Calgary Arab Arts & Culture Society

08/07/2026

Youth Rising: Stories, Connection & Action

The Calgary Justice Film Festival (CJFF), in partnership with the Human Rights Collective (a youth human rights organization), and the Calgary Arab Arts and Culture Society, invites you to kick back for a casual coffee event of film, conversation, and connection exploring the stories, experiences, and ideas shaping a generation.  The $5 ticket purchase will be donated to charity.

Featuring the powerful film Sudan, Remember Us* (rated +14), this event brings forward the voices of young people navigating change, civic action, and the future. Through personal storytelling and powerful filmmaking, the film captures a generation of young Sudanese fighting for freedom, justice, and a more democratic future. It explores the power of poetry, music, art, and collective action as tools for resistance, connection, and political transformation.

Following the screening, join the youth of the Human Rights Collective and others in an engaging panel discussion, exploring what it means to show up, get involved, and create change. The focus of the conversation will be community action, storytelling, solidarity, and the many ways young people are building movements and shaping the world around them.

This is a space to connect, ask questions, and be part of a youth-powered conversation.

*Given the sensitive and potentially disturbing, content of the film, including military violence and repression, this is a 14+event ONLY.

Date: Sunday August 9, 2026

Location: Fenyk Coffee & Social (10 Canada Olympic Common SW)
Screening: 5:00pm Panel discussion to follow

Tickets: $6.10 ($5 ticket - $1.10 tax and fees)

07/13/2026

Filmmakers, storytellers, and creators, submissions are now open for the 15th Calgary Arab Film Festival (CAFF).

Taking place December 4–6, 2026 at The Globe Cinema, this milestone edition celebrates 15 years of Arab cinema, cultural exchange, and powerful storytelling.

We invite filmmakers from Alberta, Canada, the Arab world, and beyond to submit their work for consideration.

🎬 Submit your film via FilmFreeway:
filmfreeway.com/CalgaryArabFilmFestival

📅 Submission Deadline: September 30, 2026

Join us as we celebrate the stories, voices, and perspectives that bring communities together through film.

06/04/2026

Thanks to our Artists
Thanks to our Partners
Thanks to our Volunteers
Thanks to our Funders

06/01/2026

To our funders, partners, artists, volunteers, venues, and community members, thank you for making Arab Heritage Month 2026 such a meaningful celebration across Alberta.

From film screenings and performances to workshops, exhibitions, and cultural gatherings, your support helped bring communities together through arts and culture.

This year marked an incredible milestone for the Calgary Arab Arts & Culture Society, and we are deeply grateful to everyone who made it possible.

💛 Thank you for celebrating with us.

06/01/2026

We are proud of connecting people, communities and artists ..

Mai Heikal is an Edmonton based visual artist .. Radwa Nasr is a Calgary based Folklore Dancer ..

We were happy to connect them during the Arab Heritage Month ..

Their connection is still going and producing g lovely art .. Mai Drew a Portrait of Radwa .. and wrote the following:

Radwa Nasr
A New Painting

Radwa
Oil on Canvas
100*70 cm

Radwa Nasr is an Egyptian-Canadian folk dancer living in Alberta. She wishes to spread Egyptian folk art throughout Canada. She performs Tanoura dances and folk dances from every region of Egypt, paying a lot of attention to details, such as the costumes and jewelry, which she personally selects and matches to create dances that resemble works of art.

I love drawing dancers and have always wanted to ask real folk and ballet dancers to draw them. I met Radwa at the Arab Culture Festival in Alberta last month, and I was impressed by one of her performances. She asked me to draw her, and I was overjoyed by her request. This is a painting of her, inspired by photos from her Tanoura dance performance. I hope you like it.

06/01/2026

Two night ago, the Calgary Arab Arts and Culture Society celebrated in appreciation the contributions and support, which led to an exceptional Alberta-wide, April-long, Arab Heritage Month.

The success of our programming in 9 different cities/towns across Alberta was celebrated, with our funders, supporters, volunteers and artists at RUMUR.

05/10/2026

Thanks a million, Associate Minister Yaseen .. we are honored by your never-ending support and presence with us in our celebrations.

Your words at our Arab Heritage Night and the Airdrie Arab Fest .. as well as last October's Arab Film Nights Festival .. makes us proud and committed to continuing investing in Multiculturalism

05/08/2026

The attendance and words of Councilor Mike Jamieson as the Deputy Mayor was one of the hilights of our Arab Heritage Night ..

05/07/2026

We are happy to partner with the Banff for Palestine and the Calgary Justice Film Festival to bring to Canmore the Oscar nominated film "The Voice of Hind Rajab" ..

May 15
Canmore Public Library
Free Admission
Film & Discussion

This will conclude our events for the Arab Heritage Month.

FREE CANMORE EVENT
Join us next week, Friday May 15th at 5:30 pm at the Canmore Public Library for the screening of 2026 Oscar nominee Palestinian film “The Voice of Hind Rajab”.

*Click the link in our bio to register.

Thank you to for making this event possible. ✨