Events

The 116th Annual Edmonton Music & Speech Arts Festival (formerly known as the Edmonton Kiwanis Music Festival) creates over 2,500 opportunities for over 20,000 music students, actors, musicians, and music lovers to perform in front of an audience and receive professional adjudication. Performances are FREE to attend. Choirs will run April 15-19; Bands will run…

Live At The Winspear and JCL Productions are proud to present Bahamas: The Bootcut Tour. The Canadian indie-rock artist returns to the Winspear Centre for the first time since 2021. The JUNO Award-winning singer-songwriter, born Afie Jurvanen, released his sixth album in the fall of 2023. Photo credit: Mitch Lowe Photo

Now’s your chance to get hands-on and learn the ropes of spreading and pinning a bird wing. Hang out behind the scenes with Royal Alberta Museum experts in their conservation labs. They’ll share why and how they get these specimens ready for display and research. You’ll also snag a high-res picture of your finished bird…

The literary community, like a river well fed by rainfall, snowmelt and groundwater, is deep with an eclectic publishing landscape. This two-part event includes featured readings from each of the presses followed by a Q&A with the editors. Come listen, ask a question or buy back issues and books! Light snacks will be provided and…

Rita Bouvier leads this writing workshop that will provide a safe, structured environment for participants to exercise the power of language and the creativity of their individual and collective imaginations, to draft new poetry and to share their works-in-progress (optional).

Edmonton indie bookstores are combining forces to make a weekend adventure of this auspicious occasion. Pick up an Indie Bookstore Day passport at any participating bookstore on April 27-28, and bring it with you on your indie bookstore voyage. Participating downtown bookstores: Audreys Books – 10702 Jasper Ave, Edmonton, AB T5J 3J5 Wee Book Inn…

Sample exquisite whiskeys, gins, vodkas, liqueurs, and more, while indulging on savory bites prepared by local restaurateurs. Discover new award-winning spirits and learn how to use them in crowd-pleasing cocktails that will amaze your friends. Top it all off with entertainment throughout the event including live music, flair bartending shows and fireside chats with master…

How can you resist today’s colonial currents – entrenched in history, politics or day to day discourse – that rushes and rages on? Anna Marie Sewell hosts Challenging the Currents featuring Emily Riddle, Marilyn Dumont and Rita Bouvier who share their powerful poetry that scrutinizes our painful past and problematic present while pointing a way…

WHAT: Edmonton’s original and largest Buy/Sell/Trade KPOP Market hosted by YEGKPOP featuring Random Play Dance at 3PM. You will find pre-loved albums and merchandise, creations by local vendors, and trading tables to trade for your favourite artists’ photocards. Register now to pay the pre-registration price ($2/person) and be entered to win a giveaway to LightUpK!…

Calling the year-round ghouls and goblins! Join Evolution Wonderlounge for Halfway to Halloween: the Halloween dance party extravaganza featuring drag, dancing, a costume contest, and more! You can even expect a $250 cash prize for best costume. Hosted by Emmonia Featuring: Severina Hunny Moon Melinda Verga (Canada’s Drag Race Season 4)

It’s time for local and emerging poets and spoken word artists to share their work! Sign up to read or perform your poetry or come and enjoy the final waves of verse. Poets will have 5 mins. All are welcome! Sunday, April 28, 2024 2:00 – 4:00pm

5 Courses. 5 Wines. Chef Alberto Alboreggia presents an outstanding, garlic-inspired meal with tickets supporting mini STOMP. STUZZICHINO CALZONE FRITTO rapini, salsiccia, piri piri aïoli ANTIPASTO SMOKED SALMON smoked salmon, sour cream, beetroot tartare, micro salad, brioche bread PASTA CRESPELLE AL TARTUFO E FUNGHI wild mushroom & black truffle stuffed, béchamel, pecorino romano SECONDO BISON…