Walk into the plaza behind Blowers & Grafton on a Saturday between 11 and 2 and you will likely find a bounce house, a craft table from Michaels, and someone in a Chase or Marshall costume signing autographs for a line of four-year-olds. The Greater Windermere Community League does not own a hall of its own and uses other venues for its programs.
Windermere's social life includes both shopping centre events and community league programs. The Currents of Windermere events calendar and the community league's membership page describe these different activities. Town Square was built and is run by a shopping centre developer, while the volunteer league organizes its own programs.
Who Built Town Square
Town Square, the open plaza at the center of Currents of Windermere, was not part of the original 2010s retail build. Cameron Development Corporation and Harvard Developments added it in 2018, carving a pedestrian gathering space out of a shopping centre that already anchored around Home Depot, Walmart, Canadian Tire, and the first Cabela's in Alberta. It sits inside a complex that has grown to roughly 1.2 million square feet, and the tenant mix keeps shifting to match a demographic the developer's own leasing material describes as the city's most affluent shopping catchment. Sephora opened its doors there on a Friday in early March 2026, its first Windermere location, carrying close to 340 beauty and skincare brands into a spot at 5236 Windermere Blvd.
Town Square is a gathering space within a shopping centre. Its summer programming takes place there, while the community league runs its own programming in other venues.
The Season That Just Wrapped
This year's kid-focused summer series ran three Saturdays deep before pausing:
- Teddy Bear Picnic, July 25, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with teddy bear wellness checkups from Windermere Veterinary Hospital, a Michaels craft station, complimentary Marble Slab Creamery ice cream, a Willowbrae Childcare Academy activity booth, and a P.F. Chang's Plinko board. Ticket proceeds went to Edmonton Public Library's literacy programming.
- Kid Market, August 8, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., a table-by-table market of handmade goods and treats made by local kid entrepreneurs.
- PAW Patrol Meet & Greet plus Kid Market, August 15, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., pairing costumed appearances by Chase and Marshall with a second round of the same young-vendor market.
Layered around those three anchor Saturdays, Currents has also run adult-oriented programming tied to specific tenants: an evening Paint Night open to guests 14 and up, and live music nights at California Pizza Kitchen. As of this writing, the developer has only teased what comes next, describing a season "Finale Event... on the horizon" without a confirmed date. If you want to catch it, the shopping centre's own events page is the place to watch, not a general Edmonton events aggregator, since Currents tends to post its Town Square calendar directly.
What connects all of it is sponsorship. The businesses named above contribute to Town Square programming, which offers a free, no-membership-required way to spend a Saturday.
Where the Community League Holds Its Programs
The Greater Windermere Community League covers far more ground than the name suggests. Its official boundary runs from Ambleside through Windermere North, Upper Windermere, Langdale, Windermere South, West Pointe, West Pointe Estates, The One at Windermere, and Windermere Drive, then continues into Keswick, Glenridding Heights, and Glenridding Ravine. That is close to a dozen distinct sub-communities under one volunteer board. The league's website does not list a standalone community hall. Its listed headquarters address is 2051 Leger Road, the same street address as the Terwillegar Community Recreation Centre, a City of Edmonton facility the league does not own but where members get free swim access on Saturday evenings.
For its July programming this year, the league ran a Thursday-evening arts and crafts series for kids aged five to nine. It partnered with The Ridge Community League and held the classes at The Ridge's hall on July 9, 16, 23, and 30.
Annual Membership Expiry: August 31
Here is the part that is easy to miss if you are only paying attention to the mall calendar. Every Greater Windermere Community League membership expires annually on August 31, so this year's card expired on August 31. That membership is not optional trivia. It is required to register kids for soccer, basketball, and other league sports, and it is what unlocks free swim access on Saturday evenings at Terwillegar, a 20 percent discount toward an annual or continuous monthly recreation centre membership, 15 percent off multi-admission passes, and free skate tags once the outdoor rinks open. None of the Currents of Windermere events ask for a membership card; the listed league benefits do.
Town Square events and community league programs offer different ways to take part in Windermere. Check your membership status and renew it if needed.
If you are weighing what a home in Windermere actually gives you day to day, beyond the show homes and the amenity maps, that split between developer-run programming and volunteer-run infrastructure is a good place to start looking. Rimrock Real Estate has spent years building custom homes and guiding buyers through this exact stretch of southwest Edmonton, from lot selection through move-in, and understands both sides of that ledger. If you are ready to talk through what it looks like to build or buy here, start your homebuilding journey with a conversation.