10 Best Things to do in Edmonton this Weekend - February 27 - March 1
If you’re looking for something fun to do this weekend, Edmonton has a packed lineup of events that cover everything from arts and live performances to hands-on workshops and lively nightlife. Whether you want to sit back and enjoy a thought-provoking film, try a creative class, or get out on the dance floor, there’s something happening that can turn an ordinary weekend into a memorable one.
Here’s what to do this Weekend in Edmonton - February 27 - March 1, 2026
Film Screening: The Librarians
In this film, Librarians unite to combat book banning, defending intellectual freedom on democracy’s frontlines amid unprecedented censorship in Texas, Florida, and beyond. Spend a Friday night at this documentary film screening in Edmonton!
Friday Night Performance: Countries Shaped like Stars
Part Storytelling, part concert, Countries Shaped Like Stars is a whimsical love story spun from everyday magic and the sounds of spoons, whirly-winds, and a mandolin. Gwendolyn Magnificent and Bartholomew Spectacular live on neighbouring peninsulas in a world where words grow on trees and anticipation hums in the air. Connected by string, sound, and the spaces in between, this is a love story that will leave you breathless.
Take a Charcoal Figure Drawing Workshop
Celebrate Black History Month through the art of figure drawing with Shaihiem Small. This workshop focuses on capturing the human form using graphite, emphasizing expression, movement, and storytelling. Open to all skill levels, this session provides an opportunity to develop drawing techniques while reflecting on the richness of Black heritage through art.
Get out of Your Head at a Somatic Rave
Join Angie Clark (YEGYOGI) & DJ Suzanne Summers for the Original Somatic Rave happening on February 28th, 2026. This is a dancefloor ceremony — a fusion of embodied guided movement, deep beats, and intentional space.
Saturday Night Performance: I Meant What I Said
Approaching a milestone birthday, Dinah, a genial philosopher and girl about town, finds herself surrounded by a completely unexpected coterie of companions and is swept into an escapade of discovery and adventure in the most surprising series of locales.
Learn to Make the Duchess Bake Shop Famous Lemon Meringue Cake
In this class you will learn how to make a Duchess staff favourite, the Lemon Meringue Cake. From the chiffon cake to the lemon cream, each step will be covered, including toasting the meringue with a blow torch. Each student will leave with a full-sized cake and jar of lemon cream.
Find Your Story at a Songwriting Workshop
Led by singer songwriter John Wort Hannam, this two-day workshop will guide you through the creative process of songwriting—from idea generation to song creation — culminating in an opportunity to share your original music with other participants.
Head Downtown for Heated Rivalries
Fruit Loop is bringing the fun to the Ice District with a high-energy night of games, drag, dancing, and community—all in support of the Jasper Pride and Ski Festival.
Digital Art Lovers: Catch a FREE Multimedia Installation
This experience is set on the snow- covered slopes of Edmonton’s North Saskatchewan River Valley. A riparian, parkland, ecosystem containing numerous biomes, this valley runs throughout the city. Instead of privatization and development, it was preserved by earlier generations as a Commons – an Edmonton-specific, visionary model of sustainable respect for the environment. Like the rest of the world’s ecologies, this Commons is currently under threat from a socio-political economy that artificially divides nature from human culture.
Art can make space for collective contemplation, dialogue, and deeper understanding of these relationships. First reflecting, then shaping the world, it can create community, present ideas, question assumptions, and help imagine possible futures. It can examine the dominance of human exceptionalism, and our worldview of humanity in the context of nature.
Xpainting provides an experience of this Commons dynamically modified by the mediated presence and actions of its viewers, concretely demonstrating human influences on the circular economy of nature, and provoking questions/thought about this reality.
