Lindork - Linda Hoang, Edmonton, Alberta (2026)

28/05/2026

NEW, ONE OF A KIND EXPERIENCE IN EDMONTON | Get $5 off your online booking to the NEW Museum of Illusions in West Edmonton Mall with my code LINDORK!

The Museum of Illusions is an all-ages edu-tainment destination that teases senses and tricks your mind (you won’t believe some of the illusions even when you see it lol).

There is really no other space like this in Edmonton, with 80 visual and educational exhibits, hands-on, interactive illusions and immersive rooms!

I really appreciated that each illusion includes an explanation of the science behind it too.

We actually seek out these Instagrammable, trick of the mind and eyes type of experiences a lot when we travel, and can say that there were many spaces and exhibits that we had never seen before at the Museum of Illusions! There is also staff positioned throughout the different spaces who help explain how things work and offer to take your photos or videos too! So nice and helpful.

My family LOVED our time here (our toddler Benjimin thinks museums are super cool now lol).

I’m working with the museum to share more (and do a social media giveaway soon- stay tuned!)

My code LINDORK is valid for $5 off your online ticket for bookings until June 30.

📍The Museum of Illusions Edmonton is located on the lower level of West Edmonton Mall underneath the movie theatre.

What a super fun destination for tourists and locals alike!

28/05/2026

Get tickets to the International Children's Festival of the Arts taking place this weekend May 29-June 1 in St. Albert! 🎉

Be Wonder-filled! The International Children’s Festival of the Arts, one of the largest and longest running festivals of its kind in North America, returns this May 29-June 1 in St. Albert.

From FREE and ticketed performances, dance parties, mind-bending acrobatics and stunts, education stations, an IDEA Lab, Sensory Circuit, mazes, art installations and more, this event offers kids and families countless awe-inspiring and mind-growing experiences.

Benjimin and I have had lots of fun taking in activities at the International Children's Festival of the Arts!

Learn more, see the full activity and event schedule, and get tickets: https://stalbert.ca/exp/childfest

This year I’m working with the International Children’s Festival of the Arts to highlight some of the amazing family-friendly activities taking place throughout the weekend.

Watch for some itinerary ideas!

27/05/2026

$500 GIFT CARD GIVEAWAY to celebrate the 300th issue of my weekly email newsletter Lindork’s Lists! 🎉 💌

Did you know: I send out a curated list of Things to Do, Eat and Know Each Week in the Edmonton area via my weekly email newsletter ?

And my next email on Wednesday, May 27, 2026 is my 300th!

That’s 300 weeks (nearly SIX YEARS!!) of emails (wow, I actually didn’t realize it had been that long 🥹 lol).

I love helping make it easy for Edmontonians and tourists to explore, enjoy, and find memorable experiences in and around the city, through social media, at events I organize and host, and through these weekly emails.

To mark this milestone, I am running an email subscriber-only giveaway of $500 worth of local gift cards to support Edmonton businesses. 🤗

To qualify for the gift card prize, you just need to be an email subscriber! It’s free to subscribe—or there is a paid option if you want to support the work I do further.

BECOME A FREE EMAIL NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBER
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I’ll be sending out the 300th email at 10 p.m. Wednesday, May 27 so if you’re a subscriber by then, you’ll get the chance to enter to win! 💛

I am very grateful to everyone in my little corner of the Internet, on here, and via email. 🙏🏻 One of the reasons I started the email community nearly six years was to not be as reliant on social media to connect with folks.

I meant to post this sooner (to give people more subscribe notice lol) but I’ve just behind on most things in life lately (sorry if you’re still waiting for an email reply back from me… 🥲)

If you're seeing this after May 27 I hope you still subscribe and stick around for the useful Edmonton area recommendations!!

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25/05/2026

BUILD YOUR OWN PASTA in Medicine Hat, southern Alberta. 🍝

While my weekend in Medicine Hat was very much about the hot air balloon experiences at Rise Up Hot Air Balloon Festival, I also had plenty of opportunities for excellent meals!! 😋🤤🥰

I love dining in The Hat!

There are definitely some Medicine Hat food favourites that I always return to, but I love to try new-to-me spots too.

For this visit, it was my first time popping into D'carlo Pasta House. The restaurant is named after the owner and chef and is something of a long-standing institution in the southern Alberta city (it operated for a long time a long time ago, then shut down and recently reopened to much fanfare in the last few years).

Here you've got to order their delicious wedge Caesar salad, which pairs very well with their personally prepared build your own pasta creations! Select your pasta noodle, sauce, protein, and vegetables for a very customized dish. I loved my Spaghetti Rose with Chicken, Mushrooms and Zucchini. Rose is one of my favourite pasta sauces and it is not offered at nearly enough restaurants, lol. My friend who lives in the city went with an Alfredo Penne. He always has a great meal here!! There are also some set pastas you can order but people definitely come here to build their pasta.

Portion sizes are big at D’Carlo!! I ended up packing leftovers to enjoy a second meal. 😋 They also have some nice Italian soda options too. Thursday nights are their live local music nights so it was to enjoy our hearty meal set to live music.

D’Carlo was also one of the participating restaurants in Tourism Medicine Hat's recent dine around campaign “Pairs Well” - which offers some great suggestions of food at local restaurants, that pairs with other dishes or drinks! My order here was inspired by that Pairs Well suggestion. ✅

If you’re planning to head down to Medicine Hat this summer (I highly recommend it!), be sure to check out my many Medicine Hat Travel Guides to help plan your visit!!

I’ll be putting together a new one based on this weekend with Tourism Medicine Hat soon!

EXPLORE MEDICINE HAT TRAVEL GUIDES
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https://linda-hoang.com/category/medicine-hat/

Also happy to make any suggestions for your itinerary if you just message me!

📍 D’Carlo Pasta House
501A 4 Ave SE, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

22/05/2026

Hello from the skies over Medicine Hat, Alberta! ☁️ 🎈 👋🏻

What a joy to take flight at the Rise Up Hot Air Balloon Festival, which is on NOW until May 24 in the southern Alberta City of Medicine Hat!

I’m working with Tourism Medicine Hat to highlight the fifth annual festival, which I’ve also learned is Canada’s second biggest hot air balloon event! 🎉🥳

This year, Rise Up features 34 balloons and pilots from all over North America. If you’re in The Hat during festival dates, you get an opportunity to see these beautiful, bright, BIG balloons speckle the sky just after sunrise and just before sunset, and take part in a number of free community events.

I got to head up on the 6 a.m. Friday flight with Johann-Francois Frève of Team Montgolfières Freedom from Quebec! Johann has been flying since 2001 and got his pilot license in 2007. He’s also the President of the Canadian Balloon Association!

I loved how Johann described to me that being in a hot air balloon feels like being a bubble that you blow as a child. “We are like a bubble in the sky, lighter than air!”

If you’re in the area or coming down, the festival’s BALLOON GLOW Friday & Saturday evening events are amazing ways to see the hot air balloons up very close (plus food trucks, entertainment and more). And Saturday’s activities include a Community Day with lots of fun for all ages.

Learn more about the festival and see the schedule: https://ourcollectivejourney.ca/rise-up/event-schedule

If you can’t make it down this weekend, the cool part is that this isn’t even the only hot air balloon festival in Alberta! You can also plan to check out the Heritage Inn International Balloon Festival which takes place on the final weekend of September annually in the Town of the High River, just an hour south of Calgary. 🎈

More Hot Air Balloon Festival coverage to come!!!

📍 Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

19/05/2026

THIS WEEK! 🎈🎉 Rise Up Hot Air Balloon Festival in the southern Alberta City of Medicine Hat, AB runs May 21-24!! I'm headed down to work with Tourism Medicine Hat and share all about the festival.

Plan your visit down too! 🚗

This is the 5th annual event, where hot air balloon pilots from across North America take to the skies over The Hat. Expect spectacular hot air balloon displays as well as a Community Day with a free pancake breakfast, movies for the whole family, youth art displays, and the Rise Up Market with vendors from Medicine Hat and beyond. Plus there is a mental health component of the festival. It's put on by Our Collective Journey, which offers customized, evidence-based programs to support mental well-being.

Learn more & see the festival schedule ➡️ https://www.ourcollectivejourney.ca/rise-up/event-schedule

Check out all of my Medicine Hat Travel Guides for more activities and food to check out while you're in there area!! ➡️ https://linda-hoang.com/category/medicine-hat/

Medicine Hat just wrapped up their Medicine Hat Pairs Well food and drink campaign too, but you can use it as a guide for your food exploration of the city too! ➡️ https://www.tourismmedicinehat.com/pairs-well

📍 Medicine Hat, Southern Alberta, Canada

16/05/2026

FREE MOVIES!!! 🎥 TODAY ONLY: Saturday, May 16 at Landmark Cinemas 9 Edmonton City Centre Mall 📍 as part of FascinAsian Film Festival - Edmonton, the film festival I work with to spotlight Pan-Asian stories on the big screen and address equity and representation issues in media arts. I was also happy to co-host the festival's Opening Reception on Tuesday!

SPACE CADET @ 1 p.m.

Come by to catch the free, family-friendly animated film Space Cadet directed by Kid Koala.

Robot always watched over Celeste, until she became a brilliant scientist and astronaut. When she leaves on an interstellar mission, Robot must face loneliness and the aging of its technological systems. In the vastness of space, Celeste faces great dangers. As she struggles to overcome these obstacles, memories of her childhood resurface, lighting her way through the darkness. He’s the guardian robot programmed to protect the sweetest astronaut on this (or any) planet. But when she blasts off on a solo mission of outer space adventure, he’s left to wonder… what now?

RSVP free tickets to Space Cadet: https://fffyeg2026.eventive.org/schedule/space-cadet-q-a-prerecorded-with-kid-koala-free-family-film-69c89039c4bc3f3536b425e4

SATURDAY SHORT FILMS:
THE ONES WE LEAVE BEHIND @ 3 p.m.

The Ones We Leave Behind is a collection of short films that explores the heavy silence of what cannot be avoided. Through intimate storytelling and raw emotional honesty, these films capture the profound ache of standing on the sidelines of another person's storm. It is a cinematic journey on the limits of empathy, the burden of the bystander and highlights the ghosts of the situations we move past, but never truly leave.

RSVP free tickets to SATURDAY SHORT FILMS: https://fffyeg2026.eventive.org/schedule/shorts-the-ones-we-leave-behind-free-69c88d54bf428e32f96bef2e

Drop-in / tickets at the box office is also available but only if there are seats left so best to book in advance.

Thanks to everyone who has come out for a record-breaking second annual FascinAsian Film Festival in Edmonton!! 🙏🏻

15/05/2026

I'm so proud to bring Where We Came From (and where we go from here): A Vietnamese Art & Heritage Exhibit, to the city, through Chúng Ta Cùng Nhau, the Vietnamese-Edmonton Cultural Society I co-founded and co-curated.

Our group's name means We Are Together, and we hope you come together with us at this special exhibit.

The exhibit (at Bowladrome Gallery at ArtsHub Creative Studios 10131 97 St. downtown), features community stories and reflections, portraits, art installations, immersive vignettes, and more cultural and heritage pieces designed to help both Vietnamese-Edmontonians and the broader public better understand and reflect on the Vietnamese-Edmonton story.

The exhibit runs May 8-June 6 with select, FREE drop-in gallery dates (listed below) as well as some special events coming up.

There is an event THIS SUNDAY MAY 17 from 2:30-4:30 - which includes a panel of speakers and food from Boa & Hare + Ying Fat Food Products. Just $5 (or pay what you can): https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/may-17-2026-stories-and-reflections-where-we-came-from-and-where-we-go-from-here-a-vietnamese-art-and-heritage-exhibit

Our group, including co-founder Jessica Truong and portrait exhibit artist Dawn Graves, really hope you can drop-in or attend an event! The feedback we've been hearing has been so meaningful.

FREE DROP-IN GALLERY HOURS:

Hours:

Friday, May 8 • 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Monday, May 11 • 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Sunday, May 17 • 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Ticketed Stories & Reflections Event (Pay What You Can):
2:30-4:30 p.m.

Friday, May 22 • 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Tuesday, May 26 • 11:30 a.m to 3 p.m.
Ticketed Lunch & Listen Event ($10): 12-2 p.m.

Wednesday, May 27 • 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 30 • 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Tuesday, June 2 • 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday, June 5 • 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Saturday, June 6 • 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Free Archive Workshop Event: 12-1 p.m.

Venue: The Bowladrome Gallery
ArtsHub Creative Studios
Downtown Edmonton (Boyle Street) - 10131 97 St.

Learn more about the exhibit:
https://www.chungtacungnhau.ca/news/where-we-came-from-where-we-go-from-here-exhibit-may-2026

Learn more about Chúng Ta Cùng Nhau:
https://chungtacungnhau.ca/

THANKS EVERYONE!!!!

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11/05/2026

POWERED BY BUBBLE TEA 🧋

These ones from Dagu Rice Noodle Edmonton literally powered us this week as we set up Edmonton's only Vietnamese-centered Asian Heritage Month exhibit!

This shirt is one of the designs in my clothing collaboration with UglyApparel.co for Asian Heritage Month!

This and seven other designs are available to order until May 31.

Browse & order: https://linda-hoang.com/2026-asian-heritage-month-clothing-collection-lindork-x-ugly-apparel-co/

20% proceeds from sales of the collection will be donated to Chúng Ta Cùng Nhau Vietnamese-Edmonton Cultural Society.

Check out our Asian Heritage Month exhibit (drop-in hours and upcoming events including May 17, 26, and June 6!) https://www.chungtacungnhau.ca/news/where-we-came-from-where-we-go-from-here-exhibit-may-2026

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