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Celebrate local growers at the Galt aka FREE FOOD this Thursday

Published on November 29, 2011 by Jonathan Růžek

Photo by Rod Leland

My gastronomically-talented friends, the Lethbridge Personal Chefs, are holding an awesome free event at the Galt celebrating local producers. You’ll find yours truly there stuffing his face.

Amanda writes:

Hey foodies and fans!

Well, the Most Wonderful Time of the Year is nearly upon us, and we’ve teamed up with our friends at the Galt to bring you “A Night at the Museum“, a community-inspired holiday event to kickstart your Christmas shopping and holiday meal planning!

We’ve been all over Southern Alberta, visiting farms, meeting farmers and taking notes to make sure we bring you all the information you need to put a little more Lethbridge in your Christmas cooking. You’ll taste products from and learn more about:

  • Vital Green Dairy and Sheep Farm
  • Broek Pork Acres
  • Pura Vida Beef and Poultry Farm
  • Fairwinds Goat Farm
  • Driview Lamb Farm
  • J&M Farms
  • Leffers Brothers Organics

…including where in town you can buy their stuff for yourself! You’ll be surprised just how easy it is to support your community and help Lethbridge grow (and just how good it tastes!). We’ll also have recipes for you to take home of all the goodies you’ll be trying!

The gift shop will be open, so check out its awesome selection of works from local authors, artists and artisans. Passholders get 20% off all gift shop sales for the one night only, so it’s a pretty great night to come in and consider getting yourself a Galt pass :)

It’s open to the public and there will be food, drinks and fun- what more do you need?? Tell your ma and pa, aunties and uncles, and come help us celebrate our amazing community!

Facebook event page

Lethbridge Personal Chefs

FNMI Awareness Days at Lethbridge College

Published on October 18, 2011 by Jonathan Růžek

FNMI Awareness Days are a chance to celebrate the pride, history and knowledge that are at the heart of Canada’s FNMI communities. The celebration begins today at 9 a.m. with the raising of the college tipi. This event will be followed by opening ceremonies at 11:30 a.m. in Centre Core and a feast of traditional stew and bannock at the Piita Pawanii Centre. Other events include a traditional fashion show, drumming and dancing, as well as a hoop-dance demonstration. A full schedule of events is available online. Artisans and craftsmen will be exhibiting their wares from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. daily in Centre Core.

Here’s a quick clip of what’s happening right now at Lethbridge College:

P.S.
FNMI = First Nations, Metis & Inuit

Jazzerwocky jazz & poetry festival

Published on October 16, 2011 by Jonathan Růžek

Back in 2001 or so, I worked with Gordon Leigh (from the John Howard Society) and local author Richard Stevenson to advertise a  jazz & poetry festival. The logo above is some of my old work. Anyway, I hadn’t heard much on that front in a few years and am pleased to see that Jazzerwocky 2011 will be held at Whispers Restaurant & Lounge on October 22.

From Whisper’s blog:

Saturday, October 22, Whispers will host Jazzerwocky. Confirmed thus far are the Scott Davidson Trio, the Naked Ear, and poets Jay Gamble (U. of L. faculty) and Richard Stevenson (Leth College faculty), both well published poets.

I’ve enjoyed about a few of these events in years past. The lineup looks excellent!

Whispers Restaurant & Lounge

The Word on The Street

Published on September 25, 2011 by Jonathan Růžek

I took in a bit of “The Word on the Street” festival this afternoon. The streets around the Lethbridge Public Library were closed off for presenters, booths and FOOD. I ate a hot dog.

Sunday, September 25, 2011 marks the day that Lethbridge joins Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, Kitchener and Saskatoon in hosting the national Word On The Street Festival and celebration of literacy.

Hosted by the Lethbridge Public Library, the Lethbridge festival is designed to be a playful, all-ages, spill-out-into-the-street community event with something for everyone to see, hear, do, and of course, eat!

More photos after the jump. Continue reading ‘The Word on The Street’

Convocation at University of Lethbridge

Published on October 16, 2010 by Jonathan Růžek

Today, I had the pleasure to attend the University of Lethbridge’s convocation to celebrate my sister’s graduation. She received her bachelor’s degree, with an honour’s thesis, in English. I’m really, really proud :)

During convocation, we were shown some memorable clips from past honourary degree recipients, one being Chava Rosenfarb, Yiddish writer and Holocaust survivor. She received an honourary degree in 2006 and was invited to give the convocation address.

Thanks to keepmethoton on YouTube, I was able to find her full speech. You might want to grab a box of Kleenex for this one…

Alberta ArtsDays is this weekend

Published on September 17, 2010 by Jonathan Růžek

Ashley sez:

Lethbridge has been designated as a “flagship city”‘ by the provincial government for Alberta ArtsDays 2010. Only 5 cities get this every year. So we are expanding our annual ArtWalk into a whole weekend’s worth of events, including the SAAG grand opening, Artwalk, AB(original) Fest and ArtsFest. Overall there’s over 200 different artists and organizations participating and all the events are free.

For full details, check out the Allied Arts Council news release or visit the ArtsDays website.

Whoopin’ It Up

Published on August 23, 2010 by Jonathan Růžek

Whoop-Up Days officially kicks of tomorrow with a parade that only old people, kids and those actually participating in the parade can attend…because the rest of us SOBs are at work. I’m sure Shaw TV will recap it over and over again, however. So here’s what’s happening:

Hey, anyone else want to hop the fence to get into the midway? I hear there are some totally smokin’ carnies this year. And by that I mean they probably go through 3 packs a day.

Whoop-Up Days