Calgary’s annual Beakerhead festival not going ahead for 2025

Beakerhead 2024, held at the Telus Spark.

A popular Calgary festival that celebrates art, science and engineering won’t be held this year.

Beakerhead first launched in 2013.

The annual, multi-day STEM celebration is held every September.

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Officials with the Telus Spark science centre confirm the event is “on pause.”

The science centre took over operations of Beakerhead in 2022.

According to a statement on the Telus Spark website, the pause is to allow the facility to “consider how to bring Beakerhead once again to a growing and changing city.”

Canadian author and broadcaster Jay Ingram, who co-founded Beakerhead, said it “erupted at a perfect time in Calgary’s growth as a city.”

“We had an amazing CEO and start-up team that brought Calgary’s art, science and engineering to life across the city. It built a legacy that endures.

“Telus Spark took over the responsibility to maintain that momentum. I can’t speak to the board’s decisions since then. Maybe a consortium of Calgary organizations could bring Beakerhead back to life.”