EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society

10/17/2025

🎥✨ TONIGHT! DOUBLE FEATURE + TRAILER DROP ✨🎥

It’s finally here! TONIGHT we celebrate Ballroom culture, legacy, and community at SpanicArts with a double feature screening of Paris is Burning + KIKI 🔥💃🏾

To get you hyped, we’re dropping the trailer for KIKI, the powerful follow-up to Paris is Burning, co-created by filmmaker Sara Jordenö and Ballroom legend Twiggy Pucci Garçon. KIKI dives deep into the lives of Black and Brown LGBTQ youth in NYC’s contemporary Kiki scene — full of movement, meaning, and fierce resistance.

👀 Watch the trailer now
📍 Then join us TONIGHT at SpanicArts!

🗓️ Friday, October 18
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3:00 PM – Vogue Workshop w/ Godfather Krackle Old Navy
5:00 PM – Community Social
6:30 PM – Paris is Burning + KIKI Screening + Discussion
🎟️ FREE | All are welcome

Let’s vogue, watch, and celebrate together 🌈🔥

10/15/2025

🎬✨ DOUBLE FEATURE ANNOUNCEMENT! ✨🎬

We’ve got major news for Calgary’s Ballroom fam + QTPOC community!
Our upcoming screening, with , just got even more legendary. We’re now showing TWO powerful films that dive deep into the legacy, beauty, and complexity of Ballroom culture. 🌈🔥

👉 In addition to the iconic Paris is Burning (1990), we’re now screening KIKI (2016), a fierce, contemporary follow-up co-created by Sara Jordenö and Ballroom legend Twiggy Pucci Garçon.

While Paris is Burning introduced the world to NYC’s 80s Ballroom scene, KIKI picks up the story 25 years later, following a new generation of Black and Brown LGBTQ youth shaping an activist-driven Kiki scene that’s as much about survival and resistance as it is about performance.

📅 Event Details
🕒 3:00–5:00 PM – Old Way Vogue Workshop (Pop, Dip & Spin) w/ Godfather Krackle Old Navy, hosted by
🕔 5:00–6:30 PM – Community Social: Music, Food & Networking
🎥 6:30–9:30 PM – DOUBLE FEATURE: Paris is Burning + KIKI
💬 Followed by a facilitated discussion on authorship, legacy, and self-representation in Ballroom media.

🎟️ FREE + All are welcome

10/12/2025

EMMEDIA is closed Tuesday, October 14th to Wednesday, October 15th for the national holiday. We will back in office on Thursday and ready to see you on Friday for our screening of Paris is Burning!

10/10/2025

💥 Honouring the Origins of Ballroom. Friday, October 17

Step into the roots of Ballroom culture with a day dedicated to Old Way vogue with , the sharp, controlled, and powerful style that laid the foundation for everything that came after.

We’re kicking off The Breakdown with a tribute to the brilliance, resilience, and creativity of QTPOC communities who built Ballroom from the ground up and we invite you to witness and take part.

🕺 3PM – Old Way Vogue Workshop w/ Godfather Krackle Old Navy
→ Learn the form, rhythm, and reverence behind one of Ballroom’s original styles
🎉 5PM – Community Social (Free food, music, & space to connect)
🎬 6:30PM – Paris Is Burning Screening + Community-Led Discussion
→ Unpack the film’s legacy and explore how today’s artists are reclaiming the narrative

Proudly supported by Calgary Foundation , SpanicArts, , Alberta foundation for the Arts, and Canada Council for the Arts.

10/09/2025

✨ Ballroom. Film. Community. All in One Night. ✨

We’re kicking off The Breakdown with a powerful night of movement, film, and community on Friday, October 17 and you’re invited to be part of it.

🌟 3PM – Old Way Vogue Workshop w/ Godfather Krackle Old Navy held by (Pay What You Can)
🌟 5PM – Community Social with free food, music & open practice space
🌟 6:30PM – FREE Paris is Burning Screening + Discussion

Whether you're deep in the scene or just Ballroom-curious, this night is for you. Come move, connect, reflect and be part of the legacy in motion.

📍Haus of
🎟️ All are welcome
Sign up on LINK IN BIO!

Proudly supported by Calgary Foundation, SpanicArts, Calgary Arts Development, Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Canada Council for the Arts.

10/09/2025

🌙 The Story Continues…

Our amazing artists from Twilight Celebrations are lighting up the city once again with Twilight Creations, now on view at The Confluence!

Created by four Indigenous youth artists, these stunning projection works were developed through traditional storytelling with Elder Adrian Wolfleg, and brought to life using animation and projection mapping techniques learned during our summer intensive.

10/08/2025

🚨Introducing: THE BREAKDOWN🚨
A bold, community-powered media arts training program created with

Over the next 3 months, selected artists will collaborate with their Houses to learn media analysis, storytelling, and video production, reclaiming authorship over their culture and narratives as q***r and trans people of color (QTPOC).

Through hands-on workshops, access to pro gear, and mentorship, each House will create a 5–10 minute original video or performance work to be showcased on a modular LED screen at a public event on December 13, 2025.

From fashion films to cultural tributes, The Breakdown empowers artists to remix, reclaim, and represent Ballroom on their own terms.

Supported by: Calgary Foundation, , Calgary Arts Development, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and Canada Council for the Arts.

10/04/2025

🌟 This weekend, we’re diving into an exciting visioning session to dream big about our future space! 🏗️✨

With the generous support of , we’re bringing in guest consultants to help us imagine what’s possible! All with YOU, our amazing community, at the heart of it.

We can’t wait to explore how our space can better support creativity, connection, and collective growth. 💭💬

10/02/2025

Our talented artists from Twilight Celebrations, in collaboration with Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth, are showing their artwork a SECOND TIME at The Confluence!

Twilight Creations are soon to blossom across the replica Fort Calgary Barracks!

Guided by Blackfoot Elder Adrian Wolfleg, four Indigenous youth have transformed Indigenous stories into a glowing canvas of story, memory and celebration. This free public art installation celebrates youth voices and reflects on Indigenous perspectives through mesmerizing projection-mapped animations.

The artworks will be projected onto the replica Fort Calgary Barracks each night from Oct. 3 - 18. If you're walking in the area, your eye will surely catch this vivid celebration of culture, creativity and community.

This project was made possible through partnerships with Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth, EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society, Bedford Creative and funding through Calgary Arts Development.

Twilight Creations is one of the many events taking place for 150 Years Later: Reflecting on Fort Calgary's Legacy. Learn more about this event series at theconfluence.ca/150

09/29/2025

🧡 CLOSED | September 30 – National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 🧡

September 30 is a day to pause, reflect, and truly listen.

In honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, EMMEDIA will be closed on Tuesday September 30. We encourage our community to take this time to honour the children who never returned home, the survivors of residential schools, and the families and communities still affected today.

Across Calgary, powerful spaces of remembrance and learning will be open: the Pokaiks ‘The Children’ Walk, storytelling with Elders, moving performances at The Confluence. Every gathering is a chance to learn, to connect, and to carry these stories forward.