Andrea Montgomery

1 week ago | calgary.citynews.ca | Andrea Montgomery

Calgary's National Music Centre is amplifying Indigenous stories with a refreshed edition of its award-winning Speak Up! exhibition, opening June 18 at Studio Bell. The 2025 update features five powerful artists who've used music to shift culture, preserve language, and challenge perceptions across Canada. Beatrice Deer, Ray St. Germain, Harry Rusk, Kelly Fraser, and the Dakhká Khwáan Dancers now join the exhibition's growing list of changemakers.

1 week ago | calgary.citynews.ca | Andrea Montgomery

How often do you stumble across a bunch of theatre professionals doing a reading in Devonian Gardens? Well, in May and June, it happens about once a week. Lunchbox Theatre's Stage One Festival of New Canadian Work is back, offering free, public readings of dynamic new plays in downtown Calgary. The festival's final reading takes place on Friday, June 20.

1 week ago | calgary.citynews.ca | Andrea Montgomery

In artistic pursuits and content creation, collaboration has become noting short of a survival skill. And in Calgary's not-quite-professional theatre scene, an unexpected union is leading to a production that's much more than just ado about nothing. This is the first co-production between Full Circle Theatre and The Shakespeare Company. For Full Circle, it's their biggest partnership to date. It started, as many great theatre stories do, with an audition.

1 week ago | calgary.citynews.ca | Andrea Montgomery

The 26th Annual Betty Mitchell Awards are coming up quickly. The big night is Monday, June 23, and we're starting to get a better idea of what it's going to look like. Party in the green room Theatre is a team sport, and so much of the experience happens behind the curtain - the relationships formed between castmates and crew, the winks and gestures from the wings, the delicate hand-off and organization of everything from props to feelings.

1 week ago | calgary.citynews.ca | Andrea Montgomery

Protests in downtown Calgary were largely peaceful and somewhat restrained Monday as the G7 leaders' summit got underway in Kananaskis. Demonstrations were held at Municipal Plaza outside city hall, one of the three designated protest zones in the city, along with Enoch Park and another zone near the airport. The largest group on site Monday was Justice for Sikhs, by mid-afternoon there were more than a 100 gathered with others still arriving by train.