Events
Butterdome Craft Sale
Get ready, Edmonton! The Butterdome Craft Sale is taking over the U of A Butterdome, bringing together over 110 Canadian artists, makers, and designers for an unforgettable shopping experience. Discover a curated selection of handmade treasures, from textiles and jewellery to ceramics and gourmet foods. Connect with passionate creatives, hear their stories, and find the perfect gift for Mother's Day – or treat yourself to something special. Don't miss out on this premier spring event!
Callingwood Farmers' Market 40th Season Grand Opening
Callingwood Farmers' Market is celebrating forty years! Get ready for a day filled with excitement, community spirit, and the freshest local produce around. Bring the whole family for a day of fun activities, including face painting, balloon twisting, and more!
Drawn to Character
Participants will enjoy a full day of character creation and world building! Choose to explore either table top roleplaying, led by Mason Repka and held at Red Claw Gaming! Or choose comic book creation with Cowboy Dan Schneider and Chelsea Wong held at Rolling Tales. Or, spend the whole weekend with YouthWrite and do both!
Edmonton Youth Orchestra Presents: Shakespeare as Muse
Join the Edmonton Youth Orchestra for their final concert performance! This concert features the Intermediate and Senior Edmonton Youth Orchestras as well as the winner of the 42nd annual Northern Alberta Concerto Competition (Winds).
Edmonton Youth Voices Presents: A Golden Afternoon
Gather your family and friends and join Edmonton Young Voices to experience the magic of spring through music with our concert, 'A Golden Afternoon.'
Da Camera Singers: Under the Influence
Ignite your curiosity with this unique concert of new Canadian choral works and the music that inspired them. Edmonton composers Stuart Beatch, Jane Berry, and Allan Bevan, and Montreal-based Marie-Claire Saindon will share the choral music that informs their creative process and compositional style. Each of their new works will be paired with two pieces that inspired them, including everything from Renaissance motets to the Beatles.
Vocal Alchemy: Spring Nocturnes
For poets and artists since forever, spring is a metaphor for all that is new and exciting! Join Vocal Alchemy for a program reflecting new adventures, longer evenings, and LOVE in its many forms. Featuring music from a 500-year span of inspired composers from Johannes Brahms to Billy Joel.
Ante Meridiem (the Daytime Choir!), will perform a solo set as well as together with Vocal Alchemy: nearly 150 voices to raise the roof!
Pysanka Showcase
The annual ACUA Pysanka Showcase starts March 19. This year's showcase features some brand new work from a number of pysanka artists this Easter season. Update your Easter basket or give someone a truly unique handmade gift this season from a local artist.
Dreamspeakers International Indigenous Film Festival
This year’s festival has over 40 films, filmmaker panels, an animation workshop and more. Each film was selected by our jury from over 200 entries. There are documentaries, shorts, features, animations, and films from seasoned professionals and first time directors. The films hail from all over the world including: Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Chile, Japan, and for the first time, Iran. DIIFF will once again have both in person and online screenings.
Rent! Presented by Elope Musical Theatre
Join ELOPE for one of Broadway’s most popular and powerful shows! Loosely based on Puccini’s La Boheme, RENT! tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan’s East Village. The production is set during the thriving days of the bohemian culture of Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
CANstruction Edmonton
Canstruction is a not for profit event that began in 1992 in New York as a friendly competition between architects, engineers, designers, contractors and the community in general to design and build amazing sculptures out of cans of food. These colossal structures are judged for various awards such as Best Original Design, Best Use of Labels, Best Meal and Structural Ingenuity. At the conclusion of the event all food items are donated to local food banks.
Paranormal Cirque
Are you ready Edmonton? Do you love thrilling, wicked, sexy, or even dangerous things? Paranormal Cirque will expose you to a unique creation of combined theatre, circus, and cabaret with a new European style flare. Cirque Italia is now presenting a brand-new show for a MATURE audience!
This innovative horror story features different shades of sexy and an incomparable storyline – the only thing you can be sure of during this unique experience is that you will not know what to expect! It might be hard to divide reality and illusion!
The Three Musketeers
Adapted by Catherine Bush from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, and directed by Daryl Cloran. A swashbuckling adventure for the whole family! Newly arrived in Paris, with the skill of a swordsman and the heart of a warrior, Dartagnan wishes to join the renowned Musketeers, but first he must prove himself worthy. To win the heart of Constance and save king and country he sets off with the Musketeers to thwart a plot by the evil Cardinal Richelieu. Together, they'll fight All For One and One For All! A co-production with the Arts Club Theatre Company in Vancouver.
Tiny Beautiful Things
Anonymous online columnist “Sugar” receives thousands of letters asking for advice, and with her own particular brand of brutal honesty and incisive empathy, helps those [...]
Journey of the Horse
Follow the journey of early Chinese settlers in Alberta in this two-part exhibit at the Mah Society of Edmonton. Come see our collection of fascinating objects, immerse yourself in our historic recreations, and read personal stories that illustrate the challenges and triumphs of Edmonton’s Chinese community. Immerse yourself in this historic experience and learn more about Edmonton’s past.
King of the Hill
A cast from the Grindstone Improv Ensemble pair up in teams of two and use audience suggestions to create characters, scenes and comedy sketches on the spot. After each round, the audience decides on the winning pair who will stay on for the next round while the losers form new teams to dethrone the Kings.
In this knockout comedy battle you'll see which fools are truly King of the Hill!
Sip & Celebrate Mom
All month long guests can visit any OEB Breakfast Co. location to sip on the Mom’osa and join in the celebration of motherhood. In addition to the Mom’osa, OEB Breakfast Co. will have their regular menu available for dine-in and take-out, with plenty of delicious sweet and savoury options for the whole family to enjoy.
Creating Beauty - A Watercolour Exhibit
Exhibiting artworks created by a group of 11 emerging artists, alumni of the University of Alberta Faculty of Extension Visual Arts certificate Program, who studied the Introductory Watercolour Technique course with curator Amy Loewan. The theme of this exhibition is about creating beauty. It is not about 'pretty or glamour', it is about expressing beauty with a deep sense of reverence to human relationships and to the natural world.
All Guts, No Glory Art Exhibit
All Guts, No Glory – a body of most recent and compelling works by Krissya Iraheta, an emerging American-born and Edmonton-based interdisciplinary visual artists – is an exploration of lost innocence and resilience in the darkest of times. Iraheta brings together themes of trauma, religion, sexuality, interiority, and the harsh struggle to suppress vulnerability in order to survive.
Panoramada Art Exhibit
PANORAMADA – the exquisitely executed body of textile works by Caitlin Thompson, a Calgary-based textile and multimedia artist and art educator – animates the gallery space with colorful needleworks incorporating embroidery, appliqué, and repeating patterns. The natural and the digital collide in imagery of landscapes – made both by hand and with machine. PANORAMADA is an exhibition of embroidermation – combining both embroidery and animation to create looping, revolving scenes of landscapes nodding towards the history of the panoramic vista.
Grindstone Theatre School's Spring camps and classes are live!
The Grindstone Theatre School Spring Classes are now open for registration! This spring, Grindstone Theatre Schools programming offers a variety of returning favourites, and new classes launching by popular demand.
Minutiae
Minutiae is a fascinating display of miniature artworks created by 54 artists across Canada. These tiny works are meant to be observed up close and personal, exploring the intricate details and thoughtfully crafted designs. The exhibition includes diverse works, such as aspic salad brooches, miniature pottery studios, and silver candlesticks designed for birthday candles. Each piece showcases the artist's attention to detail and ability to create in the smallest forms. What does minutiae mean to you? Come and explore this unique exhibition and discover the magnitude in the minutest of details.
Musical Mornings
Join Ms. Kate for a musical morning and meet musicians from the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Together, you'll sing, laugh, and be amazed by all the things instruments can do with a fun variety of familiar tunes. Designed for ages 1 - 5, come and learn with your child in the upstairs lobby of the Winspear Centre.
The Beach Boys of Summer
Jubilations Dinner Theatre presents The Beach Boys of Summer. Get ready to be transported back to summer with a show that celebrates the iconic Beach Boys and their timeless sound. So grab your sunglasses and get ready to feel the warmth of the sun and the sound of the surf as we take you back to the beach for an unforgettable night.
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Echoes of Thunder
In Chinese culture, the dragon is a mythical shapeshifter whose most common form is a composite of various animals. As a revered protector that remains obscured from human sight, the legend of the dragon is rooted in the sound and rain of thunderstorms and other weather events. Using select objects from the Mactaggart Art Collection, Echoes of Thunder: Unveiling the Mythical Chinese Dragon aims to illustrate the origin of the Chinese dragon and its importance and significance in Chinese culture.
Available for viewing on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.
Angkor's way!
In the heart of an ancient empire lies a tale waiting to be told, and this February, the world is invited to embark on an extraordinary journey through history. Angkor: The Lost Empire of Cambodia, an international feature exhibition, promises an immersive experience that unveils the secrets of one of the greatest empires the world has even known. Become a part of the Angkor narrative with interactive activities that let you build a temple, touch ancient sculptures, and flex your archaeological detective skills. It’s not just a spectator sport; it’s an opportunity to be an active participant in the unravelling of Angkor’s mysteries.
The 11 O'Clock Number
The 11 O’clock Number is Grindstone’s award winning improvised musical comedy! Based on suggestions from the audience the cast improvises a brand new musical comedy on the spot, complete with twisting plots and showstopping numbers. Laughs are guaranteed.
Ebb and Flow
The works in Ebb and Flow are about water in its literal form, the manipulation of water as tool of colonial violence, water as matrilineal connector and water as earth forming geological force and keeper of geologic time.
Dwayne Martineau: Boreal Fortress
Boreal Fortress uses images of trees, bark, weeds and detritus from our aspen parkland ecosystem that are made uncanny through mirroring techniques. This installation towers above Main Hall and its massive scale is designed to make the images of trees feel strange yet familiar. This cluster of trees suggests a secret passageway or a swirling vortex. However, this is an illusionistic fictional entryway into an elusive space that cannot be entered. This fortress gives a feeling of discovery but confronts viewers with a space they cannot enter and forces you to think about what we can and cannot access. Boreal Fortress evokes a sense of ancient connection to environmental knowledge that lays beyond the conscious mind.
Dinosaurs - The Exhibition
Get up close with life-sized dinosaurs and skeleton casts that will bring you back to the Mesozoic Era, time of the dinosaurs, which includes the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. Hear them roar, see them move, and compare how you measure up over 10,000 square feet of dinosaurs!
Here & Now Exhibit
Discover Alberta’s unique cultural heritage through Albertan artists.
Presented in partnership with the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA), Here & Now showcases 12 Alberta artists whose work was recently acquired to AFA’s collection through the Art Acquisition by Application program.
The artworks featured in Here & Now tackle themes of identity, dis/ability, female strength, and human impacts on the land. These artists join the more than 1,700 Albertans represented in the AFA Art Collection, the biggest and only public art collection dedicated to Alberta art.
Damian Moppett: Untitled Abstract Drawing in Space
The Art Gallery of Alberta commissioned Canadian artist Damian Moppett to create an installation for long-term display in the AGA Atrium. This work is intended to be a scaled-up sketch that occupies the space in the AGA's atrium as if it was drawn in the air. Shapes and lines are fabricated out of cut aluminum plate, which have been arranged and painted to recreate a 'fast' artistic abstract drawing. Moppett's recent large-scale public sculptures have all been centered around the idea of making a relatively 'quick' drawing or painting into a large three-dimensional sculpture while still trying to convey the immediate graphic simplicity of the original drawing or painting. This work will maintain the qualities of a sketch with drawing materials and blow them up to architectural or larger-than-life scale.
Probably Plausibly Possibly
Probably, Plausibly, Possibly is the newest iteration of our Children’s Gallery seeking to imagine what the AGA will be another 100 years into the future. Kids and families step into a time machine where they listen to and hear what is happening in a future world. As co-creators of the future, kids participate in reflective art activities to cultivate a vision and path forward.
