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2026-05-16, Solo hike, Art Show and Tell Saturday— just under six kilometres, in the chilled air. Still searching for a name for this painting: an Italian red coffee pot simmering on the front, flanked by pizza slices and the City of Edmonton emblem, all garnished with words along the edways by a local word‑chef known as the Ukrainian Sausage. Flip it over, and the backside serves as a memory of an Indigenous Red Dress, and asparagus exploding out of a recycling can like a vegetable firework. Bon appétit — Alberta‑style. XL, Art is Freedom, LISTEN
2026-05-13, Paint day under a bright sky, soaking in vitamin D. Gratitude to every contributor — including the government MLA who helped kick off this 2019 painting again, The Legislature Has No Dome, Unity, a name shaped in part by an Alberta Sheriff.
Flip the canvas, and you meet its counterpart: The Grande Stage Democracy. Along the baseline and beside the cross, new flowers bloom — painted by dozens of hands, from kids to elders. They mark renewal, just like the rose bushes rising today from the top of the Legislature, reclaiming the space where the dome once stood. Back in 2022, HBO’s The Last of Us turned the Legislature into a film set and blew the dome apart for season one.
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Life’s too short for small labels. XL Life - Home of my personal 'LISTEN Label Fashion Wear, worn inside the galleries T-shirts and Sports Jersey Cover-Ups. Outside Summer Caps and Winter Toques of Alberta.
