For Jasper filmmaker Sophie Pfisterer, the phrase “it is what it is” has become something of a challenge. Pfisterer, a born-and-raised Jasper local studying film production in Abu Dhabi, is attempting to raise just under $4,000 to complete her 12-minute thesis film, It Is What It Is , a fictional st...

Jasper Folk Music Festival runs September 11-12. Get tickets here Ten years into the Jasper Folk Music Festival, organizers have learned a thing or two about what makes a great weekend of music in the mountains. For the festival’s 10th edition, that means bringing back some of the artists audiences ...

In Vanessa Martin’s classroom, art isn’t just about what ends up on the wall. It’s about the courage to begin, the persistence to continue, and the quiet triumph of making something your own . A week after the opening night of the 2025/26 Series , and 11 years after she began facilitating after-scho...

More than 19 months after wildfire rewrote Jasper's story overnight, a comedy trio is hoping to bring some levity to the town’s current chapter. The  Talk of the Town Comedy Tour  is a multi-city romp through Saskatchewan and Alberta that makes its 'one-night-only' Jasper stop on Wednesday, March 18...

The opening gala of another buzz-worthy exhibition from the Jasper Artists Guild attracted dozens of art lovers, creatives and immaculately-dressed Jasperites to the Jasper Art Gallery on January 23. Sharply-dressed Jasperites in the house. // Sergio Rodriguez BUZZFest is JAG's annual art extravagan...

Principal among the gathering spaces that were lost in the 2024 Jasper Wildfire were the Jasper Anglican Church and its former neighbour, the McCready Centre. The Anglican Church at the corner of Miette Ave and Geikie St was a cultural institution in Jasper that hosted many theatrical productions si...

A week of theatre games hosted by a duo from Edmonton culminated in a Friday afternoon circus performance for the ages (and for all ages). From August 4-8, Marie-Joanne (MJ) Fogue Makou and Steve Jodoin from Unitheatre Edmonton brought big performer energy down the Yellowhead Highway and into the Ja...

One of Jasper’s most popular restaurants will soon be dishing up live music and good vibes. On July 4 at 8:30 p.m., Jasper Pizza Place will host a rooftop concert featuring Australian singer-songwriter Kim Churchill and folk duo The Isaac Brothers. Churchill, who specializes in folk, rock, and blues...

A group of local thespians are ready to cast a spell on Jasper. Jasper Acts—a community theatre group made up of a diverse, dedicated group of actors and artists—are bringing a fantastical feature to local audiences May 2-4. PUFFS, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic, i...

A Utah-based artist whose favourite subjects to paint are rugged, rough-hewn and rigorous, figures he’ll have plenty of inspiration in Jasper this weekend. Stewart Anstead is an acrylics painter who incorporates mixed media in his works to evoke nostalgia, and to explore human interaction with natur...

Rocky Mountain Live will help artists and arts organizations reach their audiences and each other A new live music platform is amplifying local artists and the venues they play. Rocky Mountain Live has launched as a new, one-stop-shop promotional website which aims to increase the exposure of local ...

It’s been a summer staple in Jasper for 34 years, but Parks Day 2024 is arguably the most thoughtfully-curated celebration of Jasper National Park yet.  The annual event, organized and presented by the non-profit organization Friends of Jasper National Park, is this July 19-21 leaning into the commu...

Naked Pictures by Rockies poet Mme Paulette Dubé is a curious peek into a curious mind during a curious time in the world.  Naked Pictures is available in Jasper and through At Bay Press. // Supplied Peering at the COVID pandemic from her various perches in Jasper’s wildlife-rich Douglas fir forests...

Organizers, artists and partakers of the 2024 UpLift! Mural Festival are soaring on the thermals of another successful celebration of art in Jasper. The festival, now in its third year, has brought more vibrancy to walls around the community. And because Parks Canada has softened its stance on forma...

Jasper’s outfitter lifestyle stars in entertaining, enlightening read Geologist Patrick McLaren has created a solid bedrock on which to recount his charming memoirs. Magic Travels: The Unlikely Adventures of a Geologist is McLaren’s first book. The title presents an unassuming facade, but what lies ...

Proposed Parks Canada policies for murals in Jasper would stifle art and compromise a burgeoning local festival, proponents say. On March 21, at Jasper National Park’s Planning and Development Advisory Committee meeting (PDAC) , Parks Canada will present proposed amendments to Jasper’s Architectural...

In time, Lucy Locvan might not be the only full time DJ, music producer, video gamer and YouTube host to hang her headphones in Jasper. But she’s definitely DA FIRST to do it. Lucy Da First is Locvan’s handle for her creative art process, and it’s also how she’s been introduced recently—by hosts of ...

One of Jasper’s favourite Christmas events is underway. The 23rd annual Festival of Trees celebration, presented by the Jasper Yellowhead Museum and Archives , is a chance for businesses, organizations and individuals to contribute to the community, all while giving holiday shoppers the chance to do...

Members of a well-regarded brass quintet are polishing their instruments—and their boots—in advance of their Jasper performances. Tonight, five members of the Royal Canadian Artillery Band will be joining the Jasper Legion’s famously raucous Friday night crowds for a special Jasper Veterans’ Festiva...

The stars are about to align for music lovers in Jasper. On October 13 and 14, two pre-eminent evenings will harmonize the silky sounds of professional musicians with the awe-inspiring amphitheaters at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge. A Friday evening of Jazz and Dinner in the opulent Beauvert Room w...