All in Elevating Your Experience
This year's theme for IWD is #BreakTheBias, supporting the dismantling of deliberate and unconscious biases perpetuated within our society towards women. Are you looking for some inspiration to smash that glass ceiling & fire up your inner advocate? Well we’ve got more than a few role models for you this season.
We’ve all been there. You’ve got your tickets booked, your car is parked, but you don’t know where to eat before the show!
Fortunately for you, there are five excellent eateries right on the doorstep of Arts Commons ranging from comfortably casual to high-end luxury cuisine. Looking for pizza and pasta? We got you covered. What about post-show dessert? We have that too! Read on to discover your new favourite pre-show dinner spot.
On October 28, One Yellow Rabbit will welcome back bliss (the birthday party play) for its second run, returning live performance to the Big Secret Theatre stage at Arts Commons. Written and acted by Verb Theatre director Jamie Dunsdon, critically acclaimed bliss approaches the inopportune moments in life when, like an errant balloon, our ignorance is popped. Perhaps it’s the dawning horror that Santa’s handwriting looks an awful lot like moms, or the burgeoning weight of climate change and environmental action––whatever the catalyst, bliss embarks on an exploration of our vulnerability, our curiosity, and our limitless capacity to ignore that which we shouldn’t.
This past August, we celebrated the return of live performance with Showtime: A Live Music Celebration. The beautiful Olympic Plaza hosted 1500 socially distanced friends, patrons, and donors who gathered to celebrated a love for the arts.
We’re excited to share that September 7, 2021 will mark Art Commons’ official reopening to the public a year and a half after it closed its doors on March 22, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Art has been crucial in getting us through the pandemic and lifting our spirits during these difficult times. Recognizing the importance of the arts and governmental mandates around reopening, Arts Commons is set to safely welcome back audiences to our facilities this month.
The Ledge Gallery at Arts Commons is the current home of Nurgül Rodriguez’ exhibition In the Vessel of my Skin, which delves into the coexistence of body and soul and the conflict that can arise from both sharing space––a concept born and exemplified to her during the pandemic. Immigration, gender disparity, and the desire to belong in a new country are all touched upon in a multitude of ways, each expressed using carefully molded porcelain.
The Arts Commons Transformation project (ACT) is a major cultural infrastructure expansion being undertaken collaboratively by Arts Commons, The City of Calgary, and Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC).
As ACT development manager, CMLC led the engagement program—seeking and collecting input from area stakeholders, the arts community and the public at large on the most important features and considerations for ACT.
As we near the final presentation of National Geographic Live Virtual, Mysterious Seas with Diva Amon and David Gruber, we are grateful to Calgarians for wholeheartedly embracing these virtual events. Since its premiere in February, 18,175 households have signed up—approximately 46,000 people—to experience these live presentations.
