Local Entertainment

There’s a different way to feel and understand drums and percussion, and it only comes to Edmonton in the spring. Once again the Grant MacEwan University music program stages its annual Percussion Concert on Sunday, March 28 at John L.

Alice in Wonderland (PG) Alice in Wonderland is as visually brilliant as you’d expect from director Tim Burton. Like Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow, its look is distinctive and delightfully weird.

If dragons were real then parents and pet stores everywhere would undoubtedly be inundated with requests for scaly, fire-breathing pets after this weekend.

Visual artists take heed — you could be the lucky recipient of $2,000. St. Albert’s autumn arts festival is returning for its second year with a new name and logo that will brand the event. The StArts Festival, formerly known as St.

As traditional drums and cymbals clash and bang, two sleeping Chinese lions wake up, clean their paws and start foraging for food at Sir George Simpson. About 260 wide-eyed students sit cross-legged on the gym floor completely enthralled.

The second lecture in a series sponsored by a local arts group prompted a near-capacity crowd to engage in somewhat heated yet intellectual discourse about the nature of art, all thanks to a fill-in speaker from New York.

There will be more than a few tears shed as St. Albert cultural services is about to lose one of its key people. The Arden Theatre’s programming presenter Brenda Heatherington is moving to Ontario as of April 30.

Havana-based Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba returns to the Arden Theatre by popular demand after two sizzling sold out performances in 2008.

Come snow, sleet, hail or scheduling difficulties, the show must go on.

Optimism is rare in today’s music business, an industry of broken-hearted dreams. But somehow with bright lights, crunching guitars and a stripper pole, the brash boys of Social Code reveal a knack for it. The St.