The Best Things to do in Edmonton this Weekend - June 17-19
Thursday Night Special
Craft Beer at the Cabin features 1️⃣8️⃣ local breweries, delicious food, entertainment and the gorgeous river valley views. Your ticket gets you in, and TWO food and drink items, and a take-home mini beer stein.
Streetcar Party: Cask and Live Music at Sunset
This summer, enjoy an intimate party in the streetcar. Live music and local brews in an hour long date night that you're going to look back on as one of your favourite summer dates. Live music will start your date, as you enjoy your chance to try a local seasonal brew in the Streetcar, watching the setting sun from the best location in the city, atop the high level bridge.
Friday
Opening Night of The Freewill Shakespeare Festival
After two years away from our usual stomping grounds, we are bringing Shakespeare back to the park! This season, we are bringing back the audience favourite A Midsummer Night's Dream, and for the very first time we will present Measure for Measure.
Spark in the Park: Beaver Hills Beginning
From the ice age to Edmonton, come walk the hills that gave us life. A short guided hike around Elk Island's Lakeview Trail has you basking in the sounds of new life like frog song, bird song, and beaver slaps as we gently explore amiskwaciy, the Beaver Hills. Connect with each other and with the land that has supported life since time immemorial to present day.
Registration is required, payment is required at the time of registration. Spaces are limited, contact 780-992-2965 or interp.elkisland@pc.gc.ca to register now for June 3, June 10, or June 17.
GOLF & TACOS EDMONTON : HOT SUMMER NIGHTS
Golf + Tacos Edmonton is stoked to bring the golf gals back together and soak up a juicy sunset together as we host our first on-course social, Hot Summer Nights, on Friday, June 17 at Eagle Rock GC! Open to all golf gals--current lesson participants, GT alumni, GT gals from other cities, and any golf gals in the area looking to hit the course in a fun and positive environment.
Beaumont Blues & Roots Festival
BBRF 2022 will be held June 17-18 at Four Seasons Park in Beaumont. This 2 day event is featuring all those festival staples that you have grown to love ... beer gardens, food trucks, vendor village and of course... LIVE MUSIC!
Saturday
Flow in the Dark Yoga with a View
Join us for a late night, sunset, glow yoga class where you can practice in the setting sun, with glow-sticks adorning your body. This class is an hour-long yoga session. Please bring your own mat, insect repellant, water. Dress in layers. It's outdoor season and we're going to get you glowin' but you know how it is, after dark! Catch you in the glow, friends.
Saturday Night Salsa Lessons at Azucar
Every Saturday, join a salsa-dancing lesson at Azucar Taco House. The half hour lesson is a great start to the night, to learn moves to put into place the high energy dance party that is Azucar Taco huoes on the weekends. The lesson is FREE and it’s BOGO margaritas between 8-9.
Campios first Summer Market of the year is this Saturday June 18th from 10AM-2:30PM featuring 16 amazing businesses. Everything ranging from Vintage and Artisan made Goods, to soaps, candles, jewelry, fashions, and much much more! A perfect pairing with brunch, lunch and beers inside the brewery! Fingers crossed for a change to the weather as all our vendors are busy preparing this week!
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Take an Edmonton Food Bike Tour
Get ready to embark on an exciting two-wheel food adventure! Cycle from fabulous restaurant to fabulous restaurant tasting healthy fare direct from the imaginations of the area’s top chefs. Your Chef Table Living Food Bike Tour is a fresh air/food experience you won’t soon forget. Reserve your food bike tour spot now!!
Pride on 104 Street - Beer Garden & Drag Brunch
Come downtown to celebrate pride month on the 18th of June, on the streets of 104th with music, drag brunch (ticketed event), beer garden and food by Taco Nova, Northern Chicken & Prarie Catering.
Sunday
Experience Omakase Night with Chef Mitsuru
Chef Mitsuru is originally from Japan but has shared his expertise in multiple restaurants listed in Canada’s Top 100 in Calgary. Mitsuru also has experience in Michelin Star Restaurants during his time in Spain and has learned cooking techniques from his exposure to French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Canadian, and Japanese cuisines. These techniques have allowed him to develop and deliver multiple dimensions to his omakase dining experiences. Alongside our very own Chef and Leader, Iwa, Dorinku Osaka invites you to witness how these two chefs reimagine and redefine izakaya cuisine.
Father Day
It’s Fathers Day and you need to have something special planned for all the dads in your life. Many of the local restaurants are planning special Bbq dinners or brunch. RGE RD’s to-go specials cover it all and include a vino list, cocktail kits, charcuterie boxes, and grilling feasts.
Hansen Distillery Presents: Father's Day Mixology Class
This year's Father's Day Cocktail Class—brought to you by our in-house cocktail connoisseurs—showcases three of our specialty craft cocktails! Join us for a night of mixing, creating, and customizing your very own cocktails and celebrating dads everywhere.
Edmonton Cemetery Tours - Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Join us as we take a historical stroll through Mount Pleasant Cemetery and learn about the many historical people that help shape early day Strathcona and Edmonton. From Immigrants, politicians, activists, historians, murderers and the many events that shaped our city. Mount Plesant Cemetery “tells the story of Strathcona’s roots and reflects the turn-of-the-century boom town”
