🎨 This Week’s Picks
Wildfire
The New Gallery | Downtown | Through Saturday, March 7
Catch the last weekend of this group exhibition curated by Lara Felsing and David McGregor. Artists from across many nations examine our shifting relationship with fire in an era of climate crisis, combining critical responses with what the curators call “kin-centric thinking.” The work spans urban and rural experiences, grounded in both loss and care.
Details: Wed-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm | Free Info: thenewgallery.org
Cheryl L’Hirondelle: where the voice touches
Walter Phillips Gallery | Banff | On Now
The first career survey of multidisciplinary artist Cheryl L’Hirondelle’s decades-spanning practice. Born in Alberta with family ties to Papaschase First Nation and Kikino Métis Settlement, L’Hirondelle works across performance, video, net.art, sound, and installation—all grounded in nēhiyawēwin (Cree language) and nēhiyawin (Cree worldview). The exhibition brings together work rarely seen in large-scale presentations.
Details: Wed-Sun 12:30-5pm | Free Info: banffcentre.ca/walter-phillips-gallery
PARTICLE + WAVE 2026 Exhibition
EMMEDIA Gallery | Beltline | Through March 11
EMMEDIA’s annual media arts festival features works exploring technology and new media, including Teresa Tam’s “TTES: The ROM Collection,” an immersive audiovisual piece repurposing Gameboy hardware, and installations that embrace experimental processes. EMMEDIA is Calgary’s only dedicated media arts centre.
Details: Tue-Sat 12-6pm | Free Info: emmedia.ca
Nour Ouayda: The Secret Garden
Contemporary Calgary | Beltline | Through March 15
Catch this before it closes. Ouayda’s 16mm film imagines strange plants erupting across an unnamed city, turning streets into an entangled labyrinth. Two unseen voices—Camelia and Nahla—uncover a notebook chronicling this botanical invasion. The close-ups of foliage function as meditations on the elements of life we often neglect and can’t control.
Details: Daily 12-4pm in Heather Edwards Theatre | Free with admission ($5-10, free First Thursday) Info: contemporarycalgary.com
🆓 Free Admission & Special Events
First Thursdays
- Contemporary Calgary – Free admission 5-9pm, Thursday, March 5
See Nelly-Eve Rajotte’s immersive installation “Trees communicate with each other at 220 hertz” and the group show “Entwined” before they close March 15. contemporarycalgary.com
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Craft Perspectives at Alberta Craft Gallery + Shop (cSPACE Marda Loop) Through March 14 | New works inspired by historical objects and cultural artifacts, reimagined through contemporary craft. albertacraft.ab.ca/calgary-gallery
Trees communicate with each other at 220 hertz at Contemporary Calgary Through April 19 | Montreal artist Nelly-Eve Rajotte’s large-scale multi-media installation combines moving image, generative sound, and a modular synthesizer connected to a live tree—a meditation on listening and interdependence. contemporarycalgary.com
Esker Foundation Winter 2026: Four Solo Painting Exhibitions Through April 26 | Esker is showing four concurrent painting exhibitions worth the trip to Inglewood:
- Alexandre PĂ©pin: Lavender draws from Byzantine frescoes and post-impressionism to explore moments of queer intimacy and spiritual contemplation.
- Anthony Cudahy: metronome yawned captures queer tenderness in everyday life, with figures that merge into the atmosphere of their environments.
- Magalie Guérin: Orange to Rattle builds generative compositions from the residue of previous works—paintings that emerge from what remains.
- Justin de Verteuil: sie will / muse. zur marionette explores the dynamic between figure and space from the DĂĽsseldorf-based Trinidadian painter.
All free to explore. Wed-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat-Sun 12-5pm. eskerfoundation.com
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