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Calgary’s arts festivals adapt to change
Toronto-based trans comedian Al Val brings unpredictable laughs as the headliner of The Gay AF Comedy Tour, which hits Calgary on April 14th. For transgender comic Al Val, comedy is all about joy.
Food festivals fill the calendar with culinary celebrations. A buffet, a smorgasbord, a nosh up — call it what you want but August in Calgary offers up a delicious opportunity to sample the sugar and spice that makes the city so nice, which is the thriving culinary scene.
What’s in a name? Roses, posies and stuff aside, it really is, for the most part, meaningless. Unless it actually means something. To you.
The Calgary Folk Music Festival presents their eighth annual Block Heater Festival, which, like its namesake, keeps your engine purring through the long, cold vagaries of late winter.
It’s daytime on New Year’s Eve, and songwriter/guitarist Alejandro Escovedo and his wife Nancy Rankin are at Milton Riemer’s Ranch Park in the hill country of Dripping Springs, outside of Austin, Texas, ready to go for a hike after Escovedo finishes his interview.
After a series of pandemic-related false starts resulting in a cancelled 2021 festival, and a revised format, multi-weekend festival in April 2022, Calgary’s BIG Winter Classic is back in a big way for 2023, with a stacked roster and guaranteed stellar performances in the doldrum-defeating January music festival format we once knew and loved. 
Meet Me In the Bathroom, the documentarized version of Lizzy Goodman’s 2017 oral archive of the late '90s/early aughts trajectory of New York rock ‘n’ roll revivalists like The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Interpol, and LCD Soundsystem, though impressive for the sheer scale of its “you had to be there” found footage, might be better served as a visual companion to the book.
Hibernation is a little more entertaining this year and sociable. After a couple of online-only and hybrid events, the 10th edition of the Calgary Underground Film Festival-curated documentary fest, CUFF.Docs, will return to an exclusively in-cinema experience Nov. 23 to 27 at the Globe. 

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