It looks like summer is here to stay, and that means it’s time for my listing of summer festivals & events, powered by ShareEdmonton. Below you’ll find dozens of events with a website, dates, and links to social media for each. You’ll also find a link to the event at ShareEdmonton and a link to an iCal for the event. I hope you find this listing as useful as I do.

What the Truck?! by @DaveFeltham

Festivals

Here’s my list of 50+ festivals and events you can look forward to this summer in and around Edmonton!

Event	Dates	Links
NUOVA Opera & Music Theatre Festival	May 22 – July 4
What the Truck?!	May 23 & more!
International Children’s Festival	May 26-30
Edmonton International Cat Festival	May 30
Oliver Community Festival	May 30
eek! Comic & Pop Culture Fest	May 30-31
Bikeology Festival (Bike Month)	June 1-30
NextGen Month	June 1-30
Creative Age Festival	June 4-6
Mercer Summer Super Party	June 5
Edmonton Craft Beer Festival	June 5-6
Nextfest	June 5-15
Edmonton Pride Festival	June 5-14
Edmonton Pride Parade	June 6 @ 11am
Bonnie Fest	June 6
Heart of the City Festival	June 6-7
Sprouts New Play Festival for Kids	June 6-7
Improvaganza	June 17-27
Summer Solstice Festival	June 18-21
Beaumont Blues & Roots Festival	June 19-21
Porkapalooza BBQ Festival	June 19-21
Edmonton International Jazz Festival	June 19-28
The Works Art & Design Festival	June 19 – July 1
Highlandia Festival	June 20
Freewill Shakespeare Festival	June 23 – July 19
Street Jam Festival	June 25
Found Festival	June 25-28
Kick It Up in Little Italy!	June 27
Pets in the Park	June 28
BaconFestYEG	June 30
Canada Day	July 1
Feats Festival of Dance	July 1-12
Edmonton International Street Performers Festival	July 3-12
Seven Music Festival	July 4
Historic Festival & Doors Open Edmonton	July 5-12
Taste of Edmonton	July 16-25
K-Days	July 17-26
K-Days Parade	July 17 @ 10am
Interstellar Rodeo	July 24-26
Servus Heritage Festival	August 1-3
Rock’n August	August 4-8
Edmonton Folk Music Festival	August 6-9
Animethon	August 7-9
Cariwest	August 7-9
Cariwest Parade	August 8 @ 12pm
Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival	August 13-23
Edmonton Rock Music Festival	August 14-15
Edmonton Dragon Boat Festival	August 14-16
Edmonton Latin Festival	August 15-16
Edmonton Blues Festival	August 21-23
Edmonton Airshow	August 22-23
Symphony Under the Sky	August 27-30
Symphony in the City	September 4-5
SONiC BOOM	September 5-6
Ignite Edmonton Festival	September 9-10
Kaleido Family Arts Festival	September 11-13

You can check out a calendar view of festivals here or you can download the iCal feed for your own apps.

FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015

Edmonton is always a great place for summer sports, but this year is special. Edmonton is one of the official host cities for the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015. We’ll host 11 matches this summer from June 6 through July 5, including the kickoff match between Canada and China. There’s a Team Canada Fan March taking place before the game too, from Borden Park to Commonwealth Stadium. In addition to the group matches, we’re hosting two Round of 16 matches, one quarter-final match, one semi-final match, and the third place match. You can see all of the matches on ShareEdmonton.

The City of Edmonton will be showing some of the games on a huge outdoor screen in Centennial Plaza (behind the Stanley Milner Library downtown). Ticket prices range from $20 to $115 and include bus, LRT, or park & ride service to and from the game. There are a few contests you can enter too. For example, Edmonton Tourism is giving away 60 tickets.

Happy Summer in Edmonton

There are of course many more events listed in the ShareEdmonton calendar, so check it out! Have I missed something that should be included? Let me know in the comments and I’ll add it.

Happy summer!

Here’s my listing of summer festivals & events for 2014, powered by ShareEdmonton. Below you’ll find dozens of events with a website, dates, and links to social media for each. You’ll also find a link to the event at ShareEdmonton and a link to an iCal for the event. I hope you find this listing as useful as I do.

Festivals

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get this post completed before all of these events started, so a few have already come and gone. I’ve left them in here though – this’ll be a handy starting point for next year!

Event	Dates	Links
Vocal Arts Festival	May 10 – June 29
International Children’s Festival	May 27-31
Dreamspeaker’s Film Festival	May 28-31
eek! Comic & Pop Culture Fest	May 31 – June 1
Bikeology Festival	June 1-30
Creative Age FEST	June 3-8
NextGen Month	June 4-26
Nextfest	June 5-15
Edmonton Craft Beer Festival	June 6-7
Edmonton Pride Festival	June 6-15
Edmonton Pride Parade	June 7 @ 12pm
Bonnie Fest	June 7
Edmonton International Cat Festival	June 7
Oliver Community Festival	June 7
Heart of the City Festival	June 7-8
What the Truck?!	June 13 & more!
Porkapalooza BBQ Festival	June 13-15
Sprouts New Play Festival for Kids	June 14-15
Improvaganza	June 18-28
The Works Art & Design Festival	June 19 – July 1
Summer Solstice Festival	June 20-22
Edmonton International Jazz Festival	June 20-29
Highlandia Festival	June 21
Edmonton International Athletics Festival	June 21, July 6, Sept. 12
Pets in the Park	June 22
Found Festival	June 26-29
Feats Festival of Dance	June 28 – July 14
BaconFestYEG	July 4
Edmonton International Street Performers Festival	July 4-13
Historic Festival & Doors Open Edmonton	July 6-13
Freewill Shakespeare Festival	July 9-27
Taste of Edmonton	July 17-26
K-Days	July 18-27
K-Days Parade	July 18 @ 10am
Interstellar Rodeo	July 25-27
Servus Heritage Festival	August 2-4
Edmonton Folk Music Festival	August 7-10
Edmonton Rock Music Festival	August 8-9
Animethon	August 8-10
Cariwest	August 8-10
Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival	August 14-24
Edmonton Blues Festival	August 15-17
Edmonton Dragon Boat Festival	August 15-17
Edmonton Latin Festival	August 16-17
Viva Italia Viva Edmonton	August 24
SONiC BOOM	August 29-31
Country Music Week	September 4-7
E-Town Festival	September 11-12
Kaleido Family Arts Festival	September 12-14

You can check out a calendar view of festivals here or you can download the iCal feed for your own apps. There are some festivals that have happened in previous years that don’t seem to be happening this year (such as Rubaboo and Open Sky Music Festival) so I have left them out for now.

Sports

This year I wanted to highlight the many special sports events that are happening in Edmonton, in addition to Eskimos and FC Edmonton games. It’s an exciting time for track, basketball, and of course, soccer!

Event	Dates	Links
Edmonton Grads International Classic	June 26-28
U15 & U17 National Basketball Championships	July 25-30
FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Canada	August 5-16
Edmonton Marathon	August 23-24
World Triathlon Grand Final	August 26 – September 1
Canada 55+ Games	August 27-30
Tour of Alberta	September 5-7

There are of course many more events listed in the ShareEdmonton calendar, so check it out! Have I missed something that should be included? Let me know in the comments and I’ll add it.

Happy summer!

It was a little over five years ago that I posted about this notion of a directory of Edmonton blogs. Here’s what I wrote at the time:

“I have started tagging blogs at del.icio.us with the tag edmontonblogs. This is really more of an “in the meantime” kind of activity, because as Pete points out, an actual directory website would be much more useful. Maybe I’ll build it one of these days.”

I finally built it.

A couple weeks ago I launched the latest release of ShareEdmonton. With the new version you can browse local blogs, see an always-updated collection of new blog posts, and you can search more than 10,000 posts written by local bloggers.

While my tagging of local blogs at delicious didn’t last long, my desire for a directory of Edmonton blogs never diminished. Over the years I collected local blogs and subscribed to them in Google Reader. That worked fairly well for me, but it didn’t help anyone else. A couple of years ago the idea of a directory came up again, and Reg, myself, and few others started looking at the problem. That project eventually fizzled, but I think it helped the Edmonton Journal launch its community blogs page, an idea championed by Karen Unland. While that page was a step in the right direction, it included a very limited number of blogs and was often broken (the latest update seems to have fixed the issues with broken or incorrect links).

There was a lot of false starts along the way, and far more challenges to overcome than I would have anticipated, but I’m very happy with the new release of ShareEdmonton. Is it a perfect, 100% complete, one-stop-shop for Edmonton blogs? Of course not. But it will help you keep up-to-date with a large number of Edmonton bloggers, and with your help it’ll get even better over time.

User Stories

For the initial release I wanted to make it easy to see the latest blog posts, and to browse recently updated blogs. Most blogs are updated relatively infrequently, and I didn’t want you to have to sift through those just to see what’s new. That’s a big part of the reason why there’s an emphasis placed on how recent something is in the UI.

Here are some of the scenarios this release addresses, expressed in the form of user stories:

• As a user, I want a “home page” for all the blog-related functionality, so that I can remember a single URL (shareedmonton.ca/blogs).
• As a user, I want to see the most recently updated blogs, with a title and photo (if one exists) for each blog.
• As a user, I want to see the most recently updated blogs by tag or category (such as food).
• As a user, I want to see the most recent blog posts, with a title, description, and photo (if one exists) for each post.
• As a user, I want to see the most recent blog posts for a specific blog (such as mine).
• As a user, I want to see the most recent blog posts for a specific blog tag or category (such as food). This is any post from a blog that has been categorized as a “food” blog. So if Sharon wrote a post about politics, it would show up here.
• As a user, I want to see the most recent blog posts for a specific tag or category (such as food). This is any post tagged by the blogger as a “food” post. So if I wrote a post about food and tagged it appropriately, it would show up here.
• As a user, I want to search all blog posts (for a query such as food).
• As a user, I want to see all blog posts by day for the last week, with a headline and source for each.
• As a user, I want to add a new blog to ShareEdmonton.

I come up with new user stories all the time, and I welcome any feedback and/or suggestions that you might have!

Aggregation & Curation

I followed that post back in 2007 with a list of blog posts talking about Edmonton. My aggregation & curation was fairly ad hoc back then, but now I write my Edmonton Notes every Sunday and Media Monday Edmonton every Monday. I try to include blog posts in those, but it definitely takes effort to keep on top of what everyone has written. I keep track of things I find during the week, and I do a quick scan at the end of week to find what I missed. Others post similar entries: Sharon does Food Notes, Karen does her Edmonton New Media Roundup, The Unknown Studio does the Edmonton Blog Watch, etc. These are all really useful and people love them, but they do take work.

There’s a big difference between aggregation (gathering and perhaps indexing) and curation (sorting, categorizing, analyzing, presenting). When the bloggers I mentioned above write their list posts, they’re doing both activities. My hope is that with ShareEdmonton’s new blog functionality they can focus more on the curation part, which is where they really add value. I think “show me all the latest posts from Edmonton bloggers” is a task for software, and “tell me which are important and why” is primarily a task for people. But you need the former before you can do the latter.

(I said “primarily a task for people” above because increasingly we’ll see software doing curation too! I plan to add different ways to browse blog posts to ShareEdmonton, and one example might be a list of the most commented on posts of the week. That’s an algorithmic way of sorting and presenting, which is curation.)

Statistics

You know me, I love statistics. I couldn’t do this post without at least one graph! So here you go, blogs by platform currently indexed at ShareEdmonton:

As expected, most blogs are based on WordPress. It’ll be interesting to see if this changes over time!

Add Your Blog!

There are nearly 150 blogs currently being aggregated and indexed at ShareEdmonton, but I know that’s just the tip of the iceberg. I’ll continue adding blogs myself, but you can help by submitting your own blog or someone else’s here.

The first thing you’ll notice if you have been using ShareEdmonton for any length of time is the new design. I decided to embrace Twitter Bootstrap as the foundation for the website’s layout and styling, a decision I am extremely happy about. With Bootstrap, the site is responsive and mobile-friendly, lightweight, and standards-compliant. It should look great on an HD screen, a mobile phone, and everything in-between. Another UI-related change is that Google Maps has been replaced with Leaflet and Open Street Maps.

The majority of the work in this release was done behind-the-scenes. For instance, I completely revamped the the way ShareEdmonton imports data so that it is more automatic and much more reliable. Another big change is the underlying infrastructure – ShareEdmonton now runs completely on Windows Azure. This is the kind of thing that is transparent to the end user but means that I can spend far less time worrying about servers and much more time adding new features!

Speaking of new features, there are a bunch in the latest release:

• Blogs! You can now use ShareEdmonton to keep up-to-date with local bloggers. More than 100 blogs and 10,000 posts have been indexed so far. I have focused on blogs that update fairly regularly, but I know there are many, many more that should be included. You can add blogs here. There are two primary views for blog posts: the visual view and the headline view (which shows posts from the last week).
• News Releases! Similar to blogs, ShareEdmonton is now indexing news releases. There’s a lot of room to improve, but so far about 20 sources and a few thousand releases have been indexed, including every City of Edmonton news release since January 2009.
• Event pages have been updated with the new visual view, similar to blogs and news releases. I think it’s a much more enjoyable way to browse what’s coming up. Also, you can now add your own calendars for ShareEdmonton to import automatically.
• The weather page now supports watches and warnings. If Environment Canada has issued a watch or warning, you’ll see it across the top of the weather page, but you’ll also now see a notification icon on the toolbar across the top of the site, no matter what page you’re on.

There are also dozens and dozens of bug fixes, data updates, and other small improvements.

I’ll be writing more about some of these new features over the next week, but for now, take a look and let me know what you think!

Exactly a year ago, I posted a listing of as many of the summer festivals happening in Edmonton as I could find. We truly are Festival City – there were 25 festivals in my initial list. Lots of people found it useful, so I thought I’d do the same again this year!

Once again powered by ShareEdmonton, here are a list of 29 festivals you can look forward to over the next few months, complete with iCal feeds and some basic social media information.

• International Children’s Festival – May 31 to June 4 
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
• Bikeology Festival – June 1 to 30
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @bikeology
  • Facebook
• Dreamspeakers Film Festival – June 1 to 4 
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @Dreamspeakers
  • Facebook
• Nextfest – June 2 to 12 
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @NextfestArtsCo
  • Facebook
• Heart of the City Festival – June 4 & 5
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • Facebook
• Creative Age Festival – June 7 to 13
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
• Edmonton Pride Festival – June 10 to 19
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal

• Sprouts New Play Festival for Kids – June 11 & 12

  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal

• Improvaganza – June 15 to 25

  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @theatresports
  • Facebook
  • YouTube

• Rock The Square – June 18

  • ShareEdmonton

  • iCal

  • Facebook

  • YouTube

• Edmonton International Jazz Festival – June 24 to July 3

  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @edmontonjazz
  • Facebook
• The Works Art & Design Festival – June 23 to July 5
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • Facebook
• Summer Solstice Festival – June 24 to 26
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
• Freewill Shakespeare Festival – June 30 to July 24
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • Facebook
• Silly Summer Parade – July 1
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
• Edmonton & Northern Alberta Historic Festival – July 8 to 17
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
• Edmonton International Street Performers Festival – July 8 to 17
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @EdmontonSPF
  • Facebook
• SOSFest – July 10
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @SOSFEST
  • Facebook
• Capital EX Parade & Capital EX – July 21 to 31
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @CapitalExFun
  • Facebook

• A Taste of Edmonton – July 21 to 30

  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal

• Servus Heritage Festival – July 30 to August 1

  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @EdmHeritageFest
  • Facebook

• Edmonton Folk Music Festival – August 4 to 7

  • ShareEdmonton

  • iCal

  • @edmfolkfest

  • Facebook

  • YouTube

• Animethon – August 5 to 7
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @Animethon_Asapa
  • Facebook
• Cariwest – August 5 to 7
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • Facebook
• Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival – August 11 to 21
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @edmontonfringe
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
• Edmonton Dragon Boat Festival – August 19 to 21
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @EDBRC
  • Facebook
• Edmonton’s Labatt Blues Festival – August 19 to 21
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
• Symphony Under the Sky – September 3 to 5
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @edmsymphony
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
• Kaleido Family Arts Festival – September 9 to 11
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal

You’ll note that each one has a link to ShareEdmonton, where I list the festival dates and locations as accurately as possible. As I get more information I’ll update the listings.

Here’s the information for all festivals:

• Festivals Listing
• Festivals Calendar
• iCal

You can subscribe to that iCal feed using Outlook or your favorite calendar application. In Google Calendar, you can “Add by URL” and just copy/paste the iCal link above. I’m sure there are more festivals happening over the summer that I’ve missed. If your favorite isn’t on the list, let me know. If you subscribe to the iCal feed above, any new festival that gets added to the ShareEdmonton calendar will show up automatically!

Of course, ShareEdmonton has more than just festivals. You can also keep up-to-date on your favorite local sports teams:

• Edmonton Energy
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
• Edmonton Capitals
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
• FC Edmonton
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
• Edmonton Eskimos
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal

There are hundreds of other events in the calendar too (for example, a listing of all the farmers markets). Check out the featured events listing or calendar for some of the highlights (or subscribe using iCal). If you know of an event that isn’t in the calendar, add it!

Happy summer!

As of 4pm today, a total of 77,947 Edmontonians had voted. If you add the 17,658 who voted in advance voting, the total is 95,605, which is nearly 26,000 higher than the 69,638 for the same period in 2007.

If you’re looking for a place to see the results tonight, check out the ShareEdmonton election results dashboard!

There weren’t any lines to deal with when I voted at 10:30 this morning. I ran into a couple of Mandel supporters on the way back:

My next stop was City Hall, to get an update on the morning voter turnout from Edmonton’s Returning Officer Alayne Sinclair:

Dave and I then began our tour of election campaign offices, starting with Mayor Stephen Mandel’s:

The mayor himself was pretty happy with the effort put in by his team!

Our next visit was David Dorward’s office, where we had a great chat with David MacLean. Most of the team was out getting people to the voting stations, but the office was getting setup for a party.

From there we travelled to Daryl Bonar’s office, but there was no one there. They were out getting people to vote, as they should have been!

We headed back north of the river for our next stops, starting with Scott McKeen’s campaign office:

A short trip away was Tony Caterina’s campaign office. We caught him just as he was leaving!

We stopped at Don Koziak’s campaign office, but there wasn’t anyone there. Our last stop, on the way back to City Hall, was at James Johnson’s campaign office:

You can see the rest of my photos here.

Of all the campaign offices we visited today, I’d say that Mandel’s felt most like what I was expecting. There were lots of people there, phones were ringing, people were running around – there was energy!

Results

We should start to see results coming in around 8:15pm tonight. Stay tuned to #yegvote on Twitter and check out the election results dashboard at ShareEdmonton. You can quickly see the overall results, and if you click on a ward, you can get more detail about just that race.

Video can help you learn about a candidate in a different way. Body language, intonation, and emotion are all important aspects of communication that are lost when all you’ve got is text. From a practical perspective however, video is difficult to use. It can take significant time and effort to both create and consume. And if recent research is to be believed, it can be hard to justify the cost when nearly 20% of viewers abandon a video after just 10 seconds!

That might help to explain why just 12 of the candidates have YouTube pages. In total, they have uploaded 76 videos this election season, which in total have been viewed over 10,000 times (about 134 times each, on average).

In total, I have aggregated 1046 videos related to the election at ShareEdmonton (so far). You can see all videos, videos by ward, or videos by candidate. For example:

• All Videos
• Ward 6 Videos
• Stephen Mandel Videos (both from Mandel and about Mandel)

Here are some statistics on the aggregated videos:

• Every video has been viewed at least once. In total, those 1046 videos have been viewed more than 26,000 times.
• The average number of views per video is 25.
• Daniel Dromarsky’s video on the Downtown Arena is the most viewed.
• There are 104 videos with comments (9.9%).
• The average number of comments on those videos is just under 2.
• Daniel Dromarsky’s video on the City Centre Airport has the most comments.
• There are 142 videos with ratings (13.6%).
• The average rating on those videos is 4.2. There are 108 videos with an average rating of 5.

The vast majority of those videos have been uploaded within the last month or so.

That lonely video off to the left is from Ward 1 candidate Andrew Knack, who definitely started early.

There have been two key producers of election-related video: CTVnewsEdmonton and edpublicschools. Of the 1046 videos, those two users have uploaded 916. As a result, most candidates have some kind of video online, and a number of them have simply embedded CTV’s or Edmonton Public Schools’ videos on their own websites.

There are lots of other places to find election video (and audio):

• City of Edmonton archived forums
• CTV’s fantastic Election 2010 site
• Edmonton Public Schools
• Edmonton Catholic Schools
• Edmonton Sun election video
• Global TV mayoral videos
• CBC has election-related audio clips

And hey, what’s a post about video without an actual video! Here is one from the edmontonian on the basics of the municipal election:

You can watch part two here.

The final mayoral forum takes place tonight at Eastglen School, and election day is Monday! On election night, only CTV is planning to have live coverage on television, but there will be lots of online coverage. ShareEdmonton will be updating live with results, I’m sure #yegvote will be busy on Twitter, and the edmontonian will be broadcasting live.

Make sure you vote!

Now that we know who’s running (though some may still drop out) let’s look at some stats. In total, there are 113 candidates vying for the role of mayor, councillor, public school trustee, or catholic school trustee. Here’s a breakdown of the various candidates:

I wondered about gender, since that is often a hot issue in politics. Here’s the gender breakdown for the candidates:

The web is going to play a very important role in this election. It’s the first place people turn to when they want to know more – they search. How many of the candidates could be found online as of last night? And which details did they make available?

As you can see, candidates have some work to do.

Quite a few people, myself included, followed along yesterday on Twitter. Kudos to Dave and John for live-tweeting and posting lots of photos! Here’s what yesterday’s #yegvote activity looked like:

Candidates could file their paperwork between 9am and noon, which explains the big spike in the morning.

I hope Edmontonians take the time to learn about their candidates, and to voice their concerns and thoughts on the issues facing our city. I have updated ShareEdmonton to (hopefully) help make that easier. Here’s what’s new at the Election 2010 site:

• You can see a list of upcoming election-related events. You can subscribe to the iCal so you don’t miss anything.
• You can see recent election-related tweets.
• You can browse all candidates, or just those running for Mayor, Councillor, Public School Trustee, or Catholic School Trustee (you can see them all by ward too).
• For each candidate, you can see their photo, the position they’re running for, and any details I have been able to find so far, like website, Twitter, Facebook, etc. For example, here’s Brendan Van Alstine, candidate for Councillor in Ward 7.
• You can type in your address to find out what wards you’re in and who your candidates are!

I’d love your feedback on how I can improve the Election 2010 site at ShareEdmonton. And if you find additional candidate information that I’m missing, let me know. I’ve got a few planned improvements on the way, so stay tuned!

With dozens of festivals happening throughout the year, Edmonton is rightly known as Canada’s Festival City. During the summer in particular, it seems as though there’s a festival of some sort happening every day. I guess that’s because there is!

Here’s a list of 25 festivals you can look forward to over the next three months, complete with iCal feeds, and social media information (see below for an iCal feed for all the festivals):

• International Children’s Festival – June 1 to 5
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
• Bikeology Festival – June 1 to 30
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @bikeology
  • Facebook
• Dreamspeakers Film Festival – June 2 to 5
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • Facebook
• Nextfest – June 3 to 13
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • Facebook
• Heart of the City Festival – June 5 & 6
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • Facebook
• Creative Age Festival – June 8 to 16
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
• Sprouts New Play Festival for Kids – June 12 & 13
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
• Improvaganza – June 16 to 26
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @theatresports
  • Facebook
  • Youtube
• Rock The Square – June 19
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
• Edmonton International Jazz Festival – June 25 to July 4
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @edmontonjazz
  • Facebook
• The Works Art & Design Festival – June 25 to July 7
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • Facebook
• Freewill Shakespeare Festival – June 29 to July 25
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • Facebook
• Silly Summer Parade – July 1
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
• Edmonton & Northern Alberta Historic Festival – July 9 to 18
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
• Edmonton International Street Performers Festival – July 9 to 18
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @EdmontonSPF
  • Facebook
• SOSFest – July 9 to 11
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @SOSFEST
  • Facebook
• Capital EX Parade & Capital EX – July 22 to August 1
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @CapitalExFun
  • Facebook
• A Taste of Edmonton – July 23 to August 1
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @EventsEd
• Servus Heritage Festival – July 31 to August 2
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @EdmHeritageFest
  • Facebook
• Edmonton Folk Music Festival – August 5 to 8
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
• Animethon – August 6 to 8
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @Animethon
  • Facebook
• Cariwest – August 6 to 8
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • Facebook
• Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival – August 12 to 22
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @edmontonfringe
  • Facebook
  • Youtube
• Edmonton Dragon Boat Festival – August 20 to 22
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal
  • @EDBRC
  • Facebook
• Edmonton’s Labatt Blues Festival – August 20 to 22
  • ShareEdmonton
  • iCal

You’ll note that each one has a link to ShareEdmonton, where I list the festival dates and locations as accurately as possible. Festivals like Creative Age and Improvaganza have really good detail, while others like the Fringe do not (they haven’t released the schedule yet). As I get more information I’ll update the listings. You can also see related tweets for each festival, and very soon, related photos and blog posts too!

Here’s the information for all festivals:

• ShareEdmonton
• iCal

You can subscribe to that iCal feed using Outlook or your favorite calendar application. In Google Calendar, you can “Add by URL” and just copy/paste the iCal link above.

I’m sure there are more festivals happening over the summer that I’ve missed. If your favorite isn’t on the list, let me know. If you subscribe to the iCal feed above, any new festival that gets added to the ShareEdmonton calendar will show up automatically!

I can’t remember how I was introduced to YEG Live – it might have been via Twitter, or it may have been because they use one of my photos for their header background. In any case, I was impressed. Founders Chris Martyniuk and Cameron Gertz have created an excellent online hub for local music in Edmonton. Most importantly, they really care about the accuracy of the data on the site. As a result, YEG Live has a superb collection of artist profiles, venue profiles, and of course, live music events. I contacted Chris to see if he’d be interested in working together, and fortunately, he was!

Now when you browse entertainment events at ShareEdmonton, you’ll see the ones that come from YEG Live highlighted with the icon to the left. When you click through to an event, such as tomorrow evening’s show featuring Sweet Thing at Haven Social Club, you’ll see all of the usual details you’d expect at a ShareEdmonton event page (start & end time, location details, related tweets, etc) as well as links and short bios for the artists performing (which link to YEG Live). There are also prominent links to the YEG Live event and ticket information pages.

Thanks to Chris for all the work he did to make this integration possible! There’s no sense in duplicating the tremendous effort he’s already putting into creating an accurate calendar of live music events in Edmonton, so I’m glad we were able to work together. It’s a win-win-win as I see it: ShareEdmonton is a little more complete, YEG Live gets a little more exposure, and Edmontonians are more likely to discover great live music events happening in the city!