Past Events


Concert Celebrates the Genius of Mozart
Monday, March 17, 2008 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Emma Parkinson, winner of the LSO Young Artists Competition performs with the Symphony. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- the very name conjures up the mystery of musical genius. Lethbridge audiences can enjoy magnificent music from the twilight of his career during The Wonder of Amadeus on March 17 at Southminster United Church at 8:00 pm.
Department: Music

Toronto architect, Donald Chong, will lecture in Architecture and Design
Monday, March 17, 2008 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Donald Chong, B.Arch, MRAIC Principal, Donald Chong Studio Donald Chong is a graduate from the University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, currently practicing in Toronto. In 2004, he founded Donald Chong Studio having worked previously in the offices of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, and Hariri Pontarini...
Department: Art

Jeffrey Spalding, President and CEO Glenbow Museum will lecture in Art Now
Monday, March 17, 2008 - 6:00am - 8:00am
Jeff Spalding is Glenbow's new CEO and President. Spalding has an M.F.A. from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and holds an M.A. from Ohio State University. Prior to his current appointment, Spalding was Director and Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Earlier in his career, Jeff worked here at Glenbow as an Art Curator, bringing a number of high profile...
Department: Art

Toronto painter, John Brown, will lecture in Art Now
Friday, March 14, 2008 - 6:00am - 11:20am
John Brown, regarded by many in the field to be one of Canada's greatest contemporary painters, has produced a prodigious body of work in distinct sets of themes and approaches, including abstraction, figuration and drawing.
Department: Art

Multimedia artist, Terrance Houle, will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Terrance Houle is an internationally recognized multimedia artist of the Blackfoot/Nahkawininiwak Nations. Houle received a BFA in fibre from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2003. His practice includes painting, drawing, installation, video/film, mixed media and performance. His work has been shown in Canada and abroad, including the USA, France, Germany, Australia...
Department: New Media

Multimedia artist, Terrance Houle, will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 6:00am - 7:00am
Terrance Houle is an internationally recognized multimedia artist of the Blackfoot/Nahkawininiwak Nations. Houle received a BFA in fibre from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2003. His practice includes painting, drawing, installation, video/film, mixed media and performance. His work has been shown in Canada and abroad, including the USA, France, Germany, Australia...
Department: New Media

To Kill a Mockingbird
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 8:00pm - Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 8:00pm
By Harper Lee Dramatized by Christopher Sergel Directed by Ches Skinner Matinees: March 12 & March 13 at noon Set against a backdrop of the southern USA in the 1950s this award winning novel deals compassionately with myriad human issues chief among which are racism and prejudice as seen through the eyes of a child. Sergel’s dramatized version remains true to the...
Department: Drama

Music at Noon - U of L New Music
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 6:15am - 7:15am
New Music with Arlan Schultz
Department: Music

A Play with a Message
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 2:55am - Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 9:55am
Based on the 1961 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird explores prejudice, selfishness, self-respect, and courage set against the backdrop of the deep South in the 1930s. It touched on a raw nerve when it first appeared and today the question remains, has anything changed?
Department: Drama

Industrial designer, Nathan Tremblay, will lecture in Architecture & Design
Monday, March 10, 2008 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Founded in 2005, Palette Industries has set out to substantiate a multidisciplinary approach to design. Palette brings together a group of three talented individuals, Nathan Tremblay, Ian Campana and Samuel Ho to create a diverse perspective on our ever changing surroundings. Paletteís unique blending of artistic ingenuity, craftsmanship and engineering is a testament...
Department: Art

Calgary artist, Shelley Ouellet, will lecture in Art Now
Monday, March 10, 2008 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
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Department: Art

Shary Boyle will lecture in Art Now
Friday, March 7, 2008 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Although Shary Boyle's practice is based in painting and drawing, her work is resistant to easy categorization. Her production reaches out to the world at large and in doing so, invents a new figurative language that attempts to give voice to the experiences of the falsely or poorly represented. Her subjects include children, animals, women, the spiritual and otherworldly. The...
Department: Art

Vid Ingelevics will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Vid Ingelevics will lecture in Art Now
Department: Art

Music at Noon - Chenoa Anderson, flute and Deanna Oye, piano
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 5:15am - 6:15am
Chenoa Anderson, flute Deanna Oye, piano
Department: Music

ZAB will lecture in Architecture & Design Now
Monday, March 3, 2008 - 11:00am - 1:00pm
Zab Design & Typography is a graphic design firm specializing in book design and fine typography, located in Toronto. Zab Design & Typography has designed award-winning books for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Dunlop Art Gallery, YYZ Books, and Pedlar Press, among others. The companyís...
Department: Art

Calgary artist, Dick Averns, will lecture in Art Now
Monday, March 3, 2008 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Dick Avernsí practice investigates the commodification of space. Language, media convergence and identity politics ñ major arbiters of spatial control ñ are explored via sculpture, performativity, text-based works and photography. Psycho-geography and performance ethnography feature as regular approaches to executing projects often manifested as public art...
Department: Art

Local artists undertake interesting project
Friday, February 29, 2008 - 5:00pm - Wednesday, April 9, 2008 - 6:00pm
The Bowman Arts Centre is excited to present the exhibition “Points of Importance,” opening March 1 and running until April 10, 2008. This exhibition brings together the work of 14 figurative artists who have been working extensively with disabled activist Ryan Gerstenbuhler as their nude subject. In late 2006, Ryan Gerstenbuhler approached the Bowman Arts Centre...
Department: Art

Lethbridge sculptor, Carl Granzow, will lecture in Art Now
Friday, February 29, 2008 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Function, Proposition, Distraction, a lecture by Carl Granzow, professor of Art, University of Lethbridge.
Department: Art

Play by U of L Student on Stage
Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 1:00pm - Friday, February 29, 2008 - 3:00pm
The Horse, The Bison and The Deer is an original play written by fourth year drama major Murray K. Pruden. In July 2007, he first tested the script on audiences at the Athabasca Fringe Festival. ìWe only had a three-person cast and limited playing space, but we caught the attention of the audience with the story,î says Pruden. Regarding the production in the...
Department: Drama

Graffiti artist, Patrick Thompson, will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Patrick Thompson is a Canadian born artist who has exhibited internationally and worked on walls under the pseudonym "Evoke" throughout North and Central America, Europe and Asia. Thompson has been involved in Canadian graffiti since 1994 and is highly esteemed for pushing the boundaries of street art by his peers. Often put into the "Canadian School" of...
Department: Art

Music at Noon - Musaeus String Quartet with Trudi Mason, trumpet
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 5:15am - 6:15am
Musaeus with Trudi Mason, trumpet
Department: Music

Graphic design historian, Brian Donnelly, will talk in Architecture & Design
Monday, February 25, 2008 - 11:00am - 1:00pm
Brian Donnelly grew up in suburban Ottawa, a fan of American advertising and comic books. He studied for his BFA at Queenís University during the conceptual upheaval of the mid-70s, majoring in printmaking and performance art. Active in a number of artist-run centres, he developed a working knowledge of design by volunteering at an arts magazine in Edmonton, and went on...
Department: Art

Interdisciplinary artist, Adrian Stimson, will lecture in Art Now
Friday, February 15, 2008 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Adrian Stimson is a member of the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation in southern Alberta. He is an interdisciplinary artist with a BFA with distinction from the Alberta College of Art & Design and MFA from the University of Saskatchewan. Stimson is currently Associate curator at the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon. At the Mendel he also completed both the aboriginal curator and...
Department: Art

Winnipeg artist, Cliff Eyland, will lecture in Art Now
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 5:00am - 6:00am
Cliff Eyland is an Associate Professor and Director of Gallery One One One at the University of Manitoba, School of Art, in Winnipeg. He is a painter, writer and a curator. He studied at Holland College, Mount Allison University, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Since 1981, he has made paintings, drawings, and notes in an index card format--3"x5" (7....
Department: Art

Take a Walk Into the Woods
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 1:00pm - Saturday, February 16, 2008 - 3:00pm
Imagine what would happen if fairy tale characters didnít live happily ever after. To find out, Into the Woods takes a look at several well-known fairy tales and turns them on their head through interweaving the stories of Cinderella, a distracted boy named Jack, his mother, the giant he upsets, a childless baker and his wife, Rapunzel, conceited princes, a witch,...
Department: Drama