The Role
Our artists live with disabilities of varying forms but come to the studio because they want to be artists. To help our artists meet this goal, our Studio Faculty will lead their media-specific departments while making extra efforts to encourage, inspire, and motivate them to conceptualize new ideas, create with new mediums, develop and deliver specialized training programs, and exhibit their works when opportunities arise.
Alberta artists Ana Zanella and Veronica Funk present their own very distinct versions of
memories: abstract grids depicting patterns and organic motifs found in daily life, and portraits inspired by miniature vintage photographs – bringing together old and new through bodies of work that are interconnected by the past but presented in a way that represents the present. The show runs from August 5 - 30th.
Ana Zanella is a painter and mixed media artist living in Calgary who is interested in
The Western Canadian Sinus and Rhinoplasty Course takes place September 12–14, 2025, at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine. This intensive three-day program offers live surgery demonstrations, lectures, and hands-on labs. With expertise shared by facial plastic surgeon Dr. Richard Rival, the event focuses on advancing skills in sinus surgery and reconstructive rhinoplasty.
Date: Sunday, October 26, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Studio Bell, home of the National Music Centre, Calgary AB
Admission: Free and open to the public
Youth Singers of Calgary is turning 40 — and you're invited to the party!
Write On! The Songwriting Experience is an 8-month mentorship program based in Calgary, Alberta, designed to support and develop emerging songwriters. Launching its fifth season in September 2025, the program offers a comprehensive journey from songwriting to music release. Applications for the 2025–2026 season are now open, with a deadline of July 31, 2025. The program is open to songwriters of all levels and genres with a passion for community and collaboration. Head over to writeon-songs.com for more details and to apply by July 31.
This year's upcoming events include...
Off the Beaten Path is a hilarious, heart-pounding, interactive fantasy musical where you decide what happens next. Will the rogue betray the party? Can the orcs dance their way to redemption? Is that sword fight going to end in glory or disaster?
Set in the magical world of Arlyrus, this thrilling adventure is like live-action D&D meets Broadway—no two shows are the same. Heroes rise. Secrets unravel. And you decide the path they take.
Expect dancing orcs, epic sword fights, and tunes that will live rent-free in your head for days. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll probably want to come back again—just to make sure your favourite hero doesn’t meet their fate this time...
🎟️ Learn More & Tickets: obpmusical.com
📅 Shows: July 4, 5, 6 at 7 pm| Matinee July 5 at 1:30pm
📍 Beddington Theatre Arts Centre | 375 Bermuda Dr NW, Calgary, AB T3K 2J5
A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style Fantasy Musical! 135+ Possible Scripted Versions.
A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style Fantasy Musical! 135+ Possible Scripted Versions.
A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style Fantasy Musical! 135+ Possible Scripted Versions.
The Common Ground Festival returns and its groovier than ever!! We are looking for submissions to celebrate Calgary's most talented artists and the joy of bringing new works of all shapes and sizes to the stage! If you've got a thing we've got a stage
The Common Ground Festival is a place for emerging and small professional artists to present and develop the work that they are passionate about. Since our inception in 2014, we have been honoured to show Calgary the work of over 300 early career artists. In 2018 we partnered with the Pumphouse Theatres, a longtime supporter of emerging and small professional artists in Calgary, in order to provide the best stage for our artists
We are now growing again as a festival to expand from not only emerging artists, indie-theatre and new works, but also more artistic disciplines. For this year’s festival we want to provide an artistically diverse and unique experience for our audience!
This includes what you would expect from Common Ground as well as more dance, physical storytelling and non-traditional story telling by emerging and small professional artists.
What we are looking for from submissions:
The Common Ground Festival is (and always will be) looking for innovative, experimental or original works that showcases authentic and creatively embodied stories. if you've got a thing, we’ve got a stage for you.
Deadline for submissions: July 31, 2025
How to submit: Fill out this form: forms.gle
The festival will be happening from November 12 to 15, 2025
The Common Ground Festival is back this year and we're groovier than every. We are looking for submissions for performing arts of all kinds!!! If you've got a thing we've got a stage.
The Common Ground Festival is back this year and we're groovier than every. We are looking for submissions for performing arts of all kinds!!! If you've got a thing we've got a stage.
The Common Ground Festival is back this year and we're groovier than every. We are looking for submissions for performing arts of all kinds!!! If you've got a thing we've got a stage.
Exhibition Opening Reception: June 20, 7–9 PM
Chambers’ Ring explores the history, spectacle, and materiality of boxing. Through the lens of media archaeology and process art, the work analyzes the rhythmic active body, how its perception is influenced via the mediation of technology, as well as the rules and formalized structures of game.
This exhibition has been supported by:
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development, The City of Calgary, EMMEDIA, TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary Boxing Club, Rogelio Boxing, Carvel Creative
