Chinook Blast is energizing the city this month with more activities than you can possibly attend. Fortunately, we have the guide for you to one weekend at Arts Commons and Olympic Plaza so you can get it all in at once!
Arts Commons Presents
Chinook Blast at Arts Commons
FEBRUARY 9 & 10 at 7:00 pm
Olympic Plaza
Arts Commons is giving Olympic Plaza a 45-minute blast of udderly joyful, spontaneous, and mooving art - for FREE. Don't miss hosts Anthony Russell and CHISH, spoken word performer Priscille Bukasa, and brass band phenomenon Cowtown to give you the boost of energy to keep on skating, exploring or art-going for the rest of the night!
Mapperz and Chinook Blast
Northern Lightz
FEBRUARY 9 - 11, 2024
Jack Singer Concert Hall at Arts Commons
Alumni Artist Mackenzie Bedford and her artist collective, Mapperz, are transforming the Jack Singer Concert Hall by night into an aurora borealis inspired light piece. This motion filled installation by artist Erin Saunders also appears across the street with STRAAND (above Teatro).
Arts Commons Presents
TD Amplify: Wakefield Brewster Presents, Pt. 2
FEBRUARY 9 & 10 at 8:00 pm
Engineered Air Theatre at Arts Commons
Welcome to TD Amplify 2023-24, a season of unexpected and unmatched Calgary performers brought together by curator and spoken word icon Wakefield Brewster. Part live show and part underground DJ party - make TD Amplify part of your Friday or Saturday night in downtown Calgary.
Calgary’s sixth Poet Laureate, published writer, and recording artist, Wakefield Brewster's vision for this four-part series of shows is titled PeoplePuzzle: Some Assembly Required, asking what it takes for a person to accept the pieces that make up their own puzzle of an identity.
Part 2 of this Amplify season centres the artistic riches of four undeniable Black artists in Calgary: M’Kayla Kongnetiman, A.N., Okechukwu Nnamchi, and Dizzy Walka.
Arts Commons Presents
Queens of the Blues: Shemekia Copeland and Dawn Tyler Watson
FEBRUARY 9 at 7:30 pm
Jack Singer Concert Hall at Arts Commons
Shemekia Copeland and Dawn Tyler Watson have energized the music world like few others, shaking up the blues with unmatched powerhouse vocals and soulful songwriting. Copeland, the daughter of Blues legend Johnny Copeland, has been hailed as “the greatest blues singer of her generation” by The Washington Post, with a voice that “can summon pain with a sorrowful wail, then trumpet her triumph over a no-good man in the very next number.” Watson is “one of Canada’s true blues treasures” (Blues Music Magazine) who, after five Maple Blues Award wins, won her first JUNO Award for Blues Album of the Year in 2020. Don’t miss your opportunity to see these living legends, live in the incomparable Jack Singer Concert Hall with Arts Commons Presents.
Theatre Calgary
Meteor Shower
FEBRUARY 9 at 7:30 pm & FEBRUARY 10 at 2:00 pm & 7:30 pm
Max Bell Theatre at Arts Commons
Join Theatre Calgary for the closing week of their absurdist comedy, Meteor Shower. On a warm summer evening in 1993, Norm and his wife, Corky, are setting the table for a dinner party to accompany a once-in-a-lifetime meteor shower. They’re hoping for an evening of polite conversation with Norm’s tennis partner, Gerald, and his wife, Laura. But from the moment the evening begins, things become increasingly surreal and chaotic, challenging the couples’ relationships and perceptions of reality. Steve Martin’s signature wit is on full display in this comedy, where the jokes are served as quick as the drinks.
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
On Stage with Alex Cuba
FEBRUARY 10 at 7:30 pm
Jack Singer Concert Hall at Arts Commons
Seize this chance to groove with the brilliant Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter Alex Cuba — winner of the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop album — and the Calgary Phil! Ever curious and ever creative, Alex will merge his signature sweet melodies, soul-tinged hooks, and powerful guitar riffs, with all the colours of an orchestra to create a jazz-funk-pop infusion that’s sure to fire you up!