COMMUNITY PARTNERS
We understand that every event ticket and admission pass is important to our community partners. We highly value the investment each of them makes to the Sun Life Financial Arts + Culture Pass which allows low-income Calgarians the opportunity to experience quality arts and Canadian culture experiences.
Thank you to the following partners who are opening doors to arts and culture.
FOUNDING PARTNERS
Calgary Foundation
The Calgary Foundation, established in 1955, facilitates collaborative philanthropy by making powerful connections between donors and community organizations for the long term benefit of Calgary and surrounding area. The Calgary Foundation provided a community grant which made the Calgary Public Library's Arts & Recreation Pass pilot project a possibility.
City of Calgary Recreation Department
Recreation is for everyone and the City encourages all Calgarians to live active, creative and healthy lifestyles. Our Fee Assistance program helps all Calgary residents enjoy the recreation programs and facilities at reduced rates. Fee assistance is available for Calgary residents in financial need to help make recreation opportunities more affordable. If you are approved, you will receive a recreation Fee Assistance card.
EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts
EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts is the home of Calgary's most innovative artistic companies and partners, and is proud to present and promote creative collaboration within our city.
GlobalFest
GlobalFest's mandate as a not-for-profit society is to produce an inclusive, world class, multi-faceted arts and culture festival that celebrates and showcases cultural diversity and artistic excellence within our communities and across the globe.
Kids Up Front Calgary
Kids Up Front provides children and teens with experiences that foster possibilities, passions and dreams … one ticket a time.
PROGRAM PARTNERS
Aero Space Museum of Calgary
The Aero Space Museum of Calgary supports and encourages the development and maintenance of an Aero Space Museum in the City of Calgary, through educational activities and through collections and displays related to Canadian aviation history in general and to the City of Calgary in particular.
Alberta Ballet
Alberta Ballet, a not-for-profit charitable organization, is Canada's third largest dance company and is in its 45th season. Alberta Ballet has developed a distinctive repertoire and performance quality that has brought it to the forefront of both its home and international stages.
Alberta Theatre Projects
Our aim at ATP is to make Life More Beautiful, by creating and producing great contemporary theatre from Canada and beyond. In the welcoming oval of the Martha Cohen Theatre you’ll see a dazzling range of people, stories, styles, moods and cultures. We tell some universally appealing tales, share some laughs and tears, and we’ll go on some daring theatrical adventures too. When the noise of the world seems overwhelming, a terrific night in the theatre can suddenly make us feel nourished, truly and fully alive.
Art Gallery of Calgary
The Art Gallery of Calgary (The AGC) is a non-collecting, public contemporary art gallery and a registered charitable organization. The AGC is dedicated to presenting contemporary art exhibitions and providing quality art education programs and experiences for people of all ages.
Calgary International Film Festival
The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is a 11-day celebration of visual arts and cinema, screening over 200 multi-genre films from around the world and highlighted by a series of gala events, awards ceremonies, and special presentations.
Calgary Opera
Since its inception, and especially in the past decade, Calgary Opera has made a name for itself as a company that is committed to the development of Canadian talent and the development of new opera works. In July 2005, Calgary Opera moved to a new home - the Arrata Opera Centre - a 29,000 square foot facility in the historic Wesley United Church that brings together administration offices, rehearsal and education space, as well as props and wardrobe workshops. Calgary Opera mainstage productions take place at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium.
City of Calgary, Calgary Transit Department
The Calgary Transit Department donated transit passes to the Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre through the Participation and Integration Program (PIC Program). The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre then donated a selection of transit passes to the Calgary Public Library Foundation for use in the Sun Life Financial Arts + Culture Pass so that qualified individuals and families can reach their event destinations.
Downstage
Based in Calgary, Alberta, Downstage is dedicated to producing Canadian theatre that creates conversation around social issues.
Their work provokes vibrant dialogue between Calgarians both informally and through their nightly post-performance discussions. Every season, Downstage produces a run of a World Premiere, a run of a Canadian script, and a work-in-development presentation as part of their new Fieldwork series.
Downstage is a Resident Company of the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts, and has received critical acclaim, the Enbridge Emerging Artist Award, the inaugural EPCOR CENTRE Founders Award, and 14 Betty Mitchell Award nominations, winning three times - most recently Outstanding New Play for In The Wake.
Fort Calgary
Fort Calgary is operated by the Fort Calgary Preservation Society. The Society’s mandate is to preserve, utilize, develop, interpret and promote Fort Calgary for the benefit of the citizens and visitors to the city of Calgary.
Front Row Centre Players
Front Row Centre Players Society is a not-for-profit, charitable organization, dedicated to providing opportunities for everyone to learn all aspects of musical theatre and to provide the community with top quality entertainment.
Glenbow Museum
At the Glenbow Museum, intriguing stories from Western Canada connect with extraordinary art and artifacts from around the world. Combining a museum, art gallery, library and archives all under one roof, Glenbow boasts over a million artifacts and some 28,000 works of art in its vast collections and is one of the largest museums in Canada. Through a variety of dynamic programs and changing exhibitions and programs, and a broad collection of art, artifacts and historical documents, Glenbow Museum builds on a commitment to preserve our cultural and western heritage while simultaneously providing visitors with a glimpse of the world beyond.
Instrumental Society of Calgary
The Instrumental Society of Calgary (ISC) is a volunteer, non-profit organization whose purpose is to continue the Society tradition of providing an outstanding, affordable chamber music concert series to Calgary audiences. The ISC focuses on providing a stage for Calgary based chamber musicians to showcase some of their favorite music in an intimate 'chamber' environment to an audience as eclectic as the performers.
Lunchbox Theatre
Lunchbox Theatre is recognized as one of the most successful noon hour theatre companies in the world. From a foundation of one-act plays, we’re committed to creating and performing high quality theatrical works.
Lunchbox Theatre delivers a unique experience to its audience – upbeat performances in an intimate and comfortable atmosphere. Patrons are encouraged to enjoy the play while you eat your lunch! This audience-friendly approach makes Lunchbox Theatre an ideal place to introduce theatre to new audiences, young and old.
One Yellow Rabbit
For more than 30 years, One Yellow Rabbit has created genre-bending, innovative works of theatre that are noted for their intricate physical movement and musicality. Every January, One Yellow Rabbit produces the High Performance Rodeo, Calgary's International Festival of the Arts, which animates downtown with a vibrant array of theatre, dance, music and more.
Rosebud Theatre
Rosebud Theatre employs a resident company of artists who work together to produce our shows as well as mentor apprentice performers and technicians for a life in the theatre. Rosebud Theatre is located in Rosebud, Alberta.
Theatre Calgary
Theatre Calgary is Southern Alberta’s largest and longest running professional theatre company currently performing in the 750-seat Max Bell Theatre in downtown Calgary’s EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts. Founded in 1968, the company has become a leading presenter of large-scale international contemporary and classic works. Theatre Calgary is also dedicated to the development and premiere of new Canadian plays through the FUSE Play Development Program and committed to the development of emerging theatre artists in the community through Shakespeare in the Park presented in collaboration with Mount Royal University.
Vertigo Theatre Y-Stage
Y Stage is Calgary's only theatre company presenting a full season of professionally produced theatre for young audiences. This family focused series attracts over 10,000 eager young people with family performances on weekends and school performances on weekdays. Y Stage productions are highly entertaining while also being socially relevant and thought provoking, providing a springboard for discussion on the themes and topics of the shows.
WordFest
WordFest supports vibrant and healthy communities by providing accessible and engaging programming that shares the power of story. WordFest is a not-for-profit organization that brings readers and writers together through the power of story.
YouthLink Calgary – The Calgary Police Interpretive Centre
Youthlink Calgary: The Calgary Police Interpretive Centre educates youth about crime and its consequences, and demonstrates how fulfilling tomorrows are built on sound lifestyle choices today. In addition, the role of police in society is examined.
SUPPORTING PARTNERS
Calgary 2012
Calgary 2012 is an independent, non-profit organization that helps showcase Calgary’s culture and create legacy projects to encourage future cultural achievements. The goals of the organization are to raise awareness of the richness of Calgary’s cultural assets, empower cultural celebration and participation in every community in Calgary, to build a stronger sense of identity and have local and national impact. 2012 marks the centennial anniversaries of the Calgary Stampede, City of Calgary Recreation and the Calgary Public Library as well as the Theatre Junction GRAND and the Pumphouse Theatres.
Calgary Arts Development
Calgary Arts Development plays a leadership role to promote, foster and direct investments that develop the capacity of Calgary's arts sector to achieve public and artistic impact.