 100 villages throughout the country. Bunyaad, a fair trade rug making organization, has been able to build a foundation of work and community amongst 850 families in Pakistan.