Welcome to Calgary Performing Arts Festival (CPAF)
TAKE THE STAGE. BE HEARD.
Registrations will open Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023
A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
We’re excited to announce our 2025 Festival dates! Live performances will begin on April 12 and continue until May 9, 2025.
We welcome the performing arts community and their supporters to join us! At CPAF, our mission is to enrich our community by cultivating and celebrating aspiring performers. We’ve been passionate about this for the past 94 years.
Our premier event has allowed young Alberta artists to experience the richest musical experience at the early stages of their performing careers.
Solo, Ensemble, and Chamber performances across multi-disciplinary performing arts are eligible to participate in our music festival.
WHY GET INVOLVED?
The reasons you participate might be different than others
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
In 1931, a small group of eager musicians decided to take their love of music to the next level by creating an event called The Calgary Music Festival.
The Festival began as a small competition but quickly grew so large the organizers approached the Kiwanis Clubs of Calgary to take ownership of it, giving it the new title: The Calgary Kiwanis Festival.
Since then, the Festival has become one of Calgary’s greatest performing arts events and one of North America’s largest amateur competitive festivals. In 2014, the Calgary Kiwanis Festival underwent another name change and became The Calgary Performing Arts Festival.
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Performances in 2024
$215,000
Scholarships disbursed
since 2017
10,000+
Performance time
(in minutes) in 2024