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Downstage Downstage produces Canadian theatre that creates meaningful conversation around social issues.

Our work provokes vibrant dialogue between Calgarians both informally and through our nightly post-performance discussions.

✨Stage It Festival - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT! For our final festival offering, we invite you to slow down, open up, and reconne...
05/24/2026

✨Stage It Festival - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT!

For our final festival offering, we invite you to slow down, open up, and reconnect through movement and play with LINDA KEE!

As a theatre and film artist, Linda specializes in using theatre and storytelling as a vehicle for positive social transformation. Working in Arts Education as a Teaching Artist, Linda believes that the arts is a vital entity in supporting and empowering learners to find freedom to guide their own personalized learning. She practices the values of expression, connection and collaboration as a Theatre of the Oppressed Forum Theatre Facilitator, and sharing the philosophy of the late Professor and Philosopher in Residence at the Lincoln Center of Education in NYC, Maxine Greene, who designed the pedagogy of Aesthetic Education, using digital, media, literary, visual, performing, music and movement arts to make learning inclusive. She includes the modalities of movement, yoga and taoist arts to foster wellness and healthier communities. She infuses these modalities into her storytelling, teaching and facilitation. She values telling stories in different avenues of expression, working to amplify the voices of subjugated perspectives, to foster understanding, deeper listening, and to celebrate community.

🗓️ Sunday, May 24th at 1:30pm
📍Motel Theatre, Werklund Centre

👉🏽 CREATIVE STRETCH is a free offering - drop by to join this afternoon. No experience necessary - just curiosity and a willingness to play. Come as you are.

PLEASE WEAR COMFY CLOTHES YOU CAN MOVE IN!
Stage It Festival, yyc arts, theatre, music, yoga, play, movement

LAST DAY of the Stage It Festival ⭐️✨Here are our last two offerings for the day:Motel Theatre:12:00pm ~ Untitled: The P...
05/24/2026

LAST DAY of the Stage It Festival ⭐️✨

Here are our last two offerings for the day:

Motel Theatre:

12:00pm ~ Untitled: The Pippa Bacca Parable
Tickets are AVAILABLE for this show, drop by or get your tickets at DOWNSTAGE.CA - $0 or $15 options at CHECKOUT.

1:30pm ~ Creative Stretch with Linda Kee
FREE, drop by and join us! Slow down, open up, and reconnect through movement and play.

📸: Photos by Caitlind Brown, Stage It Festival 2023
Stage It Festival, new work, yyc theatre, yyc arts, music, DJ, yyc music

✨Stage It Festival - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT! Joining our incredible line-up of arts market vendors is… 💎 KLOEE HUBERDEAUKloee ...
05/23/2026

✨Stage It Festival - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT!

Joining our incredible line-up of arts market vendors is…

💎 KLOEE HUBERDEAU

Kloee Huberdeau is a multidisciplinary artist who creates hand embroidery, jewelry, illustration and more. She specializes in wearable art for your most delirious visions and delicious fantasies.

🗓️ Saturday, May 23rd
📍Centre Court, Werklund Centre

👉🏽 Drop-in Performances in Centre Court are FREE! Head to DOWNSTAGE.CA for the FULL SCHEDULE ~ mix and match Centre Court and Motel Theatre shows for an experience and check out the ARTS MARKET!
Stage It Festival, yyc arts, theatre, music, drag, accessible pricing, craft, crafting, prints, stickers, small business

The Stage It Festival is HERE and the SATURDAY line-up is STACKED! ⭐️✨Mix and match MOTEL THEATRE SHOWS + CENTRE COURT D...
05/23/2026

The Stage It Festival is HERE and the SATURDAY line-up is STACKED! ⭐️✨

Mix and match MOTEL THEATRE SHOWS + CENTRE COURT DROP IN PERFORMANCES:

Motel Theatre:
2:30pm ~ Four Strong Seasons
4:00pm ~ Hunt/Peck
5:00pm ~ Untitled: The Pippa Bacca Parable
6:30pm ~ Womanifesto
8:00pm ~ Four Strong Seasons
9:30pm ~ Womanifesto

Centre Court:
3:30pm & 4:30pm ~ Sallie Mae  
6pm & 7:30pm ~ ZENON
9:00pm ~ Mac Zine & Divina Diefor
10:30pm ~ DJ Goodword

Plus… An Arts Market, with & back +
joining! 🤩

🎟️ TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR TONIGHT’S SHOWS!  Ticketing options for $0 and $15 available at CHECKOUT.  Book now!

Celebrate Community! Bask in Art! Join us for a weekend full of unforgettable experiences that will open your heart and expand your mind! 

📸: Photos by Caitlind Brown, Stage It Festival 2023
Stage It Festival, new work, yyc theatre, yyc arts, music, DJ, yyc music

✨Stage It Festival - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT! 🍑 SEW GAYFat & Fruity artists Maddy and Sara are ! Based in Mohkinstis, they use ...
05/22/2026

✨Stage It Festival - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT!

🍑 SEW GAY

Fat & Fruity artists Maddy and Sara are ! Based in Mohkinstis, they use various mediums to craft, create and construct kooky, colorful and fun art for everyone! Find them in person at local art markets or on instagram.

🧵CYTOSTIITCH

KD () makes soft little weirdos for weird little softies! They’re a q***r and autistic multi-media artist filling the deep lonely void in their heart with huggable yarn and portable stories. The scope of their work is ever expanding, it explores every direction all at once and their curiosity is never satisfied. They hope you will find personal connection, companionship, or some kind of solace within the work they are producing.

🗓️ Friday, May 22nd + Saturday, May 23rd
📍Centre Court, Werklund Centre
Stage It Festival, yyc arts, theatre, music, drag, accessible pricing, craft, crafting, prints, stickers, small business, arts market

The Stage It Festival is HERE! ⭐️✨Start your weekend with us by mixing & matching MOTEL THEATRE SHOWS + CENTRE COURT DRO...
05/22/2026

The Stage It Festival is HERE! ⭐️✨

Start your weekend with us by mixing & matching MOTEL THEATRE SHOWS + CENTRE COURT DROP IN PERFORMANCES:

Motel Theatre:
4:30pm ~ Mide Kadiri’s short film, Breakthrough plays on loop
5:30pm ~ Squeaky
7:30pm ~ Four Strong Seasons
9pm ~ Hunt/Peck

Centre Court:
4:30pm ~ KaamilK. (DJ) with 88 Brewing Co. tastings
7:00pm ~ Belladonna The Blest (live music)
8:30 & 9:30pm ~ Harvey Nichol (DJ)

🎟️ TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR TONIGHT’S SHOWS!  Ticketing options for $0 and $15 available at CHECKOUT.  Book now!

Celebrate Community! Bask in Art! Join us for a weekend full of unforgettable experiences that will open your heart and expand your mind! 

📸: Photos by Caitlind Brown, Stage It Festival 2023
Stage It Festival, new work, yyc theatre, yyc arts, music, DJ, yyc music

✨Stage It Festival - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT! 🎧 DJ GoodwordNever afraid to reach back in time for the perfect track, his love o...
05/21/2026

✨Stage It Festival - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT!

🎧 DJ Goodword

Never afraid to reach back in time for the perfect track, his love of funky, playful music connects people of all ages. After stealing his dad’s record collection, Edward became an avid record hunter. He now does the same thing in the digital age, finding new tracks to move your feet to. Edward loves traveling to play and has had the privilege to DJ in Brighton, Burningman, Palm Springs, Panorama, Vancouver, and Toronto. You know you’ve been to a Goodword party because you’ll be smiling, sweaty, and wanting more.  

🗓️ Saturday, May 23rd ~ 10:30pm til late
📍Centre Court, Werklund Centre

👉🏽 Drop-in Performances in Centre Court are FREE! Head to DOWNSTAGE.CA for the FULL SCHEDULE ~ mix and match Centre Court and Motel Theatre shows for an experience!
Stage It Festival, yyc arts, theatre, music, accessible pricing, yyc music, DJ

The Stage It Festival is HERE! ⭐️✨Celebrate Community! Bask in Art! Join us for a weekend full of unforgettable experien...
05/21/2026

The Stage It Festival is HERE! ⭐️✨

Celebrate Community! Bask in Art! Join us for a weekend full of unforgettable experiences that will open your heart and expand your mind! 

We open the festival tonight with Four Strong Seasons!
Created by The Memorias Collective

🍃 Four Strong Seasons begins in that longing to witness and connect. Inspired by the real shared stories of Calgarians, this immersive devised vignette brings together fragments of life in our city — childhood memories, familiar walks through Fish Creek Park, moments of hardship, resilience, and hope.

🎟️ TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE for TONIGHT’S 9PM SHOW!  Ticketing options for $0 and $15 available at CHECKOUT.
Stage It Festival, new work, yyc theatre, yyc arts, devised creation, Calgary, Treaty 7

SCHEDULE UPDATES 🗓️!!! Due to unforeseen circumstances, the performances for Somewhere In Between Us have been cancelled...
05/20/2026

SCHEDULE UPDATES 🗓️!!!

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the performances for Somewhere In Between Us have been cancelled.
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EXTRA SHOW ADDED FOR WOMANIFESTO! Due to popular demand, a 6:30pm showing of Womanifesto has been added on Saturday, May 23rd. TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE.
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Stage It Festival, yyc arts, theatre, music, accessible pricing, yyc music, drag, drag artists

✨Stage It Festival - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT! 💅 MAC ZINEMac Zine is a local Calgary Drag Queen born in the beautiful islands of...
05/20/2026

✨Stage It Festival - ARTIST SPOTLIGHT!

💅 MAC ZINE

Mac Zine is a local Calgary Drag Queen born in the beautiful islands of the Philippines. Her Drag journey started in Airdrie in 2018, she was known as “Kate Shade” and rebranded herself in 2025 now known as Mac Zine. She has a passion for makeup artistry and is now exploring the world of drag. She is known for her impeccable face card that never declines and performances that’ll leave you asking for more but she can’t because her back hurts. Expect the unexpected from Mac Zine!

💅 DIVINA DIEFOR

Divina Diefor is an Alberta drag powerhouse with over 11 years of commanding stages across the province. Long before she enters the room, you’ll hear her unmistakable cackle echoing through the crowd. Equal parts chaos, comedy, and charisma, Divina has built a reputation as one of Alberta’s most electrifying entertainers. A crowned champion of Alberta’s Next Drag Superstar 2017, she continues to leave her mark producing fan-favourite events including Drag Bingo at Burn Block Social Club, Drag Bingo at Tavern 1883 in Canmore, and The Gay Agenda at Burn Block Social Club.

🗓️ Saturday, May 23rd ~ 9:00pm
📍Centre Court, Werklund Centre

👉🏽 Drop-in Performances in Centre Court are FREE!  Head to DOWNSTAGE.CA for the FULL SCHEDULE ~ mix and match Centre Court and Motel Theatre shows for an experience!
Stage It Festival, yyc arts, theatre, music, drag, accessible pricing, yyc drag, drag artist, drag queen

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