Enjoy some cool winter fun! Go ice skating with free skate rentals, or enjoy live music and dance lessons with Sugar Swing Ballroom. Events are free and for all ages. Everyone is welcome; you do not need to be a member of the host neighbourhood/community league to attend. Concession available. All events are 12 pm - 4 pm. Skate rentals and skating begin at 12 pm and live music and dance lessons begin at 1 pm.
Jump and jive in City Hall! Enjoy free live music and dance lessons with Sugar Swing Ballroom every Sunday in January and February from 1 pm - 4 pm. All ages are welcome. No experience is required. Wear comfortable clothing that you can move around in. Please note that due to construction in Churchill Square there is no skating component.
The Edmonton Arts Council, in partnership with the City of Edmonton, programs activities and events called Happenings in Sir Winston Churchill Square for casual and day-to-day public use. Since August 2011, EAC Churchill Square Happenings programmer Bob Rasko has produced a diverse schedule of offerings open to the public including: Sunday Swing 'n Skate, Live at Lunch, Cypher Wild, and Zumba on the Square.
>> Click here for more information about Happenings on the Square
Check out our calendar of arts and culture events happening in the community.
Writing Winning Proposals: How to Get That Grant!
Edmonton Arts Council's Director of Grants, Awards, and Support Programs will explain what grants are offered by the EAC and share tips and tricks to help you succeed in your grant applications.
The Myth of Cultural Non-Participation
Many arts and cultural organizations spend a great deal of time, money and effort trying to ‘reach out’ to ‘cultural non-participants’. Yet do such people really exist? And even if they do, why is their ‘non-participation’ a problem that others should be worried about? In this highly interactive workshop, Dr. David Stevenson from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh will argue that cultural non-participation is an impossibility and that the identity of the cultural non-participant is a discursive construction; a construction that was initially created in eighteenth century Europe as part of the discursive constitution of ‘the arts’ as a discrete field of human practice. Hosted in partnership with MacEwan University's Arts and Cultural Management Program.
The Edmonton Arts Council will offer guided tours of Edmonton's first art park dedicated to showcasing contemporary visual art by Canadian Indigenous artists. ᐄᓃᐤ (ÎNÎW) River Lot 11∞ opened on September 15, 2018, is curated by Candice Hopkins, and features art by Mary Anne Barkhouse (Reign), Duane Linklater (mikikwan), Amy Malbeuf (iskotew), Marianne Nicolson (Preparing to Cross the Sacred River), Tiffany Shaw-Collinge (pehonan), and Jerry Whitehead (mamohkamatowin - Helping Each Other)
The spring tours are planned for:
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