EVENTS
Attend an Event at Lougheed House
Take part in a tour, test your trivia chops, visit for tea time, or stroll through our flower market.
UPCOMING EVENTS
En Plein Air Painting Workshop
August 15, 11:00 to 3:00 pm
FREE - Registration Required
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Join Carl White for an en plein air workshop in the historic gardens of the Lougheed House! This is a workshop for intermediate and advanced artists to explore painting as a way of looking through time to see the world anew. Working directly from the landscape, participants will respond to shifting light, atmosphere, and both the historic and modern surroundings as a living dialogue between past and present. This workshop invites a deeper way of seeing — one that uncovers beauty, memory, and transformation within the familiar. This event is rain or shine - in event of rain, the workshop will take place within Lougheed House, exploring the outdoors through the lens of a window frame.
Please note: This workshop is intended for intermediate and advanced artists with their own artistic practice and is not a beginner workshop. It is a facilitated experience to explore the House and gardens in a modern context. All participants are required to bring their own art supplies (easels will be provided) and are responsible for their own cleanup. Artists who registered for the June 28 workshop may not also register for the August 15 workshop.
About Carl White:
Carl White is a Canadian visual artist whose paintings merge classical imagery with graffiti, calligraphy, and contemporary visual culture. Referencing Renaissance and Baroque traditions while embracing urban mark-making and material experimentation, his work explores the tension between permanence and collapse, beauty and disruption, history and the present moment.
Adult Summer Camp - Last Days of Summer
A Recess Calgary event
August 21
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Free (18+) - Registration Required
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Adult Summer Camp is a summer-long adults-only program series run by our friends at Recess Calgary, and we are so excited to be hosting the final event – Last Days of Summer – here at Lougheed House!
Whether you’ve attended every installment of Adult Summer Camp with Coach T. and Recess Calgary, or this is your first (last) day, everyone is welcome to celebrate the close of summer with us in beautiful Beaulieu Gardens. We’ll be playing historic yard games, enjoying snacks, and basking in each other’s company on this nostalgia-filled Last Day of Camp.
This is a FREE, adults-only (18+) event funded by the City of Calgary, Downtown in Motion grant. Registration is required.
Arts & Crafts Day with Recess Calgary
August 22
10:30 am to 2:30 pm (drop-in)
FREE
Registration Recommended
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Use your imagination and creativity in this free, drop-in day of arts, crafts, and placemaking with Recess Calgary all around Beaulieu Gardens! Stop by to play a game of croquet, paint outdoor furniture, create micro-installations, and try your hand at the historic art of printmaking with The Sprawl‘s Pop-Up Press, which will be offering DIY postcards using historic photos of Lougheed House.
August 22
10:30 am to 2:30 pm
Registration recommendedFunding for this event is provided by the City of Calgary, Downtown in Motion grant.
Trivia Night: The Queer History of Pride
August 27, doors at 6:30 pm, trivia at 7:00 pm
FREE
No registration required - first come, first served
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Lougheed House's iconic trivia night is BACK just in time to kick off Calgary's pride month! Test your knowledge on queer history through the ages, with a special focus on Calgary! Whether you're a trivia champion or simply looking for a way to celebrate Pride, everyone is welcome. Gather your team and join us for an evening of friendly competition, community, and fun! This is a free, adults-only (18+) event - no registration is required. Seating is limited, so tables are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Drinks and snacks will be available for purchase. Enter through the event entrance (the North doors facing 13th Avenue.)
A House of Story Speaker Series
The Masses and the Classes in Calgary: Labour, Lougheed, and Electoral Politics in Calgary, 1911-1926 with Kirk Niergarth
September 17
Doors at 6:00 pm
Talk at 7:00 pm
FREE, 18+ - Registration Required
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Coinciding with Senator Lougheed's time in the federal cabinet were some of the largest strikes in Canadian history, including major ones in Calgary. These signs of class division had political ramifications as both labour and conservative forces mobilized to control political representation in the city at all levels of government. This talk will explore the class dimension of electoral politics in Calgary, beginning with the federal election of 1911 -- when Calgary bucked the trend of the west and voted against candidates supporting reciprocity -- through to Alberta's first recall election in 1926 over the issue of the public provision of textbooks in Calgary schools.
Drinks and snacks will be available for purchase.
About Kirk NiergarthKirk Niergarth has taught Canadian history at Mount Royal University in Calgary since 2011. He is the author of The Dignity of Every Human Being: New Brunswick Artists and Canadian Culture between the Great Depression and the Cold War (2015), and is co editor of the journal Labour/Le Travail. He first gave a labour history walking tour of Calgary in 2016 and continues to learn new and surprising things about the history of workers and their organizations in this city.
Garden Afternoon Tea
Presented by A Certain Flair Catering
September 20, Reservations starting at 10:00 am
$73.95 per person, dietary conscious and kids menus available when you book
Reservation Required
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Luxuriate in an afternoon of tea, treats, and treasured company at A Certain Flair Catering’s afternoon Garden Tea on Sunday, September 20! September is when the blooms of Beaulieu Gardens are at their best and brightest - enjoy your tea on the historic main floor of Lougheed House, then wander through the fragrant flowers of the gardens outdoors.
Your reservation includes museum admission, so feel free to explore the exhibits at Lougheed House before or after your tea time. Reservations are required.
A House of Story Speaker Series
Life at Lougheed Barracks: the Women of the Canadian Women’s Army Corps with Francesca Zambolin
November 5
Doors at 6:00 pm
Talk at 7:00 pm
FREE, 18+ - Registration Required
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Between 1942 and 1946, Lougheed House was transformed into Lougheed Barracks, housing hundreds of members of the Canadian Women’s Army Corps (CWAC). During these years, one of Calgary’s grandest private homes became a military residence, a workplace, and a community for women serving on the home front. To meet wartime needs, the site was reshaped for military use, with additional huts constructed in the rear gardens to accommodate new recruits. Drawing on archival materials from Lougheed House, this talk explores the experiences and daily lives of the CWAC members stationed at Lougheed Barracks, from the early days of CWAC recruitment and training to their duties and everyday life.
Drinks and snacks will be available for purchase.
About Francesca ZambolinFrancesca Zambolin is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on women’s histories, memory and experiences during the Second World War. As a former CIH Research Fellow at Lougheed House, she conducted research on the history of Lougheed House, including the Lougheed Barracks period and the experiences of the Canadian Women’s Army Corps members who lived and worked there.
“The House of Story speaker series was an informative, exceptional evening. As a monumental place filled with history, Lougheed House’s educational events go beyond the house’s own story.”
- Karen K.
“Being a vendor at the Harvest Market was a wonderful surprise—from the house to the gardens to the tremendous community turnout. There are so many fun, cool ways for the community to engage with this incredible historic site. Lougheed House is a place for everyone.”
- Nicole M.
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