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Edmonton Festival City

More than 30 annual festivals, year round

We have more to celebrate here — Live! — all year. You’ll find our festivals make Edmonton unique, a pleasurable place to live and an exciting place to visit. We’re rightly known as Canada’s Festival City, for the number, variety, and quality of our year-round celebrations. Explore your options, learn more about festival city, and join in.

Featured Festival

Edmonton International Film Festival - September 24 - October 2. For nine days and nights, movie fans and filmmakers from across Canada and around the globe gather to eat, sleep and breathe all things cinematic! Click here for more information.

For Meeting & Event Planners

We'll help you make your gathering more interactive, effective, and memorable with Edmonton Festival City in a Box presented by TransAlta. Click here for more information.

Upcoming Festivals

As a city that holds the reigning title of "Festival City", there's no doubt our festivals are an important element of our quality of life. Click here to access the Edmonton Festival Calendar.

Festivals

“How about this? Edmonton's festivals are its identity.” A Tale of Two Cities – Stephen Hunt, Calgary Herald 07/10/2007