Past Events


Jessica MacCormack, Art NOW
ART NOW - Jessica MacCormack Speaks October 30th, 2013 at Noon in the Recital Hall
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 12:00pm - 12:50pm
Jessica MacCormack’s interdisciplinary practice engages with the intersection of institutional violence and the socio-political reality of personal trauma.
Department: Art

Musaeus String Quartet; Dr. Josh Davies, trumpet; Music at Noon
Music at Noon - Musaeus String Quartet; Josh Davies, trumpet
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 12:15pm
For Music at Noon, Musaeus will be presenting a repertoire from their upcoming Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra Chamber Series II concert scheduled Friday, November 1, 8pm at Southminster Church, featuring guest artist Josh Davies, trumpet.  The program will include Concerto for Trumpet by Leopold Mozart, Concerto Saint Marc by Albinoni, A Hymn for the Lost and the...
Department: Music

Jim Anderson, Recording Engineer and Producer, Digital Audio Arts
Jim Anderson: Public Lecture
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
"Reality is Not a Recording / A Recording is Not Reality."  Join New York based recording engineer and producer Jim Anderson for this fascinating, free public lecture.
Department: Music

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN NOW - Linda Fraser Speaks October 28th, 2013 at 6pm in M1040
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 6:00pm - 8:50pm
Linda Fraser is the Archivist and Chief Curator of the Canadian Architectural Archives. She has curated the exhibitions A Room With a View and From Sea to Sea and, with Geoffrey Simmins the exhibitions and accompanying catalogues Building a History and Twentieth Century Icons. She has also co-authored the book John C.
Department: Art

Faure Requiem
Sunday, October 27, 2013 - 3:00pm
Faure’s Requiem Brings Together All Three University ChoirsIt’s a Sunday concert not to be forgotten! Spendthe afternoon enjoying a glorious collaboration from the U of L Singers, U of L Women’s Chorus and Vox Musica as they join together on stage for Faure Requiem, Oct. 27 at 3 pm at Southminster United Church.
Department: Music

Technical Ear Training Workshop with Grammy Award Winner Jim Anderson
Sunday, October 27, 2013 - 2:00pm
This is your chance to take a workshop with a nine time Grammy award winning recording engineer and producer.  Jim Anderson is an internationally recognized recording engineer and producer of acoustic music for the recording, radio, television, and film industries.
Department: Music

Audition - The Country Wife
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - 3:00pm - Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 7:00pm
Audition Notice: The Country WifeDepartment of Theatre and Dramatic Arts Mainstage Production #4Production Dates: March 18-22, 2014 Auditions will take place Tues. Oct 22 and Wed. Oct 23 from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm in the University Theatre (W500)
Department: Drama

Thomas Staples, horn, Music at Noon
Music at Noon - Thomas Staples, horn
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - 12:15pm
Thomas Staples is Professor of Music and Director of Bands at the University of Lethbridge.
Department: Music

Free New Media Film Series presents "The Devil’s Backbone"
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 7:00pm
The Devil’s Backbone (Spain/Guillermo del Toro/2001) hosted by Paul Sparrow-Clarke (Academic Initiatives Manager).During the Spanish Civil War, a 12-year-old boy uncovers dark secrets at a haunted orphanage.Winner, Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film, Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, 2002.
Department: New Media

Videofag - Jordan Tannahill and William Ellis, photo by Adam Zivo
ART NOW - Videofag Speaks On October 21st, 2013 at Noon in the Recital Hall
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 12:00pm - 12:50pm
Videofag is a storefront cinema and performance lab in Toronto, Ontario’s Kensington Market, dedicated to the creation and exhibition of video, film, new media, and live art. A flexible multimedia space, Videofag is designed to be able to serve as a cinema, an art gallery, a nightclub or a theatre space depending on the needs of any individual show.
Department: Art

Dale Ketcheson & Friends - CANCELLED
Saturday, October 19, 2013 - 8:00pm
Department: Music

Videofag - Jordan Tannahill and William Ellis, photo by Adam Zivo
Calling All Videofags Seminar and Other Events
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
This two hour lecture will consist of an anecdotal overview of the creation of Videofag and its relationship to previous Canadian queer art collectives like General Idea, Fifth Column, Kids on TV, and the millennial anarcho-queer renaissance of Toronto (2000 - 2010) instigated, in part, by Will Munro’s Vazaleen party scene.
Department: Drama

ART NOW - Corinne Thiessen Hepher Speaks October 16th, 2013 at Noon in Recital Hall
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 12:00pm - 12:50pm
Corinne’s art practice investigates sociological, critical, and feminist frameworks to examine the cultural and political encoding of normative human behavior.  Through kinetic objects, drawing, photography, video and performance, she considers marginalized others and the subversive reclamation of identity and subjectivity available in theories of the grotesque, in body...
Department: Art

The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 8:00pm - Saturday, October 19, 2013 - 8:00pm
How far does someone need to be pushed to make a change? The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer takes on this challenging topic, and many others.  This searing drama, surrounding the public and private indifference to the AIDS epidemic in New York City in the early 1980s and one man’s impassioned fight to inspire meaningful change, plays at the University Theatre stage Oct.
Department: Drama

Blaine Hendsbee, Sandra Stringer, and Magdalena von Eccher - Music at Noon
Music at Noon - Blaine Hendsbee, tenor; Sandra Stringer, mezzo-soprano; Magdalena von Eccher, piano
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 12:15pm
Tenor Dr. Blaine Hendsbee, mezzo-soprano Dr. Sandra Stringer and pianist Magdalena von Eccher present a recital that is a centenary tribute to the birth of the great 20th century British composer Benjamin Britten (b.1913).
Department: Music

ART NOW - Jane Edmundson Speaks October 11th, 2013 at Noon in Recital Hall
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 12:00pm - 12:50pm
Jane Edmundson (BFA, Art, 2006; MA, Curatorial Studies, 2013) has worked as the Assistant Curator/Preparator at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery since 2007. Her curatorial research focuses on cultural history relating to museological practices, institutional collecting, and the semiotics of display. Her MA thesis exhibition, 'Dr.
Department: Art

Johanna Householder, Art NOW
ART NOW - Johanna Householder Speaks October 9th, 2013 at Noon in Recital Hall
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 12:00pm - 12:50pm
Immaterial Materials: Beginning with key involvement at the intersection between performance art and post-modern dance and currently engaged with the fluid state of artists archives, Johanna Householder maps practices that look at the spaces between materials and forms.
Department: Art

Sara Hahn - flute - Music at Noon series
Music at Noon - Sara Hahn, flute (Calgary) and Colleen Klassen, piano
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 12:15pm
Hailed by the Calgary Herald as having "beauty of tone and a wonderfully flexible phrasing", Sara Hahn is currently the Principal Flutist for the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra.
Department: Music

Free New Media Film Series presents "The Women on the 6th Floor"
Monday, October 7, 2013 - 7:00pm
The Women on the 6th Floor (France/Philippe Le Guay/2010) hosted by Mélanie Collado (Modern Languages)In 1960s Paris, a conservative couple's lives are turned upside down by two Spanish maids.Winner of 2012 César Award for Best Supporting Actress“A frothy French fancy with a warm heart at its core.”
Department: New Media

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN NOW - Gerald Forseth Speaks October 7th, 2013 at 6pm in M1040
Monday, October 7, 2013 - 6:00pm - 8:50pm
The Transformation of our Urban Landscape
Department: Art

ART NOW - Vicki Couzens Speaks On October 4th, 2013 at Noon in the Recital Hall
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 12:00pm - 12:50pm
Through a western knowledge lens, Vicki Couzens’ work with possum cloaks, visual arts, installation art, performing arts, language, ceremony and teaching, can be termed ‘interdisciplinary’ and ‘multi-art form’.
Department: Art

ART NOW - Vicki Couzens Speaks On October 2nd, 2013 at Noon in the Recital Hall
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 - 12:00pm - 12:50pm
Through a western knowledge lens, Vicki Couzens’ work with possum cloaks, visual arts, installation art, performing arts, language, ceremony and teaching, can be termed ‘interdisciplinary’ and ‘multi-art form’.
Department: Art

Dmitry Nesterov, Pianist - Mt. Royal University - Music at Noon
Music at Noon - Dmitry Nesterov, piano (Mt. Royal University)
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - 12:15pm
Dmitry Nesterov arrived on the Canadian music scene in 1992 when he became a Laureate in the first Esther Honens Calgary International Piano Competition.
Department: Music

Free New Media Film Series presents "The Gleaners and I"
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 7:00pm
The Gleaners and I (France/Agnès Varda/2000) hosted by Dr. Beth Gerwin (Modern Languages).A documentary on poverty, thrift and the curious place of scavenging in French culture, French New Wave pioneer, Agnès Varda, depicts the world of gleaners who collect and make use of what others have discarded.Winner of the 2002 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best...
Department: New Media

Vicki Stroich, Alberta Theatre Projects,
Free Public Forum with Vicki Stroich
Monday, September 30, 2013 - 3:00pm
The Evolution of New Play Development and Dramaturgy in Canada and Beyond - Public Forum with Vicki Stroich
Department: Drama