Calgary Performing Arts Festival, PO Box 94021/Elbow River RPO, Calgary, AB (2026)

09/14/2026

Can you picture yourself performing on this stage? 🎶✨

In 2027, some Calgary Performing Arts Festival participants will get that chance!

We’re excited to welcome the Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall at the Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary, as one of our festival stages.

We can’t wait to fill this beautiful space with music and watch our performers have their moment in the spotlight.❤️

📅 Registration for the 2027 Calgary Performing Arts Festival opens November 1, 2026 at CPAFestival.ca.

Start thinking about what YOU might perform! 🎵

09/11/2026

A new stage is waiting for some of our performers in 2027! 🎶✨

The Calgary Performing Arts Festival is growing, and we’re excited to welcome the Rozsa Centre at the University of Calgary as one of our 2027 festival venues!

That means our young performers will have the opportunity to perform on three incredible Calgary stages:

🎭 Engineered Air Theatre | Werklund Centre
Speech Arts

🎶 Rozsa Centre | University of Calgary
Guitar, Strings, Woodwinds, World Music, Commercial Contemporary Music, Classical Vocal, Musical Theatre, Chamber Ensembles & Percussion

🎹 Leacock Theatre | Mount Royal University
Piano, Choral, Concert Bands, Orchestras & Jazz Bands

✍️ Music Composition will be scheduled between April 20 and May 1, depending on the discipline.

For students, there’s something pretty special about stepping onto a stage and realizing, “This is my moment.” We can’t wait to see those moments happening across Calgary in 2027. ❤️

📅 Registration opens November 1, 2026 at CPAFestival.ca.

Please remember, this is our working schedule. Some dates may change once we know how many performers and groups are registered in each discipline.

Teachers, students and parents — start marking those calendars!

09/05/2026

Have you ever watched a performance and felt something you couldn't quite put into words? 🎶❤️

That's the wonderful thing about the arts.

We don't have to be the same to experience them together.

We can come from different backgrounds. We can speak different languages. We can be 8 or 80. We can love classical music, musical theatre, jazz, poetry or something completely different.

But when a young performer steps onto the stage, something happens.

For those few minutes, we listen together.
We feel together.
We celebrate together.

Music doesn't need a translator to give us goosebumps. A beautiful performance doesn't need an explanation to make us smile. And you don't have to know the person on stage to feel proud when you watch them find the courage to share something they've worked so hard to prepare.

That's the power of the arts. They give us something to share, even when we are different.

And in a world where it can sometimes feel like there is more dividing us than bringing us together, perhaps we need that more than ever.

❤️ Double-tap if you believe the arts have the power to bring people together.

08/31/2026

August is the deadline. But today is an opportunity. ❤️🎶

We know there are a lot of worthy causes asking for your support. And we know that, for many families, there isn't a lot of extra money to go around right now.

So we're not asking you to give a lot.

We're asking you to give if you can.

Because $10, $20 or $50, when joined with the gifts of others, can help give a young performer something pretty special - their moment in the spotlight.🌟

A moment to step onto a stage.

To take a deep breath and find the courage to begin.

To hear thoughtful feedback from a professional adjudicator.

To discover that all those hours of practice really did lead somewhere.

And sometimes, to walk off that stage believing in themselves a little more than they did when they walked on.

That's what your donation to the Calgary Performing Arts Festival helps make possible.

And right now, your gift has the opportunity to go even further. Through Rogers Birdies for Kids presented by , eligible donations received by August 31, 2026 can be matched by up to 50%.

So a $20 gift has the potential to become $30.
A $50 gift could become $75.
And many small gifts together can make a very big difference.

August 31 is the deadline.

If music, performing, a special teacher, or simply having someone believe in you made a difference when you were young, perhaps this is your chance to help give that experience to someone else.

❤️ Help give young performers their moment.

Donate at CPAFestival.ca/Donate or https://rogerscharityclassic.com/charities/cpafestival/

And if donating isn't possible right now, sharing this post can help too.

08/29/2026

This is exciting news for music in Alberta. 🎶

Alberta has appointed Jennifer Venance as our province’s first Music Commissioner, an important step in Alberta’s new Music Action Plan.

And there’s something about this appointment that makes us especially happy.

Jennifer isn’t only a leader in education and government. She brings more than 20 years of experience as a musician and music educator to the role.

Why does that matter?

Because a thriving music community starts long before someone records an album, performs professionally, or builds a career in the music industry.

It starts in music lessons. In school bands and choirs. In rehearsal rooms. With teachers who encourage young people to keep going. And on stages like ours, where young performers have the opportunity to learn, grow and discover what they’re capable of.

Some of the young musicians performing at the Calgary Performing Arts Festival today may become part of Alberta’s professional music community tomorrow.

Others may simply carry a lifelong love of music with them wherever they go.

Both matter.

Congratulations, Jennifer Venance. We look forward to seeing what this new chapter means for musicians, educators, organizations and young performers across our province. ❤️🎵

08/29/2026

Look at these faces. This is what your donation supports. ❤️

Every young performer deserves the chance to discover just how far their talent, hard work, and imagination can take them.

For some, the Calgary Performing Arts Festival may be their very first time performing on a stage. For others, it may be one more step toward Provincials, Canada West, university, a career in the arts—or simply a lifelong love of performing.

We don’t know where their journeys will lead.

But we can help give them opportunities to learn, grow, build confidence, and dream a little bigger.

And right now, your donation can make an even greater impact.

Through Rogers Birdies for Kids presented by AltaLink donations received by August 31 can be matched by up to 50%. Rogers Charity Classic

That means your generosity has the potential to go even further in supporting the next generation of Calgary performers.

There are only a few days left. If the performing arts have made a difference in your life or your child’s life, now is the time to help create that opportunity for someone else.

❤️ Please don’t wait. Make your donation by August 31.

Visit CPAFestival.ca, click the Donations tab, and help us give young performers the opportunity to discover what they’re capable of. (Link in first comment below.)

Their potential is already there. Let’s help give them a stage to share it. 🎶

08/20/2026

Do you know who your donation is helping?

These young performers. ❤️

The student who has practised the same piece over and over until they finally get it right.

The performer who is nervous backstage but finds the courage to walk out anyway.

The young artist who receives a few encouraging words from an adjudicator and suddenly starts to believe, “Maybe I can do this.”

These are the young people at the heart of the Calgary Performing Arts Festival.

Through Rogers Birdies for Kids presented by AltaLink , your donation helps us create meaningful performance and learning opportunities, reduce financial barriers, provide scholarships and awards, and give young artists the chance to learn from professional adjudicators.

And right now, your gift can go even further.

❤️ 100% of your donation comes directly to CPAF.
❤️ Donations can be matched by up to 50%.
❤️ The deadline to donate is August 31.

Whether you can give $20, $50, $100 or more, it all adds up. And it all helps us continue creating a place where young people can be heard, encouraged, challenged and celebrated.

Here’s how you can help:

1. Visit rogerscharityclassic.com/cpafestival/ Rogers Charity Classic
2. Make your donation to the Calgary Performing Arts Festival.
3. Help us spread the word by sharing this post with another music or performing arts family.

The performers in this photo are why we do what we do. Help us make sure the next generation gets their chance too. 🎶

08/13/2026

“The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.” — Richard Riley

We couldn’t agree more.

When a young person learns an instrument, sings in a choir, performs a speech, or steps onto a stage, they are learning so much more than the piece in front of them.

They are learning how to practise when something is hard. How to listen. How to work with others. How to accept feedback and try again. How to manage those butterflies in their stomach and still walk onto the stage.

And perhaps most importantly, they are learning to create.

We don’t know what careers today’s young performers will choose. Some may continue in the arts. Many will follow completely different paths.

But the confidence, creativity, discipline, problem-solving, and courage they are building now?

They’ll take those skills with them wherever they go.

That’s why supporting young people in the performing arts matters. We’re not only helping them become better performers.

We’re helping them prepare for whatever comes next. 🎶

08/07/2026

Remember the first time you watched them walk onto the stage?

Maybe you were more nervous than they were.

You watched them take that first breath. You silently hoped they would remember everything they had practised. You probably had your phone ready to capture the moment — while also trying not to miss it yourself.

And then they finished.

The smile. The relief. The applause.

That feeling. ❤️

If you’ve ever watched a young person you love perform, you know these moments matter.

Your donation to the Calgary Performing Arts Festival through Rogers Birdies for Kids presented by AltaLink helps us continue creating opportunities for young performers to learn, grow, and experience their own moment on stage.

And your generosity can go even further.

CPAF receives 100% of every donation made before the end of August, and donations made through Birdies for Kids can be matched by up to 50%.

So whether you can give $20, $50, $100, or another amount that feels right to you, it all helps us set the stage for another young performer — and another proud family watching from the audience.

❤️ Help us create more moments worth remembering.

Donate here:
rogerscharityclassic.com/cpafestival/ (Or visit CPAFestival.ca and click on the DONATE tab at the top of the page.)

08/02/2026

"The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is very close to the center of a nation's purpose." — President John F. Kennedy

Those words feel especially meaningful in amidst the chaos of the world we live in.

When the world feels divided, loud, or uncertain, the arts give us another way to understand one another.

Music, speech, and performance help us express what is hard to say. They build empathy. They create connection. And they remind us that, beneath our differences, we all feel, hope, struggle, and dream.

The arts are not a distraction from what is happening in society.

They are part of what helps us hold on to our humanity.

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