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[October 18 - 20] TOP 10 Things to Do in Calgary this WEEKEND!


Events from October 18-20, 2024

Hey Wanderers!


If you're looking for something FUN and UNIQUE to do this WEEKEND, here's a list of must-attend EVENTS and ACTIVITIES you need to check out!


Picture of Calgary Downtown

  1. Annual Bearspaw Fall Market

📆 October 18 - 20, 2024

📍 Bearspaw Lifestyle Centre (253220 Bearspaw Road, Calgary, AB)

💰 $2 Entry

🔗 Here


With over 100 vendors who have created everything from soap, jewelry, and sweaters to baking and wood products. This market kicks off the Christmas season of markets and has tremendous talent, crafters, bakers and so much more.

 

2. Calgary Tattoo & Arts Festival 2024

📆 October 18 - 20, 2024

📍 BMO Centre (20 Roundup Way SE, Calgary, AB)

💰 $30+ 🔗 Here

Over 700 of the best international, local & national artists! Contests, retail exhibits and tattooing all weekend long!

 
  1. Calgary Rocky Mountain Wine & Food Festival

    📆 October 18 - 19, 2024

    📍 BMO Centre (20 Roundup Way SE, Calgary, AB)

    💰 $33+

    🔗 Here

    Explore an incredible array of dynamic wines, smooth spirits, and downright delicious beers from around the globe, all under one roof at the BMO Centre at Stampede Park. Cap it all off with tantalizing bites from some of Calgary’s best restaurants and food purveyors, and you’ve got a can’t-miss event.  

 
  1. EVANESCENCE

📆 October 18, 2024

📍 Scotiabank Saddledome (555 Saddledome Rise SE, Calgary, AB)

💰 $47+

🔗 Here


Evanescence is an American rock band founded in 1994 by singer and keyboardist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody in Little Rock, Arkansas. After releasing independent EPs as a duo in the late ’90s and a demo CD, Evanescence released their debut studio album, Fallen, on Wind-up Records in 2003.

 
  1. [FREE] Fibre Shindig

📆 October 19, 2024 from 10:00am - 4:00pm

📍 Genesis Centre (7555 Falconridge Blvd. NE, Calgary, AB)

💰 FREE

🔗 Here


The Fibre Shindig began in 2013 as an arts and crafts show and has grown into “Calgary’s Best Fibre Fest” in the years since.


Here you can find yarn and fibre dyed with care by local independent dyers, along with unique tools and gifts for the fibre arts enthusiast.


Our vendors showcase embroidery, beads, buttons, pottery, wood turned treasures, handmade wearables, fine art, jewelry and much more

 
Creepin' it real party

6. [FREE] Creepin’ it Real: Print Party

📆 October 19, 2024 from 11:00am - 4:00pm

📍 NVRLND Boutique (1048 21 Ave SE, Calgary, AB)

💰 FREE

🔗 Here


A full day of spectacular printmaking taking place at NVRLND Boutique!For ALL AGES!


Let’s get this party STARTLED and enjoy our special attractions:

  • Build your own monster magnet!

  • Print your own gravestone bookmarks using LEGO and our Nolan Proof Press!

  • Carve and print a glow-in-the-dark linocut!

  • Silkscreen a supernatural tote bag!

  • Make your own blood-curdling buttons!

  • Stamp your ghoulish greeting card!

  • WIN BIG at our evil potion PLINKO!! Featuring prizes from: Recess, RICK RACK Textiles, Inglewood Art Supplies, Rosso Coffee Roasters, A/P, and CJSW!

  • Browse through our PRINT BOO-TIQUE– Featuring print-based artworks by A/P members!

 

All hands-on activities and midway treats are each priced from FREE to $14, with MOST BEING UNDER $5!  There is something for everyone!


All proceeds from the day go toward fundraising for A/P community programming.

 
  1. Big Band Burlesque – The Odyssey

📆 October 19, 2024 at 7:00pm

📍The GRAND (608 1st ST SW, Calgary, AB)

💰 $47.53

🔗 Here

Join us on Saturday, October 19, 2024 as we head on an adventure back to Club Obi Wan and a time when the big bands of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Glen Miller and Cab Callaway ruled the airwaves.


Come on a sentimental journey with the Midnight Blue Jazz Society and their 17 piece big brass band as they lead us through the decades with added flavours of swing, jazz, blues, latin, funk, classic rock and their own take on modern hits.


Combine these sounds with the glitz and glamour of some of western Canada's premier burlesque performers and vocalists bring to the stage, and you have yourself one exciting evening that is not to be missed.

 
  1. Alltimate Music: Love, Latin, and Blue

📆 October 20, 2024

📍 Asylum for Art (2505 14 St SW, Calgary, AB)

💰 Admission by Donation

🔗 Here

Every Saturday and Sunday, we fire up the irons and make some of the best Waffles, Frittatas and Huevos Rancheros this side of Bankview.


Wash it down with a $5 Mimosa and you have yourself a great start to your day.


All the while, enjoy the musings of great local and not so local live music.

 
Elvis statue
  1. A Tribute to Elvis In Concert

📆 October 20, 2024

📍 Grey Eagle Event Centre (3777 Grey Eagle Dr., Calgary, AB)

💰 $64+

🔗 Here

Don’t miss your chance!


A Tribute to Elvis in Concert, featuring two of the world’s most coveted Elvis Tribute Artists known today: Pete Paquette and Chris Connor are back, and audiences are raving.


This dynamic duo have been performing their amazing Tribute show in front of thousands of Elvis fans across our nation. Accompanied by an incredible band, this show a MUST SEE live concert for any rock’n roll fan.

 
  1. Sebastian Maniscalco: It Ain’t Right Tour

📆 October 20, 2024 from 7:00pm - 11:00pm

📍 Scotiabank Saddledome (555 Saddledome Rise SE, Calgary, AB)

💰 $60

🔗 Here

Don’t miss your chance!


A Tribute to Elvis in Concert, featuring two of the world’s most coveted Elvis Tribute Artists known today: Pete Paquette and Chris Connor are back, and audiences are raving.


This dynamic duo have been performing their amazing Tribute show in front of thousands of Elvis fans across our nation. Accompanied by an incredible band, this show a MUST SEE live concert for any rock’n roll fan.

 

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 WEEKEND Calgary!


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