Culture TRUCK Is Burning
The statement acknowledged 'serious mismanagement' spanning several years. CRA charitable status had been lost. Canada Council placed TRUCK on 'Concerned Status.' In the Canadian arts sector, this is the equivalent of screaming.
Culture Six Years Without Glenbow
The Glenbow Museum closed its doors in August 2021 for a transformational renovation. The current timeline suggests 2027. What fills the vacuum is nothing. And nothing, over six years, becomes normal.
Culture Quiet Structural Revolution
Calgary is the first municipality in Canada to employ an all-Indigenous team of arts professionals dedicated to public art. Not advisory. Not consulting. Employed. Permanent. Decision-making.
Culture The Saddledome's Last Dance
The Scotiabank Saddledome was never beautiful. It was distinctive — the hyperbolic paraboloid roofline gave it a profile that architects praised and everyone else described as "that saddle-shaped thing" — but beauty wasn't the point. The point was that Calgary, in 1983, built a world-class venue for the 1988 Winter Olympics, and for the next four decades, that venue held essentially every major cultural event the city produced.
Culture Daveed Diggs & clipping. Run Sled Island
The most interesting music festival in Western Canada just handed its curatorial keys to an experimental hip-hop trio whose last album included industrial noise collages and horrorcore narratives.
Culture Calgary Eats
There's a restaurant in Calgary where you can eat an 18-course tasting menu that weaves Indigenous ingredients with immigrant flavours, where reservations sell out within an hour of opening.