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The $100,000 annual Edmonton Arts Prizes have been awarded, showcasing an impressive range of local talent and vision!
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Longtime playwright, queer advocate and drag legend Darin Hagen has taken the City of Edmonton Film Prize for his documentary Pride vs. Prejudice: The Delwin Vriend Story, it was announced at a ceremony at Roxy Theatre Wednesday night, while alternative electro-pop artist margø has grabbed its Music Prize cousin for her debut album, who are you when you’re alone?
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Novelist, bookseller and Afghanistan veteran Benjamin Hertwig, meanwhile, won the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize for his tender, battlefront debut novel Juiceboxers.
Raneece Buddan’s Art Gallery of St. Albert show Adorned in our Thread led to her Eldon and Anne Foote Visual Arts Prize win.
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Besides the honour of recognition by peers, each category winner is awarded $15,000, with $5,000 apiece going to everyone else on the short list.
The runners up in each category are Don Depoe/Dept. 9 Studios for Dark Match and Scott Portingale for Emergence for the film prize — the three movies playing NorthwestFilmFest Monday night at Metro Cinema starting at 7 p.m. with Q and As to follow.
Celeigh Cardinal’s Boundless Possibilities and King Thief’s self titled album scored the music prize’s runners-up spots, meanwhile, while Gail Fraser’s By Strength, We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, and Marilyn Dumont’s South Side of a Kinless River rounded up the books list.
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Finally, for visual arts, the runners up were Cheyenne Rain LeGrande for mi^kisak and Heather Shillinglaw’s MNIDOONS GIIZIS OONHG – LITTLE SPIRIT MOON (NOVEMBER).
Last year’s winners were HAIDEE’s album This Shouldn’t Be Typical, Cody Lightning’s film HEY, VIKTOR!, Kelsey Stepehnson for Currents — also at Art Gallery of St. Albert, PS — and essayist Jennifer Bowering Delisle for Micrographia.
The annual awards honouring 12 of our finest is shepherded by Edmonton Arts Council, in partnership with the City of Edmonton and community partners Alberta Media Production Industries Association, Alberta Music, Audreys Books, CARFAC Alberta, Edmonton Community Foundation and Writers’ Guild of Alberta.
Deadlines for the 2026 awards are early December for books, late January for the other three prizes.
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