Local Entertainment

Once again conductor Robert de Frece takes the Greenwood Singers and the University Handbell Ringers through a scintillating Christmas program.

As the Christmas season approaches, every choral and chamber group in the region plans to appear at a concert hall, church or community gathering in hopes of drawing a big, celebratory crowd.

Renaissance Venice comes to the Shaw If you're in search of different experience this Christmas season, check out the Visionary Entertainment-sponsored Venetian Carnival.

Doug's Voodoo Chicken Ingredients 1 Tbsp. crushed chilies One whole chicken cut into 9 pieces 1 litre heavy cream – 18 or 35 per cent 1 cup chopped onion 1 Tbsp. fresh chopped garlic 1 Tbsp.

Art Gallery of St. Albert Ojibwa painter Terry McCue offers Ripples of Loss at the gallery. Until this Saturday. 19 Perron St., St. Albert; 780-460-4310; www.artgalleryofstalbert.

As a spy spoof Our Man in Havana voices a few good jabs at current events.

The week is filled with a ton of entertainment. Below are a couple of highlights.

William Shakespeare wrote to put food in his belly, quaff an ale or two and draw laughter and tears from his audience. But as one of the great playwrights in all history, he did not write to strike terror and dread into contemporary adolescents.

The Father of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is in the city tonight to bring up his message of hope with local audiences.

Time to kindle the Christmas spirit with St. Albert Children's Theatre production of It's a Wonderful Life and Elf, the Musical Jr.