Arts Reimagined Festival 2025

Shaping the Future Leaders through Creativity

Arts education is not optional—it’s essential. It equips young people with the creativity, confidence, and critical thinking skills they need to thrive. It empowers teachers to cultivate curiosity in the classroom, gives parents a way to nurture their child’s self-expression, and strengthens communities by fostering collaboration and cultural understanding. Beyond creativity, arts education builds the leaders of tomorrow. Through the arts, young people develop essential leadership skills—problem-solving, teamwork, adaptability, and the confidence to think outside the box.

Welcome to the Arts ReimaginED Festival!

Join us for a month-long festival dedicated to transforming the role of arts education in our schools and communities. It is a call to creativity for educators, teaching artists, families, young people, and leaders to recognize the arts as a cornerstone of learning, leadership, and connection.

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Teachers

Unlock Creativity in Your Classroom
May 26 – 30, 2025

What if art wasn’t just something students made—but something that helped them think, explore, and lead? What if the journey of creating art became a launchpad for confidence, curiosity, and problem-solving? Sign up for your chance at 120 FREE workshops to Calgary schools—led by local teaching artists who know how to ignite imaginations and bring creativity to life!

Expand Possibilities with Online Workshops
April 15, 29 & May 6, 13, 2025

Not in Calgary? Not a problem! We're bringing some of our favourite workshops online to take the arts into your classroom hosted by Arts Commons Education + lead by Calgary Teaching Artists.

Meet this year's teaching artists

Parents & Caregivers

Arts are a gateway to inquiry, learning, and discovering for our kids – and us! Join the cutting edge of arts education outside the classroom this Spring with FREE offerings for kids and their caregivers in your community.

Arts Workshops at the Calgary Library
April 12 & 26, 2025

Expand Possibilities with Online Workshops
April 15, 29 & May 6, 13, 2025

We're bringing some of our favourite workshops online to take the arts into your classroom hosted by Arts Commons Education + lead by Calgary Teaching Artists.

Teaching Artists

Discovery Lab: Purpose, Connection, Collaboration, and Mentorship

How do purpose, connection, collaboration, and mentorship shape and elevate your creative practice and teaching artistry?

Teaching artists are invited to explore these foundational elements and their transformative impact on artistic growth, learning environments, and community engagement. Through reciprocity, cross-disciplinary perspectives, and diverse ways of knowing, this interactive experience will guide artists in understanding how their own curiosity and inquiry process can deepen artistic expression, strengthen relationships, and foster meaningful change.

Learn more about our Teaching Artist Development: Discovery Lab.

Meet this year's cohort of Teaching Artists

21,000 students, 900 classes, 450 families, 175 Free arts-based activities, and 20 hours of Teaching Artist development...and that's just scratching the surface!

Arts ReimaginED, brings together teachers, parents and caregivers, and teaching artists to bring arts education back into the lives of children and youth. Arts education provides foundational learning building blocks that develop core competencies in the next generation of successful adults. Learn more about the importance of arts education in Calgary from our Arts Education Benchmark Survey.