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From January 19 to 30, experience the enchanting Lake Louise Ice Magic Festival - a dazzling event featuring world-class designers, artists, and craftsmen! The Ice Magic Ice Carving Competition is a perfectly magical winter experience that awaits your family in Lake Louise where ice serves as a fascinating medium of artistry and architectural design. Watch incredible ice carvings take shape under the precise hands of an all-Canadian cast of skilled artists.

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.

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!

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

The Calgary Zoo is starting the year off with waddle! The 2022 Penguin Walk, presented by RE/MAX, marks the 10th year of the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo's penguin walk. During the winter months, the king penguin colony heads out on zoo grounds for a daily enrichment walk to keep their brains and bodies healthy and visitors get to experience the fun! This incredible program allows you to get an up-close look at the group of king penguins as they explore, exercise, and waddle their way through the zoo. This is a free-choice activity for the penguins and is subject to weather conditions and animal inclination.

Bring a friend to the studio and get your admission free! From December 15 to January 31, Artpourings Studio is celebrating friendship! Bring a friend who has never been to the studio and introduce them to the fun! Artists can choose many different materials and ways to create at the studio. From painting to sewing, drawing to simple electronics. Creativity is Artpourings' jam!

Expert speakers will deliver timely, credible information and best-practice strategies to support the development and mental health of a child or youth in your life. Previously recorded presentations are also available for viewing: https://youtu.be/tLbDa8Vlutk

Book a personal virtual zoom meeting at your convenience. To book, email info@thethinksunpreschool.com

Takes place Tuesdays to Thursdays, January 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26 & 27. Times: 11 to 11:30am; 1 to 1:30 pm; and 2:30 to 3pm. Join for a 30-minute guided tour of the Fish Hatchery to learn about how trout are raised from egg to adults, and the role that recreational stocking plays in Alberta. This program includes an opportunity to feed thousands of fish in the burrows ponds. Due to the working environment of the Fish Hatchery and the feed used within the facilities, those with severe fish allergies are not recommended to enter the hatchery. Suitable for ages 4 and up.

Join River Valley School for an informative virtual session to learn what makes them unique and exceptional! This event will include a brief presentation about their early learning and elementary programs as well as a virtual tour of the riverfront campus! You will also be invited to interact with the friendly staff and ask questions about the highly-qualified educators; the hands-on, inquiry, and project-based approach; engaging specialist (art, drama, music, phys. ed, outdoor ed) and French language programs; nurturing, family-centred community and culture; the admissions process; and more! If you have any questions about the school, visit the website, www.rivervalleyschool.ca, or email admissions@rivervalleyschool.ca.