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Buckle up cowpokes, because the 38th Annual High Performance Rodeo is on the horizon, and the Rabbits have wrangled up the must-see shows for you! With 25 stellar shows in the lineup, this Rodeo promises to be the best one yet. So grab your cowboy hat, snuggle under a warm blanket, and sip on some cocoa as we spill the beans on our top picks.
Arts Commons is thrilled to announce the appointment of an acclaimed creative industry leader as the new VP of Programming, Sarah Garton Stanley. This announcement follows an international executive search conducted by Martin Bragg & Associates. Sarah Garton Stanley will be moving from Nova Scotia to Calgary to join the Arts Commons team on September 20, 2023 where she will lead the department responsible for all areas of programming: Social Impact, Education, Visual and Media Arts, and Arts Commons Presents.
Poet Laureate, published writer and recording artist, and celebrated spoken word artist, Wakefield Brewster is one of Canada's most dynamic and powerful performing artists. Arts Commons is thrilled to be welcoming Wakefield Brewster as our 2023-24 TD Incubator Fellow, providing artistic guidance and curation for the interdisciplinary artist development program. Read on to learn about his vision for the 2023-24 season of the TD Incubator program.
Ever since the first staging of the now widely acclaimed New Blood Dance Show, Strathmore High School teacher Deanne Bertsch has dreamed of having the music—12 Peter Gabriel songs—performed by a live orchestra. Last spring, a chance conversation with the Calgary Civic Symphony’s executive director led to the possibility of that dream coming true.
With three weeks of live performances including six co-presenting partners, 12 venues, 26 shows, 115 performances, and 150 artists, One Yellow Rabbit’s 37th annual High Performance Rodeo is ready to heat up your winter.
Here's the inside track on the festival, so get a pen ready, call your friends, and map out your return to Calgary's International Festival of the Arts. There is something for everyone in this bold, wild and cutting-edge lineup that includes concerts, ballet, theatre and so much more.
Nearly two thousand voices, filling one of the most acclaimed acoustic halls in the world. That might sound like performance of Handel’s Messiah – but there’s a twist. Those two thousand voices will be singing hits from ABBA, and you’re invited! The show is called Choir! Choir! Choir! and it’s the brainchild of Toronto-based music enthusiasts Daveed Goldman and Nobu Adilman.
“London, UK? Wonderful! You’ll have so much fun. You can hop on a train and travel all over Europe!”
This was how almost everyone responded when I would tell them I was moving to the UK for graduate studies.
Can you really call yourself Canadian if you’re not familiar with the hit TV Show Kim’s Convenience? The sitcom is about a Korean Canadian shopkeeper Mr. Kim /“Appa,” his wife, Mrs. Kim/“Umma” – Korean for dad and mom - along with their daughter Janet, and estranged son Jung. It won hearts as it became a runaway hit on national television. It rose to international acclaim, aided by pickup by streaming company Netflix. Most people don’t realize that Kim's Convenience started as a stage production before it was a celebrated and award-winning television show and now you can see it live at the Martha Cohen Theatre at Arts Commons, April 13 - May 1, 2022.
