The Kaleido Family Arts Fest is a true celebration of the Alberta Avenue community and a summer festival to close off the best of Edmonton summer festivals. It’s on now until Sunday.
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PARK(ing) Day Coming Sept 16
PARK(ing) Day returns to Edmonton Sept 16, 2016 on Angel Way in The Quarters downtown. Edmonton will join cities around the world in making use of parking spaces in a different way. The event started in San Francisco and has taken life of its own. Last year, the CityLab Edmonton project had a Star Trek library, some public outreach stalls, and countless other installations. A group with the historic Chinatown group hosted tours of the…
Read MoreSheep Parade Through Downtown
Update: The 2016 Sheep Leaving Parade is Labour Day 2016. Family events begin at 10am, with the parade at 11am. The City of Fort Saskatchewan has an annual Sheep Parade to say goodbye to the sheep for the winter. The sheep were brought into the city in 1992 to cut the grass where it was difficult to bring mowing equipment along the river bank. Today it is its major tourist attraction of the year. Watch…
Read MoreCity Brings Disney to Town, 11,000 Attend
Update: The ATB Symphony In the City returns Sept 2-3, 2016 to Churchill Square! The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra has stepped up with their free public performances in the last couple years. In 2014, the first symphony in the city took place in Churchill Square and ended in Kinsmen Park playing the 1812 Overture to celebrate the new Light the Bridge project. The 2015 ATB Symphony In The City in Churchill Square featured music from both the…
Read MoreStir-Fry Ice Cream is Really Cool
It started in Thailand, then moved to Hong Kong. Recently it has come to North America with New York and Las Vegas lining up for this latest trend in frozen desserts. Move over cold stone creameries and self-serve yogurts, stir-fry ice cream is here. Stir-fry ice cream is made by pouring cream onto a teppan grill chilled down to as low as -35°C. Mix-ins are stir-fried on the chilling surface, and when the ice cream…
Read MoreThis City Plants Bikes for Clean Air
An initiative in Edmonton is sure to make you pedal for sustainability. It’s planting bikes for clean air. The city of Edmonton proclaimed June 3rd as Clean Air Day. To promote the event, a moss bus stop and several moss bikes were placed throughout Downtown Edmonton. The city aimed to encourage motorists to be idle free, use alternative modes of transportation, plant a tree, learn how to improve indoor and outdoor air quality, as well…
Read MoreViva Italia, Viva Edmonton! Returns to Little Italy | #viveyeg
Viva Italia, Viva Edmonton! enters its second year under the Viva Italia District Association on August 30th, 2015. Starting out as a cross-cultural festival with the former Chinatown Little Italy Association, Little Italy isn’t so little anymore. Viva Italia, Viva Edmonton! will technically celebrate its 7th year in a community spanning across 23 businesses on 95 Street near Giovanni Caboto Park. The event this year, presented by Associazione Giovani Italiani di Edmonton, is a 9 hour celebration…
Read MoreAlberta Open Farm Days: Barr Winery Tour
Edmonton does indeed have a vineyard and winery just off the Henday on the South East. Here’s a tour of the Barr Estate during the Alberta Open Farm Days. If you really like to see the full video, here’s a Yegventures Extra of the full tour:
Read MoreHeritage Festival 30th Year Footage
The Edmonton Servus Heritage Festival celebrated 40 years in 2015 and it made attendance records. Yegventures has found archive footage from ten years ago. Here’s a digital snapshot of the 2005 Heritage Festival celebrating its 30th year. If you’d like to see it in HD, there’s also a 2012 recap below. Stay tuned for a 2015 recap. 2005 Recap In the video, you’ll see a Tae Kwon Do demonstration, Jamaican steel drums, Indian dancing, Ukrainian folk…
Read MoreSand On Whyte Calls You Ogre
I’m here across the street from the Strathcona Hotel for the 3rd annual Sand on Whyte festival. This year it’s bigger than ever. At this year’s event there are international sand sculpture artists from Netherlands and Vancouver, as well as local sculptors. Right at the entrance you’ll find what everyone first tries to build with sand – a sand castle. This one just happens to be an epic sand castle by the Vancouver carver….
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