Past Events


Visitors in the Arts - Thien Ta Trung of Periphere will lecture in Architecture & design Now
Monday, April 7, 2008 - 12:00pm
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Department: Art

Interdisciplinary installation artist Ingrid Bachmann will speak in Art Now at noon April 7 Recital Hall
Monday, April 7, 2008 - 11:10am - 5:59pm
Ingrid Bachmann is an interdisciplinary installation artist whose interests span obsolete technologies and new digital media. Her work combines new media with traditional art practices and explores shifting relationships between artist, audience and artifact. She has received critical acclaim for interactive installations that have been featured in group and solo shows...
Department: Art

Farewell to an Old Friend ~ A Tribute to George Evelyn
Sunday, April 6, 2008 - 8:00am - Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 6:00pm
Colleagues, former students and friends honour the contributions of long-time music professor Dr. George Evelyn on the occasion of his retirement with a gala concert. Special guests include soprano Wendy Nielsen (New York Metropolitan Opera), soprano Sheila Christie (Vancouver), trumpeter Gillian Mackay (University of Toronto), and pianist Terence Dawson (University of...
Department: Music

U of L Singers celebrate Quarter Century
Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 2:00pm - Friday, April 4, 2008 - 6:00pm
Choir alumni are invited to join this year’s edition of 31 singers. “We look forward to sharing the evening with many former Singers. We’ve been using Facebook to connect with alumni and have enjoyed catching up with what people are doing,” says Conductor Dr. George Evelyn, who founded the group and estimates that over the years more than 600 students...
Department: Music

Friday, April 4, 2008 - 2:00pm - Thursday, April 3, 2008 - 6:00pm
From a toe-tapping march and sentimental selections to a delightful ride on a Ghost Train, the University of Lethbridge Wind Orchestra promises a wide variety of superb music. The 55 piece group directed by Dr. Thomas Staples delivers on that promise when it takes to the stage at Southminster United Church on April 4 at 8 p.m. This concert wraps up their annual spring tour,...
Department: Music

A Survivor
Friday, April 4, 2008 - 1:00pm - Thursday, April 3, 2008 - 6:00pm
A Survivor’s Guide to Experimental Film & Video “Most of our encounters with film tend to be more or less familiar ones. Typically, our experiences are preconstituted by the expectations we bring to customary forms of cinematic engagement. From commercial fiction filmmaking, we demand all sorts of pleasures. From documentaries, we insist that our desire for...
Department: New Media

Open Call XVI: The End
Friday, April 4, 2008 - 1:00pm - 5:59pm
The final version of the annual short film screening programmed by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Come enjoy an evening of short films created by artists, students and filmmakers from across the prairie provinces.

Conversations in Fine Arts
Friday, April 4, 2008 - 9:00am - 1:17pm
 

Ceramic artist Judy Chartrand will lecture in Art Now
Friday, April 4, 2008 - 6:00am - 6:00pm
Judy Chartrand is a Cree First Nations and is a part of a continuum of art making that is thousands of years old. In the creation of her work, she chooses a variety of modes of expression that range from contemporary to traditional First Nations art practices. Chartrand’s ceramic works are overtly political and take on post-colonial issues as well as racism and cultural...
Department: Art

Music Won
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - 2:00pm - Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - 6:00pm
“We’ve flagrantly ‘borrowed’ the title from the iconic recording by Miles Davis because it so perfectly reflects the nature of the music on the concert,” explains Ed Wasiak, conductor. In homage to Miles and Kind of Blue the Jazz Ensemble is playing “So What,” one of the best known pieces on the album, which is the best-selling jazz...
Department: Music

Lani Maestro will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - 5:59am - 6:50am
 Lani Maestro’s art works have consistently pursued links between the concerns of Minimalist art and philosophic traditions associated with silence, emptiness or absence. Maestro has been a Canadian representative to numerous international exhibitions including the Shanghai Biennial in China (2000), 11th Biennale of Sydney, Australia (1998), 5th International...
Department: Art

Music at Noon - Studio Showcase
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - 6:15am - 7:15am
Studio Showcase
Department: Music

Music at Noon - Studio Showcase
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - 6:15am - Monday, March 31, 2008 - 6:00pm
When: 12:15 p.m., APR 01 2008
Department: Music

Architecture and Design Now
Monday, March 31, 2008 - 12:00pm - Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 6:00pm
The SAIT Donor Wall: A lecture by artist Carl Granzow and architects Christopher Babits and Dan Westwood. “(In)tensions in the Production/Protection of an Urban Green Space and its Consumption As an artist collaborating with two architects, Dan Westwood and Chris Babits, on a wall/passage of remembrance on the campus of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (...
Department: Art

Visitors in the Arts: Aaron Taylor will lecture in Art Now
Monday, March 31, 2008 - 6:00am - Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 6:00pm
A Survivor’s Guide to Experimental Film & Video “Most of our encounters with film tend to be more or less familiar ones. Typically, our experiences are preconstituted by the expectations we bring to customary forms of cinematic engagement. From commercial fiction filmmaking, we demand all sorts of pleasures. From documentaries, we insist that our desire for...
Department: Art

Day of Percussion for Everyone
Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 3:30am - 10:00am
Find your inner drummer with a Day of Percussion. The event is open to everyone and costs only $5, payable at the door. Clinicians include drumset artist Bill George from Edmonton, Indian tabla and steel drum artist Jason Koontz from Eastern Kentucky University and Timpanist Kyle Eustace from the Calgary Philharmonic. Adam Mason and the U of L Global Drums (African drums...
Department: Music

Steven Holmes will lecture in Art Now
Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Department: Art

Steven Holmes speaking on March 28th at 12:00 noon in the
Friday, March 28, 2008 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Steven Holmes is curator and CEO of The Cartin Collection in Hartford, Connecticut. This private collection of approximately 2,400 pieces of art of modern and contemporary art, does projects with artists and mounts exhibitions from the collection across the country. Holmes did his graduate course work, Ph.D, in Art History and a Master of Theological Studies, Religion and...
Department: Art

Juried Student Art Exhibition in Main Gallery
Friday, March 28, 2008 - 4:00am - Friday, April 13, 2007 - 10:30am
Photo: Art Award Winners (l-r)back: Corinne Thiessen Hepher, John Lorent, Francine Desjardins, Sarah Barr, Brenna Kanski, Valerie Smith, Derek Hintz, Miguel Braun, and Megan Mericle. Front: Nicholas Louma, Naama Messer, Elliot Cooke, and Linda Sawchyn (guest curator). Missing: Nicolas de Cosson. The U of L Gallery is alive with colour and artwork of every description and...

Music at Noon: Bryan Vance, Saxophone and Elinor Lawson, Piano
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 6:15am - Monday, March 24, 2008 - 6:00pm
Bryan began his musical career in Vancouver, BC while earning his Bachelor of Music at UBC with Julia Nolan. During his studies, he performed with many bands and orchestras and in a number of musical theatre productions including "Hello!
Department: Music

Music at Noon - Bryan Vance, saxophone and Elinor Lawson, piano
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 6:15am - 7:15am
Bryan Vance, saxophone Elinor Lawson, piano
Department: Music

Visitors in the Arts - Governor General's Award winner, Liz Magor, will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 6:00am - 8:00am
Vancouver artist Liz Magor has established an international reputation over the past 30 years. “The ongoing theme in Magor’s work is the desire for escape from the uncertainties of the contemporary world, into the imagined shelter of nature, history and the domestic. To this end, she uses survivalist culture and romantic conceptions of nature as her conceptual...
Department: Art

Music at Noon - Robert Bardston, cello
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 6:15am - 7:15am
Robert Bardston, cello (Medicine Hat Conservatory of Music)
Department: Music

Music at Noon - Robert Bardston, cello
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 6:15am - 7:15am
Robert Bardston, cello (Medicine Hat Conservatory of Music)
Department: Music

Music at Noon - Robert Bardston, cello
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 6:15am - 8:15am
(Medicine Hat Conservatory of Music) Where: W570 When: 12:15 p.m., MAR 18 2008
Department: Music