The Chinook Sessions

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Date
September 17, 2026
Topic
Guest Bartender

A chinook can lift Calgary twenty degrees in an hour. The snow goes, the streets run wet, and for one strange afternoon in February the city behaves like somewhere else entirely. Then it's over.

One night, one bar, one well

The Chinook Sessions works the same way. We hand the well to a visiting bar program for a single night. They bring four drinks, we pour them alongside our own, and by the next evening the back bar is back to normal.

No tickets, no seating plan. Come early — the guest list of four goes fast, and when a drink is out, it's out.

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