Hey Calgary!
If you're looking for something FUN and UNIQUE to do this WEEKEND, here's a list of 10 EVENTS and ACTIVITIES you need to check out!
1. Molson Roaming Backyard at Team Canada FanFest
📆 July 26 - 28
📍 Stephen Avenue Walk (340 8 Ave SW, Calgary, AB)
💰 FREE
🔗 Here
In partnership with Team Canada, Molson is participating in Team Canada FanFest this month in Calgary! The event will feature the Roaming Backyard: a mobile activation that provides an important summertime space for Canadians to gather and cheer on our athletes.
From July 26 – 28, join us at Stephen Ave Walk in Calgary to experience the Roaming Backyard and enjoy Paris 2024 competition viewing, athlete appearances, live musical performances, and sports demonstrations!
2. [FREE] Calgary Night Market
📆 July 26, 2024 from 4:00pm-10:00pm
📍 Bridgeland (917 Centre Ave NE, Calgary, AB)
💰 FREE 🔗 Here
Nighttime of fun shopping with friends and family. We are a culturally diverse market that sell handmade and local goods. Come down and enjoy our live market.
Calgary Night Market supports local vendors, artisans, entrepreneurs, designers to showcase their talent in a fun and safe place.
3. [FREE] Change Makers Collective Night Market
📆 July 26, 2024 from 5:15-10:00pm
📍 Renfrew Community Association (811 Radford Road NE)
💰 FREE
🔗 Here
We are a couple of Artisans who want to give back to our community while encouraging environmental sustainability.
Our Markets are doing something different in Calgary: not only does every vendor have eco-friendly practices but we are giving back to the community while keeping vendor fees more accessible. Each month we host a charity that our vendors donate part of their sales to.
4. Calgary Water Lantern Festival
📆 July 23, 2024 - 6:30pm-10:30pm
📍 Waterfront Park (5225 101 ST NW, Calgary, AB)
💰 $38+
🔗 Here
Water Lantern Festival is a floating lantern event that is all about connections. Water Lantern Festival is filled with fun, happiness, hope, and great memories that you’ll cherish for a lifetime. This is a family friendly event that can be shared by everyone. Friends, families, neighbors, and lots of people that you haven’t met can come together to create a peaceful, memorable experience.
As the sun begins to set on the evening sky, Water Lantern Festival begins to shine with the launch of the lanterns onto the water as we Light The Water together. Watch your unique lantern drift out into the water as it joins other lanterns carrying hope, love, happiness, healing, peace, and connection. It’s a night that you’ll never forget.
Join us for a beautiful night and an awesome sight!
5. [FREE] M&M’S® Movies In The Park
📆 July 27 & 28, 2024 from 2:30-8:00pm
📍 Tomkins Park (17 Ave & 8 St SW, Calgary, AB)
💰 FREE
🔗 Here
Experience the magic of cinema under the stars with M&M’S®! This summer, M&M’S® is sponsoring outdoor community movie events in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and Montreal.
Visit M&M’S pop-up tent, where you can enjoy a dispenser full of colourful candies, participate in an interactive quiz, and receive exciting giveaways.
And to kick-off the movie-watching fun early, the first 50 people to visit the M&M’S concession stand will get a free, limited-edition M&M’S picnic blanket! It’s an evening of fun, joy, and delicious M&M’S® For all Funkind.
6. [FREE] Pet-A-Palooza Calgary
📆 July 27-28, 2024
📍The Confluence (750 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB)
💰 FREE
🔗 Here
Pet-A-Palooza™ is back and bigger than ever!
This FREE family friendly event is one you cannot miss. A pawty for fido is just what your summer was missing.
This year enjoy entertainment including:
A HUGE dog pool party
Amazement park
Yoga with adodptable puppies
Pet related exhibitors
and so much more!
7. [FREE] Inspired By HER Calgary 2024
📆 July 27, 2024 - 10:30am to 4:30pm
📍 The GRAND (608 1 ST SW), Calgary, AB)
💰 FREE
🔗 Here
Inspired by HER, presented by the BeaYOUtiful Foundation, is a FREE city-wide event open to female and non-binary identifying children and youth ages 8-12 that focuses on building self-love, self-worth and confidence.
The event features three rotating workshops that attendees move through. Our Guest Speakers will highlight a diverse range of topics related to confidence building and self-love. Participants will take part in open floor discussions, variations of artistic expression, a dance class and leadership-inspired sessions. Each attendee is paired with a Soul Sister for the day, an empowering mentor to connect with while building new friendships.
This is a FUN and HIGH ENERGY event. Lunch and snacks are included. We encourage participants to bring a friend or two as the event can be much more enjoyable this way! It’s also a great way to experience something different all while helping to build each other’s confidence. However it isn’t mandatory to bring a friend because you’re guaranteed to make new ones.
8. Inglewood Sunfest
📆 July 27, 2024 - 11:00am to 7:00pm
📍Inglewood Community
💰 FREE
🔗 Here
A feisty summer festival in the heart of Inglewood. We’re here to celebrate, engage, entertain, and delight. Seize the Sunfest!
At Sunfest, there is an activity made for all ages. This could mean a jump in the bouncer for the kids, discovering a great new band, being wowed and amazed by our cool street performers, choosing a perfect summer patio or searching for a trendy fashion; there is no shortage of things happening.
Inglewood is host to over 200 vendors that vary from artisan crafts, to imported wares, to community organizations and more!
9. Historic Calgary Week
📆 July 26 - August 05, 2024
📍 Various Locations
💰 FREE & Ticketed Events
🔗 Here
Chinook Country Historical Society, a chapter of the Historical Society of Alberta, is pleased to present the 34th annual Historic Calgary Week (HCW) from July 26 through August 5, 2024.
Our theme this year, Community Builders, will focus on the people and organizations that have made Calgary and surrounding area a desirable and vibrant place to live.
The festival is comprised of walks, talks, tours, and presentations – there will be something for everyone. In addition to events in Calgary, attendees explore the history of Chestermere, Cochrane, High River, Morleyville, and Okotoks. Among the community builders, you may discover a few scoundrels and renegades as well!
On July 26, the Historic Calgary Week Giant Puzzle entitled “Pillars and Patriots” will appear in the Calgary Herald and will be available here after that date. Solve the puzzle and enter your result for a chance to win a prize.
10. [FREE] Bearspaw Farmers Market
📆 July 27, 2024 from 10:00am - 2:00pm
📍 Bearspaw Lion's Club (25240 Nagway Rd, Calgary, AB)
💰 FREE
🔗 Here
We look forward to your continued support of our vendors and charitable Lions Club. There are over 110 vendors in the market and we look forward to seeing our returning fresh food and artisan vendors again and welcoming new faces to the mix!
Keep an eye out on our EVENTS CALENDAR for updated events! We add events pretty much everyday!
If you're hosting an event, make sure to send us the details and we'll share with all of Calgary! Submit an EVENT HERE.
Have an amazing WEENED Calgary!
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