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Weekly Highlights in Alberta

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Halloween Pool Bash at Lacombe
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Halloween Pool Bash at Lacombe

Lacombe's Kinsmen Aquatic Centre hosts its annual Halloween Pool Bash on Friday, October 30, with swimming, games, prizes, popcorn and sno-cones from 5 p.m., plus a haunted house open until 10 p.m.

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Banff's Great Pumpkin Walk 2026
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Banff's Great Pumpkin Walk 2026

Banff's Great Pumpkin Walk returns Friday, October 30, 2026, with a glowing pumpkin-lit stroll from Central Park to the Recreation Grounds and a community fire at the Okâch – Îyethkabi Oûgitûbi pavilion in Sundance Park.

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Cree Hoop Dancer Sandra Lamouche
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Cree Hoop Dancer Sandra Lamouche

Champion hoop dancer and picture-book author Sandra Lamouche brings Cree stories, language and dance to the Red Deer Public Library's downtown branch on Oct. 22, 2026.

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Chili for a Cause in Red Deer
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Chili for a Cause in Red Deer

GrammaLink-Africa's annual Chili for a Cause returns to Gaetz Memorial United Church in Red Deer on Oct. 21, 2026, with a $20 lunch served in a handmade pottery bowl you keep.

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Craft-Tea: Costume Edition at GPPL
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Craft-Tea: Costume Edition at GPPL

Grande Prairie Public Library hosts a free all-ages afternoon of costumes, warm drinks and a craft on October 23, 2026, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. — registration required for every attendee.

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Potion Making at Grande Prairie
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Potion Making at Grande Prairie

Grande Prairie Public Library hosts a free teen potion-brewing session on October 23, 2026, where participants mix glitter and mica powder into take-home bottles.

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Potion Making at Grande Prairie
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Potion Making at Grande Prairie

Grande Prairie Public Library hosts a free potion-brewing session for teens on October 23, 2026, with glitter, mica powder and take-home bottles.

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Sue Farrell Holler at GP Library
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Sue Farrell Holler at GP Library

Award-winning Grande Prairie author Sue Farrell Holler field-tests an early draft of a funny memoir at the Grande Prairie Public Library on October 24, 2026.

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RDP Fall Open House
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

RDP Fall Open House

Red Deer Polytechnic opens its main campus to prospective students and curious locals on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, with free applications, lab and residence tours, and a complimentary lunch.

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Fall Recycling Roundup at Park
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Fall Recycling Roundup at Park

Lethbridge's Beyond-the-Bin Recycling Roundup returns to the Park Place Mall northwest parking lot on Saturday, Oct. 17, taking paint, pesticides, batteries, electronics and other household hazardous waste off residents' hands.

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LitFest Edmonton Turns 20
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

LitFest Edmonton Turns 20

LitFest, Canada's original nonfiction festival, marks its 20th anniversary with five days of readings, panels, and workshops across downtown Edmonton from October 14 to 18, 2026.

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Galactic Atmosphere at Churchill
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Galactic Atmosphere at Churchill

Galactic Atmosphere brings a free, all-ages space-themed light art installation to Churchill Square in downtown Edmonton from October 16 to 25, 2026.

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Winnie-the-Pooh 100th at Grande
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Winnie-the-Pooh 100th at Grande

The Grande Prairie Public Library marks the 100th anniversary of A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh on October 14, 2026, with all-day children's activities and a 2:00 p.m. Storytime.

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Fireside Readings
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Fireside Readings

Lacombe's 18+ literary open mic returns to the Lacombe Performing Arts Centre on Oct. 16, 2026, with free admission, bar service, and five-minute readings.

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Meet Your Firefighters
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Meet Your Firefighters

Blackfalds Fire & Rescue throws open the station doors October 7 for an evening of trucks, slides and battery-safety know-how.

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125 Years of Answering the Call
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

125 Years of Answering the Call

The Olds Fire Department marks a century and a quarter of service with its annual open house, inviting the town to meet the people behind the pager.

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Alberta flag
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Walking Among the Horned Dead

A three-hour guided hike through Alberta's badlands leads to the quarry where hundreds of Centrosaurus died together 75 million years ago.

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Canada's Only Moving Haunted
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Canada's Only Moving Haunted

Every October, a rescued stretch of abandoned Canadian Pacific track near Mossleigh becomes the Train of Terror, an 18-and-over haunt where the scares follow you down the rails.

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A Walk Toward the Monument
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

A Walk Toward the Monument

Ermineskin Cree Nation invites the whole community to walk from the Maskwacis Mall to the TRC Monument on September 30, where speakers, singers and a shared meal will carry the day forward.

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Treasure Hunting in Lacombe: The
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Treasure Hunting in Lacombe: The

A year after a debut that stunned its organizers, the Lacombe Museum's Antique Show & Sale returns with antique vendors from across Alberta and a small army of local heritage groups.

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Singing for Canada: Jann Arden
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

Singing for Canada: Jann Arden

On the eve of a historic referendum on leaving Confederation, a free open-air concert at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers becomes a stage for defiant patriotism and a deep reckoning with what it means to belong.

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On the Banks of the Bow: A Day of
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

On the Banks of the Bow: A Day of

This September, Banff's Buffalo Nations Museum opens its grounds for a free, full-day celebration of Treaty 7 cultures — a gathering rooted in the vision of a Stoney Nakoda medicine man.

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Stilettos and Solidarity: Red
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Stilettos and Solidarity: Red

The Outreach Centre's signature fundraiser returns to downtown Red Deer on Sept. 11, inviting Central Albertans to literally walk a mile in high heels to support survivors of gender-based and family violence.

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Under the Stars at The Amp
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Under the Stars at The Amp

A free outdoor screening brings the best of the 2025 Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour back to the Shaw Amphitheatre, where the festival's half-century of adventure storytelling began.

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Under the Rockies, a Blackfoot
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Under the Rockies, a Blackfoot

On a September night in Banff, Trevor Solway's intimate documentaries about the Siksika Nation—one on a climber's reconnection to the land, the other on Indigenous masculinity—screen free beneath the stars.

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Fifty-Six Years of Do-Si-Do
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Fifty-Six Years of Do-Si-Do

The 56th Alberta Dance Convention brings a weekend of square dancing, clogging, and free introductory lessons to Lacombe, celebrating a tradition that began with a group of campers in 1969.

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