ARTS & CULTURE


Calgary Expo 2025: A jubilant celebration of cosplaying and community
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Calgary Expo 2025: A jubilant celebration of cosplaying and community

Cosplayers had their moment to shine during the four-day weekend of this year’s Calgary Expo. Their joy in dressing up as their favourite characters was infectious to both attendees of expo and passersby who wanted pictures with them. On a journey to find a few of the most

CUFF 2025 features Good Boy: An unconventional and endearing supernatural horror film
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CUFF 2025 features Good Boy: An unconventional and endearing supernatural horror film

The 2025 Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) has an extensive lineup with a wide variety of films, documentaries and events that attendees can view throughout all of the festival. From cartoon viewings, short film showcases and more, audiences are treated to  the best of local and international independent film and

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CUFF 2025: Jakob Skrzypa on Vampire Zombies…From Space!
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CUFF 2025: Jakob Skrzypa on Vampire Zombies…From Space!

Tongue-in-cheek ode to 1950s sci-fi horror films Vampire Zombies..From Space! has all the ingredients for an audience favourite. The film is making its Alberta premiere at the 2025 Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) on April 25 at 9:30 p.m., a fitting time according to

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Building community and excitement with Sled Island’s Student Mixer
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Building community and excitement with Sled Island’s Student Mixer

Sled Island is a festival tailor-made for anyone who loves music. This year it will be taking place from June 18-22. One of the many things that makes Sled Island unique is the special programming it offers, including the upcoming Sled Island Student Mixer, a free event held

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Forte Musical Theatre’s Austentatious: A fresh, fun take on Pride and Prejudice
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Forte Musical Theatre’s Austentatious: A fresh, fun take on Pride and Prejudice

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice remains a classic, but Forte Musical Theatre’s Austentatious, coming back to Calgary after 15 years from April 8-19, is certainly not a straight-forward adaptation of the novel.  Austentatious follows the Cochrane Ranche Amateur Players

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Album Review: Lady Gaga's MAYHEM
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Album Review: Lady Gaga's MAYHEM

Throughout her career, Lady Gaga has experimented with various musical genres to demonstrate her remarkable versatility and constantly evolving artistic identity. Her album The Fame (2008) launched her into stardom as a pop star, while her album Joanne (2016) embraced soft rock. Artpop (2013) ventured into avant-garde territory, while

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Addiction through art: A reflection with Kat Pisani
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Addiction through art: A reflection with Kat Pisani

“Andre never stopped being a good dude, he was a good dude this whole time. He just had a coping mechanism that worked for a while, until it didn't. But he was always a good dude.” Mike Sorochan From March 24-28, campus goers were presented the opportunity

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In retrospective of the Illingworth "Buck" Kerr exhibition at Loch Gallery: Capturing the essence of the Snowy Wild West
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In retrospective of the Illingworth "Buck" Kerr exhibition at Loch Gallery: Capturing the essence of the Snowy Wild West

The Loch Gallery is displaying the work of Illingworth “Buck” Kerr as well as Harry Palmer and Mary Spice Kerr from Feb 1-22. Illingworth "Buck" Kerr was born in Lumsden, Saskatchewan in 1905. He then studied in Ontario at the Ontario College of Art for three years

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Lunchbox Theatre presents Please Return to Empire Video: An ode to 2000s video stores and lost friendships
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Lunchbox Theatre presents Please Return to Empire Video: An ode to 2000s video stores and lost friendships

Disclaimer: This review contains spoilers. Please Return to Empire Video discusses themes of death and grief. Please treat these topics with care. Lunchbox Theatre’s final show in their 2024/2025 season is James Odin Wade’s Please Return to Empire Video. Audiences are taken back to the year of

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Blithe Spirit: A hauntingly hilarious return to the stage
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Blithe Spirit: A hauntingly hilarious return to the stage

What do you get when you summon a ghost, one ex-wife battling it out with the current one and a séance conducted by a bicycle-riding medium? Blithe Spirit, of course — Noël Coward’s razor-sharp comedy, now revived with wit and flair at the Maxwell Theatre under the

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A new era for the Gauntlet

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