Edmontonโs cultural rhythm unfolds through art and music
Peter Robertson Gallery
At Peter Robertson Gallery this June, CHROMA | POP brings painter Scott Cumberlandโs ongoing exploration of music and visual art into focus.
The exhibition is rooted in a simple studio habit: music playing while he works. From that constant soundtrack, paintings begin to take shape โ not as illustrations of specific songs, but as responses to mood, rhythm and feeling. Each work unfolds without a set plan, shifting as the energy in the room changes.
Together, the collection offers a reminder that music can stay with us long after the last note fades โ and sometimes find a new life on canvas.
Visitors can experience CHROMA | POP during opening receptions on June 4 and June 6, with the artist in attendance. The exhibition offers an engaging look at how one art form can inspire another.
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Winspear Centre
These ESO Classics concerts on June 11 and 13 bring together three works that each, in their own way, reshaped the musical language of their time.
Rachmaninoffโs Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is driven by intensity and lyricism, a work that continues to resonate with audiences for its emotional force and brilliance.
Kurt Weillโs Symphony No. 2 offers a more unconventional voice, blending structure with a sense of theatrical imagination in a work of striking contrast and invention.
Richard Straussโ Don Juan closes the program with bold romanticism, a tone poem that caused a sensation at its premiere and remains one of his most vivid early works.
The concerts include an intermission and a prelude talk on each night of the performances at 6:45 PM in the Upper Circle Lobby with ESO Assistant Conductor Shah Sadikov.
Featured artists include conductor Kerem Hasan and pianist Harmony Zhu.
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Art Gallery of Alberta
Presented as part of the Poole Centre of Design, โWallflower,โ organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta and curated by Lindsey Sharman, brings together painting, photography and installation in an exhibition that looks closely at something most of us live with but rarely notice: wallpaper.
Itโs in every room, quietly shaping the feel of a space without asking for attention. The exhibition lingers on that idea โ how pattern and repetition become part of the background of daily life, until they almost disappear into it.
Alongside historical works, โWallflowerโ includes contemporary artists who push wallpaper back into view, treating it less as decoration and more as something with presence. In some works, it blends in; in others, it insists on being seen.
Edmonton Opera
Opera al Fresco returns on August 26th, inviting audiences into the gardens for an evening of music under the open sky.
Set against the backdrop of the University of Alberta Botanic Garden, the event invites guests to bring a picnic, settle in with friends and family, and enjoy an evening that unfolds at an unhurried pace. Familiar opera favourites are performed in the open air by featured soloists alongside the Edmonton Opera Chorus, creating a program designed for a relaxed summer setting.
Long regarded as a seasonal tradition, Opera al Fresco offers a simple pleasure โ time spent together outside, with music carried through the gardens as the evening fades.
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