The List: Jurassic Quest dinos stomping through town this weekend only

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Quick quiz: what’s your favourite dinosaur? You said Stegosaurus, right? Right!?

There’s actually no right answer when you don’t have to pick just one: From cute baby dinosaurs like Tyson the T-Rex and Trixie the Triceratops to the towering Spinosaurus and 24-metre Apatosaurus, blast-from-the-way-back-past Jurassic Quest is back.

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Claws, teeth and, yes, feathers are all on display at the travelling dinosaur experience — including walking and stationary dinosaur rides, informative hat-wearing dinosaur trainers and the Tricera-tots soft play space for the tiniest of dinophiles.

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Basically, if you or your child is into any part of the 165-million-year history represented in this combo museum-playground-funhouse-classroom, there’s no other place to be this weekend. And don’t forget the gift shop, of course.

Standard admission tickets for kids and adults at jurassicquest.com is $36.07, including fees. For seniors 65 and older, it’s $30.12. You can also buy tickets at the door.

Kids unlimited admission, which gets them on the dinosaur rides, Jurassic Jeeps, fossil dig and most of the inflatable attractions, is $56.08 — maximum weight 140 lbs — and socks must be worn on the inflatable attractions. Otherwise, there’s an extra charge per activity if you want to be selective.

The exhibition is open noon – 8 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. Sunday, all taking place at Edmonton Expo Centre (7515 118 Ave.).

Plan for one or two hours in the space, depending on how many activities you dive into, and know that the mornings and afternoons on the weekend are busiest.

Now back to that important conversation we were having about how Stegosauruses are super awesome …

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ART

Thru 4/25: Raneece Buddan: Threading Through Time (Art Gallery St. Albert)

4/26: International Women’s Gallery Night (Felice)

4/26: Spring Social (Bay1Gallery)

4/26-6/8: Caitlin Thompson: PANORAMADA (Harcourt)

4/26-6/8: Krissya Iraheta: All Guts No Glory (Harcourt)

Thru 4/26: Visions of Grandeur: Lands Worth Saving (Wild Skies)

4/27: EPG Spring Sale (Edmonton Potters’ Guild)

Thru 4/27: Ground Level: 2024 Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition (FAB)

Thru 4/27: Liliya Kostiuk, Liudmyla Lushchyk, Taras Lachowsky (Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts)

Thru 4/27: Misty Ring: Our Collective Stories: A Shared Reflection by the Sky (Bleeding Heart)

4/30: Paint Night — The Reef (Blue Chair)

Thru 5/1: Jason Carter (Bear Claw)

Thru 5/4: Santosh Korthiwada: Inseparable Fragments (Art Gallery of St. Albert)

Thru 5/5: Brenda Draney: Drink from the River (AGA)

Thru 5/5: Emmanuel Osahor: I made this place for you (AGA)

Thru 5/7: The Long and Short of It Edmonton Art Club Spring Show (NOA Gallery)

Thru 5/8: Modern Landscapes group show (Peter Robertson)

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Thru 5/11: Greg Swain: El Hombre Esqueleto (Collins)

Thru 5/12: Within Duration group show (Rutherford Library)

Thru 5/18: Coming Up Next (Alberta Craft Gallery)

Thru 5/19: Pam Wilman, Marla Schole: Two Views (Walterdale)

Thru 5/26: Braxton Garneau: Pay Dirt (AGA)

Thru 6/2: Creating Beauty — A Watercolour Exhibition (AGA)

Thru 6/15: Minutiae (Alberta Craft Gallery)

Thru 6/22: Echoes of Thunder: Unveiling the Mythical Chinese Dragon (U of A Museums)

Thru 6/29: The Wild Side: Polar Prairie Pacific (Musée Héritage Museum)

Thru 8/4: Dwayne Martineau: Boreal Fortress (AGA)

Thru 9/29: Here & Now (RAM)

Thru 12/31: Damian Moppett: Untitled Abstract Object in Space (AGA)

BOOKS

4/30: Audreys Book Club: Kim Thúy’s Ru (Audreys)

COMEDY

4/25-28: Drew Dunn (Comic Strip)

4/26-27: Andrew Iwanyk (Yuk Yuk’s)

4/26-27: Brian Stollery (Comedy Factory)

EXHIBITS

4/26-28: Jurassic Quest (EXPO Centre)

Thru 4/28: Disney Immersive Animation (EXPO Centre)

Thru 7/28: Angkor: The Lost Empire of Cambodia (RAM)

Thru 9/9: Dinosaurs: The Exhibition (TWOSE)

FESTIVALS

4/27: Alberta Spirits & Cocktail Festival (EEC)

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Thru 4/28: Edmonton Poetry Festival (various venues)

5/1-4: Jubalani Arts Festival (Roxy)

FILM

4/25: The People’s Joker (Metro)

MUSIC

4/25: Boombox (Ukraine) (Union)

4/25: Will Cramer Trio (Blue Chair)

4/25: ESO New Music: The Wolf of Lafontaine: Song & Dance (Winspear)

4/25: Nick Guiton, Yoti Music, BoyCriedMel, Bradley Cormier (Dive Bar)

4/25: Kasador, The Great Winter, Monks on Call, Waffelhouse (Soho)

4/25: Leaf Rapids, Mark Davis (Aviary)

4/25: Paro!, Morning Coyote, Vanity Hour, The Issue (Temple)

4/26: Big Fancy & the Shiddy Cowboys, Tyler Wainwright (Bellevue)

4/26: Brad Bucknell (Blue Chair)

4/26: Bootlicker, Languid, The Unwashed, Batscratch, Undivided Attention (Starlite)

4/26: CMS Chorus (OSPAC)

4/26: The Nebula Organ Trio (Yardbird)

4/26: Sean Davis Newton, Mallory Chipman, Francesco Pizzuto, The Paperback Violets (Aviary)

4/26: The Smelters, The Bonspiels, Borderline Thrills, Chuck Dandy, The Undesireables (Dive Bar)

4/26: St. Arnaud, Chesterfield, Limited Hangout (Soho)

4/26-27: Celeigh Cardinal w/ the ESO (Winspear)

4/27: Close Talker, Postdata (Aviary)

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4/27: The Prairie States, Erik Dylan, Wyatt McCubbin, Bobby Wills (Cook County)

4/27: Rooster Davis; Off the Rails (Blue Chair)

4/27: Defined, Guiltless, Anathematize, Caustic Fog, Cannon (Blakbar)

4/27: Matt Dusk: Dusk Sings Bennett (Festival Place)

4/27: Emo Night Brooklyn (Midway)

4/27: Tanyss Nixi (Cask and Barrel)

4/27: Polonia Choir (Campu St.-Jean)

4/27: Pouya, Terror Reid, Fat Nick (Union)

4/27: Pro Coro: Sing Into the Silence (All Saints’)

4/27: Punch Drunk Cabaret (Soho)

4/27: ShockolaD (Yardbird)

4/27: Skrizzly Adams, Grimstone (Dive Bar)

4/27: Symphony in the Clouds (Symphony Tower)

4/27: Amy van Keeken’s Vinyl Dance Party (CKUA)

4/27: Wind Rose, Xandria (Starlite)

4/28: Terry McDade (Blue Chair)

4/28: Young Artists Concert (Holy Trinity)

4/29: Amon Amarth, Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Frozen Soul (EEC)

4/30: Dave Herrick Tuesday Jam (Yardbird)

4/30: Louisiana Hayride Show (Arden)

4/30: Matt Sezit, The Olm, The Furnace, YMGER (Aviary)

THEATRE/DANCE

4/25: Nerd Nite Edmonton: machine learning, cults, birds (Edmonton Fringe Theatre)

4/25-5/12: Tiny Beautiful Things (Varscona)

4/27: Connections//Collisions Cabaret (Mile Zero)

Thru 4/27: The Swearing Jar (Walterdale)

5/1: 2024 Edmonton Arts Prizes (Varscona)

5/1: Final Boss — The Video Game Drag Show (Buckingham)

Thru 5/4: Improvised Dungeons & Dragons (Rapid Fire)

Thru 6/16: Grease (Mayfield)

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