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The City Arts Centre is excited to offer your class creative experiences! Our workshops, based on the arts curriculum for kindergarten to grade 9, allow students to explore and express themselves through hands-on activities. All workshops are taught by professionals in the field.
We offer 1.5 to 2 hour workshops:
Group size is program specific and is noted in the program descriptions below. Adults are required to remain with their group and supervise students during the program. Additional students and adults may not be able to participate in the programs due to supply or space limits. Adult supervisors are admitted free of charge based on the following ratios:
Get a hands-on experience by visiting us at City Arts Centre. Our instructors provide the supplies and activities! Please note: there are no guaranteed spaces for indoor lunches before or after your program. Outdoor space may be limited.
Wheat is an important part of Alberta’s rich history. Discuss the cultural connections Canadians have with bread from kolach to pretzels. Step into our kitchen and learn how to make homemade bread from scratch. Students will learn the basics of braiding bread under the guidance of a professional baker. Take home a small loaf of braided bread to share with your classmates.
This is a nut-free program. Please inform us of any dietary restrictions at the time of booking.
Program Length: 2 hours
Maximum Group Size: 30 students
Fees: $450
A fun and yummy way to celebrate the holidays with your class! Step into our kitchen and learn how to create edible works of art for any holiday (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter). Students will learn the basics of decorative icing and piping under the guidance of a professional cake decorator. This program is also an exciting way to explore cake or cookie decorating for Career and Technology Foundations for junior high students.
This is a nut-free program. Please inform us of any dietary restrictions at the time of booking.
Program Length: 2 hours
Maximum Group Size: 30 students
Fees: $450
While sushi is culturally connected with modern-day Japan, it originated in China in the 3rd century B.C. as a way of preserving fish using rice. During this fascinating and delicious program, we will talk about the cultural connections of sushi in Asia, expand our vocabulary with Japanese words for different types of sushi and finally make vegetarian sushi rolls for the class to share.
This is a nut-free program. Please inform us of any dietary restrictions at the time of booking.
Program Length: 2 hours
Maximum Group Size: 30 students
Fees: $450
Pick up some funky new steps, work your body and have fun in this high energy dance class. You will be guided through the latest hip hop and funk moves coordinated to popular dance music. Your students will love listening and grooving to the music while working up a sweat.
Program Length: 1.5 hours
Maximum Group Size: 30 students
Fees: $250
Locations:
Mill Woods Recreation Centre
Jasper Place Annex
City Arts Centre (closed for renovation/upgrades from March 25-September 30, 2025)
Take your students’ artistic endeavours to the next level with this fascinating and fun introduction to watercolour painting. During the creative session, first outline a native insect to Alberta using wax based crayons and then add watercolour paint and watch as the colourful paint pools and interacts to create a colourful masterpieces. Choose from one of the following themes:
Leave with a finished watercolour of an ant, bee, butterfly, caterpillar, dragonfly or beetle. Please inform us of your subject choice at the time of booking.
Program Length: 2 hours
Maximum Group Size: 30 students
Fees: $365
Take your students’ artistic endeavours to the next level with this fascinating and fun introduction to watercolour. Students will learn about different brush strokes, work with light and shadow and play with techniques that can only be achieved with this medium. Choose from one of the following themes: Northern lights over an Alberta forest, an Alberta Rocky Mountain sunset, or a bold Prairie landscape. Please inform us of your subject choice at the time of booking.
Program Length: 2 hours
Maximum Group Size: 30 students
Fees: $365
Build your own classroom community! Students will create a base and learn simple techniques to create their very own 2D plaque in clay. Add creative details to make their own community to include pets, family and caregivers. We will also discuss how communities around the world are both similar and different to the ones we find in Alberta. This project makes a unique holiday gift. Fired work will be ready for pick-up approximately 3 weeks after the program.
Program Length: 2 hours
Maximum Group Size: 24 students
Fees: $450
Locations: City Arts Centre (closed for renovation/upgrades from March 25-September 30, 2025)
A fox, an owl or a beaver? It’s all up to you. Students will learn the basics of handling clay while creating a unique clay masks of a Canadian animal, suitable for hanging in the classroom or giving as a gift to a loved one. Fired work will be ready for pick-up approximately 3 weeks after the program.
Program Length: 2 hours
Maximum Group Size: 24 students
Fees: $450
Locations: City Arts Centre (closed for renovation/upgrades from March 25-September 30, 2025)
Learn to make a coil pot from clay. Students will learn about fascinating Canadian artists and discuss the use of clay in Indigenous communities and how it affects the way we make and view art.
They will then each make a coil pot, adding slab-formed shapes to its surface, to create imagery inspired by Canadian artists' work. Fired work will be ready for pick-up approximately 3 weeks after the program.
Program Length: 2 hours
Maximum Group Size: 24 students
Fees: $450
Locations: City Arts Centre (closed for renovation/upgrades from March 25-September 30, 2025)
Please be prepared with the following information to make your booking:
(2024/25 School Year)
You are required to submit written notice of cancellation of your program(s) via email to artsattractionsbookings@edmonton.ca.
Programs cancelled with 30 days notice or more will not be charged the program fee or a cancellation fee. Programs cancelled with 8-29 days notice are subject to be charged 50% of the program fee. For programs cancelled within 7 days notice or less, the full program fee will be charged.
In the event that a class arrives late, the school will still be charged the full fee and the program will end at the originally scheduled time.
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PO Box 2359
Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2R7
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| Phone | 311 |