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Festival Guide MAY • 19 • 17 FESTIVAL GUIDE 2017More than 200 events—big, small, downright obscure—are heading this way to enliven your spring, summer and, shudder, fall. It’s time to get busy. FESTIVAL GUIDE 2017 May A Night at the Banff Mountain Film Festival When: Wednesdays and Sundays until May 31, June 16 to Sept. 15 What: Featuring award-winners and audience favour- ites from the annual festival. Where: Lux Cinema, 229 Bear St., Banff, Alta. 1-800- 413-8368, banffcentre.ca. Ginapalooza When: Ongoing until Thursday, June 1 WRAP What: Gin-focused festival celebrating local gin distill- ers, international gin brands and gin cocktails. Where: Various venues. ginapalooza.com. Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival YOUR HEAD When: Friday, May 19 to Saturday, May 27 What: Nine days of LGBTQA programming guaranteed to provoke, challenge and entertain. Now in its 19th season, Fairy Tales features more than 35 screenings of queer film from around the world as well as perfor- AROUND THIS mances, parties and panels. Where: The Plaza Theatre, 1133 Kensington Rd. N.W. Our annual guide to festival season will put you in fairytalesfilmfest.com. Calaway Park Grand-Opening Weekend the centre of the action. It’ll be like the summer When: Saturday, May 20 to Monday, May 22 What: Western Canada’s largest outdoor family revolves around you. amusement park opens for another season of fun. Where: 245033 Range Rd. 33. calawaypark.com. urs is a circular path. The Earth since its inception 28 years ago. Heritage Park Opening Weekend Oaround the sun. The days of the In the course of the 12 years we When: Saturday, May 20 to Monday, May 22 week, months of the year and the have been producing our annual fes- What: The Historical Village opens for its 53rd summer season, offering horse-drawn wagon seasons. tival (OK, so magazines can be a bit rides, the thrills of the antique midway and rides The same is true of festivals, but circular, too) we’ve seen the festival on the steam train. while some annual get-togethers— scene thrive in good times and bad. Where: Heritage Park, 1900 Heritage Dr. S.W., the Calgary Stampede, Calgary Folk And, while our current times are 403-268-8500, heritagepark.ca. Fest, 4th Street Lilac Festival—have closer to the latter than the former, Little Britches Weekend proven to be perennial that does those seeking fun—indoor, outdoor, When: Saturday, May 20 and Sunday, May 21 not mean they are static. Each year paid and free—still have a wealth of What: Featuring the annual parade, River of Music brings a new spin on a classic, and options to choose from. Festival, a Cultural Taste of High River and rodeo fea- turing events such as barrel racing, pole bending, goat 2017 is no different. This year the As some great philosopher once tying, break away roping, calf riding and Stampede will crown new champi- said—Nietzsche or Journey, we can mutton busting. ons, reverse its parade route and never remember—“wheel in the sky Where: Throughout the town of High River. discover a food that has not yet keeps on turnin’ / I don’t know where highrivertourism.com. been deep-fried to good effect. The I’ll be tomorrow.” When it’s festival One Tribe Community Festival Folk Fest has a new lineup every season, we’re only too happy to go When: Saturday, May 20 to Monday, May 22 year and the Lilac Fest has been around in circles. Hang on; it’s going What: Family-friendly community festival with work- shops and music by Phutureprimitive, Mat the Alien S growing like its eponymous plant to be a dizzying ride. and Nada Deva. Where: Camp Chief Hector, Kananaskis. tribefestival.com. Serbian Festival When: Saturday, May 20 and Sunday, May 21 What: Featuring Serbian dances, cuisine, workshops, sports and displays. Where: 16025 243rd Ave E., DeWinton, Alta. serbianfest.org. 14 times featuring the Argentinian high Calgary International Children’s Festival wire, aerial motor cycle cyclone, When: Wednesday, May 24 to Saturday, May 27 acrobatic strap and silk act, What: Includes Moon Mouse: A Space Odyssey, Zerbini Liberty horses, hula Rattle and Strum, Go Go Peekaboo and Secret hoop maze and more. Agent 23 Skidoo. Where: Spruce Meadows, Where: Olympic Plaza, 228 8th Ave S.E. and Arts 18011 Spruce Meadows Way Commons, 205 8th Ave. S.E. calgarykidsfest.ca. S.W. royalcanadiancircus.ca. Bach at Knox Waterton Food Festival When: Thursday, May 25 to Saturday, May 27 When: Friday, May 26 to What: Explore the many aspects of Johann Sunday, June 4 Sebastian Bach with the Calgary Philharmonic What: A 10-day showcase of May is Orchestra, conducted by Ivars Taurins. Featuring the finest, most delicious and performances of Bach’s St. Mark Passion, unique cuisine that Waterton Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and Bach’s has to offer. for the kids organ classics. Where: Various locations Where: Knox United Church, 506 4th St. S.W. in Waterton, Before the semi-anarchic summer months, kids are 403-571-0849, calgaryphil.com. mywaterton.ca. treated to a smorgasbord of organized fun in May. It begins with the Banff Centre Children’s Festival Scotiabank Calgary Marathon Best of Calgary (May 16), a busy day of fun that includes Dancers of When: Thursday, May 25 to Sunday, May 28 Ideas Week Damelahamid, an indigenous dance company from B.C.; What: More than 10,000 participants take part When: Saturday, Edmonton-based magician Sheldon Casavant; and Québécois May 27 to Friday, in the marathon, half marathon, 10K or 5K fam- musicians De Temps Antan. ily walk and run. This year, the races celebrate June 2 The good times keep rolling with the opening weekends of Canada’s 150th; all finishers will receive a com- What: Share ideas memorative toonie medal. and talk about Heritage Park and Calaway Park (May 20-23). Once kids and Where: All races start and finish at Stampede homegrown inno- parents have worked up a little stamina, they can test their met- Park. calgarymarathon.com. vations. The Best- tle at the Calgary International Children’s Festival (May 24-27). Of Bash goes May The four days of fun include the puppet shows The Man Who Banff Yoga Festival 31 and celebrates Planted Trees from Scotland and A Heart in Winter/Le Coeur en When: Friday, May 26 to Sunday, May 28 the best things Hiver from Quebec’s Théâtre de l’Oeil. What: Participants will be refreshed and renewed in the city, from And, if families survive the comparative marathon that is the in yoga classes, hiking adventures, and cultural food and drink, to kids’ fest, they may want to check out the Scotiabank Calgary and social gatherings. music and enter- Marathon Race Weekend (May 25-28). We’re not Where: Fenlands Recreation Centre, Banff, Alta. tainment, to arts suggesting parents and kids contest the and culture. banffyogafestival.com. marathon, but the Goodlife Where: Various Fitness 5K Family Canadian International locations. Fashion Film Festival bestofcalgary.city. Walk & Run (May When: Friday, May 26 to Sunday, May 28 28) might What: Screenings, panel discussions Crossroads appeal. and an awards show centred around Multicultural fashion-related movies. Festival Where: Various locations. canifff.com. When: Saturday, May 27 Canadian Rockies Cowboy Festival What: A celebration of When: Friday, May 26 to Sunday, May 28 the diversity of the com- What: Performances by Drew Gregory, munity of Crossroads with Lori Kole, Two Bad Apples, Tim Hus, Tristan an international buffet, sport- Horncastle and more. ing event, dancing and music. Where: David Thompson Resort, Nordegg, Alta. Where: Crossroads (Three hours northwest of Calgary). 1-888-810- Community Association, 2103, davidthompsonresort.com. 1803 14th Ave. N.E. crossroad- scommunityassociation.com. Chestermere Country Connections When: Friday, May 26 and Saturday, May 27 Festival of Quilts What: Celebrate spring with a pancake breakfast, When: Saturday, May 27 to farmers’ market, fireworks and more. Sunday, May 28 Where: Camp Chestermere, 1041 East Lakeview What: Western Canada’s largest outdoor Rd., Chestermere, Alta. quilt show, featuring workshops, special facebook.com/chestermerecountryfair. displays, a merchants mall and hundreds of homemade quilts decorating Heritage Park. Royal Canadian Family Circus Spectac! Where: Heritage Park, When: Friday, May 26 to Sunday, May 28 1900 Heritage Dr. S.W. 403-268-8500, What: Circus tradition that goes back to medieval heritagepark.ca. Mutt Strut Royal Canadian Family Circus Spectac! When: Saturday, May 27 When: Thursday, June 1 to Sunday, June 4 What: Bring your favourite What: Circus tradition that goes back to medieval canine and raise funds for times featuring the Argentinian high wire, aerial the Cochrane & Area motor cycle cyclone, acrobatic strap and silk act, Humane Society. Zerbini Liberty horses, hula hoop maze and more. Where: Mitford Where: CrossIron Mills. royalcanadiancircus.ca. Park, Cochrane, Alta. cochrane-tourism.ca. Spur Festival Calgary When: Friday, June 2 to Sunday, June 4 History in the Hills What: This year, Canada’s national festival of Weather When: Tuesday, May politics, art and ideas considers the subject of risk. 30 to Friday, June 2 “What are we willing to risk to build a more equi- What: Set in a tra- table society?” Subjects will include risk and the Watch ditional camp circle environment, climate change, sport, the economy, around an archeological geopolitics, and more. The festivals of June are a bit like the rest of us, ven- dig, History in the Hills Where: Various locations. turing outside for brief periods, unsure if the weather celebrates aboriginal spurfestival.ca/calgary-2017. can be trusted. So, while keeping one eye on the skies, it culture and the history might be best to devise a gradual return to the outdoors.
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