|
Keep yourself informed about entertainment and
cultural performances in your community by tuning into the CKUA ARTS & CULTURE
GUIDE. Twice each day, we run down the list of upcoming events around Alberta. The
ARTS & CULTURE GUIDE with Chris Allen...Monday through Friday at 9:56am and 3:28pm,
Saturdays at 8:56am on CKUA.
Friday, July 3 Maria Dunn opens the 3rd annual
Music in the Meadow summer music series, July 4th at Mount Engadine Lodge
in Spray Valley Provincial Park. The lodge is about 35 km south of canmore
on The Smith-Dorrien/Spray Lakes Road. Get information and tickets, which include
dinner at 7pm, at mountengadine.com
or call 403-678-4080 StoryBook Theatre's 2009 Summer Drama Camps
begin tomorrow for children aged 6 to 17 at the Community Arts Centre on the old
Currie Barracks A3, 2633 Hochwald Ave. SW, in Calgary. The curriculum aims
to develop self-confidence, acting skills, teamwork, and stagecraft abilities.
Camps run in 2 Week Sessions from 9:30am to 3:30pm Monday to Friday July 6 to
August 21st. Call 403-216-0808. Lots of performers in Alberta this month.
Matt Mays & El Torpedo, Sam Roberts, Paul Brandt & Dustin Bentall
are all playing at the Sawridge Festival in Slave Lake, running
till July 5th. It's in Sawridge Field by the hotel and conference centre. Get
tickets at Ticketmaster. James Murdoch is in Medicine Hat
tonight, at the Ottoman Lounge. 502 South Railway St. SE. on a CD release tour.
The show starts at nine. Call (403) 504-5689. The Real Deal is at
the Olympia Restaurant, at 129 Jasper St., in Hinton. Call 780) 865-7700, and
Trevor Howard is in Edmonton at the Axis Café ,10349 Jasper Ave. in Edmonton.
Doors open at 8. Call 780-990-0031 Bring your child and stroller to Little
Feets at Fort Edmonton Park, July 4th from 1:00-4:00
pm. The feats - Festival of Dance event encourages caregivers and youngsters to
learn about dance and movement from professional dancers of various cultural traditions.
The workshop is FREE with paid admission to the Park.
Saturday,
July 4 Tonight at 7:30, the Edmonton International Jazz Festival
presents Jimmy Cobb and his So What Band in a show called Remembering the Miles
Davis Classic Kind of Blue at 50. The show takes place in the Citadel's MacLab
Theatre, 9828 101A Avenue. Call 780-425-1820. Mount Royal College's Shakespeare
in the Park has returned for its 22nd season with two of the bard's most beloved
works, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shows begin at 7:00 PM
in Prince's Island Park in Calgary. Call 403-440-6710. Plan ahead
to see Man on Wire, the story of Phillippe Petit's performance on
a tightrope stretched between New York's Twin Towers in 1974. The film begins
at 7:00 PM Tuesday, July 7th, at the Lethbridge Public Library, 810 5th
Avenue South.
Call 403-380-7310. Doug Andrew and The Circus
in Flames bring their original sheet metal country back to Alberta. The band
will perform on Wednesday, July 8th, at the Drake Inn, 909 Railway Avenue in Canmore
at 10 PM . Call 403-678-5131. feats Festival of Dance presents Wideyed
Cabaret, a spontaneous celebration of dance, music, art, and theatre that
begins at 10 PM in Westbury Theatre at the TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330 84th Avenue
in Edmonton. Get tickets at TIX on the Square, 780-420-1757.
The CKUA Arts and Culture Guide is heard twice daily, Monday through
Saturday and is compiled by Chris Allen and Megan Karasek. If you have an arts
or cultural event taking place in your area, email us at least two weeks in advance
at artsinfo@ckua.com.
To view guidelines
for writing a Public Service Announcement, click here
| 
