Here are 15 ways to spend your weekend in and around Edmonton
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Things are really heating up this weekend with a variety of festivals, concerts and cool happenings around Edmonton. Here's what you need to know to plan the perfect weekend.
The Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival is on now until Aug. 21. Artists from around the world and art lovers are flocking to Old Strathcona to take in more than 160 shows and outdoor performances.
When it comes to entertainment, The Great Outdoors Comedy Festival promises laughs at the Edmonton Exhibition Lands Racetrack Infield from Friday to Sunday featuring headliners Amy Schumer, David Spade, Bill Burr, Nick Swardson, Pauly Shore and Tom Segura.
If you're looking to escape the city and explore some down home hospitality the 10th annual Alberta Open Farm Days is this weekend.
More than 100 locations throw open the farm gates to welcome visitors including the Edmonton Urban Farm, Prairie Gardens and Adventure Farm and the Spruce Grove and District Agricultural Society.
You can see more on Alberta Open Farm Days this week on Our Edmonton Saturday at 10 a.m., Sunday and Monday at 11 a.m. on CBC TV and CBC Gem.
If you want to skip the farm and go directly to the food, check out the fourth annual Alberta on the Plate: Dine Around Festival, which starts Friday and runs until Aug. 21. The festival features a dozen Edmonton and area restaurants and breweries.
For gourmets into fungus, the City of Champignons Wild Mushroom Expo is on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the University of Alberta Botanic Garden.
Included with admission are mushroom walks, talks and mushroom memorabilia for sale. The event is hosted by the Alberta Mycological Society.
Have a strange stone? Or a funny bone? You can bring it down to the front entry plaza of Fort Edmonton Park this weekend and experts from the Royal Alberta Museum, Archaeological Society of Alberta and Edmonton Geological Society will be on hand to identify objects at their Stones and Bones Event. There will also be talks and sample digs.
The Edmonton Pride Float will take to the North Saskatchewan River on Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. The new event is a rainbow river float for the LGBTQ2 community and friends starting at Terwillegar Park and ending at Sir Wilfrid Laurier Park. Entertainment includes local drag queens, music, and mermaids along the river journey. All people on the water must be over the age of 18.
The Alberta Indigenous Games kick off today in Rundle Park and run until Aug. 18 featuring more than 3,000 athletes taking part in sports, traditional games, special events and making educational and cultural connections.
The annual Samson Cree Nation powwow starts Friday and runs until Sunday at Maskwacis and includes dance competitions, baseball, a 10 km run and more.
You could look up, way up to catch the Perseid meteor shower expected to peak from Thursday to Saturday in spots like the RASC Observatory, the Telus World of Science or anywhere really in the dark sky preserve east of Edmonton.
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