Festivals

 
What's On

What's On calendar

Click here for listings and to submit your event.

 
ShareEdmonton

Festivals guide

ShareEdmonton listings for all of the Edmonton and area festivals

 
Snow fun

Winter Light 2011

Here are some of the fun things happening in Edmonton this winter.

 

Video: Yukigassen

David Hennessey talks about how to get involved in Yukigassen, which is an organized snowball fight, ...

 
Maisie's Magical Christmas House

Map: Edmonton Christmas lights

Use our intertactive map to take a look at some of the Edmonton-area’s most resplendent light shows.

 

Video: Christmas Flash Mob in Edmonton City Centre Mall, Hallelujah Chorus

Participants from Edmonton city choirs and the Richard Eaton Singers all convened in a "flash mob" and...

 
Reindeers are seen on December 20, 2010 near the village of Vuollerim, Lapland province, west of the coastal city of Luleaa. Heavy snow disrupted European flights over the weekend and stranded hundreds of drivers as far south as Italy as a white Christmas appeared increasingly likely in many countries.

Gallery: Reindeer sightings

Just days before Christmas, Santa's reindeer are spotted at various snowy locations around the globe...

 

Video: Christmas Concert

Watch Steinhauer School's Christmas concert as they perfom during an afternoon concert with music teacher...

 

Video: Stuffed backpacks at Boyle Street

Around 100 students from George H. Luck School form a chain to deliver eight hundred backpacks filled...

 
Prenmier Stelmach

Video: Premier Stelmach's holiday greeting

Watch Premier Ed Stelmach's 2010 holiday message to Albertans.

 

 
 
Deep Freeze festival
 
With temperatures at a relatively mild -10 C, it wasn’t so much a deep freeze Saturday on 118th Avenue — just a deep snow. Stacks and stacks of snow piled up as snowflakes blew relentlessly over the fourth annual Deep Freeze winter festival, which ends Sunday night.
 

Entertainment

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New comedy festival announced for Edmonton

A new, homegrown comedy festival promising international talent will be held in downtown Edmonton next fall.

 
Mummers

Mysterious mummers hit town this weekend

A modern-day detective trying to solve a centuries-old mystery will be at the mummers' play at the 118th Avenue Deep Freeze Festival this weekend.

 
 
 
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Grief unites volunteers at Christmas dinner

On a day that is supposed to be full of joy, it was grief that led Jane Orydzuk to the Boyle Street Christmas Dinner seven years ago.

 
Christmas Eve police

Creatures were stirring on Christmas Eve patrol

It’s shift change time on Christmas Eve at Edmonton police north division headquarters, and the officers are getting ready for a night of patrolling. Their bellies are full from a potluck dinner spread...

 

Blogs

Plugged In

Stay on top of the music scene with Sandra Sperounes


 

Eat My Words

Liane Faulder shares nibbles and noshes from Edmonton and elsewhere...


 

Button Mash

Ben Gelinas leaps headlong into the world of video game bloggery...


 

On Tap

Crack open a brew with beer-blogger Mark Suits


 

Plugged In

Stay on top of the music scene with Sandra Sperounes


 
 
 

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