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Brahms, Fire-Flowers & Battle-Flags

Brahms, Fire-Flowers & Battle-Flags
Saturday, November 1, 2025
7:30pm

Winspear Centre

Chorus Inspira
Timothy Shantz, Conductor
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Laura Brandt, soprano 
Jonathon Adams, baritone
University of Alberta Concert Choir & Madrigal Singers

Program

Zachary Wadsworth Battle-Flags
Johannes Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Zachary Wadsworth Fire-Flowers (premiere of a new orchestration)

Drop-in Sketching: Bad Taxidermy

Have you ever wished you could use the museum’s collections for sketching inspiration? Now’s your chance! We'll be showcasing rarely seen museum objects to create a still-life setup for you to practice your drawing skills.   

This month to celebrate the season, we’re bringing out some truly derpy-looking critters and spooky animals.  

This event is included with Admission.

Film Screening: Pride vs Prejudice: The Delwin Vriend Story

This Queer History Month, join us for a special screening of Pride vs. Prejudice: The Delwin Vriend Story. This award-winning documentary explores the landmark case of a gay Alberta teacher whose firing led the Supreme Court to take up the issue of sexual orientation as a human right. We’ll open the show with a performance from local drag artist Hot Wheelz! Be sure to stick around after the film for a short Q&A with director Darrin Hagen.

Film Rating: PG

Museum Skills Workshops: Preserving Your Pride: Scrap books and photos

October is Queer History Month and in this workshop, we’ll be focusing on preserving items like scrapbooks, photos, cards, and letters that hold queer stories and memories. These personal items tell the important stories that deserve to be kept for future generations of queer Albertans. Join archivists and conservators from RAM and the Provincial Archives of Alberta (PAA) to learn how to care for your own paper memorabilia collection. This workshop will give you an introduction to best practices in caring for photos, letters, cards, and scrapbooks.  

Book Celebration – Almost Loved

"What if you spend the rest of your life 

chasing love, only find her cowering

in the pit of your stomach?

What then?"

Almost Loved, a poetry collection written by emerging poet, Alberta-based author Rena Joy, will be connecting with readers this October and November. 

Almost Loved follows an adoptee from foster care as she searches for love and healing while pushing back on the labels assigned to her. Grappling with subjects of abuse, mental health, and deeply held grief, this collection aims to answer: what does it truly mean to be loved in a world where you're seen as second best? ​​

This debut collection has been described as “real, vulnerable, evocative,” offering a rare glimpse into the adoptee experience and a safe space for readers who may struggle with their mental health. 

Almost Loved is available for purchase wherever books are sold. Rena will be connecting with readers in October during Foster Care Awareness Month in Alberta and in November for National Adoption Awareness Month. 

Book Signing Dates, 12-4 pm. 

October 4, Chapters St. Albert.

October 11, Indigo Sherwood Park.

November 1, Indigo South Edmonton Common. 

Poetry Reading - November 27 - Stony Plain Library, 7 pm.

Rena Joy is a 2023 Canada Council for the Arts grant recipient for her poetry work and 2021 Alberta Foundation for the Arts grant recipient for her work for children. She was also the 2024 featured writer with the Edmonton Public Library. She lives in rural Alberta, on the outskirts of Edmonton. For more information about Almost Loved and Rena Joy, visit renajoypoetry.com.

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BIG STUFF

Big Stuff is a funny and heartfelt memoir of a married comedy duo as they take a deep dive into grief and the stuff we hold onto long after we’ve experienced a loss. Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus have created “one of those pieces of theatre that will stay with you for the rest of your life”. (Globe and Mail).

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll never look at your stuff the same way.

Lorna Crozier featured at this year's Monica Miller Memorial Lecture

MacEwan University's Monica Miller Memorial Lecture is an annual event celebrating women's voices in literature and creative writing. CKUA listeners around the world know Monica Miller was passionate about music. However, she was just as passionate about literature, particularly works by female authors. The annual Monica Miller Memorial Lecture features a prominent female writer, with the aim of amplifying women's voices in literature.

The Works Art & Design Festival 2026 Call to Enter

The Works International Visual Arts Society produces art and education initiatives that engage diverse communities, disrupt the everyday, and facilitate connection and wonder. The Works is now calling for proposals for exhibits and installations, to animate Sir Winston Churchill Square and other public spaces in Edmonton, June 19 to July 1, 2026.  

Applicants are encouraged to apply with projects that consider location, environment, proximity, and influence, while considering the following guiding questions:  

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