Free First Thursdays
January 5, 2023 | 5:00 - 9:00 PM
Featuring YYC/LRT, DJ PressPlay & Healthy Baby.
On the First Thursday of every month, Contemporary Calgary will be open late with FREE admission from 5-9 pm. Explore our galleries, view YYC/LRT’s exhibition Grounding: Living in the Downtown West, enjoy thoughtfully crafted international cuisines by Healthy Baby and music by DJ PressPlay.
FREE hourly guided tours of current exhibitions: 5pm, 6pm, 7pm & 8pm.
This is an all-ages event.
Food and beverage will be available for purchase.
Thursday, January 5
5:00 - 9:00pm
FREE
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Grounding: Living in the Downtown West
Presented by YYC/LRT: Community-Based Art as Community Engagement
What does it mean to be connected to The Land? What is your connection to it? How do we understand our relationship to The Land that we occupy and use? Are we able to understand that relationship within the context of the fact that we are visitors on The Land? Grounding: Living in the Downtown West is an exhibition of works created by people who live, work, study, and play in the Downtown West community in Calgary, exploring their connection to the place that is part of the traditional territories of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, Tsuut'ina, and Stoney-Nakoda including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations and home to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3.
This exhibition is organized by Bryan Faubert and Nicole Tritter, as part of the YYC/LRT: community-based art as community engagement research project, in partnership with Contemporary Calgary, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the City of Calgary, and the University of Calgary.
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!
About the DJ
DJ PressPlay
DJ PressPlay has been performing in cultural events, city festivals, and YYC night clubs for nearly a decade. His focus is dropping vinyl—keepin’ it old school—surging that delicious funk from our past! DJ PressPlay pours the hot sauce in that boogie! Come get your groove on and if you like Hot Sauce Boogie’s vibe, pick up your swag at Cabcity.ca.