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SUMMARY:Hallway Gallery: Explosions of Curiosity by National AccessArts Centre
DESCRIPTION:Hallway Gallery: Explosions of Curiosity by National AccessArts Centre\ncSPACE Marda Loop\nLevel 1 Gallery\nMay 4 – June 29\, 2026\n8:00 AM – 8:00 PM (Closed Sundays) \nOpening Reception: May 21\, 5PM-7PM \n\nAn adventure can be exciting\, it can be challenging and unusual\, or it could even be an activity that’s just outside of your comfort zone. An adventure can make you feel brave\, it can fill you with a sense of wonder\, it can even defy the odds that are stacked against you. This group exhibition features work from Natasha Martin\, Sophie Ouellet\, Laura LaPeare\, and Stephanie Morin\, Explosions of Curiosity aims to explore the abundance of adventures that exist.\n\n\n\nThis exhibition comes out of the Curatorial Practices Program\, which invited 6 NaAC artists to learn about curating and curate an exhibition of their own. This program is supported by Calgary Arts Development.\n\nAbout the Curator\nSherrine Fox is an emerging artist and curator living in Calgary\, Alberta. Sherrine is a stroke survivor with a passion for the arts\, the outdoors\, and for storytelling. She loves arts ability to transport you to another place or time\, and its powerful potential for transforming lives. \nSherrine has been attending the National accessArts Centre since 2022\, where joined NaAC’s professional track programs. She was the 2024 Drawing and Painting Practicum\, and has was a part of the exhibition A Queens Celebration at artsPlace in Canmore. She also had a video short of her artwork featured in Yonge Dundas Square in Toronto. \n  \n 
URL:https://cspacemardaloop.com/event/hallway-gallery-explosions-of-curiosity-by-national-accessarts-centre/
LOCATION:cSPACE Marda Loop\, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest\, Calgary\, AB\, T2T 6T7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Gallery Level 1
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SUMMARY:Hallway Gallery: The Art of Change by Amna Ahmad
DESCRIPTION:Hallway Gallery: The Art of Change by Amna Ahmad\ncSPACE Marda Loop\nLevel 4 Cupola Gallery\nMay 5 – May 30\, 2026\n8:00 AM – 8:00 PM (Closed Sundays) \n  \n\n\n\n \n  \n 
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LOCATION:cSPACE Marda Loop\, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest\, Calgary\, AB\, T2T 6T7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Level 4 Cupola Gallery
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SUMMARY:Hallway Gallery: Long Story Short by Christina Yao with Alliance Française
DESCRIPTION:Hallway Gallery: Explosions of Curiosity by National AccessArts Centre\ncSPACE Marda Loop\nLevel 3 Gallery\nMay 5 – June 1\, 2026\n8:00 AM – 8:00 PM (Closed Sundays) \n  \n\n\nThe Alliance Française is delighted to host “Long Story Short” by Christina Yao. \nLong Story Short investigates the ongoing negotiation of power\, trust\, and vulnerability within intimate relationships. \nChristina constructs staged photographs that feel both authentic and entirely fictional\, with scenes built from fragments of shared experiences and her own relational hesitations. These images become a site where the boundaries of intimacy are tested\, exploring the tension between what is performed for the lens and what is instinctively revealed. What is long or short\, complete or unresolved\, is never fixed. It shifts with memory and time\, changing as we return to a relationship from a different perspective. In these private spaces\, connection unfolds as something remembered\, imagined\, and performed\, shaped by the desire to be seen and the resistance to full exposure. Even in closeness\, moments of distance remain\, where feelings go unspoken and loneliness exists alongside connection. \n\n\nAbout Christina Yao\nChristina Yao is a China-born\, Calgary-based artist working in photography\, video\, and installation. Drawing from her experience living across the U.S.\, Colombia\, and Canada\, she explores relationships\, identity\, and place through a cross-cultural lens. Yao holds a Bachelor of Design in Photography (with Distinction) from the Alberta University of the Arts. She was shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition 167 (2026)\, and is a 2025 Critical Mass Top 200 finalist and a 2024 LensCulture Portrait Awards finalist. Her work was featured in the Emerging Photographers Showcase at the 2024 Exposure Photography Festival. Her work has been presented internationally at Sotheby’s Institute of Art (New York) and ASC Studio (London\, UK)\, and at Contemporary Calgary\, The Marion Nicoll Gallery\, TRUCK Contemporary Art\, Stride Gallery\, cSPACE\, The Bows\, and Werklund Centre. \nWebsite: www.christina-yao.com \n  \n 
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LOCATION:cSPACE Marda Loop\, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest\, Calgary\, AB\, T2T 6T7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Gallery Level 3
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SUMMARY:HALLWAY GALLERY: Eye Candy | The Jelly Beans Series by Elena Alexander
DESCRIPTION:Hallway Gallery: Eye Candy | The Jelly Beans Series by Elena Alexander\ncSPACE Marda Loop\nLevel 2 Gallery\nMay 20 – May 29\, 2026\n8:00 AM – 8:00 PM (Closed Sundays) \nEye Candy: The Jelly Beans Series is a solo exhibition by Calgary artist Elena Alexander\,  on view at cSPACE Marda Loop\, Level 2\, from May 20 to 29\, 2026. \nThis vibrant exhibition features original geometric abstract paintings from Alexander’s ongoing Jelly Beans series. Built around rounded forms\, bold colour\, repetition\, and visual rhythm\, the series explores how simple shapes can shift attention\, affect mood\, and change the feeling of a space. \nAt first glance\, the works are bright\, playful\, and immediate. They have the visual pleasure suggested by the title Eye Candy. Beneath the colour and rounded forms\, however\, the series also speaks to focus\, structure\, and the act of looking closely. \nAbout the Jelly Beans Series\nThe Jelly Beans series began with a simple visual idea: rounded forms repeated across the canvas\, each one carrying its own colour\, weight\, and mood. \nThe forms are playful and almost candy-like\, which is where the title Eye Candy comes from. The paintings invite viewers to pause and enjoy colour as an experience in itself. Each shape is similar\, but not identical. Each colour changes the feeling of the whole composition. A deep red can ground a painting. A pale blue can create openness. A bright green can bring energy. A soft lavender can shift the pace. \nAs the eye moves from one form to the next\, the viewer begins to notice relationships\, contrasts\, and small moments of balance. In that way\, the paintings become a visual rhythm. They are structured\, but not rigid. Joyful\, but still deliberate. \nA Calgary Exhibition About Colour\, Focus\, and Joy\nWith Eye Candy: The Jelly Beans Series\, Alexander wanted to create a moment of brightness and focus within a shared public space. \nDaily life can feel fast\, fragmented\, and overstimulating. We are often pulled between information\, obligations\, screens\, and noise. This exhibition offers a different kind of visual experience\, one that gives the eye somewhere to land. \nThe exhibition is not about escaping the world. It is about noticing how something as simple as colour and shape can change the way we move through it. What begins as a bright and playful surface becomes a study in repetition\, contrast\, decision-making\, and focus. \nGeometric Abstract Paintings at cSPACE Marda Loop\nThe exhibition includes both larger Jelly Beans paintings and smaller works from the Mini Jelly Beans group. Together\, they show how the same visual language can shift across scale. \nThe larger works create a strong presence in the exhibition space\, allowing viewers to experience colour and repetition across a wider field of vision. The smaller works are more intimate\, inviting close looking and showing how much variation can happen within a compact format. \nAcross the series\, the rounded forms suggest softness\, sweetness\, and movement\, while the structured arrangement gives the work clarity. This contrast gives the paintings their energy. They are bright\, but not chaotic. Ordered\, but not cold. Playful\, but not random. \nAbout Elena Alexander\nElena Alexander is a Calgary-based abstract artist working in hard-edge geometric painting. Her work explores structure\, colour\, repetition\, and the way visual order can create moments of focus and clarity. \nHer paintings are non-representational\, but they often suggest movement\, rhythm\, and emotional tone through colour relationships and repeated forms. Drawing from geometric abstraction\, modernism\, colour field painting\, and hard-edge painting\, Alexander creates works that are clean\, vibrant\, and carefully composed. \nView more of her work at elena-alexander.com \n \n 
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LOCATION:cSPACE Marda Loop\, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest\, Calgary\, AB\, T2T 6T7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:CALL Member Weekly Guitar Jam
DESCRIPTION:Invitation to Calgary Association of Lifelong Learners (CALL) members.\nBring your guitar and a favourite song and join other CALL members for Guitar Jam. Weekly events are held in the CALL room\, Suite #310\, at cSPACE Marda Loop. \nThursdays 10am-12pm. \nTo learn more please email: info@calgarylifelonglearners.ca \nNot yet a CALL member? Now is a great time to join and enjoy a full year of “making music” or joining other Interest Groups at cSPACE Marda Loop. Annual fee $50 — learn more: https://calgarylifelonglearners.ca/Membership
URL:https://cspacemardaloop.com/event/call-member-guitar-jam/2026-05-28/
LOCATION:cSPACE Marda Loop\, 1721 29 Avenue Southwest\, Calgary\, AB\, T2T 6T7\, Canada
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