Togather Chinatown Arts Festival, Vintage Media Fair, Winter Try-It Festival, Lego Mania Competition & much more

What’s Up Edmonton! (And surrounding areas)…

Thanks for tuning in. Here’s your local ad-free action report for: Saturday, February 7 through Monday, February 9, 2026.

I cover: Events & Entertainment happening in & around YEG.

Note: All links are non-monetized. They simply lead to event info.

If you’re enjoying this informative ad-free publication, please share it with your friends.

____________________________________________________________________

Some Things To Do This Weekend:

Saturday, February 7:

• 9:30am start | Smoky Lake Trail Twisters | Take your snow machine for a 90km rip & enjoy dinner following | $25/person/ride; $40/person/dinner |

• 10am - noon | U of A Madrigal Singers Brunch Concert | Support a local musical group & enjoy a tasty brunch for $60/person |

• 11am - 3pm | Food as Liberation - Congo Edition | Couple traditional food with powerful real-life story recall at this BHM special event | FREE-$5/person |

• 11am - 3pm | Winter Try-It Festival | FREE_EVENT | Escape the house and try XC skiing, ice fishing, snowshoeing, curling, broomball & more |

• 11am - midnight | Vietnamese New Years Festival | FREE_EVENT (mostly) | Feat. martial arts demos, a lion dance, kids zone & more | Dance is $30/person |

• Noon - 3pm | Lego Mania Competition | Build your best original work & compete for all the glory at this adjudicated event | $20/person |

• Noon - 3pm | Vintage Media Fair | BY_DONATION (Food Bank) | Featuring horror, sci-fi & more on BHS, Betamax, etc. | All are welcome |

• 1pm - 4pm | Neutral Ground | FREE_EVENT | Create, play & connect over a variety of games and hobbies with friends new & old |

• 2pm - 6pm | Top 30 Under 30 | FREE_EVENT | Meet & cheer on 30 Albertans who are driving sustainable progress in the world around us |

• 5:30pm - 9:30pm | Vitreous Film Festival | Get caught in the crossfire between medical research and real life, true stories | $15.27+/person |

• 7pm - 11pm | Crew meet Crew | FREE_EVENT | Film productions professionals are invited to network in a casual setting |

• 7pm - 11:30pm | Winter is Cancelled | Get your fix on Afro & Latin beats as you help chase the winter blues away! | $12.51+/person |

• 7pm - 11:30pm | Bob Marley Birthday Show | Saint & The Full 100 are teaming up with Love Empire for one epic Reggae show | $17.40/person |

• 7pm - midnight | House of 1000 Sues | Dress up like Sue (see link) and enjoy a live show from the Tough Times Family Band | $38.61+/person |

• 7pm start | Vibrare | Celebrate YEG’s arts scene with a highly choreographed, stylistically complex showcase feat. ballet, contemporary & more | $22/person |

• 7:30pm start | The Way & Treaty | Catch this talented wife & husband country/americana duo live on the Arden stage for $65/person |

• 7:30pm start | AV & The Inner City | Enjoy a performance from this locally located but globally reaching all female soul vocal group | $17.50+/person |

• 7:30pm start | It Takes Two… to Gamba | Join two impressive viola da gamba players as they explore music that defined that instrument | $15+/person |

• 8pm - 10:30pm | Daniel Gervais Trio | Get your kicks out for a hootin’ hollerin’ good time as this acclaimed fiddle champ & friends take over | $29-34/person |

• 9:30pm - 1:30am | The Party Darts | Much like a box of chocolates, you never really know what you’ll get from this electrifying local cover band | $6-9/person |

• 9:30pm - 1:30am | Stonegate | Bring back 90’s & 00’s era hard rock with a live show from this local band | $8-12/person |

• 10pm - 2am | Indie Sleaze Night | Dress to unimpress & enjoy all your favourite Electroclash and Alt Dance tracks from the early 00’s | $17.56/person |

• 10pm start | Floetic | Fall in love all over again while this Van-City based artist lays down fresh R&B beats | $14.11/person |

• February 7 & 8 | Lunar New Year Extravaganza (WEM) | FREE_EVENT | Celebrate the new year with traditional performances & activities for all |

• February 7 & 8 | Togather Chinatown Arts Festival | FREE_EVENT | Celebrate the Lunar New Year with 45 local artists, a vendor market & more |

• February 7 & 8 | Hazeldean Artisan Valentine Market | FREE_ENTRY | Browse this bustling vendor market in the heart of Edmonton |

Sunday, February 8:

• 10am - noon | Michaels Make-Break: Kids Club | FREE_EVENT | Kids, make a fun Valentines day card for someone special in your life |

• Noon - 5pm | Lunar New Year at Londonderry Mall | FREE_EVENT | Enjoy crafts, art & other traditional performances |

• 1pm - 3:30pm | Matcha & Ikebana | FREE_EVENT | Learn the artistry behind Japanese Flower Arranging before trying your own hand |

• 1pm - 4pm | The Misery Mountain Boys | FREE_EVENT | You may not be Connor McDavid, but break out those skates anyway & go for a twirl |

• 1:15pm - 3:30pm | Where We Rest | Local women are invited to a community connection event where they can try yoga, a sound bath & more | $35/person |

• 1:30pm - 3pm | Olympic Watch Party: Figure Skating | FREE_EVENT | Hang out with a crowd of figure skating enthusiasts & enjoy a shared passion |

• 2pm - 4pm | Finding Hope | FREE_EVENT | Join as strangers & leave friends following this inclusive community building workshop |

• 2pm - 4pm | Book Launch: Diane Wishart | Set in the snowy oasis of Edmonton, Alta, Detective Smeg is pulled back on duty for one last case |

• 2pm - 4:30pm | Sierra Jamerson | Hear the best neo-soul jazz vocalist around with a performance from the priestess herself | $29/person |

• 3pm - 5pm | Orchestra Borealis | Mendelssohn, Fauré & Prokofiev are dead (unfortunately), but you can still hear their best works for $17.31+/person |

• 3pm start | U of A HS Honour Band & SWE | Experience the power of horns & melodies of woodwinds for only $10-20/person |

• 4pm - 5:30pm | Chili Cookoff | Heat the house at no charge several hours following this tasty event | $15/person (to try the entrants & then vote) |

• 6:30pm start | Donita Large & The Small Band | Catch a hot live performance from this talented artist for $24/person |

• 7:30pm start | Script Salon: Lynda Celentano | BY_DONATION | Support a local playwright with a read through of “The Dress That Made The Girl” |

Monday, February 9:

• 10:30am - noon | 3D Printing Intro | FREE_EVENT | Learn the basics before designing & printing your very own keychain |

• 1pm - 2:15pm | Seniors Skate | FREE_EVENT | Adults over 50, enjoy an hour of solid, quiet exercise on engineered ice |

• 2pm - 3:30pm | Book Club | FREE_EVENT | Get rowdy with a cluster of boisterous bookworms & discuss Percival Everett’s recent release, “James” |

• 6pm - 7pm | BHM Art Exhibition | FREE_EVENT | Meet the artists & celebrate a locally produced art expo in Beaumont |

• 6pm - 8pm | Fundraising 101 | FREE_EVENT | Are you running a startup & finding that you’re actually running out of cash? | Get top tips to flip the script |

• 7pm - 9pm | Audrey’s Book Club | FREE_EVENT | Hang out with a group of boisterous bookworms & discuss Ralph Ellison’s 1952 epic, “Invisible Man” |

Thanks for checking in. Have a great week, everyone!