The Grand Flanagan Theatre

About the venue

Flanagan Theatre is the performance space at The GRAND in downtown Calgary. Published festival programmes place film presentations at the First Street Southwest venue, connecting the theatre with the city's cultural calendar. Its dedicated stage setting offers a downtown destination for shared performance and screen experiences, with each event defining the particular programme. The site opened as the Sherman Grand Theatre in 1912, placing the current performance destination within more than a century of Calgary entertainment history.

The GRAND traces its origins to 1912, giving performances at the site a link to a long chapter of Calgary's theatre history. Its story includes both live presentation and cinema, which helps explain the range of cultural associations carried by the venue today. For audiences, the Flanagan name identifies the performance space within that broader destination, where a current programme can be experienced against the background of generations of entertainment at the same historic site.