Events

O2: The Breath Between ~ A Duo Art Show Experience

Experience the beauty and depth of the forest at Bay 1 Gallery’s latest duo exhibition, featuring works by Daniela Bahry and Karen McCallum. Their art captures the essence of nature—its serenity, mystery, and energy—through a contemporary lens. Like the pause between inhale and exhale, their work invites you into the quiet space where the forest breathes—where light shifts through the trees, wind stirs the leaves, and the space between welcomes us to roam.

Paired with the gallery’s fine wood furniture, the exhibition transforms the space into a modern woodland retreat. Join us for an evening of fine art, live music, light hors d'oeuvres, and specialty drinks and mocktails from the Bay 1 cash bar.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 2, 7 – 9 pm
Artists in Attendance: Saturday, May 3, 11 am – 2 pm
Exhibition Dates: May 2 – May 17, 2025

Reserve your spot via Eventbrite or email us at info@bay1gallery.com

WordsWorth 2025: OURTIME is open for registration!

Week 1 (ages 11 – 14): July 13-18, 2025
Week 2 (ages 15 – 19): July 20-25, 2025

Early Bird rate: $630
Regular rate: $655

Location: Red Deer Polytechnic, Red Deer, AB

WordsWorth is a week-long sleepover creative writing residency for young artists who believe in the power of words and storytelling. Campers will be completely immersed in the creative and diverse world of writing. Guided by established and respected artist-instructors, the young artists will experience writing through fiction, nonfiction, poetry, spoken word, music, movement, and more. But the experiences don’t begin and end with the classes; WordsWorth is a place where young artists come together to celebrate writing through friendship, campfire stories and songs, concerts, open mic sessions, hikes, haiku, and semi-competitive games outside of class.

Register and learn more: writersguild.ca/programs-services/wordsworth 

Building on the impactful presentations and dialogues held at the 2023 Prairie Art Institute in Regina, we are excited to announce the upcoming Prairie Art Network Institute, scheduled for June 25–27, 2025, in Calgary.

This year’s Institute will take place at the Alberta University of the Arts, with the support of partner institutions across Alberta. We will continue to provide a platform for exchanging pedagogical, curatorial, and research strategies that respond to the transformations specific to the Prairie context while also highlighting the art and culture emerging from local communities.

Sessions will include the following panels;

• Creative Visions of the Land
• Teaching Art History in the Prairies
• Curating and Communities in the Prairies
• Crafting the Prairie: Expanding Possibilities
• Artists, Transformation, and Change in Prairie Environments Since 2000

Details about the Keynote speaker will be announced in early June.
Register for early bird tickets now! 

For further information, check out  Prairie Art Network Institute 2025. 
Find us at Illingworth Kerr Gallery | Alberta University of the Arts for more details, questions, or concerns. 

Image: Prairie Art Institute 2023, June 15–17, 2023, Regina, SK. Image courtesy of Prairie Art Network. 

We are very excited to be hosting our annual 48hr Mobile Device Filmmaking Challenge. This year the event takes place from 6pm Friday May 23 to 6pm Sunday May 25.

This event is open to all Alberta Residents. You must pre-register to have 3 secret elements emailed to you at the start of the challenge - will be emailed at 6pm on Friday May 23. The three elements must be included in your film. All films must be recorded on a mobile device. Editing can be done on a computer.

All completed films will be screened on Sunday June 1 via an on-line watch party - with the winners being announced at the end!

There will be 4 awards:

• Best 48hr Film
• Best Use of Secret Elements
• Best Marketed
• Best First time Filmmaker

These 4 top films will be screened at the annual Edmonton Short Film Festival in October and be eligible for screening fees and the People's Choice Award.

First time Filmmaker Category: A first time filmmaker may have shot and edited a film for a student project or for personal use (such as family videos). No one on the team has experience creating a film that has been submitted to a film festival or has participated on any previous filmmaking challenge.

Register here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-48hr-mobile-device-filmmaking-challenge

Date and Time:
Friday, April 25, 2025, 7  - 9 pm

Venue Name and Address:
9351 118 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T5G 0N3

Link to Event:
www.thecarrot.ca/events-at-the-carrot/2025/zackeryelliot

Event Cost:
$10 Cover | All Ages

Zackery Wilson Elliott is a contemporary folk singer-songwriter currently based in Edmonton, AB. Though still in the early stages of his career, his melody and lyric writing have noticeably developed and grown in a short time. His writing stems from introspection and abstract storytelling. He independently released his debut EP Caught Half Alive in March 2021 and has been performing throughout Ontario, Quebec, and now Western Canada, for three years. Zackery just released a remastered version of his 2021 EP with a novel bonus track, a live session, a collaborative song Lighthouse (cowritten with Adina V and Julie Title), and has a brand new 3-song EP, Love Another Day on the way. Zackery consistently performs live as a solo act, playing over 40 shows in 2023 ranging from Toronto, to Montréal and New Jersey. He’s become a new face in the festival and conference circuit, performing at Gussapolooza, showcasing at the Folk Music Ontario conference, and the NERFA Conference. In the spring of 2024 he completed his first tour west of Ontario through Alberta & B.C. with Amanda Penner and Sammy Volkov. Zackery is currently self-producing new music while launching his new folk duo, Halfway Home with Amanda Penner.