Reneltta Arluk

Native Earth Performing Arts has announced its 40th anniversary season, featuring a remarkable lineup of Indigenous dancers, playwrights, and emerging artists from across Turtle Island.

NORDIC BRIDGES from HARBOURFRONT CENTRE will close out a year of national, collaborative arts and culture programming with performances, premieres and events across the country this fall.

 A veritable 'who's who' of respected Canadian theatre leaders have come together to found the Canadian Guild of Stage Directors and Choreographers (CGDC).

Urban Ink presents Guide My Way: A Celebration of the Music from Sedna one night only on Friday, August 12th at the York Theatre.

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is celebrating National Indigenous Peoples' Day in 2022 with a specially curated group of performances, workshops, and a virtual marketplace. On Tuesday, June 21, Banff Centre will be hosting digital and in-person events honouring Indigenous Peoples' culture and heritage, while reflecting on the history and appreciating the rich and unique arts and culture of Treaty 7.

Winners have been announced for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Calgary Awards. The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Calgary Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Time is running out to vote for for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Calgary Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Our readers set the nominees, and now voting is open for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Calgary Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Our readers set the nominees, and now voting is open for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Calgary Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Stories That Transform Us is a celebratory 90-minute documentary film created to mark Urban Ink's 20th anniversary, but it is so much more than a retrospective; it is a reimagining.

This year, instead of performing in one location, Theatre Calgary is taking their show across the city with the aptly named: 'Shakespeare on the Go'. Throughout the month of August, a rotating cast of three actors are set to perform in various locations, including The Public Library, Heritage Park, and Lougheed House.

Theatre Calgary, in partnership with The Shakespeare Company and Hit + Myth Productions,  will bring Shakespeare by the Bow back this year, but with a twist, as they present Shakespeare on the Go! 

This spring Nightwood Theatre and Native Earth Performing Arts are honoured to present Embodying Power and Place, curated by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and New Harlem Productions. In 2019, the federal commission on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released their final report, Reclaiming Power and Place.

Premiering this December, the multi-award-winning innovative team at Against  the Grain Theatre (AtG) is proud to present a bold interpretation of Handel's Messiah, accompanied by and in partnership with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO), and co-directed by  Joel Ivany, the Founding Artistic Director of AtG, Reneltta Arluk, Director of Indigenous Arts  at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Messiah/Complex will premiere online on December  13, 2020 on AtG TV.  

As one of Alberta and Canada's most cherished arts and leadership post secondary institutions, Banff Centre is going digital to serve our participants with the educational opportunities they've come to depend on.

Coinciding with autumn's first snowfall in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity's full line-up of 2020 residency programs in music has been released. Under the artistic leadership of an esteemed cohort of program directors, Banff music programs will cover a range of forms and themes, with fine-tuning to a number of major programs, including Classical Music Summer Programs, the Banff International Songwriter Residency, Choral Art, and Opera in the 21st Century. The announcement was made amid a busy time on the Banff Centre campus, with the Wîchoîe Ahiya Indigenous Singer-Songwriter Intensive and the Banff Musicians in Residence program taking place this month.

Eight distinguished Canadian theatre artists have arrived in Stratford for the Festival's 12th annual Playwrights Retreat. Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino and Bob White, the Director of the Foerster Bernstein New Play Development Program, are delighted to welcome: Katherine Cullen, Sina Gilani, Falen Johnson, Sarena Parmar, Christine Quintana, Phoebe Tsang, Norman Yeung and Marcus Youssef.

The 2018 season ended on Sunday but work continues at the Stratford Festival with a number of exciting projects in the Laboratory, the Festival's research and development arm.

The Citadel Theatre is pleased to announce the four Edmonton playwrights participating in THE LAB for our 2018-19 Season. Reneltta Arluk, Beth Graham, Darrin Hagen, and Kenneth T. Williams will be a part of this year's LAB, led by Edmonton playwright and dramaturg David van Belle.