A Concrete Jungle Book
Joe Slabe's contemporary musical reimagines Kipling's classic in an urban landscape, following a young protagonist searching for identity, belongin…
Details & tickets →Things to Do in Alberta This Weekend: Oct 16–Oct 18, 2026
73 events across 4 Alberta cities this weekend — including 9 free. Concerts, festivals, theatre, sports, family fun and seasonal picks, gathered from across Alberta and updated twice daily. Prices and ticket status shown exactly as the sources publish them.
Open the full guide — search, filter, save & book →🆓 Free this weekend (9): Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death · Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves · Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: Swinguerra · DISCOVER Free Online Tutoring · Galactic Atmosphere · Johnathan Onyschuk: Old Growth · Origami and Movement Workshop · The Nightmare Before Christmas at Maisie's Magical Christmas House · metamorphose (Bridge Space)
🎭 Shows (17)
Ain't We Got Fun? A New Musical
A brand-new Canadian musical comedy by Bridget Ryan packed with vintage songs, tap dancing and backstage chaos, running September 25 - November 1,…
Details & tickets →Back to the '80s: The Magic Mix Tape — Jubilations Dinner Theatre
An '80s hit-song dinner-theatre revue built around everyone's favourite mixtape memories.
Available
Details & tickets →Candlelight Concerts
Candlelight concerts bring live multi-sensory musical performances to atmospheric Calgary venues.
Details & tickets →Despicable Minionz — Jubilations Dinner Theatre
A family dinner-theatre comedy about a reformed supervillain tasked with reforming other supervillains.
Available
Details & tickets →Evil Dead The Musical
Five college students unleash an evil force at a cabin in this musical stage adaptation of Evil Dead.
Onstage Splatter Zone tickets currently sold out (ATP page)
Details & tickets →Kwan Gor & Kayee Tam Live Concert 2026
Kwan Gor and Kayee Tam perform live in concert at the Grey Eagle Event Centre.
Details & tickets →Little Shop of Horrors
Theatre Calgary's production of the comedy-horror rock musical about a shop assistant and a mysterious plant.
On sale
Details & tickets →NMC Presents: Mudmen
High-octane Celtic-rock night with Mudmen on stage at Studio Bell.
On sale
Details & tickets →Our Little Secret: A True, New Musical
A true-story musical comedy about Noam Tomaschoff discovering he has more than 35 siblings around the world.
Available
Details & tickets →THE LODGER
Vertigo Theatre's thriller about a struggling couple and the mysterious lodger who appears at their door.
Details & tickets →The Marvelous Wonderettes: Dream On — Mayfield Dinner Theatre
The Wonderettes return to Springfield High in 1969 for a musical dinner-theatre celebration.
Available
Details & tickets →The Stoners of Stand-Up Comedy Live at The Drake in Canmore
Four headline comedians each perform a 20-minute set in a raw, unpredictable night of stand-up at The Drake in Canmore.
Details & tickets →The Tamer Tamed
The Jacobean sequel to The Taming of the Shrew, following Maria's marriage to Petruchio.
Available
Details & tickets →Tiny Hitman Tour 2026 - Bear Ghost w/ Sarah and the Safe Word & Spaceman Bob
Bear Ghost brings the Tiny Hitman Tour to The Starlite Room with Sarah and the Safe Word and Spaceman Bob. Doors at 6:00 PM; all-ages show.
Details & tickets →Tosca (Calgary Opera)
Puccini's Tosca opens Calgary Opera's 2026/27 season at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium.
On sale
Details & tickets →YAGA by Kat Sandler — Shadow Theatre
Shadow Theatre presents a seductive, eerie modern twist on the Baba Yaga myth.
Available
Details & tickets →🧒 Kids & Family (10)
Boo at the Zoo
A not-so-scary family Halloween celebration with costumed characters and festive activities at the Edmonton Valley Zoo.
Available
Details & tickets →Design Lab Sundays — Art Gallery of Alberta
A weekly Sunday design-and-build workshop series for kids, with a new hands-on project each week.
Available
Details & tickets →Fall Harvest — Feature Pyramid at Muttart Conservatory
A cozy autumn feature pyramid show with a coleus flower tower, glowing patio lights and rustic harvest displays.
Available
Details & tickets →Frightful Family Favourites: ParaNorman (2012)
A family Halloween-season screening of ParaNorman in the Burnswest Theatre at The Confluence.
Details & tickets →HallowSTEAM: Webs, Wings & Wiggly Things
Halloween gets a science makeover at Spark with live shows, hands-on activities and creepy creations all October.
Available
Details & tickets →Harvest Pumpkin Fest
A fall farm festival with farm animals, wagon rides through Scarecrow Alley, pony rides and pumpkins to take home.
All listed October dates marked FULL on the official site
Details & tickets →Haunted Mini Golf
WinSport's mini golf course gets a Halloween makeover with spooky surprises, eerie obstacles and ghouls and ghosts around every corner, in a licens…
Details & tickets →Origami and Movement Workshop
An all-ages workshop co-facilitated by visual artist Miya Turnbull and dance artist Shion Skye Carter, presented alongside their performance Omote…
FREE
Details & tickets →Pumpkin Palooza
A family pumpkin patch outing with seasonal photo opportunities and pumpkins to buy for Halloween.
Details & tickets →The Nightmare Before Christmas at Maisie's Magical Christmas House
A walk-through Halloween display of pumpkins, skeletons and haunted magic at a beloved Edmonton home display.
FREEAvailable
Details & tickets →🏀 Sports (3)
Calgary Flames vs Carolina Hurricanes
NHL regular-season game between the Calgary Flames and the Carolina Hurricanes at the Saddledome.
On sale
Details & tickets →Edmonton Oil Kings vs. Victoria Royals
WHL junior hockey as the Edmonton Oil Kings host the Victoria Royals at Rogers Place.
Available
Details & tickets →Run for Home
A community run at Emily Murphy Park listed on the City of Edmonton's public events calendar.
Details & tickets →🎉 Festivals (11)
DARK at Fort Edmonton Park
Edmonton's Halloween scare festival with two scare zones, four haunts, food trucks and roving entertainment.
Available
Details & tickets →Deadmonton Haunted House
Edmonton's long-running haunted house returns for its 13th season of scares.
Available
Details & tickets →Field of Screams
Field of Screams turns Cobb's Adventure Park into a haunted Halloween terror attraction.
Details & tickets →Fluid Fest 2026
Fluid Fest is a citywide celebration of dance and contemporary performance across Calgary venues.
Details & tickets →Galactic Atmosphere
A free outdoor installation of 11 massive illuminated planets with holographic and space-themed visuals in Churchill Square.
FREEAvailable
Details & tickets →LitFest Alberta
Canada's original nonfiction festival brings authors to more than thirty events in downtown Edmonton, celebrating life stories, politics, science,…
Details & tickets →NorthwestFEARFest
Edmonton's horror film festival closes at Metro Cinema on Oct 18 with a final day of festival-branded screenings, including the Late Night Breakfas…
Details & tickets →Pumpkins After Dark Calgary
An outdoor walk-through trail of illuminated pumpkin sculptures and displays with music, sound and special effects.
On sale
Details & tickets →Pumpkins After Dark Edmonton
An outdoor walk-through Halloween trail of more than 10,000 hand-carved illuminated pumpkins at Borden Park.
Available
Details & tickets →ScreamFest
ScreamFest is a large Halloween event with haunted houses, carnival games and creepy live entertainment.
Details & tickets →Wordfest Imaginairium Festival
Wordfest's 31st annual Imaginairium literary festival presents 41 shows with 60 Canadian and international authors across Calgary venues including…
Details & tickets →🍔 Food & Drink (2)
Sunday Safari Brunch
Weekly Sunday brunch at the zoo with waffle bar, omelettes and a chocolate fountain before exploring the grounds.
On sale
Details & tickets →The Kitchen: Kids can Bake! (Muffins)
A hands-on baking class for ages 6 to 17 in The Kitchen at the Stanley A. Milner Library, where kids do the measuring and mixing and leave with a d…
Registration full
Details & tickets →✨ More events (30)
All Netted Together: Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and the Social Life of a Theory
An exhibition drawn from Libraries and Cultural Resources' recently acquired D. Hall Darwin-Wallace Collection, bringing together over one hundred…
Details & tickets →Alumni All-Access 2026
UCalgary Alumni's annual celebration of the best of UCalgary, with in-person and virtual public talks, film, tours and experiences, explicitly open…
Details & tickets →Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death
An exhibition of Arthur Jafa's celebrated 2016 video work Love is the Message, the Message is Death, which assembles a vast visual record of Black…
FREE
Details & tickets →Brendan Fernandes: Other Moves
A solo exhibition by Brendan Fernandes, whose multidisciplinary practice at the intersection of dance and visual art explores race, queer culture,…
FREE
Details & tickets →Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca: Swinguerra
Swinguerra (2019), a video installation developed with three competitive dance groups from the peripheries of Recife, Brazil, celebrating music and…
FREE
Details & tickets →Calgary Tattoo and Arts Festival
One of North America's biggest tattoo shows, with live tattooing by local and international artists at the BMO Centre.
Details & tickets →CrossCraft Pattern Systems
A research-creation exhibition exploring how traditional craft techniques can be transformed into new visual and structural pattern systems in cont…
Details & tickets →Curtis Talwst Santiago: worlds, worlds, worlds
A solo exhibition in the Flanagan Family Gallery centred on Santiago's Infinity Series dioramas — intimate palm-sized worlds of Caribbean community…
Details & tickets →DISCOVER Free Online Tutoring
DISCOVER provides free one-to-one homework help, tutoring, and academic guidance to students in Grades 4 to 12, connecting them with university and…
FREE
Details & tickets →Deadly Alberta True Crime Tour
Outdoor true-crime walking tour exploring Alberta's mass murders, executions and unsolved cases.
On sale
Details & tickets →Design It: 3D Printed Fidget Clicker
A design class at the Stanley A. Milner Library where participants learn the basics of 3D modelling for 3D printing by creating their own fidget cl…
Details & tickets →Diane Borsato: A Clean Place to Swim
An art exhibition by Diane Borsato presenting new and past works exploring the liberating and communal possibilities of being in the water.
🏞️ Park pass required
Details & tickets →Edmonton Fall Home Show
A home-products and services marketplace with displays and inspiration for renovation and decor projects.
Available
Details & tickets →Ghazaleh Avarzamani: Churn, Earn, Burn and then Return
An exhibition in the Ring Gallery and Atrium where Ghazaleh Avarzamani uses playgrounds, board games and sport arenas — including a Monopoly-inspir…
Details & tickets →Ghost Teas
A Halloween-season Ghost Teas sitting at Heritage Park, listed on the park's events calendar for October 17 and 18 from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Details & tickets →Hangings, Homicides & History: A True Crime Tour
A true crime walking tour exploring real tales of murder, executions and Calgary history at The Confluence.
Details & tickets →Held. Together.
A group exhibition featuring Glenna Cardinal, seth cardinal dodginghorse, Dwayne Martineau, and Amanda McCavour, using plants as a curatorial start…
Details & tickets →High Level Bridge Haunted Trolley Tours
A one-hour haunted trolley ride over the High Level Bridge and through Old Strathcona at sunset.
Available
Details & tickets →Johnathan Onyschuk: Old Growth
A Project Space installation of basswood 'spirit carvings' — anonymous traditional folk-art faces cut into wood — accumulated by Johnathan Onyschuk…
FREE
Details & tickets →NMC Tours: Backstage Pass
An exclusive backstage tour of Studio Bell taking visitors inside the National Music Centre's recording studios, offered at 12:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m…
Details & tickets →NMC Tours: Greatest Hits
A guided tour of the National Music Centre's world-renowned collection exploring the world of music technology and unique instruments, offered at 1…
Details & tickets →Perspective Film Series: Beauty and the Dogs (2017)
A Dome Theatre screening of Kaouther Ben Hania's Beauty and the Dogs (2017), in Arabic with English subtitles, as part of Contemporary Calgary's Pe…
Details & tickets →SUE: The T. rex Experience
A travelling Field Museum exhibition built around SUE, the most complete and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever found, with a 40-foot skeleton c…
Details & tickets →The Confluence Craft Club
A cozy community crafting meetup (ages 13+) where participants bring their own knit, cross-stitch, scrapbook or other craft projects to work on ove…
Details & tickets →Thick as Thieves
A contemporary art exhibition organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery exploring connection, fidelity and covert bonds between artists and artworks.
🏞️ Park pass required
Details & tickets →University of Alberta Ghost Tours
A haunted historical walking tour of the University of Alberta campus sharing ghost stories and mysteries.
Available
Details & tickets →What I Made When My People Were Dying — FAB Gallery
An MFA Intermedia exhibition by Aynaz Raoufian and Mona Sahi exploring memory, grief, resistance and political uncertainty through installation, sc…
Details & tickets →When our eyes touch
An exhibition of portraiture by Peter Whyte and Catharine Robb Whyte tracing their art-school years, partnership and life in the Banff community.
🏞️ Park pass required
Details & tickets →Where Dark Things Dwell – Outdoor Escape Room
An outdoor escape-room experience at Heritage Park running Thursday to Sunday evenings through Halloween (7:00 p.m. Sundays; 7:30 p.m. Thursday–Sat…
Details & tickets →metamorphose (Bridge Space)
A Bridge Space exhibition of mixed-media animations by 21 youth artists from a fall-break Youth Animation Camp facilitated by Quickdraw Animation S…
FREE
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