Rebecca Many Grey Horses presents an overview of indigenous history in southern Alberta.
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We get over a hundred calls a year form people interested in donating objects. Sometimes say their object is “museum quality.” But what is museum quality?
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Since 1936, the Lethbridge art scene has flourished, in no small part due to the presence of an enthusiastic Art Club. Artists in the club create, show and sell their work. They teach others the skills to make their own art. Artist Wendy Aitkens explores the history of the club and art of talented members over the last 84 years.
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Áísínai’pi (Writing-on-Stone) is a remarkable landscape of great cultural importance. Former park interpreter Rebecca Wilde discusses the significance of the Indigenous rock art, landforms, Blackfoot cultural traditions and Euro-Canadian settler history of Canada’s newest UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Dr. Jay Gamble discusses the relationship between fantasy literature and the epic tradition, a tradition that includes works such as Beowulf, Homer's Iliad and Virgil's The Aeneid. Other fantasy writers discussed by Gamble in this fascinating presentation include Tolkien, Guy Gavriel Kay and Ursula K. Le Guin.
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"All structures are, in some ways, ideology made manifest." Graham Ruttan discusses the Plat of Zion, a city planning map that some believe was inspired by deity and which was used as the base map for several southern Alberta communities more than 100 years ago.
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