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Arts and Heritage celebrates Alberta Culture Days

Free activities range from a gallery reception and arts workshops to crafting felted pumpkins, hands-on fibre art workshops and fashioning beaded keychains
This Sunday’s Harvest Festival at the St. Albert Grain Elevator Park will feature the official re-opening of the two elevators along with music and crafts.

St. Albert’s Arts and Heritage has a series of special programs lined up for the entire family during September’s Culture Day Celebrations. There are a variety of free indoor and outdoor arts and crafts as well as our traditional Harvest Festival at the city’s historic river lots. 

Below is Arts and Heritage's condensed schedule of events. 

Sept. 12 – The Art Gallery of St. Albert hosts an in-person reception for its latest main gallery exhibition, 1Milk/2Sugar. It offers a rich view of motherhood surrendering control of her body for the survival of another. The reception runs from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. 

Sept. 14 – St. Albert Place offers a series art classes. The painting studio offers a drop-in sculpture sampler from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The pottery studio will hold sampler classes from 9 a.m. to noon, and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The multi-craft studio hosts art samplers from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Musée Heritage Museum, also located in St. Albert Place, hosts drop-in activities centred around the Bruin Inn. 

Sept. 21 – Harvest Festival with numerous crafts for kids, teens and adults takes place at St. Albert’s Historic River Lots and grain elevators. Make a needle felted pumpkin from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.; a fibre arts demo workshop processing sheep’s fleece; or fashioning a Métis beaded keychain. 

For complete information visit artsandheritage.ca. 


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