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The New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia is heading into its 36th season with plans to ease up big time. On Thursday, Nov. 17, the group launches the first of a three-concert season at the Myer Horowitz Theatre.

It’s a special celebration that has been 15 years in the making, and it happens in just a few days.

A forest full of giant quarters: that’s the last thing I expected to see at Diane Way’s new show at the VASA Gallery. This collection from the St.

This 2011-2012 season, Da Camera Singers celebrates its 50th anniversary. It has the distinction of being Edmonton’s oldest chamber choir, and it can be said it has truly stood the test of time.

The St. Albert United Church reaches a new benchmark this Sunday when 50-odd musicians from the Mission Hill Brass Band and Mill Creek Colliery Band team up with trumpeter Jens Lindemann for a full-throttle afternoon of showmanship.

Death is an unavoidable marker. It has a way of stopping you cold (no pun intended), and making you re-evaluate life and friendships in general.

Writer/director Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow) delivers a new take on the beloved 1984 classic film. Ren MacCormack (Kenny Wormald) is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock.

An aging doorman, nearing retirement, plans to move to warmer climes within a few months. A younger man anxiously awaits the birth of his first child. A Russian woman studies diligently to pass the American bar exam and become a lawyer.

The clockwork of St. Albert’s cultural calendar means that every November the public gets treated to Guilded. A few weeks later the craftiest pre-Christmas sales event lands with a crowd waiting at the doors.

It’s patently unfair to write a review of a raw play reading. In most cases readings barely deserve a three-line preview. But on Monday night, Daniel MacIvor, a Canadian playwriting icon, gave a reading at St.