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Drop-in sports include badminton, basketball, soccer, ball hockey, gymnastics and open gym times! Visit the website for dates and times of activities. Visit www.calgary.ca and search ‘recreation drop-in schedules’ or click on the website below.

The Calgary Zoo is proud to present ILLUMINASIA, Lantern & Garden Festival, presented by Sinopec Canada. The authentic Chinese lanterns will light up the zoo and set the stage for a unique experience like no other in Calgary. The festival lanterns will highlight some of the zoo’s animals while showcasing culturally symbolic animals such as the crane and iconic Chinese symbols like the Phoenix. The Dorothy Harvie Gardens will provide the backdrop through lush mosaic cultures and vegetation tapestries. Visitors will also experience authentic Chinese, Japanese and Indian entertainment and programs that spotlight food, garden art and culture. ILLUMINASIA runs Thursdays through Saturdays from 7 to 10pm and Sundays from 6pm to 9pm from September 17 to November 1. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the website.

Calgary Unplugged is an annual family-friendly Earth Hour event. Date: Saturday, March 23, 2024 Time: 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Location: Central Library (800 3 Street SE) Join us for music, entertainment, and opportunities to experience what environmental actions you can take in Calgary. Pedal power midway games and experience how our natural world affects our daily lives. Bring personal lighting and dance to the DJ when the lights go down for the Earth Hour party! Calgary Unplugged is hosted by The Arusha Centre's Climate Program, with support from The City of Calgary and community agencies. If you can't make it to the event, turning off nonessential lights, "unplug" from electronics at 8:30 and reconnect with people, games or hobbies! After Earth Hour, share your participation with #EarthHour and #EarthHourYYC. Email programs@arusha.org with questions.

Back From Extinction! Dinosaurs Alive! is back at the Calgary Zoo. Runs until the end of October. You can travel back to prehistoric times and get up close with all 16 new animatronic dinosaurs with your general admission pass or zoo membership. Get up close with 16 new lifelike animatronic dinosaurs (they won’t bite). Download the zoo app and experience the dinosaurs in 3D like never before! Hear them roar! The dinosaurs are louder than the lions at dinnertime. Pull up your paleontologist sleeves and go looking for fossils at the new dig site. Explore Prehistoric Park with three new loops. Roar like you mean it on the new T. Rex slide. Enjoy a prehistoric hands-on experience at the new dinosaur interpretive centres. Dinosaurs poo too. Snap a photo with a pile of… well, you know. Discover fun dinosaur facts with zoo staff during daily programs. What came first: the dinosaur or the egg? Ponder this while striking a pose with dino eggs.

Come and enjoy an afternoon listening to stories and some of Canada’s finest musicians. Storyteller/Musician Samantha Whelan Kotkas and her friends will entertain you and your children with musical interactive tales of child-accessible hikes in the Rocky Mountains. Teach your child about courage, unity, joyfulness, and caring in an afternoon of fun and adventure. An event for the whole family that you will want to be a part of. Recommended for children aged 5 to 12, but created with the entire family in mind. Come one hour before the show & enjoy family friendly activities. Stay after to meet the performers. Created and Narrated by Samantha Whelan Kotkas Music by Tyler Hornby Puppets by Green Fools Theatre Video by Joel Goundry Tyler Hornby - Drums, Chris Andrew - Piano, Pat Belliveau - Saxophones, Aaron Shore - Guitar, Stephen Shepard - Bass

Let us show you how we empower our students to reach their full potential! Hear stories from staff, current students, and parents before learning about how you can be a part of our wonderful community. Rundle Studio is an online learning environment built to help students with diagnosed learning disabilities thrive. Let us show you how we empower our students to reach their full potential!

Runs September to November. What do liquids have in common? What makes some liquids different? Come stir, splash and mix to find out! Join daily in the Creative Kids Museum for programs and a variety of hands-on activities. Perfect for families with children ages 8 and under. For more information, visit the website.

Fear is a universal emotion and an important survival mechanism that kicks in when your brain senses a threat or danger. Risk is often seen as anything with an uncertain outcome, whether that outcome is positive or negative. Take a giant leap outside your comfort zone and join us as we explore fear and risk, and how they are connected. Phobics, thrill-seekers and everything in between are all welcome!

Join Deepak as he creates a roadmap for "higher health" based on the latest findings in both mainstream and alternative medicine. Deepak will address practical ways to experience higher consciousness, transformation and healing.