Free First Thursdays
April 6, 2023 | 5:00 - 9:00 PM
On the First Thursday of every month, Contemporary Calgary will be open late with FREE admission from 5-9 pm. Explore our galleries, view Antyx Community Arts Youth Arts Action exhibition WITHIN: Exploring the Inner World of Emotion, discover YYC/LRT Free Art Thursdays, enjoy thoughtfully crafted beverages by Sugar Water Bar, international cuisines by Healthy Baby and music by Crystal Fresh.
This is an all-ages event.
Food and beverage will be available for purchase.
Thursday, April 6
5:00 - 9:00pm
FREE with registration
Let us know you’re joining!
Antyx Community Arts Youth Arts Action Presents:
WITHIN: Exploring the Inner World of Emotion
This Youth Arts Action showcase is a tribute to the complexities of mental health and how community, creativity and emotional processing can be of value to our well-being. Over the course of 10 weeks, youth ages 12-18 have explored various traditional art mediums and mental health themes that earthed the creation of this exhibit.
In an effort to raise awareness about mental health experiences, youth across the city explored their inner world of emotion. This exhibition is a celebration of the tools developed through creative outlets and group discussion. Each week, youth meet, fostering self-expression, vulnerability and begin to bridge this growth to the community.
The youth-created art pieces will be on display and available for purchase Through Antyx Community Arts with 100% of the proceeds going to the youth artist.
FREE First Thursday Community Partners
Antyx Community Arts
Antyx works in communities across Calgary. Antyx community arts projects can have a neighbourhood focus or they may be focused on addressing community-identified issues. Arts are used in development processes to build community capacity and to creatively and critically engage people in processes that address important community issues.
Their work has a focus on engaging youth in their communities, school and neighbourhoods.
Antyx uses the arts to engage youth and spark their curiosity and commitment. Community arts projects provide opportunities for youth to make tangible contributions to their community and be recognized for those contributions. The arts open the door to self-reflection and self-expression, allowing youth to explore who they are and their place in the world.
YYC/LRT: Free Art Thursdays
This program is part of the YYC/LRT:Community Based Art as Community Development study. Those attending this event may choose to participate in a study exploring the role of art in community development. This would involve completing a questionnaire and including your art as data in the study. The Conjoint Faculties Research Ethics Board has approved this study (REB22-1227). For more information please email jreiserm@ucalgary.ca.
Visit Free Art Thursdays at YYC/LRT on the first Thursday of every month
February - July 2023 | 5:00 – 9:00 pm | Corner 10th St and 8th Ave S
Healthy Baby
Founded and operated by Rashad Ali and Kenneth Persson, Healthy Baby is a fast and casual comfort food pop up. We’re focused on creating unpretentious and delicious sandwiches, snacks and street food right here in Calgary. Healthy Baby specializes in Trinidadian and Caribbean food, but you’ll also find us dabbling in all forms of international cuisines. You never know where Healthy Baby will be cooking from next!
Sugar Water Bar
Kyo-Jean Chung started Sugar Water in 2015 as a way of exploring his love for finely crafted cocktails. He has a curiosity for powerful elixirs that percolate ideas and bring people to common ground. His knack for befriending talented people in all realms of culinary arts, mixology, and event planning helps him cultivate fresh ideas and inspired service. He has managed to find the perfect balance between friendliness, professionalism, and lightness throughout his life as an entrepreneur.
Crystal Fresh
(DnB Girls, SelectaFM, Ladies on Decks, Philthy City) dnb/halftime/house/midtempo/bass/hiphop
Armed with a background in natural healing techniques coupled with an addiction to high-energy double-drops and heavy bass music, Crystal Fresh transforms dance floors worldwide into healing vortexes with her passionate style and grimy beats.
As an internationally touring DJ in search of the ultimate party since 2002, she has acquired culturally diverse experience in event promotion, music production, live performance, MC/Hosting, and top-notch mixing skills. This enthusiastic and successful West Coast Canadian Female has established and mastered an enterprising style of mixing that delves deep into the healing culture of bass music.
As well as running a charity for At-Risk Youth, she is a resident DJ at Shambhala Music Festival's Village Stage, and is signed with the DnB Girls, Philthy City DnB Crew, Ladies on Decks, and hosts her monthly radio show, Fresh Freq, on SelectaFM. Check out Crystal Fresh droppin' beats across Canada this year at one of her resident club nights, online DJ streams, hosting an International DJ tour, or on her 2023 Summer Festival Tour including Shambhala and Wicked Woods. With her healing work in full force and her fresh, energetic beats pushing her passion, this Goddess of Bass is heading for big things!
