Here are the BEST Things to do in Edmonton this Week: October 24-29, 2024 by Edmonton.events
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Get your hands on tickets for the Candle Making & Cocktails: Holiday Edition workshop. This November 15 workshop will have you creating three custom holiday-blend candles, sipping on a cocktail and getting cozy with your pals.
Calling all REAL HOUSEWIVES FANS! There’s a Real housewives BRUNCH PARTY Popping up in Edmonton on November 3, 2024 and it’s hosted by the one and only Teresa Giudice from #RHONJ! Tag your pals and get your tickets! Limited tickets remain and are on sale now.
There are TWO Halloween cookie decorating and cocktails popping up this week in Edmonton at Central Social Hall Ellerslie & Downtown. Tickets include a cocktail + cookie decorating kit for two.
Filistix is hosting a Burger Pop up and it’s your chance to try the new burgers on the menu. $25 includes a burger, hand cut fries, and a choice of mango lime fili-tea or pineapple blast (summer food truck refreshments!)
Garneau Block and Cavern are teaming up for a Halloween edition of cheese school, on October 27, 2024 . Five natural wines, five cheeses, expert tips and your favourite candy - tickets are available now!
Stay tuned for Kin, a brand new cocktail bar opening in Edmonton.
YIKES Film Festival is a two day celebration of everything horror, sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, mystery, experimental, b-movie, and more. The festival is popping up in Edmonton, November 7 and 8, 2024.
Trending and Featured Halloween Events
PYRO Wood-Fired Kitchen & Bar Pyro is hosting … A Taste of Horror! A two-night only frightening feature menu inspired by your favourite horror films. This chef-curated four-course dinner and cocktail pairing is inspired by horror cinema! Available ONLY on October 26 & 27, 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.
A Nightmare on Jasper at the Pendennis Building. Three floors, multiple DJs, three vibes and the most iconic Halloween-night views of Edmonton. Tickets are on sale now for this unique Halloween party experience in Edmonton.
Here are the Best Things to do in Edmonton this Week
Thursday October 24, 2024
Decorate Halloween cookies and sip on cocktails at the Halloween Cookie Decorating and Cocktails at Central Social Hall, Ellerslie.
Try something new at an Oil Painting Workshop. Create your first 8x8" oil masterpiece on canvas at a 4-hour First Oil Painting with Ease workshop and take it home!
Stretcher’s Birthday Cabaret at Dolly’s Cocktail Bar. Come wine and dine with Stretcher Hymen to celebrate the end of a decade. Hand picked acts by the reigning Alberta’s Next Drag Superstar, it will be a show you won’t want to mission.
Compete in an unlimited hour-long gaming session at Couples Gaming Tournament at The Rec Room. Bring your A-game to The Rec Room and compete with other couples at popular redemption games in the yard. The couple with the most points at the end of the sixty minutes will take home the grand prize - and during that time you've got unlimited credits to stomp the competition.
Drink & Draw at Evolution Wonderlounge. Join Evolution Wonderlounge for a fun evening of live figure drawing of the male form in person from 7-10pm. Sessions cost $15. Bring your own sketching materials(pencils, pens, sketch pad, paper, drawing board). All skill levels, genders and orientations are welcome!
Catch an Immersive play in the basement of the Pendennis Building. Witness Genet's iconic play, The Maids is one of the first productions to take place in the Pendennis building since its recent restoration.
Friday October 25, 2024
Camp Warwa Woods Experience. For a limited time, 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?
Catch GRIMM on Stage by Alberta Ballet. GRIMM intensifies the dark side of our childhood favourites as seven Brothers Grimm tales intertwine to one spine-chilling ballet. These adult interpretations will create an atmosphere filled with thrills and chills at the Jubliee, just in time for Halloween.
Take a Sketch Comedy Workshop at Grindstone. It’s beginner friendly! This workshop is the perfect starting point for anyone interested in sketch comedy. No prior experience necessary!
Pop up Chocolate and Beer Pairing with Irrational Brewing X Delavoye Chocolate. In this workshop, neighbours coming together to present a fun and unique collaborative experience. During this 90-minute event, you will explore chocolate and beer, and ways to best enjoy them together. Concludes with a tour of Irrational Brewing.
Experience a Vegas-style, Friday-night Speakeasy magic show. Step into an intimate parlour setting, meticulously designed for an exclusive audience of 48 people. Prepare to have your mind blown and the time of your life as you see expert magic the way it was always meant to be, up-close and personal.
Catch the Orchestra on stage with Brahms and Bourbon. This ESO Pairing features a curated concert that are short and sweet with no intermission. The series, designed to make classical music accessible and enjoyable for everyone, serves as a great introduction to the orchestra.
Saturday October 26, 2024
Halloween Bass Invasion at Double Dragon ft AHEE. Join Double Dragon for an alien-themed Halloween party featuring the Edmonton debut of the alien beatmaker himself, AHEE. Dress to impress in your best alien-themed attire! Best dressed will win a pair of tickets to a future UBK show of their choice.
PYRO Wood-Fired Kitchen & Bar Pyro is hosting … A Taste of Horror! Book your spot for this immersive meal, inspired by scary favourites. Four acts, an optional cocktail pairing and a must-do Edmonton Halloween pop-up dinner.
Art Gallery of Alberta Refinery Halloween Party. This year, the Art Gallery of Alberta are travelling 100 years in the future to the year 2124! Futuristic art, floating cities, space travel and wild entertainment will set the mood as you explore what the Gallery has to offer in the next century.
Dirty Little Secrets at Rapid Fire Theatre. In Dirty Little Secrets, we read your nasty lil' confessions to craft improv comedy gold. Witness the scandalous, anonymous, hilarious show that lets you bare your darkest secrets and guiltiest sins to a room full of strangers – All at a fraction of the price of therapy.
Learn to Touch Better at Couples Massage Workshop. This three-hour session will teach you techniques to take your next date night in, to the next level. It’s candlelit, intimate and includes a bottle of massage oil to take-home for practice.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Metro. Let’s do the Time Warp again! The all-time weird and wonderful cult favourite returns. Audience participation is encouraged. Dress up, bring props, and sing along! Shadow cast by Edmonton's Low Down Cheap Little Punks.
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Sunday October 27, 2024
PYRO Wood-Fired Kitchen & Bar Pyro is hosting … A Taste of Horror! A two-night only frightening feature menu inspired by your favourite horror films. This chef-curated four-course dinner and cocktail pairing is inspired by horror cinema! Available ONLY on October 26 & 27, 2024. Available 5pm to late, for this must-do Edmonton area Halloween dining experience.
Halloween Cheese School with Garneau Block at Cavern. NO TRICKS, JUST TREATS. Join Garneau Block if you dare where you’ll be exploring 5 Halloween-inspired pairings of natural wine to cheese & Halloween treats. Gabriella from Garneau Block and Cecilia from Cavern will guide you as you learn the practice of pairing, & the context of each component. Rate the pairings to discover your palate's preferences & biases.
Monday October 28, 2024
Kick off the week with $40 pizza and a pitcher of Beer at Odd Company. It’s your chance to get your hands on a delicious pie, beer and start the week with your best buds.
Take a Haunted Trolley Tour over the High Level Bridge. It’s a spooky ghost tour over the high level, and your chance to learn a bit of the spooky history, high atop the city.
Tuesday October 29, 2024
Catch ‘The Exorcist’ on the big stage at Fort Edmonton Park on the equally spooky and iconic Capitol Theatre. It’s the last Tuesday Spooky Movie on the season, and it pairs well with a visit to Dark at Fort Edmonton Park.
Enjoy the week friends. Here’s to eating, drinking and finding wonderful ways to experience Edmonton, which was coincidentally named one of the best places to travel to by Lonely Planet.