Festivals in Calgary
Calgary is home to exceptional festivals all year long. Between May and August, over 40 festivals take place in Calgary - an average of two-and-a-half festivals each week! Summer festivals like the Calgary International Children's Festival, Sled Island, Calgary Jazz Festival, Calgary Folk Music Festival, Fringe Festival, Calgary International Blues Festival, ReggaeFest, Afrikadey!, GlobalFest, Expo Latino and many more are a perfect way to try something different and enjoy time with friends and family during the warm weather months.
Fall brings a new slate of festivals, including the 10-day Calgary International Film Festival in late September, the Calgary Improv Festival, WordFest Writer's Festival, plus a variety of other visual art, music and performative art festivals. And starting in January each year, artists and audiences from all over the world gather in local theatres, concert halls and exhibition spaces to experience Calgary's renowned winter festivals. The High Performance Rodeo, Exposure Photography Festival, Alberta Theatre Projects' Enbridge playRites Festival of New Canadian Plays, the Midwinter Blues Festival, Kiwanis Music Festival and the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival all provide a stellar, non-stop stretch of festival events running January through April.
What's On Today:
Unity Art Festival
Anem8 Artistic Group, Cornerstone Foundation, and Gloss Salon and Spa present to you UNITY ART FESTIVAL.
Taking place on February 4, 2012 (doors @ 6:30PM) at the Alexandra Centre in Calgary, AB, Unity Art Festival is sure to be an amazing event unlike any other! For one night only, Calgary artists, photographers, dancers, musicians, and hair designers unite to give you a reason to celebrate. Let’s celebrate the diverse artistic talent prevalent in our city, and let’s celebrate the ability to unite these talents as one to truly give back!! Proceeds of this event will be given to the National Music Centre project right here in Calgary Alberta, as well as to Cornerstone Foundation’s initiative to feed 150+ orphans in Thailand.
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Exposure: Calgary Banff Canmore Photography Festival was established in 2004 by the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies to encourage the broader Calgary-Banff- Canmore community to consciously examine, question, and appreciate the medium of photography.
Each February, Exposure provides a festival focus to exhibit a diversity of photographic imagery by involving as many entities within the community as possible. Anyone willing to create a meaningful photography-based program, exhibit, or event is welcome. To date, Exposure has united educators, independent artists, and public and private galleries, aided by the generous support of businesses, media partners, and the City of Calgary.
Exposure also programs lectures, panel discussions, and workshops to encourage more thoughtful image making by practicing photographers and to raise important questions about photography.
Exposure’s activity infuses vitality to the Calgary, Banff and Canmore winter cultural scene, nurtures a sense of collectorship, and invites an expanding audience to experience the positive aesthetic and intellectual ways that serious photography can shape their lives.
