Events
ALWAYS ALL AGES
(except when it’s not)
Congress believes in paying artists, but also believes in accessible arts! If any of our cover charges are a barrier for your entry, please come anyway, and pay what you feel. If you can pay the suggested door price – great!! All money collected for shows goes directly to the artists.
Upcoming Events:
El Faro Flamenco Tablao
Friday November 1
8 pm – $20 – All Ages
El Faro, meaning the lighthouse in Spanish, aims to be a beacon of improvised live music in Calgary, featuring the top local and visiting flamenco performers alongside new and emerging artists. With flamenco, we bring together many artforms of guitar, signing, dance, and percussion, whether it is with a traditional approach, or a modern spin to create wonder for all types of audiences.
Cartoon & Cereal Party
Saturday November 2
10 am – free – All Ages
Retro cartoons (everything from Looney Tunes to Powerpuff Girls) and $5 bottomless bowls of cereal – what a great way to spend a lazy Saturday morning!
Side of Fries Band
Saturday November 2
8 pm – $10 – All Ages
You know those bands who really just like to practice and hang out? They don’t play many gigs – just practice, hang, practice, hang. Well all that practicing makes great musicians even greater!
When we last had Side of Fries at Congress, they absolutely rocked. All bangers! Your dad will love this band!
Klezmerovitz
Sunday November 3
2 pm – $10 – All Ages
Bandleader Allan Merovitz is widely known as a singer with Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band and some of the world’s top Yiddish and Klezmer ensembles including the Ot Azoj Klezmer Band of Amsterdam and the Montreal based Merovitz Project. KlezMerovitz is a raucous 5-piece band that preserves and celebrates traditional Jewish music and culture. He will also be sharing some Yiddish Folktales and singing a Ladino song as a warmup to Channukah.
Dice Dynasty D&D
Sunday November 3
5 pm – $10 – All Ages
With Monty’s family reunion leaving The Collective petrified, our party find themselves landing in the garden maze of socialite and archmage Alexandra Chalice’s during the largest masquerade ball of the lunar calendar.
Kandi, an arcane sorority sister of the hostess, is certain Vilforth will be amongst the hundreds of party guests, now it is up to our heroes to find him before he escapes again!
Also, where are Glendella and Mabel? And what is everyone going to wear?
Come to Congress Coffee for Dice Dynasty for Episode 6 to discover what adventures await!
Doors: 4 pm Show 5 pm
Cover $10 in advance and $15 at the door
Game-changing cards are available in advance or on-site $5
Urban Earthlings Club
Monday November 4
7 pm – free – All Welcome
Is the climate crisis causing you to pay attention to the natural world in new ways?
Do you have a bipolar relationship with the natural world? Alternately despairing because of climate change and ecstatic because of some new, never noticed before, beauty?
Would you like to have a rich experience of the natural world even as you live in the city?
Join others who are reshaping their relationship with the natural world from one of oblivious consumers to aware members of our vibrant ever changing Earth community. Urban Earthlings Club will be a gathering of people who want to nurture their emerging identity as Earthlings in community, hearing new stories and developing practices.
Conscious Transformation Collective
Thursday November 7
7 pm – Pay From the Heart
Change is inevitable. When the Buddha distilled the characteristics that mark all of existence down to only three, the first he named was impermanence (anicca in Pali). How can we cultivate the attitudes and states of mind that will allow us to not only survive in a sea of change, but ride the waves with peace, joy and exhilaration?
The theme for this gathering is how to feel empowered with a sense of agency and grounding around the massive disruption that technological developments in general and artificial intelligence in particular are bringing.
These sessions will take place in two parts: the first on inner development, including a 20-30 minute meditation or mindfulness practice to deepen our connection with calm, peace, joy, and non-clinging awareness. The second half will focus on how to skilfully bring this clear state into the world. We will cover a variety of topics and modalities, but we will always aim to have the material be as practical as possible and to always include some interactive activities.
HYMMmelodies
Saturday November 9
8 pm
This monthly show is a rich tapestry of music and dance with multi-instrumentalists evoking the songs of the Middle East and Europe.
Acoustic Jam & Open Mic
Wednesday November 13
7 pm – free – all ages
A new monthly jam and open mic open to all acoustic performers! Hosted by Busker Bob.
Spencer Jo + Willy Big Bull + Exandra Fang + Pit Props
Friday November 15
7 pm – $15 – All Ages
Odditease Burlesque
Saturday November 16
8 pm – $15 – 18+
Housing Crisis
Thursday November 21
8 pm – $15 – 18+
Dave_The_1
Saturday November 23
8 pm – $10 – All Ages
Trans Day of Remembrance with Calgary Without Patriarchy Collective
Sunday November 24
ArtistSpeaks Workshop: Mental Health
Thursday November 28
7 pm – $25 – All Welcome
Drag is for All Ages
Sunday November 29
2 pm – $10 – All Ages
#1A 215 36 Ave NE
Calgary AB T2E 2L4
403-452-7320
FALL/WINTER HOURS
7 am - 5 pm Monday-Thursday
7 am - Close Friday
9 am - Close Saturday
9 am - 5 pm Sunday
NO SHOW? WE CLOSE AT 5PM
SHOW OR SPECIAL EVENT? WE CLOSE WHEN IT'S OVAH!