Contemporary Calgary

• Southern Alberta arts and culture organizations get $111 M from feds

  Three dozen arts organizations and festivals in Southern Alberta will receive funds totalling $1.45 million.

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  Aug 29, 2019
  
• Historic Calgary planetarium gets new life as art gallery

  The space will be used to showcase both modern and contemporary world-class art and put Calgary on the map as a destination for visual arts.

  Entertainment

  Jun 19, 2018
  
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• Work begins to convert Calgary’s Centennial Planetarium into cultural hub

  A $16 million project will transform the Centennial Planetarium into a cultural and arts hub in downtown Calgary's west end.

  Lifestyle

  Oct 31, 2017
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• Contemporary Calgary looking for new location as planetarium deal falls through

  Contemporary Calgary says it’s exploring options for a new location after negotiations to turn the old planetarium on 11 Street S.W. into a gallery turned sour.

  Sep 18, 2017
• Calgary Zoo, planetarium reno and arts school proposed under $34M spending plan

  A City of Calgary committee is giving the green light to spend more than $30 million on three cultural projects: an enclosure for four giant pandas at the Calgary Zoo, a renovation of the now-vacant Calgary planetarium, and an arts incubator in an empty south Calgary school.

  Economy

  Apr 6, 2016
• New life for Calgary’s planetarium

  Contemporary Calgary wants to transform the former planetarium into a major art gallery - a process that could take years and millions of dollars.

  Oct 23, 2014
• Old Calgary planetarium to be turned into art gallery

  CALGARY – A local group has announced plans to turn the city’s former planetarium into a public art gallery.

  Mar 7, 2014