YYC Art
Posts on new art installations in the city of Calgary.
From the Blog
Calgary Fringe 2025 Dates
The 2025 Calgary Fringe THEATRE Festival arrives Fri Aug 1 and goes till Sat Aug 9, 2025. Show details in a zine: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/c5a9363639.html Looking for tickets? Here you go: https://tickets.calgaryfringe.ca/
YYCBump 2025 Festival
One of our favourite festivals and annual art celebrations is returning. The YYC Bump Festival. Not only does this event celebrate local and international artists, it has a lasting impact in the Beltline/Downtown area with their street art murals. Every year more...
ART SPOT Brings +15 Art Show All Month
ART SPOT is bringing a pop-up gallery to downtown, featuring an Under $100 and Under $200 wall along with an assortment of high end original art. This exciting new pop-up will feature the works of dozens of local artists, with a range of price points for art...
Hangama Amiri PARTING/فراق, on view at Esker Foundation
Afghan-Canadian artist Hangama Amiri blends painting, printmaking, and textile techniques to create colourful and intricately layered fabric vignettes inspired by familial memories, her homeland, and the diasporic experience. Her exhibition, PARTING/فراق, on view at...
Chinook Blast 2025 in Calgary
Chinook Blast 2025 is back and its bringing a ton of fun activities for the downtown region (as far east as Inglewood and as far west as Shaganappi). What can you expect? Chinook Blast, Calgary’s Winter Festival! January 31 – February 17, Various Downtown Locations...
YYCBump Murals Fill The Streets
August means it's mural season once again and the brains and artists from YYCBump will be beautifying the streets adding murals across the Beltline and Downtown areas. Check out the festivities and the mural map. Welcome to the 2023 BUMP FESTIVAL! We are a...
(Re)Imagining Inclusion Community-based art
Artists: Medina Ardic, Firuze Avci, Melika Forouzan Pour, Shiyao Fu, Tayebe Joodaki, Maryam Mahdavian Research and facilitation by Nurgül Balaç Rodriguez An installation at Contemporary Calgary includes local artists part of marginalized people groups. Here is the...
Beyond Van Gogh Calgary Worth It?
Re-opening again at the end of October for a two-week run until November 8th, the Beyond Van Gough exhibit has worked within the confines of the COVID-19 pandemic and provided a surreal exhibit for visitors. If you've thought that you could just find a bunch of...
2021 Bump Murals and Festival
Upcoming is another fantastic year to look at wonderful mural art. Street art or urban art is a wonderful way to beautify the inner-city, transforming blank canvasses such as walls and and buildings, into art. It elevates the neighbourhood and the city. You can find...
2020 YYC Bump Murals
There may be a global pandemic in our midst, but that hasn't stopped the team behind BUMP to curate another year of murals. Beautifying the inner-city with art is one way to not only develop resiliency and pride in a neighborhood, but it's an act of restoration....