Arts in Action YYC

Jarret Tymen and Sol Chiniquay from the Nakoda AV Club

Nakoda AV Club

Growing up in Morley, Jarret Tymen (Twoyoungmen) loved to watch movies with his dad. He wasn’t the only kid in Morley who did, either.Read more

A photo of participants in the Creative Aging Calgary Society's inaugural pop art session

Creative Aging Calgary Society

What’s the opposite of a loneliness epidemic? In Calgary, it just might be the Creative Aging Calgary Society, an organization that gets seniors creatively engaged. Read more

Photo from behind the scenes at the Otahpiaaki fashion show

Patti Derbyshire and Otahpiaaki

Turning Calgary into an epicentre of Indigenous fashion design, Otahpiaaki features young designers and artists who are transforming Indigenous designs into couture.Read more

Festival organizers Hayley Muir and Kaely Cormack

Femme Wave

In 2015, Kaely Cormack and Hayley Muir took a look around Calgary’s punk music scene. The view lacked something. Read more

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.