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Call for Treasurer for Sparrow Arts Society Board of Directors

Join our creative, dynamic team!

Would you like to make a difference in Calgary's arts community through strong financial leadership? Join Sparrow Arts Society as our Treasurer.

The Oratory & Recess Calgary Present: Exhibit of Social Artistry

Priscilla and Coach T. invite you to the Exhibit of Social Artistry in August, 2025! We are open to the public Thurs-Sat 11am-6pm and will have events all month long.

What is Social Artistry?

  • Social artistry practice describes art that is collaborative, often participatory and involves people as the medium or material of the work.

  • Social art is the application of arts and creativity towards the transformation of individuals, groups and societies by working with your target audience as opposed to for them.

  • A social artist is someone who is part artist, part social-change agent, part facilitator and part visionary. The social artist draws on artistic practice, group dynamics and creative ideas to facilitate change.

  • What a canvas is to a Painter, what a stage is for a Dancer or a lens to a Filmmaker, Community is to a Social Artist.

Healing Hearts through Art: Jiwon You, VL Parker, and Q

We are a collective of 3 culturally diverse artists, including First Nations, immigrant, and queer members, each bringing years of unique and varied forms and styles of art practices. Our work is interdisciplinary, involving visual arts, audio, poetry, spiritual art, animation, and digital art. Despite differences in our styles and methods, a common thread that ties our collective together is the theme of healing that centers our practices.

As individuals who have walked the healing journey ourselves, we know how much impact pain and trauma can have on one’s mental, physical, and spiritual health. Because we know such pain, we also know how important and valuable it is to face it directly and process it; art has been our way to process and heal from such wounds, and through our practices, we want to encompass this in our practice.

Our aim is to both convey to others our journey and experiences of healing, but also to provide the opportunity for the audiences to feel seen and understood by our art, leading to even small moments of healing. Through various mediums and methods, we try to capture different forms and moments of healing. Some of our practice portrays healing as mundane, but beautiful, small moments of joy that are around us in our day-to-day, captured by oil paintings of everyday scenes. Some of our art is spirit-led, and it conveys not just individual experience of healing, but collective and ancestral wisdom and strengths. Some parts of our practice involve multimedia installation and use an interplay of different mediums (animation, digital art, traditional art, etc.) to show the dynamic and individualized aspects of healing. Our practice is both collaborative and individual, each constantly inspiring the other to grow as artists and as a team.

CALL FOR Newcomer and Indigenous ARTISTS for the HOME Residency

Sparrow Arts Society invites applications from Newcomer artists (new to Canada) and Indigenous artists for the HOME Residency at Sparrow Artspace in Calgary, Alberta. The theme is HOME – exploring personal, cultural, historical, and communal meanings through art. This is a PAID opportunity (please read all the details below). This opportunity is only for Calgary-based artists. DEADLINE to apply is October 15, 2025.

This 2-month residency (July–August 2026) includes:

  • A shared studio and exhibition space

  • Opportunities to present workshops and artist talks

  • Participation in community projects

  • Mentorship and collaboration with other artists

Upcoming events.

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