🔥Here are the BEST Things to do in Edmonton this Week: October 16-22, 2024
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Just Announced! HOLIDAY CANDLES & COCKTAILS! Get your wax on during this holiday night out where you'll craft three candles and design gorgeous, hand-drawn labels, while you sip on a custom made cocktail. Tickets include all supplies, cocktail and snack. Yum!
Tickets are on sale now for the lively, black light glow yoga sesh at Fu’s Repair Shop. We're getting our glow on for a fun, yoga class with an upbeat playlist, glow in the dark bracelets and more. Don't worry, we'll give you a few minutes before class to get your 'glow on'.
Real Housewives BRUNCH! Catch the REAL HOUSEWIVES Brunch Party! Hosted by the face of the franchise, Teresa Giudice on November 3, 2024.
Get the gang together and grab your tickets because Teresa is flying all the way from New Jersey to sip, eat, and party with YOU!
Speaking of pop-ups - we’ve got TWENTY-FIVE Food and Drink Pop-up events in Edmonton this month for you - right here.
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Celebrate Halloween with a themed cocktail class at Fu’s Repair Shop. You’ll work together led by the experts at Fu’s to create three cocktails, sip, snack and feel that spooky vibe. Tickets are $110/2 people - you’ll work in pairs for this one. So, call up your spookiest pal and get your cocktail shaking on!
Delve into the dark beauty of reimagined folklore with Grimm at Alberta Ballet, October 25 and 26, 2024. GRIMM intensifies the dark side of our childhood favourites as seven Brothers Grimm tales intertwine to one spine-chilling ballet.
Nightmare on Jasper Ave.at the Pendennis Building. Multiple floors, multiple DJs and tickets starting at just $15 for this Halloween-night party at the iconic Pendennis Building.
Find SEVEN haunts, spooky beats and eats, surprises and scares at DARK at Fort Edmonton Park this Halloween. Get your tickets for Dark at Fort Edmonton Park and experience TWO brand new haunts for 2024. If you’re brave enough, you can even opt for a spooky weekend staycation at the iconic Selkirk Hotel.
CAMP WARWA HAUNTED WOODS! Delve into Camp Warwa’s dark past. Access the ghostly digitized archives and chilling found footage. Walk through the very woods where they vanished and uncover the sinister secrets buried within. Are you brave enough to face the terror and solve the mystery of the lost?
Here are the Best Things to do in Edmonton this Week
Wednesday October 16, 2024
Take a workshop to create your own oil painting. Create your first 8x8" oil masterpiece on canvas at a 4-hour First Oil Painting with Ease workshop. You’ll take your painting (and your new skills) home with you at the end of the workshop.
Northwear Fear Fest Scary Movie Festival. FIVE blood-curdling days & nights of nights of terrifying genre films from around the world. A little bit of old school, a little bit of new school, and a casket-full of exclusive Edmonton premieres of 2023’s most BUZZ-worthy new genre films!
Get a brand new take on the Story Slam, with the Edmonton Story Slam: Non Fiction Edition for Litfest. Learn something new at this non-fiction and narrative story slam!
Thursday October 17, 2024
The Spooky Streetcar Cocktail Experience. Enjoy a cocktail class with a view. Learn how to make three cocktails, and sample each one, from a local expert. Go home with recipes and a pop-up experience to remember. Please arrive fifteen minutes early, to allow for check-in.
Drop in Spooky Sketching at Royal Alberta Museum. This month to celebrate the season, the Royal Alberta Museum is bringing out spooky critters! The featured creatures are a conspiracy of ravens and a two-headed cow! Other specimens will also be available for sketching.
Take a Ramen Masterclass. Join MasterChef Canada alumna Mai Nguyen for her exclusive and popular Chicken Ramen masterclass and you'll learn to make Ramen from scratch. It’s cold out there, and we’re here for this delicious way to warm up at home!
Friday October 18, 2024
STRANGER SINGS! THE PARODY MUSICAL is a hilarious ‘upside down’ take on the hit Netflix series – and all its campy 1980s glory. Join Mike, Eleven, Lucas, Dustin, and the whole Hawkins gang for a night of adventure, thrills, pubescent angst, heavy synth, poor parenting, convoluted love triangles, cheap effects, dancing monsters, and maybe, just maybe… justice for everyone’s favorite missing ginger, Barb Holland. Friday Night is Cosplay Night! Come dressed on theme for your chance to win $500 in prizes!
Charcuterie and Wine Tasting. You'll enjoy a welcome glass of Emmolo sparkling and four other tastings of Caymus wines, along with a tasting of Meuwly's gourmet charcuterie and cheeses.
See Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Picture Show at The Orange Hub. Complete with sass from the audience, cascading toilet paper, and an array of other audience participation props, The Rocky Horror Show is great fun for adults and a perfect way to celebrate the Halloween season!
Saturday October 19, 2024
The Mill CBK is Hosting a Murder Mystery and 3-Course Dinner. Try something new this weekend! Grab your pals for the immersive murder mystery and tickets are only $99! Tickets include a three-course dinner, show, and a welcome cocktail. Tag your pals, get familiar with your character and add a murder mystery to the best things you’ve done in Edmonton this month.
GEDfest! Celebrate Downie’s legacy of national unity, using the music that brought Canadians together to now raise funds for cancer research. There’s seven years of history in this epic concert at Midway Music Hall.
The Ha-Ha-Haunting of Strathcona is a conjuring of real ghost stories from Strathcona's history. These true tales of horror will inspire comedic larger than life tales performed in the style of all your favourite spooky season stories. This exciting new production is a collaboration between the comedians of Rapid Fire Theatre and the writer of Edmonton's Dead Centre of Town.
The 11 O’clock Number is Grindstone’s award winning improvised musical comedy! Based on suggestions from the audience the cast improvises a brand new musical comedy on the spot, complete with twisting plots and showstopping numbers. Laughs are guaranteed. You have to see it to believe it.
Find 20+ of the best things to do in Edmonton this weekend. Read the full Edmonton weekend guide, here.
Sunday October 20, 2024
Get scared at Deadmonton! Explore the terrifying haunts at Deadmonton. 2024 marks Deadmontons’ 11th season of scaring Edmontonians - and there’s brand new haunts to scare your pants off this year.
Pull out your black eyeliner because Grammy award-winning gothic rock band, Evanescence, is performing at Rogers Place this October! Sing along to top-chart songs like “Bring Me to Life,” “Going Under” and “My Immortal,” and listen to two decades of moody melodies and world-renown rock hits.
Take a ‘Low to No Booze’ Mocktail Workshop. Enjoy a welcome drink upon arrival, followed by a guided sampling class that will take you through three NA product categories: beers, wines and zero proof spirits*.
Monday October 21, 2024
Start your week off right with Pizza Mondays at Odd Company Brewing in Ritchie. This is a great way to kick off the week - get a pizza and pitcher for only $40 at the brewery.
Tuesday October 22, 2024
Muttart Sound Vibes Flow & Bloom. Join Sound Vibes for their Flow & Bloom yoga class in the 'Frogs & Friends' Feature Pyramid. This 60 minute all levels flow style practice will ground you into your body and mind as we shift seasons into Spring. The class is accompanied with a live soundscape by Cody. He holds space for us by weaving together beautiful rhythms and sounds for us to move and breathe to.
Spooky Tuesday Scary Movies on the big screen at Capitol Theatre at Fort Edmonton Park. Every Tuesday, catch a scary movie on the big screen at Fort Edmonton Park through the month of October.
Dine with the Dead at Transit Smokehouse. Join the fun for some spooky fun at the Transit Smokehouse & BBQ. Take a guided tour of the haunted hotel and then cap the evening of with dinner.