Events in Calgary: February 3 – 5, 2017

1. Multicultural Fair

Join us for a day of music, song and dance celebrating our multicultural community and Canada’s 150th birthday. Enjoy entertainment by singers and dancers clothed in ethnic attire. Stop by the booths and learn about diverse cultures. Try a slice of delicious birthday cake while your child takes in the fun kid’s activities! Details

2. Elves And The Shoemaker

When the shoemaker wakes, his works already done,
Whos making the shoes before the rise of the sun? Details

3. Bridge to Terabitha

This powerful adaptation, supported by a lyrical score, focuses the humor, warmth and emotional intensity of Katherine Paterson’s Newbery Award winning novel. Jesse, alienated from the pragmatism of his family and rural Virginia culture, draws and dreams of becoming something special. Leslie, the new girl from the city and the ultimate outsider, opens a world of imagination, art and literature for him. Details

4. Bubble Guppies Live

Put on your water-wings and jump into a swimsational adventure! The Bubble Guppies are getting ready to rock n’ roll with some totally fin-tastic tunes, but when a special band member goes missing, the show can’t go on! With a little help from Mr. Grouper and giggly little fish, Molly, Gil, and the whole gang embark on an adventure as they search every corner of their underwater world for their missing friend! Details

5. Alberta Children’s Choir Concert

The Alberta Children’s Choir (South) comprises some of the finest young choristers in southern Alberta. This concert represents the culmination of the choir’s 3-day residency in Calgary under the direction of Ms. Joan Gregoryk (Children’s Chorus of Washington). Details

6. The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses Family Concert

The story of a young Native American girl who has a deep affinity for wild horses is vividly brought to life with music and narration. The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses makes its Alberta premiere performed by two of Calgary’s finest ensembles, Cantaré Children’s Choir and Land’s End Ensemble.Details

7. Winter Carnival

Enjoy ice carving competitions, kids’ ice carving , skating parties, street hockey, log sawing competitions, the always entertaining pooch parade, art crawls and the popular Snowy Owl Kid N’ Mutt races.Details

1. Forms of Sound Festival

 Join UCalgary’s School of Creative and Performing Arts for the Forms of Sound Festival: four nights of local and international performances & premières. Details

2. Black Arm Band- dirtsong

A rich multimedia concert celebrating Australian Aboriginal culture.
Part of the High Performance Rodeo, this Australian Aboriginal collective uses traditional instruments, film, dance, and 11 languages to shed light on Indigenous issues worldwide and tell stories of endurance, challenge, unity, and the triumph of the spirit. Details

3. Platinum Blonde

Platinum Blonde is back, but don’t call it a reunion. In reality, it’s more like the band has simply taken a finger off of the pause button with the release of its new album Now & Never. Details

4. Sacred Voices of the Golden Horn

Land’s End Ensemble kicks off its 20th Anniversary Season in celebration of Canada’s 150th with an all-Canadian program, presenting world premieres by award-winning composers Analia Llugdar and Emilie LeBel, as well as Calgary composers Ilkim Tongur and George Fenwick. Details

5. Al Muirhead Northern Adventures CD Release

Join 2016 Juno nominated trumpeter Al Muirhead for the release of his most ambitious CD project to date – ‘Northern Adventures – The Canada Sessions Vol. 1’. The album brings Al together with many of Canada’s jazz greats performing a collection of his favourite jazz standards. For the Calgary CD release, Al will featuring some of his special guests from the recording including long-time friend Tommy Banks on piano, Vancouver jazz giant Campbell Ryga on sax, and award-winning bassist Kodi Hutchinson. Watch out for some other special guests throughout the evening! Details

6. Amici Della Musica

We invite our young friends of the Amici String School to join us once again in a side-by-side concert showcasing their energetic and passionate talent. In a program ranging from Bach to Locatelli to Sibelius, you’ll delight in the skill, and range of expression of these young artists. The Sinfonia also performs Canadian composer Denis Gougeon’s Ballade, and features our good friend Sara Hahn (flute) performing Arthur Foote’s beautiful Night Piece. Details

7. the Resurrection

Feel the power of the combined force of 300 musicians on stage to bring you Mahler’s favorite, monumental and spiritually inspiring “Resurrection” Symphony. Brahms’ rarely heard Alto Rhapsody leads the program with a text that brings a metaphysical portrayal of a antisocial being who is urged to find spiritual sustenance and throw off the shackles of his suffering; which has powerful parallels in Brahms’s own life and character. Details

1. Skin Flick

What do you do when all the money is gone? When there’s no jobs in sight, the family home still isn’t paid off and the bills just keep coming, how can one survive in a society that requires capital? When Rollie and Daphne Waters are faced with just such a situation, they decide it is time to get creative…and a little risqué. Okay, a lot risqué. Details

2. The Audience

 For sixty years Queen Elizabeth II has held a private weekly meeting with each of her many Prime Ministers. Politicians have come and gone, but she has remained a constant. Through this riveting drama, we get a glimpse of the woman behind the crown and what it’s like to be one of the most famous, and yet most private people in the world. Details

3. NE: THE SHOW

North East: The Show, is all about living in, growing up in, and dealing with life in North East
Calgary. It’s a celebration of our city’s finest quadrant, for two nights only.
It’s improv! It’s edgy!
It’s North East style!  Details

4. Filumena by John Estacio & John Murrell

By Calgary Opera! In celebration of Canada’ 150th birthday, we invite you to get swept up in this true story of bootlegging, murder and an execution in the Crownest Pass during prohibition in the 1920’s.Details

5. One Lions: My Dinner With .

One Lions pays homage to the classic film My Dinner With Andre in this never-to-be-seen-again performance! One Lions explores the metaphorical and metaphysical spaces that exist in all relationships. To put it another way, we take a dangerous longform improv journey. Like going on safari with ground beef in the trunk.  Details

6. Yet Another Evening at Fawlty Towers

Welcome back to Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay, on the “English Riviera”. Our plots centre on tense, rude, and put-upon Basil Fawlty, his bossy wife Sybil, comparatively normal chambermaid Polly, who is often the peacemaker and voice of reason, and hapless Spanish waiter Manuel, showing their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests.  Details

7. Mess

Josephine is putting on a play – Boris and Sistahl help. It’s about anorexia. But don’t let that put you off. Unflinchingly they confront big issues (and extremely tiny ones). Today they will tackle a particularly thin elephant in the room. Obsession, addiction and not wanting to get out of bed: a play with songs from 2013 Olivier Award nominated Caroline Horton (You’re Not Like Other Girls Chrissy).  Details

8. Wait Until Dark

When a blind woman living in New York City’s iconic Greenwich Village finds herself terrorized by a trio of men, she’s in a desperate situation – until she discovers her blindness might just prove to be her secret weapon. This new adaptation of Frederick Knott’s classic thriller is sure to turn down the lights and turn up the thrills. Details

1. Calgary Roughnecks

2. Slopestyle/Halfpipe

Alberta Snowboard Association Provincials Slopestyle/Halfpipe. This event brings together competitive ASA registered athletes to compete in a halfpipe and slopestyle event over two days.Details

3. Battle Of Champions

Cheerleading. Pacific All Star Details

4. Human Bonspiel

The 2017 Human Bonspiel, Calgary Corporate Challenge’s most popular winter event, will run from this week. Participating teams will slide on the ice and try to hit the button while raising money forKidSport Calgary. A Special Guest Day consisting of local celebrities and media figures will take place on January 30. Details

5. February Classic I

The show jumping events of the Classic Series, the February Classic takes to the indoor comfort of the Spruce Meadows Equi-Plex. The February Classic is a excellent warm-up to the 2017 season. You and your family are welcome to join us and watch the competitions. Details

1. Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience

 Experience a “career day” at the Starfleet Academy. Test your knowledge and skills to discover what your true ranking would be in a Starfleet career – will you be a Medical, Engineering or Science Officer, or even a Commander? Exciting possibilities await in this immersive and interactive experience that appeals to life-long fans and new Star Trek enthusiasts alike.. Details

2. Be-YOU-tiful & Confident Workshop

Please join us for an amazing evening at the Fairmont Palliser Hotel. Enjoy five star food and cocktails, by the Fairmont, while mingling and networking with like minded talent women. Details

3. Market Collective

MARKET COLLECTIVE is an independent market, created to showcase the works of local artists, artisans and musicians and to strengthen the local community in Calgary. Live music and DJ’s all weekend long.  Details

4. Bridal Show & Open House

The Glenmore Inn & Convention Centre will be hosting this great event where we will be showing off what our venue has to offer and we are pleased to be joined by many of Calgary’s amazing wedding professionals. Details

5. YYC Hearts Kids: Kensington

The YYC Hearts Kids campaign is a month-long fundraising initiative presented by Anthem Properties, supporting Pacekids Programs and Make-A-Wish Southern Alberta. Throughout the month of February Kensington will host small initiatives that make a big impact for these two local children’s charities! Details

6. PARTICLE + WAVE Feature Night

On the featured night of the PARTICLE + WAVE Media Arts Festival, we explore the many facets of media arts, including audio, video, animation and the use of digital interfaces and landscapes. Be immersed in media arts with live audio-visual performances, screenings and installations on a night that showcases the ever-changing technological tools and processes, and the artists who utilize them in amazingly creative ways. Details