Arts Roundup
The Arts Roundup provides you with the latest headlines and happenings related to arts and culture in the Edmonton region.
Published every Thursday
Recent editions
With news from CJSR, Sechile Sedare, Scream, Farmfair, Pheremone Killz, Workshop West, Jessica Johns, BioWare, St. Albert Public Library, and more.
With news from Catalyst Theatre, Axios Men's Ensemble, Art Gallery of Alberta, the Citadel, Shadow Theatre, Premee Mohamed, Jr. Gone Wild, and more.
With news from BioWare, Irv Kipnes, Boodang, Canadian Folk Music Awards, Latitude 53, Northern Light Theatre, Second Shelf Books, vrCAVE, and more.
Recently in the roundup
Campus radio station fêtes for funds
CJSR has added a music festival to its annual FunDrive, 42 years after the station launched with Joni Mitchell's You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio.
Catalyst's Nevermore prepares to haunt England
London calling! Nevermore – The Imaginary Life & Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe is headed to the U.K.
BioWare bids adieu after more than 30 years
Edmonton games pioneer BioWare is shuttering and laying off around 50 employees as part of a 3% workforce reduction by its parent company.
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Recent arts articles
Throws of passion: Love takes wrestlers outside the ring
The founder of Love Pro Wrestling is bringing his carnivalesque promotion to an unusual place — the Art Gallery of Alberta — as part of his mission to attract new audiences to the spectacle.
Scream organizer fights for your right to party
Boodang's massively successful Scream dance-music event is sold out for 2026, marking another milestone for a one-time introvert whose love of music brought him from chat rooms to the big tent.
Your turn: Art with an urbanist twist
This week's roundup of calls for public engagement includes opportunities to help shape two upcoming plays from Thou Art Here, as well as public hearings on municipal budgets in the region.