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In 2025, BUMP reached a major milestone, surpassing 450 public artworks across Calgary since our founding in 2017. This year alone, we commissioned 126 new public artworks across six neighbourhoods, working with 39 local, national, and international artists whose work brought new stories, perspectives, and energy into the public realm.

Our commitment to amplifying underrepresented voices remained central. In 2025, 41% of participating mural artists identified as BIPOC, 22% as LGBTQIAS+, and 65% as women or non-binary. Over 100 local creatives and thinkers from across disciplines contributed to BUMP’s programming, alongside 56 performing artists from Calgary and beyond, transforming the city into a living stage for music, movement, and underground performance.

Entering our ninth year, BUMP continued to evolve beyond a festival into a living platform for artistic inquiry, spatial intervention, and civic imagination. Through murals, immersive installations, sound, gathering, and movement, we invited Calgarians to see public space not as neutral ground, but as a site of memory, meaning, and collective energy. New initiatives like Muster Point, a multi-installation public art residency and gathering space, expanded BUMP’s footprint into more experimental and immersive territory.

This year, we challenged conventional ideas of how cities are experienced, moving beyond efficiency and commerce to centre culture, collaboration, and creative experimentation. We hosted 30 free, all-ages public events that engaged over 10,000 visitors, alongside the second annual Urban Art Conference, which welcomed over 500 artists, community builders, and public art professionals and featured insights from 26 diverse speakers. Through mural tours, mentorship programs supporting 29 artists, partnerships with 37 community and sponsor organizations, and collaborations with organizations like the City of Calgary and Foundation Collective, BUMP 2025 demonstrated the power of public art as a catalyst for connection, dialogue, and lasting change.

Launched in 2017 as the Beltline Urban Murals Project, the community-led, artist-focused BUMP Festival has exploded to become a city-wide street art movement reimagining public spaces through the visual arts and expanding the capacity of the local arts community.

The BUMP Festival Art Society is a registered charitable, non-profit organization in Calgary, Alberta. All donations are tax refundable .

BUMP currently does not receive any ongoing public art funding from the City of Calgary. To date, the initiative has been funded through community/provincial/federal grants, public and private partnerships, and sponsorships.