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NLT @ 45

  • Northern Light Theatre 2020-21 season

Catalyst Theatre

  • The Invisible - Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Citadel Theatre

  • Belinda Cornish’s The Garneau Block
  • Todd Babiak’s The Garneau Block

Chinook Series

  • Century Song

Edmonton Film & Music Prize

  • Adam Scorgie, nêhiyawak awarded 2019 Edmonton Film and Music Prizes

Metro Cinema

  • Black History Month

Brian Webb Dance Company

  • Shay Kuebler Radical System

Yardbird Suite

  • Angelique Francis

One Thing

  • Josh: Dear Evan Hansen
  • Katie: Us

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Juno Awards

  • Junos 2020
  • Northern exposure: Celeigh Cardinal, nêhiyawak, Nuela Charles, Striker among local Juno nominees

Citadel Theatre

  • Citadel Theatre Season 2020-2021

Catalyst Theatre

  • The Invisible - Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Chinook Series

  • Pawâkan Macbeth

One Thing

  • Josh: The Invisible - Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare
  • Katie: 5 Artists 1 Love
  • Allison: Kelly Ruth at the Sewing Machine Factory

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Broadway Across Canada Season 2020-21

  • Hamilton Headlines Broadway Across Canada’s Newest Season

Cost of Living

  • Emotional Impact of Disability Probed in Pulitzer-Winning Play

Winter Festivals

  • Silver Skate Fire Sculpture
  • Winterruption 2020
  • Flying Canoe Volant

Chinook Series

  • 2Hotweeks Of Cutting-Edge Performance

  • Sound Off Festival

McMullen Gallery

  • No Place by Emmanuel Osahor

Alberta Branded

  • Alberta Legislature Store
  • Locally Made Goods
  • Fine Craft

One Thing

  • Josh: Cost of Living
  • Katie: Silver Skate
  • Allison: Flying Canoe

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StoneMarrow’s Crave

  • StoneMarrow Theatre takes to the stage with stories that touch and teach
  • Crave

Shadow Theatre’s Happy Birthday Baby J

  • Happy Birthday Baby J: Gender politics explored in whip smart new one-act at Shadow Theatre

Silver Skate Festival Music

  • Silver Skate Festival Announces Live Music Line Up
  • Taproot Music Roundup

Blue Monday

  • Blue Monday at Glass Bookshop

Book Clubs

  • Local book clubs offering an opportunity to connect with people as well as new literature
  • The Girly Book Club
  • Molly of the Mall
  • The Invisible: Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Walterdale Theatre’s Monica Roberts

  • New Walterdale artistic director Monica Roberts celebrates contribution of amateurs to theatre community
  • 1984 at Walterdale Theatre

Edmonton Journal’s The List Begins

  • The List: Edmonton concerts, arts and culture, January 14-22
  • A Tale of Two Weeklies

One Thing

  • Josh: Happy Birthday Baby J from Shadow Theatre
  • Katie: Diavolo from Alberta Ballet
  • Allison: Exhibition of Glass from Alberta Craft Council

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Northern Light Theatre’s Everybody Loves Robbie

  • Everybody Loves Robbie: A love letter to high school drama up next for Northern Light Theatre

Arts on the Avenue Deep Freeze Festival

  • Edmonton kicks off 12th annual Deep Freeze Festival

Love letters to 2019

  • The Cardiac Shadow
  • Alberta Ballet's Frankenstein
  • Northern Light Theatre's Flora & Fawna
  • Edmonton Folk Music Festival
  • North Country Fair
  • Interstellar Rodeo

Josh also mentioned A Tale of Two Weeklies.

One thing:

  • Josh: Everybody Loves Robbie
  • Katie: Winterruption
  • Allison: Shay Kuebler

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Edmonton Public Library

  • EPL Writers in Residence
  • EPL Think Tank

Usha Gupta Dance Entourage and Brian Webb

  • Dance inspiration Usha Gupta's career highlight to be celebrated across India

Festival Place

  • Review: Oklahoma!

Edmonton Music Prize

  • Edmonton Music Prize 2019 Shortlist Announced

Goodbye, Kate!

  • Kate’s on maternity leave! Welcome Allison Lilly to Bottom Line Productions.

One Thing

  • Josh: In true holiday tradition — Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
  • Kate: A show at the Winspear, but it’s a Christmas gift so it needs to be secret
  • Katie: A Townes Van Zandt and Hank Williams Tribute Show

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Alberta Branded

  • High-end shop on legislature grounds featuring works by Alberta artists set to close next year

Shumka’s Nutcracker

  • Shumka’s Nutcracker celebration features multicultural touchstones

One Thing

  • Kate: Trevor Noah is coming in June
  • Darka: Catalyst Theatre’s The Invisible
  • Katie: Parasite at Metro Cinema

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A Christmas Carol

  • Do Not Ask for Whom The Belles toil: A Christmas Carol

Nutcrackers!

  • Alberta Ballet’s The Nutcracker
  • Shumka’s Nutcracker

Interstellar Rodeo

  • Eight years of Interstellar Rodeo at Hawrelak was Edmonton’s awesome luck

Talus Dome

  • Controversial Public Art in Canada
  • Special thanks to artist Kirra Kent for Speaking Artistically's new cover art

One Thing

  • Josh: A Christmas Carol at the Citadel
  • Kate: Shumka’s Nutcracker and Alberta Ballet’s The Nutcracker
  • Katie: LiKE Me hosted by AJA Louden Studios and The Aviary

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Waitress

  • Sweet and savoury: Waitress the musical arrives at the Jube. A review.

Local Gifts

  • Royal Bison Art & Craft Fair

Accessibility in the Arts

  • Ad Hoc Performing Arts Consortium
  • Global News story

Jay Gilday

  • Singer-songwriter Jay Gilday takes subtler acoustic path to find his better musical self

One Thing

  • Kate: Edmonton Christmas Market
  • Katie: The Brother Brothers

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Plays: How to Write and How to Select

  • Belinda Cornish and the art of the well-made play by Liane Faulder

John Hudson

  • Shadow Theatre

The Fringe Lottery

  • The Edmonton Fringe on Facebook

One Thing

  • Josh: Bright Young Things & Varscona Theatre Ensemble’s The Skin of Our Teeth
  • Kate: Queen Mary Park Winterfest
  • Katie: St. Arnaud at Rec Room

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Workshop West Playwrights' Theatre

  • Heather Inglis is WWPT’s New Artistic Producer
  • Vern Thiessen To Leave His Post
  • WWPT Celebrates 40 Years

John Murrell

  • Calgary Playwright John Murrell Has Died

Music in Edmonton

  • Salute to Holger Petersen, a man of many musical achievements

Edmonton Screen Media Fund

  • Screen Media Fund Launches with $4 million to Support Edmonton Area Projects

One Thing We're Looking Forward To:

  • Josh: Broadway Across Canada’s Waitress featuring young local actresses in Edmonton and Calgary
    • Waitress Stirs Up Sentimental Story of Finding Oneself
  • Kate: It’s Christmas!
    • A Christmas Carol is new at the Citadel
  • Katie: Two things!
    • The Edmonton Pottery Guild annual show and sale: Mudslinging therapeutic for members of Edmonton Potters’ Guild
    • 30 Years of Starlite Room

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The Citadel Theatre is presenting SIX

  • Edmonton loses its head over Six: Edmonton Journal

Alberta Ballet’s Frankenstein

  • Frankenstein’s monster hits the stage in Alberta Ballet’s high tech horror show
  • Alberta Ballet invents new vision of a horror classic at Banff Centre

Rainbow Visions

  • Glorious milestones for Rainbow Visions
  • Scream Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street

Workshop West Playwright’s Theatre The Ballad of Peachtree Rose

  • The Ballad of Peachtree Rose tackles rough justice and mourning in new play by Nicole Moeller

Shadow Theatre’s The Roommate

  • Shadow Theatre’s latest play, The Roommate, shows older women in light

Good Women Dance Collective; Mile Zero; BWDC

  • CONVERGENCE
  • Theatre Alberta: Sara does a Solo
  • Brian Webb Dance Season features cutting-edge works about identity, artificial intelligence

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Speaking Artistically is a weekly podcast exploring the wonderful world of arts in Edmonton. The podcast is produced by Bottom Line Productions and published by Taproot Edmonton.

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