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We Are Water and Light anthology set for October 16 LitFest presentation
The Edmonton Chinese Writing Club’s anthology We Are Water and Light: Anti-Racism Stories Rooted in Chinese Wisdom and Other Asian Traditions will be featured at LitFest Alberta on Friday, October 16.
Whose Land Is It Anyways? brings Indigenous and South Asian comedians to Toronto’s Comedy Bar
Six comedians are scheduled to take the stage at Toronto’s Comedy Bar on Friday, Oct. 23, for Whose Land Is It Anyways?, a showcase featuring Indigenous and South Asian stand-up performers.
Ottawa Art Gallery’s Frame by Frame traces 80 years of animation
An owl puppet made for Alma Duncan’s Folksong Fantasy is one of the objects identified in Ottawa Art Gallery’s published materials for Frame by Frame: Animation in Ottawa.
LitFest opens Oct. 14 with Trina Moyles discussing Black Bear in Edmonton
LitFest will open its 2026 festival in Edmonton on Wednesday, October 14, with Alberta-raised author Trina Moyles in conversation with writer Conor Kerr about her memoir Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival.
Kathryn Gwun-Yeen Lennon’s debut poetry collection Duckweed 浮萍 launches with a Canadian tour
Edmonton poet Kathryn Gwun-Yeen Lennon 姚君妍 has released her debut collection, Duckweed 浮萍, through NeWest Press, with a series of Canadian readings and launches scheduled through November.
Below Episode 2 recap: “Crown and Anchor” brings the Old Hag to Snooks Arm
Episode 2 of Below picks up in the harbour at Snooks Arm, where a diver is searching the water around the wreck of Jerry Biles' boat.
Below Episode 1 recap: “Come Home Year” brings a family back to Newfoundland, where something is waiting beneath the water
The first episode of Below, Netflix's new six-part Canadian thriller, opens in Newfoundland in 1986, with a family towing their house across the water.
Dan and Riya look beyond Beverly Valley with first feature film and two comedy series
Toronto-based Beverly Valley Productions is developing its first feature film and two comedy series, with all three projects set outside the fictional world that brought YouTube creators Daniel Kipnis and Riya Malik their audience.
Dorothy Knowles’s Big Sky brings six decades of Saskatchewan landscapes to Toronto
Works spanning nearly six decades by Saskatchewan painter Dorothy Knowles are on display at Toronto’s Rukaj Gallery in Big Sky, a survey exhibition running from October 8 to November 5.
Jared Keeso’s I Kill the Bear premieres on Crave Nov. 6 with a Franco-Ontarian family at its centre
Jared Keeso’s next Crave comedy, I Kill the Bear, will premiere Nov. 6, with two episodes released each Friday over three weeks. Bell Media announced the date Oct. 6 alongside a trailer and new cast details for the six-part series, which reunites Keeso with New Metric Media, the production company behind Letterkenny and Shoresy.
Shirantha Beddage brings a new quintet and a one-day recording experiment to Departures
Toronto-based baritone saxophonist and composer Shirantha Beddage will release his fourth album as a bandleader, Departures, on October 16 through Rhea Records, following a Toronto CD-release concert at Jazz Bistro on October 15.
Hometown Harvest Festival brings music, artisans and family activities to Midland for Thanksgiving weekend
Sainte-Marie among the Hurons is hosting Hometown Harvest Festival over Thanksgiving weekend, with three days of live music, artisan shopping and family activities at the Midland, Ontario, historic site.
Pacific Opera Victoria opens new season with Verdi’s Il trovatore on October 16
Pacific Opera Victoria will open its 2026–27 mainstage season on October 16 with Giuseppe Verdi’s Il trovatore at Victoria’s Royal Theatre, in a co-production with Vancouver Opera.
OFF//SHOOTS brings new theatre to Ottawa through Oct. 11
OFF//SHOOTS, a new fall theatre festival presented by Ottawa’s Youth Infringement Festival, continues at Arts Court through Sunday, Oct. 11.
Nisha Patel’s For the Record counts Alberta’s COVID-19 deaths in poetry
Edmonton poet Nisha Patel has built her third poetry collection around a number that changed as she worked: the recorded deaths from COVID-19 in Alberta.
Royal Winnipeg Ballet opens season with Stravinsky Stories and a new Firebird
Royal Winnipeg Ballet opens its 2026–27 mainstage season at Winnipeg’s Centennial Concert Hall on Oct. 8 with Stravinsky Stories, a double bill that brings Alexei Ratmansky’s The Fairy’s Kiss to the company alongside the world premiere of a new Firebird by choreographer Houston Thomas.
Loreena McKennitt expands The Mask and Mirror with four-disc Definitive Edition
Canadian singer-songwriter Loreena McKennitt returns to The Mask and Mirror this week with a four-disc Definitive Edition that combines a remaster of her 1994 album with unreleased concert material, archival interviews and new surround mixes.
Hometown Giants follows Vancouver Giants through new Prime Video docuseries
Prime Video will release all six episodes of Hometown Giants in Canada on Oct. 16, 2026, bringing cameras inside the Vancouver Giants for a season-long look at the Western Hockey League club.
Adam Francis Proulx brings How to Hug a Porcupine home for Algoma Fall Festival workshop
Sault Ste. Marie theatre artist Adam Francis Proulx is bringing a project nearly a decade in development back to his hometown for the Algoma Fall Festival.
Dundurn anthology Monsters brings 14 writers together for unsettling short fiction
Dundurn anthology Monsters brings 14 writers together for unsettling short fiction