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Originally Posted by lchoy
In their defence, they were named the Canada's cultural Capital in 2007. In the summer time, every weekend they have a different festivals, not all that appear in other places as well.
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Let's see, other cultural capitals in the past have been:
2003 Vancouver (ok)
2004 Regina (what?)
2005 toronto (ok)
2006 Saskatoon (what?)
2007 Edmonton
2008 Surrey (are you kidding me?)
2009 Trois Rivieres
Winning the title of "cultural capital of the year" is the equivilant to winning the special olympics. Nothing more than a government program to spread around pats on the back to everyone
I live in Edmonton, this place sucks. Went to the street performers festival the other day, boring. Took about an hour to look at things, it was lame. This also runs for 10 days.
Capital Ex, people up here even think it's a joke. Stampede is bigger and better.
Folk fest is very similar to Calgary.
Film fest is similar to Calgary.
taste of Edmonton...have same thing in Calgary.
the 2 festivals I can't think of an equivilant to in Calgary are street performers festival, which was very underwhelming and fringe fest which is huge compared to Calgary.
No winterfest, no high performance rodeo, no globalfest, no afrikadey, no sled island, no warped tour, no virgin fest.
I would consider Calgary's music scene to be very average...but have found it to be terrible here.