Tag: Arts & Entertainment

  • Oilfields High School Film Premiere Tomorrow Night

    Oilfields High School Film Premiere Tomorrow Night

    OHS Presents Our Premiere Film Truth & Reconciliation Through The Eye of Our Youth Oilfields High School would like to invite you to view our community screening of our first Truth & Reconciliation movie.  #TRC 4 Reelz.  Written, filmed & acted  by OHS students.  May 26th 7PM @ Oilfields High School.

  • Hope & Healing Gala a Continued Success!

    Hope & Healing Gala a Continued Success!

    Annual fundraiser exceeds expectations, raising over $90,000 Rowan House would like to take this opportunity to once again thank the Foothills community for its help in bringing hope to women and children affected by family violence. Going into this year, our planning committee was hesitant to put on the Hope & Healing Gala, understanding the…

  • 2016 Calgary International Reggae Festival: Uniting Cultures Through Reggae Music

    2016 Calgary International Reggae Festival: Uniting Cultures Through Reggae Music

    Today the Calgary International Reggae Festival (ReggaeFest) announced the line up for the 2016 festival taking place August 18 – 20. Leading this amazing collection of Reggae stalwarts is the legendary Glen Washington and the newest dancehall craze in Jamaica Razor B.   “Glen has been one of those artistes we’ve been courting for several…

  • Allora & Calzadilla: Echo to Artifact explores Canada’s prehistoric past, June 3–August 28, 2016 at your AGA

    Allora & Calzadilla: Echo to Artifact explores Canada’s prehistoric past, June 3–August 28, 2016 at your AGA

    Edmonton, AB — In the summer of 2014, artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla made a research trip to Alberta to visit the Burgess Shale and the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology to explore the region’s prehistoric past. The Art Gallery of Alberta opens the resulting exhibition, Allora & Calzadilla: Echo to Artifact on June…

  • ATB Place, Edmonton Skyline Come Alive

    ATB Place, Edmonton Skyline Come Alive

    Edmonton — To celebrate the arrival of Apple Pay in Alberta, ATB Financial, with the help of Edmonton-based Production World, turned its downtown Edmonton headquarters into an 80-metre tall, 30-metre wide, digital canvas of spectacular images that made the Alberta capital city’s skyline come alive. Even the Calgary Tower became part of the Edmonton cityscape! The 10-minute…

  • Marie and Shelly, Our Circus Elephants, to Help Their Endangered Friends in Sumatra

    Marie and Shelly, Our Circus Elephants, to Help Their Endangered Friends in Sumatra

    The Royal Canadian Circus will be performing over the long weekend (May 20 – 23) at Spruce Meadows. Visit the website to see their full touring schedule and purchase tickets. The Royal Canadian Circus last minute relocation to the Town of Olds Alberta, from Fort McMurry, and the free benefit performance put on by the cast…

  • Newfie Night Fundraiser in Nanton for Fort McMurray

    Newfie Night Fundraiser in Nanton for Fort McMurray

    The Boys & Girls Club of the Foothills (serving Black Diamond/Turner Valley/High River and Nanton) invites you to our Newfie Night coming up on Saturday, May 28th at the Nanton Community Memorial Centre (2204 – 18th St). Tickets are only $60 per person for an amazing steak & lobster dinner followed by a Newfie comedy, silent auction and much…

  • Heartland to Begin Filming Season 10 on May 17

    Heartland to Begin Filming Season 10 on May 17

    HIGH RIVER, AB: Heartland film crews will once again return to High River on Monday, May 16 and will be in the downtown area until the evening of Tuesday, May 17. On Monday, May 16 crews will be parking equipment and vehicles along the former railway tracks and gravel area between 1st and Centre Street…

  • Turner Valley School Welcomes Touring Art Exhibit: Path Makers

    Turner Valley School Welcomes Touring Art Exhibit: Path Makers

    Display Dates: May 18 – June 15, 2016 Path Makers is a touring exhibition developed by the Art Gallery of Alberta for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program. This exhibition is currently circulating throughout the southwest/central parts of Alberta. The AFA Travelling Exhibition Program is financially supported by the Alberta Foundation for the…

  • New Series ‘Tin Star’ to Film in High River this Summer

    New Series ‘Tin Star’ to Film in High River this Summer

    HIGH RIVER, AB: A new television series called ‘Tin Star’ produced by Kudos Film and Television will begin shooting in High River in June. The series was created by acclaimed British director and screenwriter Rowan Joffe. “High River often provides film companies with a very attractive location for filming; we have the perfect setting surrounded…

  • Made-in-Alberta success story, SML Entertainment celebrates its 60th Anniversary

    Made-in-Alberta success story, SML Entertainment celebrates its 60th Anniversary

    “Regardless of the state of the Alberta economy, we have no plans to slow down our growth,” SML VP Dean Fisher.  Calgary, Alberta (May 4, 2016) – “We have come a long way since our humble beginnings as a juke-box company in 1956,” says Dean Fisher, Vice-President, SML Entertainment. “Throughout six decades, we have adapted…

  • High River Spray Park will open one month early on May 23

    High River Spray Park will open one month early on May 23

      HIGH RIVER, AB: With a record in high temperatures in Alberta, Town Aquatics staff are making preparations to open the High River Spray Park early for the 2016 season on Monday, May 23. It is important to note that standard annual Health and Safety precautions and hiring of personnel must be accomplished before the…

  • Longview Library News: Author Talk by High River Writer Karon Argue

    Longview Library News: Author Talk by High River Writer Karon Argue

    On May 3rd at 4:30 to 5:30, there will be an author talk at the library. Karon Argue, author of the children’s book The Smooch, will share her story of perseverance endured by her severe physical health problems while writing her book. Karon lives in High River and was encouraged to write children’s books by…

  • Celebration of Canada’s Finest Photographers Continues in Latest Canada Post Stamp Series

    Celebration of Canada’s Finest Photographers Continues in Latest Canada Post Stamp Series

    OTTAWA – Canada Post continues its celebration of Canada’s best photographers of the past 150 years with the release today of the fourth issue of stamps in a five-year series. This stamp issue includes the work of 7 important Canadian photographers past and present whose imagery has become integral to Canada’s rich photographic mosaic. Leading…

  • Firebrand Glass: Art for Science

    Firebrand Glass: Art for Science

    We hope that you are all enjoying this beautiful spring weather and we wanted to share some exciting news. In February we were selected by the Royal Tyrell Museum to create models of prehistoric spores for a new exhibition. We love doing commission work and this project was a great experience, we were able to…