Epicurean Calgary

UPDATE ON EVENTS AFFECTED BY COVID-19- WITH ALBERTA OPENING UP JULY 1, EVENTS WILL SLOWLY RETURN. HOWEVER, MANY ARE ON HOLD OR IN PLANNING, SO MOST SUMMER EVENTS WILL BE DIFFERENT THAN IN THE PAST. INFORMATION ON EACH EVENT IS AS ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE.

January 2022 

January 18-February 6, 2022

High Performance Rodeo (CANCELLED)

Various Locations

Ticket prices range from FREE-$150 per show.

Shows:
Kenna Burima, While She Sleeps, Engineered Air Theatre, 205 8th Ave. S.E., Tickets: $25-$45
Karen Hines, Pochsy IV: Excerpts from Work in Progress, Big Secret Theatre, #21, 225 8th Ave. S.E. (Second Floor), Tickets: $15-$150
One Yellow Rabbit, 10-Minute Play Festival, Flanagan Theatre, The GRAND, 608 1 St. S.W., Tickets: $25-$45
DJD Professional Dance Company, AMPLIFIED, DJD Dance Centre, 111 12th Avenue S.E., FREE
One Yellow Rabbit and ProArts Society, Ben Pipestem and Guest, Cathedral Church of the Redeemer, 218 7th Ave. S.E.
GAL Productions, Dora Maar: The Wicked One, Engineered Air Theatre, 205 8th Ave. S.E., Tickets: $25-$45
Gilgamesh Lazyboy, Big Secret Theatre, #21, 225 8th Ave. S.E. (Second Floor), Tickets: $25-$45
Diane Flacks, Guilt, Engineered Air Theatre, 205 8th Ave. S.E., Tickets: $25-$45
One Yellow Rabbit and ProArts Society, Hymmmelodies Reunion, Cathedral Church of the Redeemer, 218 7th Ave. S.E., FREE
Making Treaty 7 and One Yellow Rabbit, Istotsi: The Land We Live On, Globe Cinema, 617 8 Ave. S.W., Tickets: $25-$30
Justin Miller, Pearle Harbour's Agit-Pop!, Big Secret Theatre, #21, 225 8th Ave. S.E. (Second Floor), Tickets: $25-$45
Brett Dahl, Sissy Fit: Enigmacy, Big Secret Theatre, #21, 225 8th Ave. S.E. (Second Floor), Tickets: $25-$35
One Yellow Rabbit and Festival of Animated Objects, Something Is Rotten, Royal Canadian Legion #1, 116 7 Avenue S.E., Tickets: $25-$45
One Yellow Rabbit and ProArts Society, Sterling Hunte, Cathedral Church of the Redeemer, 218 7th Ave. S.E., FREE
One Yellow Rabbit and The GRAND, The Gold Rush REDUX, Flanagan Theatre, The GRAND, 608 1 St. S.W., Tickets: $22.76-$42.20
Kevin Chen and Alberta Ballet, The Memory Room, Flanagan Theatre, The GRAND, 608 1 St. S.W., Tickets: SOLD OUT
The Shoe Project, The Shoe Project: Standing Strong, Contemporary Calgary, 701 11 St. S.W., Tickets: $20
David Gagnon Walker, This Is the Story of the Child Ruled by Fear, Royal Canadian Legion #1, 116 7 Avenue S.E., Tickets: $15-$150
One Yellow Rabbit and Inside Out Theatre, Violette, Inside Out Theatre, 146 200 Barclay Parade S.W., Tickets: $25-$35
Madonnanera, Wring the Roses, Big Secret Theatre, #21, 225 8th Ave. S.E. (Second Floor), Tickets: $25-$45
Flora and Fawna Have Beaver Fever (and so does Fleurette!), The Studio, Vertigo Theatre Centre, 160 - 115 9th Ave. S.E., Tickets: $23-$31

For three wild weeks in January, One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo, Calgary’s International Festival of the Arts, is where the action is. It’s a chance to watch touring performances from across Canada, acclaimed international shows, and new and experimental work from artists here in Calgary. The programming is bold, cutting-edge, funny, frank, and full of heart. There’s theatre, dance, music, film, free lunchtime concerts, late-night cabarets, and so much more. Shows in the basement of the Calgary Tower, at the Royal Canadian Legion, in the +15’s, a wrestling ring, an elevator, in City Hall, Eau Claire Market, the Glenbow, Central Library, Big Secret Theatre, Lunchbox, DJD, and the Jack Singer Concert Hall.
The High Performance Rodeo takes over downtown Calgary in all shapes, sizes, and sounds – defying description and tantalizing the tastes of arts and culture lovers. Audiences brave the January cold or revel in the chinook heat-wave, comb over the festival guide, and come out to play. The High Performance Rodeo is about championing creativity, building community, celebrating diverse voices, and promoting self-expression in all forms. For 33 years, the festival has been a launching pad for local artists and a spotlight onto the world’s stage. It’s a unique experience that only happens here.
The programming is multi-faceted in its diversity; renowned for being rich with progressive, wild and powerfully inventive performances. Mesmerizing contemporary dance to thought-provoking performances designed to challenge the worldviews held by the audience, international theatre hits, emerging artists and productions, immersive sensory journies, modern Indigenous art and theatre, music and more, transform the cultural landscape of Calgary and leave lasting impressions that extend beyond the city borders.
The 34th annual High Performance Rodeo, Calgary’s International Festival of the Arts, is an annual festival that animates the city in January with an array of live performances from around the world. Featuring theatre, music, dance, and multidisciplinary art, 'The Rodeo' is a showcase of the best in contemporary performance.
Produced by One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre and presented in co-operation with many of Calgary’s major arts organizations such as Theatre Junction, Vertigo Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Alberta Theatre Projects and Lunchbox Theatre, the High Performance Rodeo has established itself as one of the major cultural events in Calgary.

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January 28-February 12, 2022

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

Pumphouse Theatre, Victor Mitchell Theatre, 2140 Pumphouse Avenue S.W.

Show times:
Wednesday–Saturday @ 7:30 p.m.
Matinees January 30, February 5, 6, & 12 @ 2:00 p.m.

Tickets: Adult $23, Student/Senior $18
Online version available: February 10-12
Show times: Evenings starting at 6:00 p.m.
Patrons have 48 hours to start the video at your convenience
Tickets (one per household or Device): $20

By Ann-Marie MacDonald
Directed by Colleen Bishop

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is an exuberant comedy and feminist revisioning of Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet. It takes us from a dusty office in Canada’s Queen’s University, into the fraught and furious worlds of two of Shakespeare’s best-known tragedies, and turns them upside-down. Constance Ledbelly is the beleaguered “spinster” academic, and  unlikely heroine who embarks on a quest for Shakespearean origins and, ultimately, her own identity. When she deciphers an ancient and neglected manuscript, Constance is propelled through a very modern rabbit hole and lands smack in the middle of the tragic turning points of each play in turn. Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is a gender-bendy, big-hearted and crazily intelligent romp, where irony and anger sing in perfect harmony with innocence and poignancy.

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