May 1 – 16, 2026
April 30 (Preview)
Studio Theatre Inside Fringe Theatre Adventures
10330 – 84 Ave
A throwback to the large-scale experimental work of NLT in the 90s, this piece addresses loneliness, grief, and mental and emotional health, depending on what an individual audience member perceives in the performance, and projects on the performer as she completes the tasks onstage, oblivious to their presence.
Upside Downtown: Concerts + Art line-up for 2025!
Join us every Thursday in July & August from 5-7pm on Rotary Square at Casa. FREE to attend. From local talent to Juno-nominated artists, Upside Downtown has rock, soul, folk, blues, funk, and country plus everything in between.
JULY 3*
Veronica Raine
The Decadent Phase
JULY 10*
Makiisma
JULY 17
Joce Reyome
JULY 24
Joshua Beebe & The Forest Orchestra
Willy Big Bull & Wintercount
JULY 31
John Wort-Hannam
AUGUST 7
Nuela Charles
AUGUST 14
Bailey Kate Band
AUGUST 21
Richard Inman & The Western Canadian All-Stars
AUGUST 28 - POP UP, GET DOWN - Dance until 10 pm
Shaela Miller + Guests
ADEQUATE!
Hippodrome
Our final concert on August 28 will be the inaugural POP UP, GET DOWN – A summer dance party with three bands, an art market, and we’re closing 8 Street South!
Throughout the summer, drop by The Gallery at Casa for Re:Turning the Stories, a community exhibition with over 40 local artists reflecting on their relationship to the Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden and Nikkei cultural stories in southern Alberta.
Follow the @AACLETH and @CASALETHBRIDGE on Facebook and Instagram to see which food trucks will be joining us each week.
*PS - We will be joined for a pre-show on July 3 & July 10 at 4:45 pm with Chinook High School Battle of the Bands Winners. Supporting emerging talent in our community!
Thank you to our sponsors for allowing us to provide FREE concerts to the community: FACTOR, Spectrum Ale Co., Westco Construction, Precon, Andrew Hilton, Anova Law Group, CIR Realty, Nectar Tattoo, Safeway, So Normal Print Co., Tourism Lethbridge, and Warwick Printing.
The Upside Downtown Concert Series is programmed by the Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge. For more information about this series and the AAC, visit artslethbridge.org/
The Upside Downtown Concert Series is back at Casa in Downtown Lethbridge this summer! Mark your calendar for Thursdays in July & August!
The Upside Downtown Concert Series is back at Casa in Downtown Lethbridge this summer! Mark your calendar for Thursdays in July & August!
The Upside Downtown Concert Series is back at Casa in Downtown Lethbridge this summer! Mark your calendar for Thursdays in July & August!
November 28 – December 13, 2025
November 27 (Preview)
Studio Theatre Inside Fringe Theatre Adventures
10330 – 84 Ave
World premiere of a comedy about a mismatched pair- two women, seemingly different in every way- who find comfort in an unexpected friendship that develops as they work toward a local amateur dance competition.
Written by Trevor Schmidt
Featuring Jenny McKillop as Patty
Off the Beaten Path is a hilarious, heart-pounding, interactive fantasy musical where you decide what happens next. Will the rogue betray the party? Can the orcs dance their way to redemption? Is that sword fight going to end in glory or disaster?
Set in the magical world of Arlyrus, this thrilling adventure is like live-action D&D meets Broadway—no two shows are the same. Heroes rise. Secrets unravel. And you decide the path they take.
Expect dancing orcs, epic sword fights, and tunes that will live rent-free in your head for days. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll probably want to come back again—just to make sure your favourite hero doesn’t meet their fate this time...
🎟️ Learn More & Tickets: obpmusical.com
📅 Shows: July 4, 5, 6 at 7 pm| Matinee July 5 at 1:30pm
📍 Beddington Theatre Arts Centre | 375 Bermuda Dr NW, Calgary, AB T3K 2J5
A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style Fantasy Musical! 135+ Possible Scripted Versions.
A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style Fantasy Musical! 135+ Possible Scripted Versions.
A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Style Fantasy Musical! 135+ Possible Scripted Versions.
September 26 – October 11, 2025
September 25 (Preview)
Studio Theatre Inside Fringe Theatre Adventures
10330 – 84 Ave
The welcome return of a wonderful comedy/drama that deftly opens up a timely and relevant conversation about parents dealing with the pressures of a changing world as they try to protect, empower and advocate for the rights of their children in our ever-changing social landscape. A multiple award-winning show and an NLT timeless classic.
Featuring: Patricia Zentilli in her NLT debut as Trisha Lee
Music, nature, and summer skies — Opera al Fresco returns to open our season with an enchanting outdoor concert at the University of Alberta Botanic Garden on August 27.
Set across two stunning locations — the Kurimoto Japanese Garden and the Aga Khan Garden — this evening invites you to stroll through breathtaking landscapes while opera’s most beloved classics fill the air. This relaxed, open-air event is the perfect way to savour a summer evening in Edmonton.
Join the Royal Alberta Museum for a screening of Shared Water, Shared Crisis, the final installment in The Shared Waters of the Salish Sea documentary trilogy. This film examines the complex relationship between humans and orcas, emphasizing the importance of scientific research conducted in natural marine environments.
Following the screening, RAM is honoured to welcome David Dick of the QENTOL, YEN / W̱SÁNEĆ Marine Guardians Program, whose work is featured in the documentary. He will offer brief remarks and participate in a post-screening discussion.
En Salle // Indoor Landscape
Svea Ferguson
Leighton Art Centre
June 21–August 24, 2025
282027 144 Street West
Foothills, AB T1S 0Y4
www.leightoncentre.org
www.sveaferguson.com
Svea Ferguson’s current exhibition En Salle // Indoor Landscape indulges in falsified replications of nature, utilizing primarily ready-made, raw, and minimally altered materials. While the French term en plein air refers to painting outdoors within the landscape, en salle means “indoors” or “in the room,” speaking to Ferguson’s interest in interior spaces, faux surfaces, and the mimicry of biological forms. Playing with this reversal of art historical terminology, the works in the show are ostensibly ex situ: made and existing outside their natural locations of reference. These objects and materials are largely devoid of any true connection to the land, and aptly exhibit the strange futility of capitalist desires to manufacture nature.
The sculptural centerpiece of the exhibition, above below beyond, was created for an exhibition at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in 2020, which remained largely unviewable due to COVID-19 restrictions. Here the work is reconsidered and expanded in the context of the Leighton Art Centre with the companion work paper sky. This context considers the founders Barbara and A.C. Leighton, whose work was centered on depictions of the land and sky and the practice of plein air painting, a tradition that the Centre carries on in its current programming and collection. Ferguson has created her own version of a landscape through sourcing ready-made objects with pre-packaged nature veneers; carpet made to look like a painterly field of flowers, paper printed to imitate a blue, cloud-filled sky. The materials have been cut to physically open them into net-like forms, allowing natural light from the windows to pass through. Following the logic of the material is key; Ferguson cuts away parts of the floral carpet pattern, following the lines of the pattern itself. This allows the once-solid carpet to open itself to the light, which in turn casts shadows as replacements for the shapes that have been removed. In paper sky, that same carpet pattern is projected onto and cut out of the material as a means of connection between these two spatially separate entities (land and sky).
En Salle // Indoor Landscape acknowledges and complicates our reverence for nature, joining the worlds of “real” and “fake”. As natural light passes over and through the objects, their static surface is activated. Like painting en plein air, the work captures qualities of light and atmosphere, but here there is a disconnect when determining a sense of place; the result is entirely manufactured.
Svea Ferguson (she/her) is a sculptor from Mohkínstsis/Calgary. Her work was commissioned for the 2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art and has been shown across North America and abroad. Notable exhibitions include the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum, Esker Foundation, Division Gallery Toronto, Holland Project NV and Art Athina in Athens, Greece. She received the BMO 1st Art Prize for Alberta in 2015. Her work is included in numerous private collections and the permanent collections of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and TD Canada Trust.
Ferguson’s exhibition showcases her ongoing interest in interior spaces, faux surfaces, and the mimicry of biological forms.
Ferguson’s exhibition showcases her ongoing interest in interior spaces, faux surfaces, and the mimicry of biological forms.
Ferguson’s exhibition showcases her ongoing interest in interior spaces, faux surfaces, and the mimicry of biological forms.
Get ready for a high-energy, heartwarming journey of self-discovery, determination, and breaking expectations. Based on the hit blockbuster, this feel-good musical follows Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen who surprises everyone by enrolling at Harvard Law to win back her ex. Along the way, Elle defies stereotypes, discovers her inner strength, and proves that staying true to yourself is the ultimate path to success.
Exhibition Opening Reception: June 20, 7–9 PM
Chambers’ Ring explores the history, spectacle, and materiality of boxing. Through the lens of media archaeology and process art, the work analyzes the rhythmic active body, how its perception is influenced via the mediation of technology, as well as the rules and formalized structures of game.
This exhibition has been supported by:
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development, The City of Calgary, EMMEDIA, TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary Boxing Club, Rogelio Boxing, Carvel Creative
