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Contemporary Calgary is a public contemporary art gallery located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Located in the former Centennial Planetarium/Telus World of Science in the city's downtown core, the gallery offers contemporary art programming by local, national, and international artists. It launched its inaugural season in 2020.
The following is an incomplete list of annual festivals and cultural events in Calgary and the Calgary Region, in the province of Alberta, Canada.. This list includes festivals of diverse types, such as regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays.
Almost 400,000 people attend 1800-plus performances and events each year at the Arts Commons, including productions and presentations by the six resident companies, including Alberta Theatre Projects, Arts Commons Presents, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Downstage, One Yellow Rabbit, and Theatre Calgary.
This is a list of tourist attractions in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The city of Calgary has over one million inhabitants. Tourism is an important part of the local economy, contributing $2.1 billion dollars in 2019.
Calgary's dense business area comprises the bulk of the downtown community. It is a core of skyscrapers. As of February 2017, eight of the ten tallest buildings in western Canada, and a few of the tallest in the country, are in Calgary. It is arguably the densest downtown area of any city of its size in North America [citation needed]. Many of ...
Canadian Pacific Railway 0-6-0 no.2024 at Heritage Park. The park is divided into four distinct areas reflecting different time periods in Western Canadian history: the Hudson's Bay Company Fur Trading Fort, c. 1864; the Pre-Railway Settlement Village, c. 1880; the Railway Prairie Town, c. 1910; and Heritage Plaza (opened 2009), depicting the 1920s to 1950s.
Calgary's Chinatown is a district of Calgary located along Centre Street in the southeast area of Downtown Calgary immediately west of the Downtown East Village. Calgary's Chinese Cultural Centre , with its traditional architecture and decor (styled after the Temple of Heaven in Beijing ), is largest facility of its kind in North America .
This article is a list of historic places in the Calgary Region, in Alberta, which have been entered into the national Register of Historic Places, which includes federal, provincial, and municipal properties. A few are in the national park system.