Patio Party @ Latitude 53

Consider your Thursday evenings officially booked for the summer.

Contemporary art gallery Latitude 53 has revived its uber-popular patio party series, partnering with local businesses to bring you a unique shindig each and every week. Check out the gallery’s newest art exhibitions while sipping cocktails (or Alley Kats), gnoshing on appies from area eateries and shaking your hips to the sounds of Edmonton’s finest DJs. It’s seriously a "who’s who" of our city’s coolest artists, art-lovers, socialites and philanthropists. Best of all, you can flow in and out of the gallery onto Latitude 53’s brand-spankin’-new patio, designed by the wonder-kid woodworkers at Oliver Apt.

Here’s to enjoying the great artdoors! —Janis Galloway

Latitude 53, 10242-106 St., Edmonton, 780-423-5353, www.latitude53.org

Photo courtesy of Dallas Whitley