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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

A painting of a pond scene around a community with trees and foliage, on the pond is a Canada Goose with goslings nearby.

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Building Community Pride Through Public Art

Thanks to the current public art policy that no longer requires public art dollars to be tied to the sites of the capital projects that…Read more

A woman wearing leather skirt, leather bustier top and leather boots with sunglasses and black long gloves posing on a runway

Web Series

The Floor is Yours

The Floor Is Yours takes us into the world of Vogue YYC and the growing ballroom scene in Western Canada where self-expression, resilience and chosen…Read more

A photo of the Bow River with blue sky and autumn colours, as well as a close up of the shoreline with rocks and pebbles

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A River Runs Through It: How Public Art Tells the Story of Calgary's Rivers

As the Bow River flooded its banks and overwhelmed the city in June 2013, artist-duo Charles Blanc and Tristan Surtees, known together as Sans façon,…Read more

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

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Events & Awards

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