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A new show of gorgeous art does the strangest thing: ask us to consider the perspective of houseplants.
Friends? Décor? Imprisoned life forms? Local artists April Dean and Taiessa — the latter recently up for the Edmonton Art Prize for similar work — use photography, sculpture, text and animation in their thoughtful love letter to the green growth most of us have in one way or another sitting patiently in our homes.
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The duo show In Violet Light at Art Gallery St. Albert runs through July 6, with a reception and artist talk 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. Thursday.
“The things we have in common,” explains Dean of her and Taiessa’s work, “are that we’re trying to position the viewer to think a bit more critically about the history of the houseplant, and the bizarreness of sort of subjugating the natural world to be endlessly consumed.
“And don’t get me wrong,” Dean laughs, “we are houseplant lovers. So we’re trying to celebrate the embedded generosity that the houseplant has in that they’re really good for us.
“They ask us to slow down, to pay attention about maintenance and care.
“You know,” she laughs again, “if we’re doing it right.”
She says her own inside plants, especially during the pandemic, found her really thinking about the relationship between humans and nature.
“They really forced me to reconsider my role and relationship to the rest of the living world and sort of get over human supremacy.
“Even just thinking about any living thing as property, it’s an absurd worldview at this point,” says the artist, who has sculptural public art in Paul Kane Park and is manager of FAB Gallery at U of A.
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Dean notes outside of all this, it’s also just a beautiful-looking show to visit, no strings attached — her favourite part the soundscape she made with her partner Paul Ciampa to accompany the stop motion animation.
Besides the reception, a virtual tour of the show happens noon June 18 which you can watch beside your favourite leafy friend — see artgalleryofstalbert.com for further details.
ART
Thru 6/15: Minutiae (Alberta Craft Gallery)
Thru 6/22: Echoes of Thunder: Unveiling the Mythical Chinese Dragon (U of A Museums)
Thru 6/26: Josh Harnack: Limbo of Lost Canvasses (Aviary)
6/29-7/16: Carla Lam: Lost And Found (Trinity)
Thru 6/29: Behind the Art of Shumka’s UKRAINKA (Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts)
Thru 6/29: The Wild Side: Polar Prairie Pacific (Musée Héritage Museum)
Thru 6/30: Laurel Westland: FALCONET (Metro Gallery)
7/11-8/10: Elke Blodgett: Fire in Her Hands (Art Gallery St. Albert)
Thru 7/6: Christina Battle, Lara Felsing: Listening to the Land (FAB)
Thru 7/6: April Dean, Taiessa: In Violet Light (Art Gallery St. Albert)
Thru 7/13: Jessie Ray Short: By Whose Order and Direction (Ociciwan)
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Thru 7/20: Blessed are the De-Identifiers (Latitude 53)
Thru 7/20: Jake Kimble: Good Grief (Art Gallery St. Albert)
Thru 7/20: AJA Louden: Prairie Star Deck (Alberta Craft Gallery)
Thru 8/4: Dwayne Martineau: Boreal Fortress (AGA)
8/15-9/15: Edmonton Mural Festival (city wide)
Thru 8/23: Amanda Dunsmore: AGREEMENT (Mitchell)
Thru 9/29: Here & Now (RAM)
Thru 12/31: Damian Moppett: Untitled Abstract Object in Space (AGA)
BOOKS
6/13: Bill Waiser, Jennie Hansen’s Cheated discussion (Audreys)
6/14: George S. Takach’s Cold War 2.0 talk (Audreys)
6/15: Marty Chan’s Dragon on the Loose reading (CTC)
6/15: Gemma Nye: Drag Queen Story Hour (Magpie)
6/15: Vers/e Queer Poetry Open Mic (Audreys)
6/20: -miut zine launch (MItchell)
6/20: Premee Mohamed’s We Speak Through the Mountain launch (Audreys)
6/20-21: Summer Solstice Celebration (Audreys)
6/22: Ron Morris’ Happiness: The 40% Solution signing (Audreys)
6/23: Andrea Troughton’s Choose Your Discomfort signing (Audreys)
6/25: Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis book club (Audreys)
6/27: Rebecca K Reilly’s Greta & Valdin book club (Magpie)
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COMEDY
6/13-14: Godfrey (Comic Strip)
6/14: Ben Proulx (Grindstone)
6/14-15: Danny Martinello (Yuk Yuk’s)
6/14-15: Dan Brodribb (Comedy Factory)
6/20-22: Sahib Singh (Comic Strip)
6/21-22: Bob Angeli (Comedy Factory)
6/21-22: David Dempsey (Yuk Yuk’s)
6/27-30: Steve Furey (Comic Strip)
6/28-29: Ola Dada (Yuk Yuk’s)
7/2: Josh Johnson (Comic Strip)
7/3: Dan Hendricken, Bobby Warrener, Brad Semotiuk (Grindstone)
7/3-7: Grindstone Comedy Festival (various)
7/4: Bonnie McFarlane, Coutney Gilmour, Jules Ballufi, Melanie Darling (Grindstone)
7/4: Dave Merheje, Sean Lecomber, Kamal Alaeddine (Grindstone)
7/4-7: Jessie Jetski (Comic Strip)
7/5: Debra DiGiovanni, Eric Andrews, Courtney Gilmour, Noah Brodeur (Grindstone)
7/5: Wayne Jones, Kris Siddiqi, Cam Wyllie (Grindstone)
7/5: Abbas Wahab, Eric Andrews, Nick McQuick, Jules Ballufi (Grindstone)
7/5-6: Chris Heward (Comedy Factory)
7/5-6: Brittany Lyseng (Yuk Yuk’s)
7/6: Debra DiGiovanni, Abbas Wahab, Bita Joudaki, Jim Kerr (Grindstone)
7/6: Bruce McCulloch’s Tales of Bravery & Stupidity (Grindstone)
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7/6: Chris Wilson, Clare McConnell, Wayne Jones, Kris Siddiqi (Grindstone)
7/7: Clare Belford, Bita Joudaki, Kamal Aladeen, Noah Brodeur (Grindstone)
7/7: The Love On Kathleen McGee Fundraiser: Bruce McCulloch, Debra DiGiovanni (Grindstone)
7/12-13: Dan Schmidt (Comedy Factory)
7/12-13: Brad Semotiuk (Yuk Yuk’s)
7/14: Bret Kreischer, Whitney Cummings, Steph Tolev (Kinsmen Park)
7/19-20: Sam Norton (Yuk Yuk’s)
7/26-27: Sean Lecomber (Yuk Yuk’s)
9/14: Jessi Cruikshank (Myer Horowitz)
9/26: Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias (Rogers)
10/17: This Is That (Festival Place)
10/19: Sebastian Maniscalco (Rogers)
10/25: Gary Gulman (Myer Horwitz)
11/19: Maxim Galkin (River Cree)
EXHIBITS
7/13-14: Monster Jam (Rogers)
Thru 7/28: Angkor: The Lost Empire of Cambodia (RAM)
8/17: Joe Cardinal, Emiline Roan: Land & Plant Wisdom Medicine (Mossy Trails)
Thru 9/9: Dinosaurs: The Exhibition (TWOSE)
10/2-5: Canadian Finals Rodeo (Rogers)
11/6-9: Farmfair International (Expo Centre)
FESTIVALS
Thru 6/15: Now Hear This Festival (City Hall, Muttart Hall, Mile Zero)
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6/19-23: Sled Island (Calgary)
6/19-23: Summer Solstice Music Festival (Yardbird, Trinity Lutheran)
6/20: Local Heroes: Indigenous History Month Short Film Fest (Aviary)
6/20-23: Alberta Circus Arts Festival (La Cité)
6/20-23: Summer Solstice Festival (Trinity Lutheran)
6/21-22: Beaumont Music Festival: Headstones, Beaches (Four Seasons Park)
6/21-23: North Country Fair (The Land near Driftpile)
6/22: BOMFEST (Fanpark)
6/25-30: Edmonton International Jazz Fest (various)
6/27-7/1: The Works Art & Design Festival (various)
6/29: Peace & Unity Festival (Westridge Wolf Willow Community Centre)
6/29-30: River Valley Songwriters Festival (Little Brick)
7/3-7: Grindstone Comedy Festival (various)
7/5-14: Edmonton International Street Performers Festival (Churchill Square)
7/12-14: Great Outdoor Comedy Festival: Shane Gillis, Kevin Hart (Kinsmen Park)
7/12-14: Whyte Avenue Art Walk (Whyte)
7/15-28: The Magpie Collective: A Dance Festival (MZD)
7/18-28: Taste of Edmonton (Churchill Square)
7/19-28: KDays (Edmonton Exhibition Grounds)
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7/19-20,26-27: Jubefest (Jube)
7/20-21: Edmonton Reggae Festival: Destra (Victoria Park)
8/1-4: Big Valley Jamboree: Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson, Keith Urban (Camrose)
8/2-4: Blues on Whyte’s 40th Anniversary Bash (Commercial)
8/3-5: Edmonton Heritage Festival (Borden Park)
8/8-11: Edmonton Folk Music Festival: Robert Plant/Alison Krauss, Rhiannon Giddens (Gallagher Park)
8/9-11: Cariwest (Churchill Square)
8/10-11: Punk in Drublic Craft Beer and Music Festival w/ NOFX (Ice District)
8/15-25: Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival (Old Strathcona)
8/16-18: Edmonton Blues Festival: Kenny Blues Boss Wayne, Matt Anderson (Northlands)
8/17: 6th Edmonton Noise Fest (Aviary)
8/17-18: Alberta International Airshow (Villeneuve Airport)
8/17-24: Pride Festival (various, Churchill)
9/6-8: Purple City Music Fest (various)
9/13-14: Dead Ends Live (Chateau Lacombe)
9/13-15: Kaleido Family Arts Festival (Alberta Avenue)
9/20-22: Edmonton Comic & Entertainment Expo (Expo Centre)
9/26-10/5: Edmonton International Film Festival (various)
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10/16-20: NorthwestFEARFest (Metro)
10/20: Edmonton Underground Film Festival (Aviary)
2025
1/29-2/1: Flying Canoë Volant (French Quarter)
2/7-17: Silver Skate Festival (Laurier Park)
FILM
6/13: I Used to Be Funny (Metro)
6/14: Maker of Monsters: The Extraordinary Life of Beau Dick (AGA)
6/20: Local Heroes: Indigenous History Month Short Film Fest (Aviary)
10/31: The Phantom of the Opera w/ Dennis Jame on the Davis Concert Organ (Winspear)
MUSIC
6/13: Lauriers, Eat the Rind, The Cheeks, Morning Coyote (Temple)
6/13: Turismo, Escape Goat, The Usual Suspects (Aviary)
6/13: Our Lady Peace (Fan Park)
6/13-15: ESO’s Marvellous Melodies: Dvořák’s Cello Concerto (Winspear)
6/14: Lloyd Banks, Peter Jackson (Union)
6/14: Edmonton Saxophone Quartet, Roger Admiral (Muttart Hall)
6/14: Asiah Holm EP release, Mikayla Bortscher (Felice)
6/14: Lee Holmes and the B.C. Boys (Blue Chair)
6/14: Home Front, Puffer, Puppet Wipes, Brass Lip (Starlite)
6/14: I’m a Soulman Blues Brothers Tribute (Arden)
6/14: Parkland Music Project (Yardbird)
6/14: Wreckno, S’Moore, Oddbear (Backyard)
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6/15: Arcana Kings, The Give Em Hell Boys (Soho)
6/15: Beaubien, Martin: Dance, Freak & Boogie (Grindstone)
6/15: Johnny Bordeaux, Wayne DeFehr, D.N.E., Paula Kirman, Will Northlich-Redmond (Collins Gallery)
6/15: DJ Noodle Soup + Jia Jia Yong, Mustafa Rafiq, Jacob Audrey Taves, Shawn Pinchbeck (Mile Zero)
6/15: Free Throw, Slow Joy (Buckingham)
6/15: Shania Twain (Fan Park)
6/16: Gratuitous, Mad John, Shaela, The Issue: 2014 Bands as Bands (Aviary)
6/15: Jake Ian (Black Dog)
6/15: The JAH Project; Blind Dog Blues (Blue Chair)
6/15: KRASH, Power of Evil, Plëzher, Conmoción (Temple)
6/15: Moontricks (Backyard)
6/15: Raygun Cowboys, The Anti-Queens (Starlite)
6/15: Skillet, Adelitas Way (Midway)
6/16: Authority Zero, The Corps (Buckingham)
6/16: Dad Religion, Western Death Ballads, The Uninvited Guests (Soho)
6/16: Father’s Day: Doug Hoyer, Aaron Parker, Stacy Lloyd Brown (Aviary)
6/16: Terry McDade (Blue Chair)
6/16: Musical Mornings (Winspear)
6/17: A Night of Cris Derksen Works with Strings (Maclab Centre)
6/17: Pop Up Choir: African Songs (Churchill Square)
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6/18: Ellen Doty album release (CKUA)
6/18: Eliza Niemi, Lovely, Kyla Marlena, M. Novotny (Aviary)
6/18: Jacob Tanner: Tuesday Jam (Yardbird)
6/19: Edmonton Chamber Music Society: An Evening of Music for Strings (Yardbird)
6/19: Still Depths, BOOSH, The Canadian Dispatch, Bad Ham (Aviary)
6/20: Blackjack Billy (Cook County)
6/20: Warren G, DJ Green Lantern (Midway)
6/20: Lonnie Glass: Big Train (Blue Chair)
6/20: Ellie Heath album release, Waffelhouse, DJ Kena Leon (Roxy)
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6/20: Snoop Dogg (Rogers)
6/21: Clint Black (Winspear)
6/21: Don Berner Big Band Meets the Rhythm Gunners Big Band (Triffo)
6/21: Celeigh Cardinal, Jay Gilday (Varscona)
6/21: Dead City Casuals, Misfortune Tellers, King Theory (Buckingham)
6/21: DTG/Lil Windex, Kryple (Starlite)
6/21: Andrea Graham Quartet (Blue Chair)
6/22: Jamie Philp; Denali: Summit for Sarotonin (Blue Chair)
6/22: Joe on the Conga, Jeff Hendricks, Daniel Sax (Backyard)
6/22: RE-FORM, Mom Weed, FOOLS (Aviary)
6/22: Teacup Romance, Deon Gabriel, Travulta, Chilio, Tepid Spring (Starlite)
6/22: Joseph Tennant (Black Dog)
6/22: Armin Van Buuren, Jauz, Imanbek, Luttrell, David Stone (Fanpark)
6/23: Lyra Brown (Aviary)
6/23: Abra Cadabra (Winspear)
6/23: Ethereal Tomb, Boiling Lye, Bayonet Dismemberment, Skakepit (Temple)
6/23: Jim Findlay (Blue Chair)
6/24: Pop Up Choir: Pop Icons (Churchill Square)
6/25: Louise Dawson: Tuesday Jam (Yardbird)
6/25: Carla Jayne EP release, Eric Yaremko (Aviary)
6/25: Ulysses Ownes Jr’s Generation Y, Up and Over Trio (Triffo)
6/26: Brenan Brothers (Yardbird)
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6/26: Anthony Fung (Yardbird)
6/26: Corey Henry, New Standards House Trio (Starlite)
6/26: Mouraine (Temple)
6/26: Northlane, Invent Animate, Thornhill, Windwalker (Union)
6/26: P.J. Perry Quartet (Blue Chair)
6/26: Sound Epoch, Pelican Hat, Old Mound, Mikey D Sound Machine (Aviary)
6/27: Bellbird (Yardbird)
6/27: Call Off the Gods, The Carpollers, Null/Void, Hangxiety (Temple)
6/27: Andrew MacDonald-Smith Ballet Edmonton fundraiser (Glenora)
6/27: Cam Neufeld presents The Family Band (Blue Chair)
6/27: Sean Croal Quartet (Yardbird)
6/27: Veronica Swift (Triffo)
6/27: 2 Shadows, Accidents Happen, Repugnant Scum, Powerlöad (Dive Bar)
6/28: Lakecia Benjamin, Montuno West ft. Toto Barriel (Starlite)
6/28: Cage the Elephant (Rogers)
6/28: Exsang, Dead Shit Earth, Vibes, Feeding, Drip Feeder (Aviary)
6/28: Jacob Do Quartet (Yardbird)
6/28: Inquisitive (Union)
6/28: Lorraine Klaasen (Yardbird)
6/28: K-Riz (Temple)
6/28: Ben Sures (Blue Chair)
6/29: Avataar, Moneka Arabic Jazz (Starlite)
6/29: Gordon Lightfoot Tribute (Blue Chair)
6/29: Mikayla Bortscher (Black Dog)
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6/29: Pasquale Grasso (Yardbird)
6/29: Hollow Point, Stagnant, No Skies, Sleeve of Skin (Aviary)
6/29: The Melisizwe Brothers (Winspear)
6/29: Running Running (Temple)
6/30: Will Cramer (Blue Chair)
6/30: Edmonton Jazz Orchestra and Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (Winspear)
6/30: Eyes Front EP release, Admission of Guilt, False Body, Hate Mission (Temple)
6/30: Norbert Káel Jazzical Trio (Yardbird)
7/1: Dayglow Abortions, Dr. Know, Bogue Brigade, Fully Crazed (Starlite)
7/3: Sonic Temple, Turismo, Escape Goat, The Usual Suspects (Aviary)
7/4: Sonia Deleo, The New Dads, Travis Matthews (Aviary)
7/4: Truent, Protosequence, Plaguebringer, Rising Sun (Temple)
7/5: Pearly Moon, Baby Jey, Pike (Aviary)
7/6: Belfountain (Blue Chair)
7/6: Eternal Youth (Black Dog)
7/6: Gowan (River Cree)
7/6: The Lazys, Roll the Bones (Starlite)
7/6: The Michael Jackson HIStory Show (Arden)
7/6: Monatik (Union)
7/6: Wheeler Walker Jr. (Midway)
7/8: Shakey Graves (Midway)
7/9: PartyNextDoor (Midway)
7/10: The Grogans, Carolyn Mark (Soho)
7/10-11: Orville Peck (Midway)
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7/11: Tyler James Johnson, Francesco Rizzuto, The Paperback Violets (Aviary)
7/12: Chico & Qatoshi, Skylerr, 100lystia (Union)
7/12: Darkened Skies EP release, Heir to Ash, Valley of Despair (Aviary)
7/12: Wendy MacNeil (Blue Chair)
7/12: Joey Stylez (River Cree)
7/12: Cameron Whitcomb (Starlite)
7/13: The Lucky Ones (Black Dog)
7/15: Arkaik, Cyborg Octopus, Dessiderium (Temple)
7/16: Pallbearer, The Keening, Inter Arma (Starlite)
7/17: Fallujah, Persefone, Dawn of Ouroboros (Starlite)
7/17: Rachel Gleddie album release, Esther Forseth (Aviary)
7/18: Teenage Bottle Rocket, Garrett Dale!, Lushclot (Starlite)
7/18-27: Court Jester Dueling Pianos (Churchill Square)
7/19: Celeigh Cardinal (Jube)
7/19: Liminal Shroud, Kings Rot, Repugnant Scum (Temple)
7/19: Amanda Marshall (KDays)
7/20: Blackjack Billy (Cook County)
7/20: Fall of Earth, Thirteen Goats, Daniel Martin, The Infamous (Starlite)
7/20: Martin Kerr (Jube)
7/20: Northern Recovery (Blue Chair)
7/20: Erin Ross (Black Dog)
7/20: Theory of a Deadman (KDays)
7/21: K’Naan (KDays)
7/22: Metric (KDays)
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7/23: Down with Webster (KDays)
7/24: Simple Plan (KDays)
7/25: Death from Above 1979 (KDays)
7/25: Mister Bird, Boycriedmel, Jed & the Valentine (Aviary)
7/26: BrassTactics (Jube)
7/26: Classified (Churchill Square)
7/26: Ja Rule (KDays)
7/27: AV & the Inner City (Jube)
7/27: Glass Tiger (Churchill Square)
7/27: High Valley (KDays)
7/27: Lori Reid (Black Dog)
7/28: guardin (Starlite)
7/28: Ludacris (KDays)
7/31: The Cream y Hendrix Experience (Aviary)
8/1: Billy Idol (Rogers)
8/2: Angelmaker, I Declare War, Art of Attrition (Starlite)
8/2: Mephitic Corpse, Autolysis, Begrime Exemious, Power of Evil, Tsalal (Temple)
8/3: Pearly Moon, Blume (Black Dog)
8/8: Black Pumas, Ben Howard, Orchestra Gold (Folk Fest)
8/8: T.I. (River Cree)
8/9: La Misa Negra, Blue Rodeo (Folk Fest)
8/10: Fantastic Negrito, Angie McMahon, Rhiannon Giddens, Dawes, Wild Rivers (Folk Fest)
8/11: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Danielle Ponder, Mokoomba, Sultans of String (Folk Fest)
8/15: Karan Aujla (Rogers)
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8/15: Nazareth (River Cree)
8/16: Steve Earle (River Cree)
8/17: Smokey Johnson (Mossy Trails)
8/17: Tony Kaye Trio (Black Dog)
8/17: Flatland Cavalry (Midway)
8/18: Sons of the East (Starlite)
8/21: Jack Botts (Starlite)
8/21,23: ESO’s Symphony Under the Sky: Mozart, Haydn & Rossini (Snow Valley)
8/22,24: ESO’s Symphony Under the Sky: Love & Romance (Snow Valley)
8/23,25: Metallica (Commonwealth)
8/24: Bastardane, Ottto — sons of Metallica members (Starlite)
8/24: Hozier (Rogers)
8/24: Tsunami Brothers (Black Dog)
8/27: K.Flay (Midway)
8/31: KALEO (EEC)
8/31: OPM ’90s Rewind (Union)
8/31: P!nk, Sheryl Crow, The Script, KidCitUp (Commonwealth)
9/2: Kings of Leon (Rogers)
9/6: Abbamania, Night Fever (River Cree)
9/6: Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls (Midway)
9/7: Cory Danyluk (Black Dog)
9/7: Marcus King (Midway)
9/8: Relive the Music ’50s & ’60s Show (Arden)
9/12: Extreme, Living Colour (River Cree)
9/12: Switchfoot (Midway)
9/13: The Almoost Brothers, The McGowan Family Band (Chateau Lacombe)
9/13: Bryan Martin (Midway)
9/14: Canadian Country Music Awards: Thomas Rhett, Mackenzie Porter (Rogers)
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9/14: Furthermore, The Almighty Turtlenecks (Chateau Lacombe)
9/14: Tiff Hall (Black Dog)
9/16: Avril Lavigne (Rogers)
9/18: A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie (Rogers)
9/18: Tokyo Police Club: The Final Tour (Midway)
9/19: Field Guide (Aviary)
9/20: Explosions in the Sky (Midway)
9/20: The Paperboys (St. Basil’s)
9/20: Andy Schauf (Myer Horowitz)
9/21: T. Buckley, John Wort Hannam: The Woodshed (Parkview)
9/21: Sam Hunt (Rogers)
9/21: Testament, Kreator (River Cree)
9/21-22: Social Distortion, The Bell Rays (Midway)
9/27: The Alan Jackson Experience (Cook County)
9/28: The Dice Cubes (Black Dog)
9/29: Childish Gambino, Willow (Rogers)
10/4: Lynne Hanson (St. Basil’s)
10/4: Michael Marcagi (Midway)
10/4: Laura Ramoso (Horowitz)
10/4-5: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 (Winspear)
10/4: Beau Wheeler, Ken Stead (Parkview)
10/5: The Fab Four (River Cree)
10/5: Ruby Waters (Midway)
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10/10: Nick Carter (River Cree)
10/11: NEEDTOBREATHE (Jube)
10/11,12: Let’s Misbehave: The Songs of Cole Porter (Winspear)
10/13: Carnifex, Cryptopsy, Mental Cruelty, Heavy/Hitter, Organectomy (Starlite)
10/17: ESO New Music: Ecstasy — Featuring Sara Slean (Winspear)
10/18: Jordan Davis (Rogers)
10/18: Alexis Norman, The Mbira Renaissance Band (St. Basil’s)
10/19: Misery Signals farewell tour (Union)
10/19: Rum Ragged (Parkview)
10/20: Evanescence, Halestorm (Rogers)
10/20: Forest Blakk (Starlite)
10/24: Adam Baldwin, Mariel Buckley (Starlite)
10/25: ESO Pairings: Brahms & Bourbon (Winspear)
10/26: Tchaikovsky, Brahms & Violin (Winspear)
10/26: Valley (Midway)
10/27: Tchaikovsky, Schumann & Cello (Winspear)
10/30: JJ Wilde (Starlite)
10/31: The Phantom of the Opera w/ Dennis Jame on the Davis Concert Organ (Winspear)
11/1: ABBA Revisited (Arden)
11/1: Arkells, Poolside (Rogers)
11/1: Aleksi Campagne (St. Basil’s)
11/1: The Dead South (EEC)
11/2: Grace Petrie (Parkview)
11/6: Corb Lund Acoustic Trio (Arden)
11/7: The Jim Cuddy Band (Winspear)
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11/8: Fauré’s Requiem w/ Richard Eaton Singers (Winspear)
11/15: Good Lovelies (St. Basil’s)
11/15-16: She’s Got Soul: Legendary R&B Hits w/ Capathia Jenkins (Winspear)
11/16: Sarah McLachlan (Rogers)
11/16: Tenille Townes (Jube)
11/17: Something’s Fishy with the ESO (Winspear)
11/17-18: Zach Bryan (Rogers)
11/18: Garneau String Quartet: Two ‘Wolfs’ Among Friends (Muttart Hall)
11/19: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (Rogers)
11/22-23: Lightly Classical: Affairs of the Heart feat. Juliette Kang (Winspear)
11/23: 3 Inches of Blood (Midway)
11/28: ESO Classics: The Nutcracker & Mozart (Winspear)
11/29: Heart, BTO feat. Randy Bachman (Rogers)
11/30: Scott Nolan, Joe Nolan, Scott Cook with Pamela Mae: Ramblers Choir (Parkview)
12/6: Tribute to Bill Bourne (St. Basil’s)
12/7: Marianas Trench (Midway)
12/13-14: Handel’s Messiah (Winspear)
12/20-23: A Very Merry Pops: Celebrating Family Traditions (Winspear)
2025
1/17: Sum 41 Final World Tour (Rogers)
1/18-19: ESO Classics: Mozart & Sibelius (Winspear)
1/24-25: Saddles of the Silver Screen: The Great Westerns (Winspear)
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1/25: Big Little Lions (Parkview)
1/26: Presto, Mambo! with Platypus Theatre (Winspear)
1/31: ESO New Music: Dinuk Wijeratne’s Fantasy (Winspear)
1/31: Major Love (St. Basil’s)
2/6: Schubert Strauss & Saint-Saëns (Winspear)
2/7: ESO Pairings: Piano & Prosecco (Winspear)
2/8: Catherine McLellan (Parkview)
2/14: Old Man Luedecke (St. Basil’s)
2/21-22: Mozart, Mendelsson & Bruch (Winspear)
2/22: Celtara (Parkview)
2/22: Mother Mother, Cavetown, Cannons (Rogers)
2/28-3/1: High Drama: Epic Choral Hits from Broadway & Hollywood (Winspear)
3/7: Sue Foley (St. Basil’s)
3/8: Women of Folkways (Parkview)
3/14: ESO Pairings: Trumpet & Tequila (Winspear)
3/15: ESO Classics: Brahms & Trumpet (Winspear)
3/21: Cassie and Maggie (St. Basil’s)
3/21: ESO New Music: Celebration: The Music of John Estacio (Winspear)
3/22: Growing Roots: Folk Music from Around the World (Winspear)
3/22: Martin Kerr (Parkview)
3/27,29-30: Ravel & Gershwin: Classical Meets Jazz (Winspear)
4/4: Ndidi Onukwulu (St. Basil’s)
4/4-5: Pops on Parade (Winspear)
4/5: Còig (Parkview)
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4/11: Rum Ragged (St. Basil’s)
4/11-12: ESO Classics: Organ & Orchestra (Winspear)
4/21: Jesse Cook (Jube)
4/24: ESO Classics: Beethoven, Liszt & Piano (Winspear)
4/26-27: ESO Classics: Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony (WInspear)
5/2: ESO Classics: The Complete Beethoven Concertos: Part 1 (Winspear)
5/3: ESO Classics: The Complete Beethoven Concertos: Part 2 (Winspear)
5/3: Martyn Joseph (Parkview)
5/8: ESO Classics: Vivaldi, Rodrigo & The Moldau (Winspear)
5/9: ESO Pairings: Guitar & Gin (Winspear)
5/25: Symphonic Buzz: The History of Music (Winspear)
5/30-6/1: ESO Classics: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (Winspear)
6/6-7: Totally 80s: Rad Retro Favourites (Winspear)
THEATRE/DANCE
6/14: The Comic Strippers (Myer Horowitz)
6/15: Best Baddies: A Musical Villain Revue (Grindstone)
6/16: Script Salon: Blaine Newton’s Conversations with Cows (Holy Trinity)
Thru 6/16: The Ocultist’s Holiday by Stewart Lemoine (Varscona)
Thru 6/16: Grease (Mayfield)
6/25-7/28: On Golden Pond (Mayfield)
7/6-8/4: The Play That Goes Wrong (Shoctor)
7/10-20: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Walterdale)
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7/13: Sekou: The Chosen One (Arden)
8/29-30: Theresa Caputo: The Long Island Medium (River Cree)
9/6: WWE Friday Night SmackDown (Rogers)
9/15-25: Accidental Beach: A Previously Improvised Musical (Luther Centre)
9/21-10/13: A Streetcar Named Desire (Shoctor)
9/27-29: Come from Away (Jube)
10/4-5: Shumka’s UKRAINKA: The Four Faces of Lesya Ukrainka (Jube)
10/17-27: Bear Grease (Maclab)
10/18-19: Ballet Edmonton: In the Wake (Triffo)
10/18-11/3: Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show (Orange Hub)
10/30-11/3: Glory (Tim Ryan)
11/2-3: The Price Is Right (River Cree)
11/2-24: The Ballad of Johnny and June (Shoctor)
11/7: Two Battles of Francis Pegahmagabow (Varscona)
11/19-24: The Book of Mormon (Jube)
11/23-12/24: A Christmas Carol (Maclab)
11/27-12/3: Heathers, The Musical (Triffo)
12/13-29: Die Harsh: A Christmas Musical (Orange Hub)
2025
1/11-2/2: Goblin: Macbeth (Rice)
1/14-19: Beetlejuice (Jube)
1/23-2/9: Bea (Varscona)
2/1-3/2: Disney’s Frozen The Broadway Musical (Shoctor)
2/12-17: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Tim Ryan)
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2/14-15: Ballet Edmonton: Escape (Triffo)
2/22-3/23: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The ’70s Musical (Maclab)
3/11-16: Tina (Jube)
3/20-4/7: After Mourning — Before van Gogh (Varscona)
3/22-4/13: Heist (Shoctor)
3/26-30: The Prom (Triffo)
5/1-18: Where You Are (Varscona)
5/2-3: Ballet Edmonton: Precipice (Triffo)
5/3-25: The Twilight Zone (Shoctor)
5/9-18: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Orange Hub)
6/20-22: Riverdance 30 — The New Generation (Jube)
7/9-27: Disney’s The Lion King (Jube)
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