The 2020 BUMP Festival was a huge success! Despite a global health pandemic we were able to make 2020 our best year yet: Completed 20 new murals from artists across Canada (up from 16 murals in 2019) taking the project total to over 50 murals...
We can't believe we are three weeks in and only one week remains for the Festival! August has been a busy but blissful blur of BUMPing! We love seeing you all enjoying sunny mural tours, and tagging @yycbump in all your mural adventures. It's been...
We have 11, that's right 11 murals in progress this week! There are a few more artists that will be starting this week, but the mural composition is in full swing & the artists are all making sure the paint keeps flowing according to plan....
We are officially halfway through the BUMP 2020 Festival and couldn't be happier with how things have been going. From the feedback we've received, many people are enjoying the new self-guided tours by walking, biking, running and scootering to the different mural sites and even...
The Beltline Urban Murals Project (BUMP) is deeply disappointed by the recent events around the Pink Flamingo Black Lives Matter mural project and the hateful messages that have been unfairly directed towards this group. Projects like these are essential to help make room for underrepresented...
Week one of BUMP 2020 Festival was a huge success! Multiple murals-in-progress, live music events, and a fan-favourite: self-guided mural tours. We appreciate everyone that stopped by at our events and all the social media posts we've been tagged in! Here are some highlights from this...
We're pleased to welcome you to the start of the 2020 BUMP Festival, Presented by TD. The Beltline Urban Murals Project is a community driven project that has been transforming the centre of beautiful Calgary, Alberta, Canada into an expansive open-air art gallery since 2017. We...
Pink Flamingo’s Black Lives Matter murals series opens a call for submissions for the first of four works to be completed in Calgary over summers 2020 and 2021. Calgary’s Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) artists are invited to submit a proposal to the first...
We can barely wait to announce our artist lineup next month for the 2020 BUMP Festival presented by TD, bringing magic to the streets of Calgary once again for the fourth year this August 26-29. This past week, the Calgary Herald published an article titled “Festivals...
We're Recruiting for Five Exciting Positions! The Beltline Neighbourhoods Association is recruiting youth for five exciting summer positions as part of our 2020 BUMP Festival team for work between June 1 and September 11, 2020. We're seeking ambitious, outgoing and talented youth to help organize our...