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Living a Creative Life

Our Living a Creative Life stories and events recognize that arts are an integral part of our city’s identity and an essential part of our daily lives.

Artist Lyndon Navalta, who has a mustache, goatee and wire-framed glasses, wearing a yellow headband, denim jacket and turtleneck sweater, stands next to his flower-covered art bus at Olympic Plaza. — Art Bus artist Lyndon Navalta

Photo: Bamboo Shoots
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Living a Creative Life: The Storytelling Project

Three cross stitch keep-sakes with the copy: Disabled Lives are Sacred, Trans Lives are Sacred, and Queer Love is Sacred

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For Kait Hatch, Every Stitch is Sacred

Artist Kait Hatch's Sacred Lives/Sacred Loves embroidery series is about joy, sharing and celebration. The initial project has blossomed to include collaborations with other artists…Read more

A colorful artist rendition of the city of Calgary skyline, full image

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The Road to a Creative City

Known mostly for its oil and gas industry, Calgary is also lauded as a creative centre, with the city working to leverage its potential in…Read more

Local drag performers walking on the street with expressions of fun

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Slay All Day

While the art of Drag has been made globally popular through television shows such as Ru Paul's Drag Race, Calgary's Drag scene has a rich…Read more

Dancers on a stage at Forest Lawn before a brilliant indigo and magenta background

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East Side Dance Festival connects students, teachers and community

The East Side Dance Festival aims to elevate dance education across Alberta, offering students in east Calgary the opportunity to explore different types of dance,…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.

Living a Creative Life