Archive for the ‘Events’ Category

BIRD House- August 19th, 7-10:30pm

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

This year, the Bird Dog Video, art show/silent auction will be Bird Houses!  There was no theme for artists to follow, they could purchase an unfinished house and focus on pattern, or build a house from scratch and focus on architecture, materials, design, the choice was theirs.  The only restriction ...

Do The Right Thing

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

To Celebrate Black History month, The Calgary Cinematheque is pleased to present a twentieth anniversary screening of Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing. Spike Lee's racial and political filmmaking bent is given the full treatment with this simmering exposé of racial tensions in a New York City neighborhood one scorching summer ...

Last Year At Marienbad

Friday, February 5th, 2010

THE FRENCH NEW WAVE AT 50 RESNAIS' "LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD" AT THE PLAZA THEATRE The Calgary Cinematheque presents the forth in a series of screenings celebrating the 50th anniversary of the French New Wave. Bursting onto the scene in 1959, young filmmakers like Truffaut and Godard changed the landscape of cinema immediately ...