As southern Alberta’s only queer-mandated theatre company, Theatre Outré has spent the last decade carving out space for a thriving alternative scene in the prairies. Now, we celebrate their boundary-pushing theatrical productions, eccentric events, and unwavering devotion to Southern Alberta’s 2SLGBTQ+ community.

Refuge Canada is a travelling exhibition created by the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 and supported by TD Bank Group.

The exhibition explores Canada’s place in the global refugee crisis. Through images, soundscapes, first-person accounts and artifacts, this powerful exhibition offers an opportunity to gain historical context.

Refuge Canada will draw visitors through interactive opportunities to connect with the content, moving from the Second World War-era up to the present day. It will challenge and inspire as it brings visitors on a journey from darkness to hope, always calling into question preconceptions about what it means to be a refugee.

A Painter’s Paradise focuses on the life and art of local artists Michael Pisko and Ernest Riethman. Early members of the Lethbridge Sketch Club, their enthusiasm for their home left a legacy of wonderful paintings. Pisko and Riethman’s subject was generally landscape but depicted in two very different styles in which vivid impressions were created about Lethbridge, southwestern Alberta and the Rockies. Active from the 1930s on, the exhibition explores the relationship each artist had with the Lethbridge community as well their connections to major Canadian painters in cultivating a strong landscape tradition for the region.

curated by Danica Renke, Zoey Lorne and Aimee Benoit

In the late 1800s, Eaton’s grew from a small dry-goods business into Canada’s largest department store. Drawing on the Galt’s retail and merchandising collections from the local Eaton’s branch, this exhibit explores the history of the department store and shopping practices through the twentieth century.

Discover the long history of recycling and upcycling in southern Alberta.