Arts Laboratories

To find out when specific Arts Laboratories are taking place, you can visit the schedule pages for each day of the festival. Below are the descriptions of the different Arts Laboratories you and your family can take part in this year.

Paper Making

ALL DAY! 12:00 – 6:00pm Saturday and Sunday

Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts

Julie Drew, has been making handmade paper for over 15 years. She uses cattail, thistle, poplar fluff, other seeds, blue jeans and more to create beautiful papers. Julie shares her knowledge and teaches others to express themselves by creating unique pieces of paper—an art in itself.

Artist Trading Cards

ALL DAY! 12:00 – 6:00 Saturday and Sunday

Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts

Sprucewood Branch of the Edmonton Public Library presents an Artists Trading Cards session. Create miniature works of art. Pocket art that you can trade! Have your work exhibited at the Sprucewood Library.

Sponsored by the Edmonton Public Library

Return Top Fun

Sunday 2:00pm

Popular Workshop Corner

Return Tops are the new retro toy for today! You can learn all the groovy moves and ‘ups and downs’ from Canadian National Champion, Chris Mikulin.

Flow Science Hoops

Saturday 3:00pm

Popular Workshop Corner

Hoop dance with Carla Snow, international instructor and performer.

Hoop it Up!

Sunday 3:00pm

Popular Workshop Corner

Hoop dance with Nina Infinity Eve: Dance your way to health, harmony and happiness.