Raw States

Canal Convergence

Scottsdale, AZ · Arts & Culture

When

November 6–15, 2026

Where

Scottsdale Waterfront · Scottsdale · AZ

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Scottsdale Arts stages this multi-night public art event along the Arizona Canal at the Scottsdale Waterfront, now in its 15th year. Large-scale light and sound installations line the canal path for free evening viewing. The 2026 edition marks Scottsdale's 75th anniversary with a Southwest nature theme.

The history within reach

• Canal Convergencesame spot

  Scottsdale Arts stages this multi-night public art event along the Arizona Canal at the Scottsdale Waterfront, now in its 15th year.

• Scottsdazzle0.5 mi

  The City of Scottsdale's holiday celebration lights Old Town Scottsdale from the weekend after Thanksgiving through mid-December, opening with a tree lighting ceremony and sing-along at the Scottsdale Waterfront.

• Parada del Sol Parade & Trail's End Festival0.7 mi

  Scottsdale's Charros civic organization has staged this Western-heritage parade through Old Town since the 1950s, with roughly 150 decorated floats, riding clubs and marching bands followed by the Trail's End street festival.

• Scottsdale refuses a concrete flood channel and builds a park instead1.7 mi

  In 1961 the Army Corps of Engineers proposed running a seven-mile concrete ditch, 23 feet deep and 170 feet wide, down the Indian Bend Wash to the Salt River.

• Los Arcos Mall, the hockey arena that never was2.6 mi

  Los Arcos opened in 1969 and spent the 1990s losing its shoppers and both its anchor stores to Scottsdale Fashion Square.