2024 Downtown Vibrancy Fund
Downtown in Motion Grant
Grants of up to $50,000 are available to support initiatives that make a lasting difference in the greater downtown area.
Get more information about the grant
2024 winners
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Volly is relaunching their popular Good Neighbour pay-what-you-can store in a new Chinatown location. They're expanding their all-ages programming to include classes, workshops, movie nights and more.
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Contemporary Calgary is making its Free First Thursday events even bigger. They'll feature fun activities and entertainment, with free admission for all.
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Inside Out Theatre is Calgary’s Deaf, Disability, and Mad theatre company. They're launching the new location of the Erratics Indie Arts Club. It is a gathering place with programming and performances for the community.
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Working with the Rainbow Garden Society, Queer Calgary is offering a series of free cooking classes. They'll help participants prepare healthy meals on small budgets with downtown resources. They are also offering community gardening workshops and a Spring Social.
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The Alcove is a vibrant community space, located right on the downtown C-train line. They are a gathering place, hosting weekly coffee socials. They attract people from across the city with their participatory arts events.
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Youth can participate in storytelling workshops with Starlings. They can create digital shorts expressing their experiences with the stigma of family drug use. The shorts will be screened for the public at a mini-film festival at the Downtown Public Library.
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The Confluence is bringing winter fun for everyone with their family-friendly outdoor skating rink. They will also offer programming and special outdoor events.
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cSpace and Article 11, an Indigenous arts company, are working together on an amazing video installation at Historic Fire Hall No. 1. This exterior piece will light up the corner of First Street and Sixth Avenue S.E.
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Youth Central will activate sites throughout downtown in a series of fun events that will make you smile. Look for their youth volunteers offering a random act of kindness, a compliment, or some inspiration for your day.