Events
- Zoolights
Zoolights is a Christmas lights festival held annually at the Calgary Zoo. In 2005-06, it was held between December 1 and January 7. It closes only on Christmas Day. The animal themed show consists of almost 3 million lights and is the largest seasonal light show in Western Canada.
- Dinosaurs Alive
On February 5, 2010, Calgary Zoo’s Prehistoric Park hosted Dinosaurs Alive, an interactive and multi-sensory traveling exhibit, which was billed "more real and more scary".
Running through to October 31, 2010, the exhibit showcases 20 life-sized animatronic dinosaurs in addition to the existing 13 dinosaur models throughout Prehistoric Park. Unique to Calgary Zoo’s Dinosaurs Alive exhibit are three animatronic displays representing dinosaurs that lived right in Alberta: the Albertosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus and Euoplocephalus.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematising the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray’s Anatomy.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)