On Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, Dickens in Calgary hosted “Show up For the Island!”, a fundraising concert for the Sled Island Music & Arts Festival. At the fundraiser, marketing and communications lead Curtis Greger put it bluntly explaining how Sled Island raises money for the festival. “Sled Island relies on
Vertigo Theatre is celebrating its 50th anniversary season, and from March 14 to April 12, they are proud to present their latest production, A Killing Snow, by Canadian playwright, Paul Ciufo and directed by Tara Beagan. The play is a nod to the murder mystery genre with tons of comedy
Spoiler warning: This review contains major spoilers for Scream 7. At this point, making a seventh movie in a horror franchise sounds like a gamble. Most long running slasher series eventually start to feel tired, repeating the same structure over and over. So when going to watch Scream 7 there
Editorial: In the defence of arts I recently had a conversation with a couple friends in the engineering school. Although it started off as a casual conversation about coursework and relative “difficulty,” it quickly switched to a familiar topic: which degrees are “useful”, and which ones are not. Discourse around
The School of Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) is a department here at the University of Calgary. It is divided into three different divisions: music, dance and drama. This article will reflect on the student experience of engaging with drama, and how the department inspires its students to breathe life
On Feb. 26, the Grey Eagle Resort and Casino was taken over by three powerhouses of Canadian rock. Econoline Crush (Econoline) and Big Wreck each provided an absolutely lethal opening-set before the night came to a satisfying ending with our main act, Līve. The show began with the lights
The Tale of the Gifted Prince is a musical produced by Theatre Calgary. It was written by Lezlie Wade and the music was composed by Daniel Green. Prince Ren, the protagonist and titular character, is tasked with stopping the Yellow Scarves; a group of rebels, from taking over his father’
To what extent have we limited our experience of art and other cultural relics by restricting them to the glass exhibits of museums and to the sense of sight? What kinds of shared cultural understandings formed in the past through the global exchange of cultural relics, and who decided what
From Feb. 20th to 28th, Sage Theatre Society & The Shakespeare Company put on a rendition of Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet, tailored for the new age exploration of forbidden love, sexuality and sin. Adapted by Joe Calarco, it entails the fascination of four eager students with the famous
The University of Calgary’s in-house art gallery, the Nickle Gallery, recently opened two new exhibits in early February. Visitors can see Yvonne Mullock’s Why don’t you… and Heather Leier’s self titled Heather Leier: Practice Pinny beginning Feb. 5. Leier is an associate professor in the
