If you like the arts , then the next couple of weeks are for you to celebrate all kinds of arts during the last part of September— the Month of the Artist.
Arts Days 2023 opens with the AAC Arts Days Cabaret at casa, Friday, Sept. 22 from 7-9 p.m. with local musicians the Decadent Phase and Peace For Bombs.
Kelaine Devine, Eric Dyck and Luka de Haan with be creating art inspired by the performances.
It is also the launch of Trap/Door Artist Run Collective’s new exhibit “Carrying Baggage” featuring works by Seema Karchoo, Heather Kehoe, Harley Morman, Kalina Nedelcheva, Arianna Richardson, Noble Seggie.
And artists Solange Roy and Kylie FineDay will be answering questions about their art in the casa square kiosks.
“Art is not a passive thing, we are all part of the art scene. Arts Days is about engaging in the ares in a new way,” said Kelaine Devine, Allied Arts council communications coordinator.
One of the cornerstone events of ArtsDays is Word on the Street which happens on Saturday , Sept. 23 outside the Lethbridge Public Library featuring food trucks, workshops and live music and plenty of authirs and playwrights exploring fiction, non fiction, teen and youth literature and much more.
There is no art walk again this year, instead 19 artists will begin creating murals on the windows of downtown businesses beginning today ( Sept. 21) as part of the Downtown Lens: Window Mural Gallery running Sept. 21-24.
“ That will allow you to ask the artists questions about their work and watch them creating,” Devine said.
“ They’re temporary. The idea is that the work is temporal and fleeting. Though some businesses have asked to keep the murals up in the past,” Devine said.
Arts Days encompasses a lot of different group’s activities including the Geomatic Attic’s Sept. 27 presentation of Dan Mangan at the Yates theatre/ Sterndale Bennett Theatre , the Lethbridge OnScreen film festival, and several events associated with the Waking Death exhibit that opened at casa a couple weeks ago.
And the the SAAG (Southern Alberta Art Gallery.) RECLAIM Art Residency workshop, Sept. 23 from 1-4 p.m. Arts Days also includes the first performance of the season for the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra’s Musaeus, who celebrate the works of Schubert and Mozart, Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Southminster United Church. Tickets are $35 regular and $10 for students. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m.
There will be a lot of interactive programs including an orange shirt day workshop, Sunday, Sept. 23 at casa from 1-4 p.m. p.m. where you can create your own orange shirt.
Public Art: Big Ideas, on Saturday, Sept. 23 at 3 p.m. is an a opportunity to talk to artists Leila Armstrong, Brendan Browne, Kylie Fineday, and April Matisz about their new permanent murals around downtown and watch some a movie about the murals’ creation.
More information about ArtsDays activities is available at https://artslethbridge.org/arts-days/.
— By Richard Amery , L.A. Beat Editor
