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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.

Pumpkin Fest takes place on weekends in October, 10am to 4pm. Stroll through the farmyard and find your perfect pumpkins! Add in some great animal visits, fabulous fall photo-ops, pony rides, a ride thru Scarecrow Alley in the back woodlands (spectacular at this time of year), and you’ve got the must-do fall family fun day! With COVID still lurking, please wash your hands both before and after every activity or pen visit and please maintain social distancing. For more information and details on all of the pumpkin family fun and to purchase your tickets, visit the website.

The YMCA is excited to offer Calgary Flames Grade 6 activities live and in person in a safe and fun outdoor environment and a virtual at-home experience! This free membership supported by the Calgary Flames Foundation is still available and will be extended to expire December 31, 2021 for any children that began their membership after August 1, 2020. Grade 6 Memberships for 2021/2022 school year will be available as of August 1, 2021. Programming will return to in-person in the coming weeks and months with some virtual resources also being offered. For more information, visit the website.

Takes place October 8 to 11. Dinosaur Era Calgary will feature more than 19 moving, breathing, blinking, and roaring animatronic dinosaurs, which will be classified in three various segments of the prehistoric eras, namely Jurassic, Triassic, and Cretaceous periods; some 250 million years ago! The Jurassic tour will capture your imagination, taking you back in time to the land of dinosaurs where you will come face to face with the breathtaking, agile, life-sized raptor among other dinosaurs! The accurate to science dinosaur specimens are improved recreations as a result of recent paleontology discoveries. This unique outdoor and indoor educational exhibition is the perfect opportunity for science explorers of all ages to underpin their theoretic knowledge of the pre-historic world in dinosaur paleontology to level of reality. There will be various amusement rides and dinosaur-themed activities! Ideal for kids’ parties, family outings, and school groups. Tickets are limited and only available to purchase online. Due to the high demand for Dinosaur exhibitions, tickets usually get sold out before the event dates. Book tickets in advance to avoid last minute disappointments. No tickets will be sold at the door.

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

Based on the success of the past “Dinosaurs Alive” exhibit, the Calgary Zoo is introducing 26 new realistic animatronic dinosaurs (across 17 species) within Prehistoric Park, from the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, covering the zoo’s regions including Canada, Asia, Africa, South America, and Antarctica. The exhibit, designed to educate, as well as entertain, encourages visitors to go on an immersive journey through the newly designed Prehistoric Park to experience what it may have been like to roam the Earth with the dinosaurs, while inspiring action to prevent the loss of endangered species today. “Dinosaurs: Awakened” will be viewable within Prehistoric Park until October 31, and is included in the price of daily admission. Tickets can be purchased from the Calgary Zoo website.

Are you ready to release some animals into the wild? This brand-new game will have you helping to re-introduce endangered and threatened species back into their habitats. Locked Zoo: Wild & Free is a 2-hour, zoo-wide escape game that challenges you to explore the zoo after hours, solve an elaborate series of puzzles, and learn about wildlife conservation.

The Inglewood Night Market is back! This year's dates are July 9, August 13, September 10 & 11, and September 17. The Inglewood Night Market is a modern market with locally-sourced and handmade vendors selling diverse goods; from handmade crafts to vintage clothing, antiques and collectibles, artisan eats, and more! They hope to return to the original site; however, this will be subject to COVID-19 restrictions. At this time, the market will take place near the Nash Restaurant and Cold Garden Beverage Company or the two street level parking lots used in September 2020.