All Is Bright 2025: 124 Street’s warm and welcoming annual winter festival is set to shimmer and churn with music, food and fires, and happily it looks like good weather again, like last year’s.
Along with the roving entertainers including Mr. and Mrs. Claus throughout the wider neighbourhood, The Get Downs and Don Berner Big Band are this year’s musical guests at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. on mina stage — with a light-up ceremony for all the illuminated art and design works happening at 5:30 p.m.
Special note: among the various store features like a DJ in front of Mercuius Curio Shop and the giant gingerbread house at Duchess, B.C. realistic tattoo artist Art Goodoy is in residence at History Ink Tattoo, working on the spot with the other in-house artists until midnight.
Bonus, the window art will stay up through Nov. 22 if you can’t make it down Saturday, so let it glow, let it glow, let it glow!
All Is Bright happens on 124 Street Saturday.
Details: 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. Saturday 124 Street between 107 and 109 avenues, no charge
BLOT: Brian Webb Dance Company’s 47th season opens with a work that’s toured Europe and North America called Body of Line and Thought, Vanessa Goodman and Simona Deaconscu artistically demonstarting the human connection with microbiological organisms in their birthday suits.
“BLOT is characterized by the two naked dancers,” explains the legendary company’s artistic director Webb, “who explore the body as an interconnected system, strong and fragile, affected by and affecting nature. It explores the substances of our body, primarily salt which is in our body, in the ocean, in the land. It celebrates this interconnectedness that defines all living forms.”
Full nudity, be prepared!
BLOT: Body of Line and Thought kicks of Brian Webb Dance Company’s 47th season.
Details: 8 p.m. Friday at Roxy Theatre (10708 124 St.), $40/adult, $25 student/senior at theatrenetwork.ca
Broad View International Film Festival: Established in 2021, this fourth annual festival celebrates and amplifies the work of women-directed films.
This year’s lineup includes the local premiere of Varda Bar-Kar’s music documentary, Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, the world premiere of Edmonton’s own Clare Mullen’s new film, The Edmonton Storyteller: The Life and Times of Tony Cashman and an encore screening of Cannes Grand Prix winner All We Imagine As Light, directed by Payal Kapadia.
Full schedule is at broadviewfilmfest.com, where you’ll also find festival passes and individual tickets. Check out the Broad View Script Development Program on Sunday, with star-studded table reads of winning screenplays at Strathcona Community League (10139 87 Ave.) by Alexandra Lazarowich at 9:30 a.m., then Virginia Abramovich and Katherine Andrews at 1:30 p.m. — free to attend.
Details: through Saturday at Metro Cinema (8712 109 ST.), $75/pass, $15/film at metrocinema.org
The 39 Steps: Teatro Live!’s Farren Timoteo directs this reliable, four-actor Patrick Barlow adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s fast-paced, 1935 British spy thriller for the stage — originally a John Buchan novel — so its lineage is almost as complicated as the cinematic Wicked’s.
Following the thrill chase Canadian Richard Hannay finds himself in while being pursued through the Scottish Highlands after an encounter with a femme fatale, the cast of Geoffrey Simon Brown and Priya Narine — with Michael Watt and Kate Yoner as the clowns — brings all the source material’s dizzying action of 139 characters into a 100-minute stage whodunit.
Opening night’s sold out, so come Saturday on!
Look for a review soon by our own Justin Bell!
Geoffrey Simon Brown plays breathless Canadian Richard Hannay in Teatro Live!’s The 39 Steps at Varscona Theatre.
Details: 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays – Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sunday matinees through Nov. 30 at Varscona Theatre (10329 83 Ave.), $42/regular at theatrolive.com
The Halluci Nation: Ottawa’s former A Tribe Called Red returns to Starlite Sunday night with its electric pow wow swirl of hip hop, reggae, moombahton and dubstep-fueled dance party music, full of vocal chanting and powerful drumming.
The past and future collide in this butt-wiggling performance on the Path of the Baby Face Tour.
Details: 7 p.m. Sunday at Starlite Room (10030 102 St.), $39.25 at starliteroom.ca
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