We are a community based, grassroots initiative engaged in developing 118th Avenue as the Community Arts Avenue of Edmonton.
9351-118 ave
Edmonton, AB, Canada
p. 780-471-1580
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Avenue Goes to the Dogs Poster
Title: Avenue Goes to The Dogs Festival
Location: Alberta Avenue Community Centre, 9210 118 Avenue
Link out: Click here
Description: June 13th
10:00-4:00pm
Alberta Ave Community League
Come out with your dog for a real “dog day afternoon”!
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2009-06-13
End Time: 16:00
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
We have put together a short slideshow of images from last year’s Deep Freeze. Please spread the word and share this video with your friends and family to help us get the good news out that DEEP FREEZE IS COMING THIS WEEKEND!.
Feel free to embed the video on your own blog, your Facebook profile, wherever.
And speaking of Facebook, if you haven’t RSVP’d to our Facebook event yet, please take a moment to join us there. You can find the Facebook event for Deep Freeze at …
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102363230075.
From there, you can also invite friends and family to the Festival.
Don’t forget the “Melt the Deep Freeze” dance with Tilo Paiz on Saturday night. See you then!
Monday, September 29th, 2008
There may have been a fall chill in the air this weekend (especially Saturday), but that chill disappeared the moment one walked into The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse. Certainly, one could say it was the warmth of good music that took it away. And the music WAS great. I was able to hear it all day Saturday as I hosted The Carrot stage. Lynette McKell and The Low Flying Planes were an incredible ensemble with guitars, 3 vocalists, bass, banjo, piano and accordian (not all at the same time, mind you). The energy continued throughout the day with the smooth Jazz of Karen Porkka and Mo LeFebvre, the infectious beats of Pre-Post and the folk stylings of Leckie Olsen and Cora McLachlan. Yes, such music would warm any cold soul, but it’s not the music I’m talking about.
One could also say it was the excellent coffee, cinnamon buns and treats served by our hardworking volunteer baristas that brought relief from the chill, but I’m talking about something more literal than all of that.
Body count!
Yes, that’s right. The sheer amount of people packed into the Carrot like art-loving sardines on Saturday and Sunday was enough to warm even the coldest winter day. And this particular weekend NOT being winter, it was VERY hot in there!
If you were able to stop in and helps us celebrate Kaleido this weekend, thank you for your support. And thank you for raising the temperature of the Carrot!
Here are some photos I shot throughout the day at the Festival. If you have some photos you’d like to add to this collection, please email them to info@artsontheave.org. See you at our next festival, Byzantine Winter Festival 2009!
Friday, September 19th, 2008
The Arts on the Ave organizers are asking all you milk drinkers out there (and you know who you are) to donate empty plastic two- and four–litre containers to be made into lanterns for the Kaleido Family Arts festival Parade of Light.
Alternatively, the creative among you could make your own lantern for the Sept 27 evening.
Drop off empty containers at the Carrot.
9351 – 118 Ave
Monday, September 8th, 2008
View the Festival’s Facebook event page
The Kaleido Family Arts Festival is alive and well on Facebook!
Drop on by (just click the link above) to let us know you are coming. You can also upload your photos, videos and comments about the festival there, and invite your friends to come to Edmonton’s latest, greatest multidisciplinary family arts festival! Spreading the word on Facebook will go a long way to helping us get the word out.
Let’s show this city what a great neighborhood Alberta Avenue is to make and share art.
Friday, January 18th, 2008
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Hello Everyone, the Deep Freeze Festival was very successful and thanks to all who came and especially to those who volunteered to help out. We welcomed over 1000 people to the festival and had lots of positive feedback.
The top three winners of the ice carving competition were: Michael Rapati (first), Helen Rogers (second) and the chef team from NAIT: James Szutarski and Michael Gobin (third). Pictures will be coming soon.
Please mark January 19th on your calendar as the next Artist Trading Card event at the Carrot Cafe. Upcoming Friday night performers include Dr. Blu on January 18th and Terry Morrison on January 25th.
Check www.thecarrot.ca for more information.
Monday, December 31st, 2007
Just when you thought the holiday festivities were over, The Sculptors’ Association of Alberta, in partnership with Arts on the Ave and the Avenue Initiative & City of Edmonton brings you Deep Freeze: A Byzantine Winter Adventure. Mid January marks the start of the New Year on the Julian calendar, providing the perfect excuse for a mid-winter festival with a Byzantine twist.
On January 12th, 2008 between 11 am and 5pm, join us on Alberta Avenue for a day of family activities including hay rides, broomball and snowshoeing workshops, snow sculpting workshops, indoor art experiences, ancient music, and Ukrainian food.
The centrepiece feature of the festival is the Sculptors’ Association of Alberta’s “one block challenge” ice sculpture competition. Starting at 11 am, ice sculptors will rev up their chainsaws, hone their chisels and transform blocks of ice into beautiful pieces of art. The top three winners will be announced at 4pm and the display will remain on the Avenue for public viewing throughout the week. Local artists Ritchie Velthuis and Stuart Ballah will create an ice sculpture of Byzantine proportions to stand as a backdrop for the sculpture competition. All activities are free and are scheduled to run throughout the day in and around the Alberta Avenue community hall at 9210-118th Avenue.