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Rubaboo Indigenous Arts Festival enters final four days with theatre, art and fashion in Edmonton
Rubaboo Indigenous Arts Festival has four days left in Edmonton, with the final stretch moving from a visual-art exhibition at CO*LAB to cabaret, theatre and a closing fashion show at CKUA’s Beresh Arts Den.
W&M Physical Theatre brings La Luna to Calgary with local children in the cast
W&M Physical Theatre will bring La Luna to DJD Dance Centre in Calgary on Oct 9, 2026 and Oct 10, 2026, returning to a work choreographer and director Melissa Monteros first created in 1988 and expanding it into a full-length dance-theatre production with Calgary children performing alongside adult artists. Performances are 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday.
Canadian horror film This Is Not a Test comes to Crave Oct. 16
Canadian horror film This Is Not a Test will arrive on Crave on Oct. 16, adding Adam MacDonald’s adaptation of Courtney Summers’ 2012 novel to the streamer’s October lineup.
Tenfold brings 16 Akin Dupont artists together for studio’s 10th anniversary
Akin Dupont Studios is marking its 10th anniversary with Tenfold, a three-day exhibition bringing work by 16 studio artists to Remote Gallery in Toronto from Oct. 8 to 10.
Clara Hughes brings Learning to Breathe to Calgary, Winnipeg and Ottawa
Clara Hughes has a new memoir arriving October 13, 2026, with launch-week events in Calgary, Winnipeg and Ottawa.
Bad Dog’s Roses & Thorns returns for four October Fridays at Comedy Bar Bloor
Bad Dog Theatre’s Roses & Thorns is back for four Friday performances in October at Comedy Bar Bloor, beginning Oct 9, 2026 and continuing Oct 16, 2026, Oct 23, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026. All four shows begin at 7 p.m.
SOCAN names 2026 special-achievement honourees ahead of Oct. 26 awards
SOCAN has named the Special Achievement Award recipients who will be honoured at the 2026 SOCAN Awards on Oct. 26 at REBEL in Toronto, with this year’s list spanning pop, hip-hop, songwriting and screen composition.
Kaha Dance Theatre’s Blood Water Earth opens Public Energy season in Peterborough
Kaha Dance Theatre will open Public Energy Performing Arts’ 2026–27 season in Peterborough on Oct. 14, 2026, with Blood Water Earth, a multimedia dance work led and performed by Santee Tekaronhiáhkhwa Smith.
Festival de l’Oie des Neiges returns to Saint-Joachim for 31st edition
Saint-Joachim’s Festival de l’Oie des Neiges returns from Oct. 9, 2026 through Oct. 12, 2026 for a four-day festival that includes family programming, an artisan market, live music and activities tied to the fall migration of Greater Snow Geese through the Côte-de-Beaupré region.
After the Island brings four Caribbean Canadian ceramic artists to Toronto’s Gardiner Museum
Toronto’s Gardiner Museum opens After the Island: Caribbean Canadian Ceramics on Oct. 9, bringing together work by PJ Anderson, Eddy Firmin, Manuel Mathieu and Sharon Norwood.
Chris Banks’s Bureau of Useless Splendour arrives from ECW Press
Kitchener, Ont., poet Chris Banks will release his eighth poetry collection, Bureau of Useless Splendour: Poems, on Oct 13, 2026, through Toronto-based independent publisher ECW Press.
Capital Music Awards put Ottawa artists on the NAC stage
Ottawa’s Capital Music Awards will be held in Southam Hall at the National Arts Centre on Friday, Oct 9, 2026, with a 6 p.m. red carpet and an 8 p.m. ceremony.
Daniel Gawthrop’s Cutting Edge gets audiobook release as queer hockey book heads to Toronto
Daniel Gawthrop’s Cutting Edge: Hockey as Queer Culture gets a new release on Oct 13, 2026, when ECW Press’s Bespeak Audio Editions publishes an audiobook narrated by Ivan Lo.
Ron Planche surveys six decades of photography in Niagara-on-the-Lake retrospective
More than 60 years of Ron Planche’s photography are on view at the Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre in Niagara-on-the-Lake, where 60 Years in a Large Landscape opened Oct. 7, 2026 and runs through Oct. 29, 2026.
A Tribe Called Love comes to Crave on Oct 8, 2026
Canadian feature A Tribe Called Love begins streaming on Crave on Oct 8, 2026, bringing Mohamed Ahmed’s Toronto-set romance to the service after its festival and theatrical runs.
Preston Pablo releases ‘Anything’ and sets Nov. 27 for All At Once EP
Preston Pablo has released a new single, “Anything,” while setting Nov. 27 for the arrival of his next EP, All At Once. The Canadian pop singer released “Anything” on Oct. 2 through 31 East and Universal Music Canada, accompanied by a lyric video.
Logan Staats releases Peacemaker, recorded in Ohsweken
Mohawk singer-songwriter Logan Staats released Peacemaker on Oct. 2 through Ishkōdé Records, with the 10-track album recorded and mixed at Jukasa Media Group in Ohsweken, Ont., and mastered in Toronto.
Adrick Brock’s debut novel Islanders arrives October 6
Adrick Brock’s first novel, Islanders, arrives Oct 6, 2026 from Nightwood Editions, with a story that begins on Toronto Island and later follows its characters to Whitehorse.
Becca-Willow Moss’s Her Last Supper heads to Forest City Film Festival
Toronto-shot feature Her Last Supper will screen at the Forest City Film Festival in London, Ont., on Oct 21, 2026, giving Canadian filmmaker Becca-Willow Moss a confirmed fall festival date for her first feature as writer-director.
Trudy J. Morgan-Cole returns to seventeenth-century Newfoundland in Beyond the Brightening Sea
Newfoundland author Trudy J. Morgan-Cole will release her eighth historical-fiction novel, Beyond the Brightening Sea, through St. John’s-based Breakwater Books on Oct 6, 2026.