FREE DAILY TOURS!
Tour 1
1:00-2:00pm
Churchill Square, EPL, The Westin, & the YMCA
Tour 2
12:15-12:30pm
Tent Exhibits
Tour 3
4:00-4:45pm
Churchill Square & Art Gallery of Alberta
Tour 4
5:15-5:30pm
Tent exhibits
Tour 5
7:00-7:45pm
Churchill Square
SAT. JUNE 20
WORKSHOPS
12:00PM-6:00PM
Inspired by Jared Epp's Anonymous Edmontonian sculptures found throughout the square, make your own aluminum foil figure! Take it home or add it to the growing installation of figures at the WorksShop.
ARTIST ACTIVATIONS
THE WORKS STREET STAGE
12:15PM & 1:45PM – Erin Dawn and The Daybreakers
3:15PM – Paul Jensen
4:45PM – The Vox Collective
6:00PM – Barry Westerlund
7:15PM & 8:30PM – The Tsunami Brothers
PARTNER GALLERY EVENTS
1:00-3:00PM
The Centre for Autism Services Alberta’s visual arts programs for children, teens, and young adults allow aspiring artists on the autism spectrum to bring their ideas to life through a variety of media. Led by instructors from the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, artists develop their skills in drawing, painting, and ceramics, and explore digital media and animation.
SUN. JUNE 21
WORKSHOPS
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Gathering natural materials and using the stencils provided, create a composition on special treated paper. Watch your image transform to a rich blue when exposed to the sun as you learn about cyanotype printing, one of the earliest recorded photographic techniques.
12:00PM-6:00PM
Inspired by Robert Dmytruck's The Aesthetics of Collision found at the Don Wheaton YMCA. Collage different shapes and patterns into abstract arrangements. See how colour, shape, and pattern interact to create exciting new works of art from found images.
ARTIST ACTIVATIONS
3:00-5:00PM
Join Darren Kooyman as he paints 56” x 42” works on canvas live on site using his previously created 9” x 12" works on paper as studies. As he translates his studies to a larger canvas, Kooyman will work to maintain as much of the improvisational quality of the smaller works as possible. Attendees can experience what it is like to paint a large acrylic painting using an assortment of tools and acrylic paints. They are welcome to ask questions and may be invited to help paint some smaller works on paper.
THE WORKS STREET STAGE
12:15PM – Debbie Houle
1:45PM & 3:15PM – Jay Gilday
4:45PM & 6:00PM – Jimmy Guiboche Trio
7:15PM & 8:30PM – Donita Large
PARTNER GALLERY EVENTS
MON. JUNE 22
WORKSHOPS
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Bring your sketchbooks and draw at the festival! Come as a group or on your own and let your creativity flow!
12:00PM-6:00PM
Inspired by Maria Shiroshonita's Home, The Places that Make Us. Make collage images and drawings of items you might find at home, or another place you'd like to frame. Place it in a paper frame for a shadow box effect in a flat collage.
ARTIST ACTIVATIONS
THE WORKS STREET STAGE
12:15PM –Krista Hartman
1:45PM - Laurelle K
3:15PM – Francis Kavanagh
4:45PM & 6:00PM - Mike Crampton and The Most Humble
7:15PM - Taylor Grace
8:30PM - Kayline Kowalyshin
PARTNER GALLERY EVENTS
TUE. JUNE 23
WORKSHOPS
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Bring your sketchbooks and draw at the festival! Come as a group or on your own and let your creativity flow!
12:00PM-6:00PM
Inspired by Jared Epp's Anonymous Edmontonian sculptures found throughout the square, make your own aluminum foil figure! Take it home or add it to the growing installation of figures at the WorksShop.
ARTIST ACTIVATIONS
6:00-7:00PM
Viewers will be able to interact with the bodies in different ways that center their own art-making. Through drawing and writing messages on the bodies or adorning them with jewelry or other objects, the public will experience collaborating with strangers on the collective construction of an artwork. They can see their own artwork and messages on the sculptures and feel like they are participating in the festival.
THE WORKS STREET STAGE
12:15PM & 1:45PM – Jenny Allen
3:15PM - Bill Werthmann
4:45PM & 6:00PM – Erin Dawn and The Daybreakers
7:15PM - Barry Westerlund
3:15PM - Bill Werthmann
PARTNER GALLERY EVENTS
7:00PM
Come early to shop for original art and then stay for popcorn and movies with the artist.
WED. JUNE 24
WORKSHOPS
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Bring your sketchbooks and draw at the festival! Come as a group or on your own and let your creativity flow!
12:00PM-6:00PM
Inspired by Robert Dmytruck's The Aesthetics of Collision found at the Don Wheaton YMCA. Collage different shapes and patterns into abstract arrangements. See how colour, shape, and pattern interact to create exciting new works of art from found images.
ARTIST ACTIVATIONS
THE WORKS STREET STAGE
12:15PM & 1:45PM – Erin Dawn and The Daybreakers
3:15PM – Paul Jensen
4:45PM – The Vox Collective
6:00PM – Barry Westerlund
7:15PM & 8:30PM – The Tsunami Brothers
PARTNER GALLERY EVENTS
THUR. JUNE 25
WORKSHOPS
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Bring your sketchbooks and draw at the festival! Come as a group or on your own and let your creativity flow!
12:00PM-6:00PM
Inspired by Maria Shiroshonita's Home, The Places that Make Us. Make collage images and drawings of items you might find at home, or another place you'd like to frame. Place it in a paper frame for a shadow box effect in a flat collage.
ARTIST ACTIVATIONS
3:00-5:00PM
Join Darren Kooyman as he paints 56” x 42” works on canvas live on site using his previously created 9” x 12" works on paper as studies. As he translates his studies to a larger canvas, Kooyman will work to maintain as much of the improvisational quality of the smaller works as possible. Attendees can experience what it is like to paint a large acrylic painting using an assortment of tools and acrylic paints. They are welcome to ask questions and may be invited to help paint some smaller works on paper.
THE WORKS STREET STAGE
12:15PM - Lori Reid
1:45PM – Bramwell Park
3:15PM – Kaylin Kowalyshin
4:45PM - Mya Hill
6:00PM – Ken Stead
7:15PM - Ali and the MixTakes
PARTNER GALLERY EVENTS
FRI. JUNE 26
WORKSHOPS
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Bring your sketchbooks and draw at the festival! Come as a group or on your own and let your creativity flow!
12:00PM-6:00PM
Inspired by Jared Epp's Anonymous Edmontonian sculptures found throughout the square, make your own aluminum foil figure! Take it home or add it to the growing installation of figures at the WorksShop.
ARTIST ACTIVATIONS
THE WORKS STREET STAGE
12:15PM - James Murdoch
1:45PM – Laurelle K
3:15PM – Mya Hill
4:34PM - Ellie Heath
7:15PM & 8:30PM – Brother Ray Lemelin and the Matinee Kings
PARTNER GALLERY EVENTS
SAT. JUNE 27
WORKSHOPS
ARTIST ACTIVATIONS
3:00pm-6:00pm
Drop-in to share your scrap fabric and stories while the artists teach basic stitches and weaving methods. Patrons are welcome to use donated fabric supplied by the artists or to bring pre-cut strips, scraps, or pair-less socks to weave in their own personal touch. The artists will not receive fabric donations at the festival.
11:00am-3:00pm
Join Diana Ohiozebau for a creative workshop inspired by the exhibition Not Alone As Such. This interactive workshop invites participants to engage closely with selected fragments from the exhibited artworks. Drawing from themes of identity, collective presence, African mask traditions, and sculptural forms, participants will transfer and paint a small section of an artwork onto canvas, to create their own interpretation through colour, texture, and line. Through the process of focusing on a single fragment, participants are encouraged to reflect on how individual parts contribute to a larger whole. This event is suitable for all ages. No prior painting experience is required.
THE WORKS STREET STAGE
12:15PM - Dave Babcok
1:30PM - Maria Manna
3:00PM - Pure Octane
4:45PM - Echo Ensemble
6:00PM - Alexa Leon
7:15PM & 8:30PM– Love Empire
PARTNER GALLERY EVENTS
1:00-3:00PM (Virtual Event)
Zachary Ayotte will be in conversation with Gendai Collective about their work around alternative art economies and how arts work is a core investment in our civic structures. Finding parallels between their work and Artist Civil Service, the conversation will tease apart the importance of structural critique and collective change through artistic practice.
Gendai is a collective based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Throughout its twenty-five-year history, Gendai has supported experimental curatorial and organizational practices, whilst creating space for East Asian artists and artists of colour. As Gendai’s newest stewards, Marsya Maharani and Petrina Ng are dedicated to building a more equitable art sector through collective research with BIPOC artists and arts workers. Using gossip as a methodology to trace the contours of institutional power, Gendai builds relationships with emerging and mid-career arts practitioners of colour to learn about current workplace dynamics in the sector. By offering peer mentorship and access to Gendai’s platform, resources, and network, they invite collaborators to support each other in pursuing non-institutional futures and imagine “off-ramps” from the linear expressway of traditional, capitalist, and institutional career progression in the arts. Gendai also participates in Guidance Council, a bi-monthly casual drop-in organized by Alexandra Hong and Peter Rahul for racialized arts workers to share stories and solicit advice from each other. Gendai has published their research in the Gossip issue of C Magazine, titled “We Should Talk: Obvious Truths About Working in the Arts.”
Register for this Virtual Event: https://www.latitude53.org/events/2026/6/27/gendai
7:30PM
Experimental electronic music with Jacob Audry Taves, Will Northlich Redmond, and guests. Entry is PWYC (pay what you can).
SUN. JUNE 28
WORKSHOPS
4:00PM - 6:00PM
Gathering natural materials and using the stencils provided, create a composition on special treated paper. Watch your image transform to a rich blue when exposed to the sun as you learn about cyanotype printing, one of the earliest recorded photographic techniques.
12:00PM-6:00PM
Inspired by Robert Dmytruck's The Aesthetics of Collision found at the Don Wheaton YMCA. Collage different shapes and patterns into abstract arrangements. See how colour, shape, and pattern interact to create exciting new works of art from found images.
ARTIST ACTIVATIONS
3:00-4:00pm
Stories of The Land: Exploring displacement, cultural memory and belonging through painting, printmaking and research-based practice.
THE WORKS STREET STAGE
12:15PM – Lori Reid
1:45PM – Carrie Day
4:45PM & 6:00PM – Ukeclectics
7:15PM & 8:30PM – Samantha King
PARTNER GALLERY EVENTS
1:00-3:00PM (Virtual Event)
Zachary Ayotte will be in conversation with Gendai Collective about their work around alternative art economies and how arts work is a core investment in our civic structures. Finding parallels between their work and Artist Civil Service, the conversation will tease apart the importance of structural critique and collective change through artistic practice.
Gendai is a collective based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Throughout its twenty-five-year history, Gendai has supported experimental curatorial and organizational practices, whilst creating space for East Asian artists and artists of colour. As Gendai’s newest stewards, Marsya Maharani and Petrina Ng are dedicated to building a more equitable art sector through collective research with BIPOC artists and arts workers. Using gossip as a methodology to trace the contours of institutional power, Gendai builds relationships with emerging and mid-career arts practitioners of colour to learn about current workplace dynamics in the sector. By offering peer mentorship and access to Gendai’s platform, resources, and network, they invite collaborators to support each other in pursuing non-institutional futures and imagine “off-ramps” from the linear expressway of traditional, capitalist, and institutional career progression in the arts. Gendai also participates in Guidance Council, a bi-monthly casual drop-in organized by Alexandra Hong and Peter Rahul for racialized arts workers to share stories and solicit advice from each other. Gendai has published their research in the Gossip issue of C Magazine, titled “We Should Talk: Obvious Truths About Working in the Arts.”
Register for this Virtual Event: https://www.latitude53.org/events/2026/6/27/gendai
7:30PM
Experimental electronic music with Jacob Audry Taves, Will Northlich Redmond, and guests. Entry is PWYC (pay what you can).
MON. JUNE 29
WORKSHOPS
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Bring your sketchbooks and draw at the festival! Come as a group or on your own and let your creativity flow!
12:00PM-6:00PM
Inspired by Maria Shiroshonita's Home, The Places that Make Us. Make collage images and drawings of items you might find at home, or another place you'd like to frame. Place it in a paper frame for a shadow box effect in a flat collage.
ARTIST ACTIVATIONS
3:00-5:00PM
Join Darren Kooyman as he paints 56” x 42” works on canvas live on site using his previously created 9” x 12" works on paper as studies. As he translates his studies to a larger canvas, Kooyman will work to maintain as much of the improvisational quality of the smaller works as possible. Attendees can experience what it is like to paint a large acrylic painting using an assortment of tools and acrylic paints. They are welcome to ask questions and may be invited to help paint some smaller works on paper.
THE WORKS STREET STAGE
12:15PM – Lindsey Walker
1:45PM & 3:15pm – Kat Kadoski
4:45PM – Carrie Day
6:00PM & 7:15PM – Lucas Bellous Trio
8:30PM – Paul Bellows
PARTNER GALLERY EVENTS
TUE. JUNE 30
WORKSHOPS
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Bring your sketchbooks and draw at the festival! Come as a group or on your own and let your creativity flow!
12:00PM-6:00PM
Inspired by Jared Epp's Anonymous Edmontonian sculptures found throughout the square, make your own aluminum foil figure! Take it home or add it to the growing installation of figures at the WorksShop.
ARTIST ACTIVATIONS
THE WORKS STREET STAGE
12:15PM & 1:45PM – Ryan Davidson
3:15pm & 4:45PM – Kat Kadoski
7:15PM & 8:30PM – Mr. Relaxer
PARTNER GALLERY EVENTS
7:30PM
The concept behind Scapes and Shapes is quite simple: pair a visual artist with a sound designer or musician, and with no prearranged agenda, they spend 20 minutes creating an impromptu work of art that complements a sound piece also composed on the spot. Entry is $5 to $15 or PWYC (pay what you can).
WED. JULY 1
WORKSHOPS
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Bring your sketchbooks and draw at the festival! Come as a group or on your own and let your creativity flow!
12:00PM-6:00PM
Inspired by Robert Dmytruck's The Aesthetics of Collision found at the Don Wheaton YMCA. Collage different shapes and patterns into abstract arrangements. See how colour, shape, and pattern interact to create exciting new works of art from found images.
ARTIST ACTIVATIONS
3:00pm-6:00pm
Drop-in to share your scrap fabric and stories while the artists teach basic stitches and weaving methods. Patrons are welcome to use donated fabric supplied by the artists or to bring pre-cut strips, scraps, or pair-less socks to weave in their own personal touch. The artists will not receive fabric donations at the festival.
3:00-5:00PM
Join Darren Kooyman as he paints 56” x 42” works on canvas live on site using his previously created 9” x 12" works on paper as studies. As he translates his studies to a larger canvas, Kooyman will work to maintain as much of the improvisational quality of the smaller works as possible. Attendees can experience what it is like to paint a large acrylic painting using an assortment of tools and acrylic paints. They are welcome to ask questions and may be invited to help paint some smaller works on paper.
THE WORKS STREET STAGE
12:15PM & 1:45PM – Gateway Big Band
3:15PM – Kaylin Kowalyshin
4:45PM – Ann Vriend
6:00PM – Lindsey Walker
7:15PM – The Uncas
8:30PM – Funk the Matriarchy