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With dozens of festivals happening throughout the year, Edmonton is rightly known as Canada’s Festival City. During the summer in particular, it seems as though there’s a festival of some sort happening every day. I guess that’s because there is!
Here’s a list of 25 festivals you can look forward to over the next three months, complete with iCal feeds, and social media information (see below for an iCal feed for all the festivals):
- International Children’s Festival – June 1 to 5
- Bikeology Festival – June 1 to 30
- Dreamspeakers Film Festival – June 2 to 5
- Nextfest – June 3 to 13
- Heart of the City Festival – June 5 & 6
- Creative Age Festival – June 8 to 16
- Sprouts New Play Festival for Kids – June 12 & 13
- Improvaganza – June 16 to 26
- Rock The Square – June 19
- Edmonton International Jazz Festival – June 25 to July 4
- The Works Art & Design Festival – June 25 to July 7
- Freewill Shakespeare Festival – June 29 to July 25
- Silly Summer Parade – July 1
- Edmonton & Northern Alberta Historic Festival – July 9 to 18
- Edmonton International Street Performers Festival – July 9 to 18
- SOSFest – July 9 to 11
- Capital EX Parade & Capital EX – July 22 to August 1
- A Taste of Edmonton – July 23 to August 1
- Servus Heritage Festival – July 31 to August 2
- Edmonton Folk Music Festival – August 5 to 8
- Animethon – August 6 to 8
- Cariwest – August 6 to 8
- Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival – August 12 to 22
- Edmonton Dragon Boat Festival – August 20 to 22
- Edmonton’s Labatt Blues Festival – August 20 to 22
You’ll note that each one has a link to ShareEdmonton, where I list the festival dates and locations as accurately as possible. Festivals like Creative Age and Improvaganza have really good detail, while others like the Fringe do not (they haven’t released the schedule yet). As I get more information I’ll update the listings. You can also see related tweets for each festival, and very soon, related photos and blog posts too!
Here’s the information for all festivals:
You can subscribe to that iCal feed using Outlook or your favorite calendar application. In Google Calendar, you can “Add by URL” and just copy/paste the iCal link above.
I’m sure there are more festivals happening over the summer that I’ve missed. If your favorite isn’t on the list, let me know. If you subscribe to the iCal feed above, any new festival that gets added to the ShareEdmonton calendar will show up automatically!
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Hi Mack,
Thanks for the iCal feed and iCal hookup. Very nice. 🙂
Kat
My pleasure, hope you find it useful!
Mack thanks for taking the time to put this together. What a great resource!
This is fantastic! Thank you!
And the last one of the summer – ESO Symphony under the Sky Sept 3-6 http://www.edmontonsymphony.com/symphony-under-the-sky/2010-11-symphony-under-the-sky/
Doug & tricotmiss – glad you found it useful!
Thanks Harry, that’ll be in the calendar shortly, but technically it falls outside my summer list (June to August). It’s a great festival though, agreed. Thanks!
The consolidated iCal feed for all the festivals is amazing – also really crazy to see the number of festivals we have in the city. There’s something to do everyday!