In-person Arts & Culture

Luminaria

Dec. 27, 2024 to Dec. 29, 2024

University of Alberta Botanic Garden
Tickets are under $50
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In a return to Luminaria’s simple, natural roots, we’re unplugging (most) of the electric lights and celebrating the elemental – candlelight, starlight and firelight – during the darkest nights of the year.

You can slow down and share a moment of serenity with the people you love in a stroll along the candlelit pathways of the Kurimoto Japanese Garden. Warmed by fires and hot apple cider, take in the sounds of a capella singers, light a candle in memory of a loved one and mark the essence of the season in a ritual of peace and beauty.

We welcome you back to the feeling that’s inspired by nature’s embrace – at the essential Luminaria.

Three weekends only

To maintain a peaceful and unrushed atmosphere and to ensure adequate free parking at the Garden, we are offering a limited number of tickets. By comparison, in previous years we offered up to 30,000 tickets – this year we are limiting capacity to 8,100 guests over the course of nine evenings.

We anticipate that Luminaria will sell out quickly this year.


University of Alberta Botanic Garden

51227 Alberta 60
Parkland County, AB, T7Y 1C5


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