{"data":{"id":"d21e51d9-7790-422c-8017-2092adc83a61","originKind":"SYNDICATED","title":"Fun stuff to do: Croatian cinema at Metro, CKUA Vinyl Dance Party and Edmonton Poetry Festival","summary":"Fiume o Morte! (2025): A unique and exciting occurrence for Metro Cinema, Croatian experimental film director Igor Bezinović is here in person presenting his timely comedy docudrama about democracy being undone by an influencer of Mussolini.\n\nUsing locals to re-create scenes from Gabriele D’Annunzio’s 1919 occupation of Rijeka, Croatia, this punk-rock spin on historical documentaries mixing new and archival footage points fingers at complicit participants old and new happy to shoehorn fascism into our lives to secure their own power.\n\nWinning accolades around the world including being a NYTimes Critics Pick, landing a New Yorker article and taking best documentary prize at the European Film Awards, the film shows a familiar playbook with a wry sense of humour and visual style.\n\nA Q&A after is sure to connect some obvious dots, this is one you don’t want to miss.\n\nDetails: 3:15 p.m. Saturday at Metro Cinema (8712 109 St.), $14\n\nAmy van Keeken’s Vinyl Dance Party Live: Our amazing friends over at CKUA are holding their spring fundraiser, meaning beloved host AvK is back in town from the coast dropping the needle on a night of must-hear, classic dancefloor hits in the station’s cosy arts den.\n\nShe’ll be trading off slingin’ platters with local guitar tornado Curtis Ross, who’s been hunting down funk and soul singles all month for the in-person, on-air event, including Frankie Smith’s Double Dutch Bus.\n\nThis one’s always a blast, especially checking out the list of CanCon cultural notables on the Alberta Hotel lobby wall while you grab a fruity cocktail.\n\nIn a word: boogie! In two: more boogie!\n\nDetails: 9 p.m. Saturday at CKUA (9804 Jasper Ave.), free but please register at ckua.com\n\nDance Lives Here: Speaking of moving-moving it, if you didn’t know Wednesday is International Dance Day, now you do!\n\nEdmonton just bubbles with such kinetic activity, with 13 professional dance companies, 48 semi-professional dance groups, 79 community recreational dance groups and 123 registered studios in town.\n\nFlocks of dance styles will be on display in front of the downtown municipal pyramid as Alberta Dance Alliance launches its new initiative, Dance Lives Here, aimed at promoting dance in the city and beyond.\n\nUp Wednesday: Good Women Dance Collective, Shumka, Max Hanic, Running Thunder, Usha Gupta and Mpoe Mogale!\n\nDetails: 12:15 p.m. – 1 p.m. Wednesday at City Hall (1 Sir Winston Churchill Sq.), free\n\nEdmonton Poetry Festival: … continues through next week with numerous readings, book launches and theatrical presentations, including Black femme poetry showcase Echoes & Roots at Stanley Milner 1 p.m. Saturday, with a Gen Z poetry showcase in the same space right after at 4 p.m.\n\nIn partnership with LitFest, Ellen Kartz and Lisa Mulrooney present the interactive Kill the Critic: Getting Out of Your Own Way and Back to the Page at Jasper Place library 10:30 a.m. Sunday.\n\nAnd at noon Tuesday, the Voices on the Wards Poetry Reading hopes to inspire patients, staff and members of the general public at McMullen Gallery inside the U of A Hospital.\n\nLots of free readings on deck, head to the website below for full schedule and tickets where applicable.\n\nDetails: through Tuesday at various venues, full info at edmontonpoetryfestival.com\n\nJody Shenkarek and Hot Kindlin’: And, not to further neglect the music scene as playoff monoculture consumes all, this beloved slide-driven country band is doing a sweet afternoon show at the venerable, multi-ecosystem pub in the Whyte Avenue core.\n\nNo one writes a high and lonesome, waitin’ at home in bed sad song like Shenkarek, though she’s got a lot of sunny songs to warm you up, too, now that the temperature’s dipped before spring really hits.\n\nDetails: 4 p.m. Saturday at The Black Dog Freehouse (10425 82 Ave.), no charge\n\nfgriwkowsky@postmedia.com\n\n@fisheyefoto.bsky.social\n\nRelated Organist Anna Lapwood to perform sold-out concert at Edmonton's Winspear Centre\n\nEdmonton social media guru pens children’s book focused on fertility struggles\n\nBookmark our website and support our journalism: Don’t miss the news you need to know — add EdmontonJournal.com and EdmontonSun.com to your bookmarks and sign up for our newsletters here.\n\nYou can also support our journalism by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribers gain unlimited access to The Edmonton Journal, Edmonton Sun, National Post and 13 other Canadian news sites. Support us by subscribing today: The Edmonton Journal | The Edmonton Sun.","url":"https://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/edmonton-events-ckua-dance-party-poetry-fest","imageUrl":"https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/edmontonjournal/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/0424-take5-metro.jpg","publishedAt":"2026-04-23T11:00:17.000Z","sourceLabel":"Edmonton Journal Music","tags":["Entertainment","Festivals","Local Arts","Movies","Music","Theatre"],"authorName":"Fish Griwkowsky","contentHtml":"\"Fiume

Fiume o Morte! (2025) : A unique and exciting occurrence for Metro Cinema, Croatian experimental film director Igor Bezinović is here in person presenting his timely comedy docudrama about democracy being undone by an influencer of Mussolini.

Using locals to re-create scenes from Gabriele D’Annunzio’s 1919 occupation of Rijeka, Croatia, this punk-rock spin on historical documentaries mixing new and archival footage points fingers at complicit participants old and new happy to shoehorn fascism into our lives to secure their own power.

Winning accolades around the world including being a NYTimes Critics Pick, landing a New Yorker article and taking best documentary prize at the European Film Awards, the film shows a familiar playbook with a wry sense of humour and visual style.

A Q&A after is sure to connect some obvious dots, this is one you don’t want to miss.

Details : 3:15 p.m. Saturday at Metro Cinema (8712 109 St.), $14

Amy van Keeken’s Vinyl Dance Party Live : Our amazing friends over at CKUA are holding their spring fundraiser, meaning beloved host AvK is back in town from the coast dropping the needle on a night of must-hear, classic dancefloor hits in the station’s cosy arts den.

She’ll be trading off slingin’ platters with local guitar tornado Curtis Ross, who’s been hunting down funk and soul singles all month for the in-person, on-air event, including Frankie Smith’s Double Dutch Bus.

This one’s always a blast, especially checking out the list of CanCon cultural notables on the Alberta Hotel lobby wall while you grab a fruity cocktail.

In a word: boogie! In two: more boogie!

Details : 9 p.m. Saturday at CKUA (9804 Jasper Ave.), free but please register at ckua.com

Dance Lives Here : Speaking of moving-moving it, if you didn’t know Wednesday is International Dance Day, now you do!

Edmonton just bubbles with such kinetic activity, with 13 professional dance companies, 48 semi-professional dance groups, 79 community recreational dance groups and 123 registered studios in town.

Flocks of dance styles will be on display in front of the downtown municipal pyramid as Alberta Dance Alliance launches its new initiative, Dance Lives Here, aimed at promoting dance in the city and beyond.

Up Wednesday: Good Women Dance Collective, Shumka, Max Hanic, Running Thunder, Usha Gupta and Mpoe Mogale!

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Details : 12:15 p.m. – 1 p.m. Wednesday at City Hall (1 Sir Winston Churchill Sq.), free

Edmonton Poetry Festival : … continues through next week with numerous readings, book launches and theatrical presentations, including Black femme poetry showcase Echoes & Roots at Stanley Milner 1 p.m. Saturday, with a Gen Z poetry showcase in the same space right after at 4 p.m.

In partnership with LitFest, Ellen Kartz and Lisa Mulrooney present the interactive Kill the Critic: Getting Out of Your Own Way and Back to the Page at Jasper Place library 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

And at noon Tuesday, the Voices on the Wards Poetry Reading hopes to inspire patients, staff and members of the general public at McMullen Gallery inside the U of A Hospital.

Lots of free readings on deck, head to the website below for full schedule and tickets where applicable.

Details : through Tuesday at various venues, full info at edmontonpoetryfestival.com

Jody Shenkarek and Hot Kindlin’ : And, not to further neglect the music scene as playoff monoculture consumes all, this beloved slide-driven country band is doing a sweet afternoon show at the venerable, multi-ecosystem pub in the Whyte Avenue core.

No one writes a high and lonesome, waitin’ at home in bed sad song like Shenkarek, though she’s got a lot of sunny songs to warm you up, too, now that the temperature’s dipped before spring really hits.

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Details : 4 p.m. Saturday at The Black Dog Freehouse (10425 82 Ave.), no charge

fgriwkowsky@postmedia.com

@fisheyefoto.bsky.social

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