Three to See Edmonton Events: Cariwest, Balestra and save the former provincial museum petition

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Cariwest: Canada’s largest Caribbean arts festival launches its 40^th anniversary celebrations starting with a Friday night extravaganza!

The electrifying night of music features DJ Ruffwine and ShermanHype, plenty of amazing cuisine and costumes, and a special performance by Toronto ensemble Kobo Town at 7:30 p.m., bursting with calypso melodies, ska-driven horn hooks, heavy reggae and soca bass grooves.

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And at 8 p.m.: the must-witness costume competition.

Saturday, it’s the city’s biggest summer parade starting at noon at the legislature grounds with concerts by Preedy and Patrice Roberts that night.

The party persists Sunday, check cariwest.ca for full details, including all the food trucks.

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Details: 11 a.m. – 11 p.m. Friday/Saturday, 11 a.m. – 9 p.m. Sunday at Churchill Square, no charge.

Balestra (2024): In Canadian director Nicole Dorsey’s debut thriller, Joanna is desperate to be the world’s best fencer, experimenting with technology allowing her to train with lucid dreaming.

Here — uh, oh — she begins a tumultuous affair with her instructor that threatens her real world marriage and her pathway to Olympic gold.

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Details: 6:30 p.m. Friday, 9:15 p.m. Tuesday at Metro Cinema (8712 109 St.), $14, 145 mins.

Save the old provincial museum: It would certainly take imagination to keep the former provincial museum building safe from the provincial government’s recently-announced wrecking ball.

But its distinct, fossil-filled Tyndall limestone walls, its re-creation of the writing-on-stone petroglyphs, its amazing interior layout full of marble and brass, plus one of Edmonton’s most gorgeous theatre spaces are all worth an attempt.

Economic costs are large, but so is the historical cost involved in simply erasing one of the province’s most beautiful historic buildings to make — do I have this right? — a park, where there already is a beautiful park, adjacent to the largest urban stretch of parkland in North America.

I could go on, but if you’d like to sign the petition, please join the wave of discontent over this brutal decision.

Details: online at change.org, just type in “Alberta museum” when you land there.

fgriwkowsky@postmedia.com

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