All in Arts Commons Presents
If you were to share your favourite holiday tradition, what would it be? It could be making a wish on the turkey wishbone or leaving cookies out for Santa, or maybe even taking an icy plunge into a frozen Canadian lake on Christmas Day. Maybe it was something as simple as putting on the cassette tape or CD of The Barra MacNeils’s The Christmas Album.
Poet Laureate Wakefield Brewster is not a fresh face in the artistic community. Since moving to Calgary 18 years ago, he has been racking up awards and recognition for his outstanding spoken word and poetry pieces and has had no desire to move to the traditional artistic epicentres of Canada, like Toronto or Montreal: “I couldn’t have done this anywhere else,” he says, “there is something very special about Calgary.” And now, as Arts Commons’ newest Incubator Fellow, Wakefield aims to encourage Calgary’s budding artists to grow where they are planted.
Cozy up with Arts Commons Presents this holiday season with the best hits of the season featuring East Coast sensation The Barra MacNeils and Calgary's own Jann Arden. It's the perfect way share a love of Canadian music at this festive time of year.
It’s almost time Calgary - we can’t wait to welcome you to the freshest summer sendoff in the city! To ensure you have the raddest night ever, we’ve put everything you need to know in one place. Bringing all of your friends? Share this with them too!
It’s been 20 years since Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken both won over and divided our hearts on the American Idol Season Two Finale in 2003. After going head-to-head, Ruben Studdard was ultimately declared the winner of American Idol, but Clay was alongside his friend cheering him on, and has been ever since.
What's the best way that you can think of to spend a balmy August evening? If it's dancing and soaking up the music of some of Canada's best talent, you're in luck! On Wednesday, August 30, Arts Commons Presents invites you to bring the whole crew out for a celebration filled with live music, food trucks, and drinks under the open skies. Dance diva Kiesza will get you on your feet, before Kardinal Offishall takes the stage to celebrate 50 years since the birth of Hip-Hop.
There’s something for everybody in the 2023-24 season of Arts Commons Presents, the presenting arm of Arts Commons, Western Canada’s largest performing arts centre. From circus to contemporary dance, folk music to classic rock and everything in between, Arts Commons Presents has the ticket to energizing, adventurous, and awe-inspiring performances.
We've reached the time of year when we optimistically hide our winter coats, emerge from our homes, and seek out events that take full advantage of our precious months of warmth. And what better way to bring back summer than with a trip to Louisiana and Havana? Courtesy of some of the best soul, funk, and hip-hop artists around, The Soul Rebels and Cimafunk are coming to town.
