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Make this winter unforgettable! Visit the Helen Schuler Nature Centre to build, create, and explore with loose parts.

Join us for Nature Play Pop Ups—FREE outdoor activities for the whole family. Open-ended, nature-based fun for every age.

Dress for the weather & make memories outdoors!

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Starting the year off in a good way, the Blood Tribe invites you to join them at the Multipurpose Building in Stand Off for an evening of drumming dancing and entertainment.
All are welcome and entrance is free.

If you have any questions, please reach out to echo.nowak@lethbridge.ca

Kelly Mark | Glow House: A Tribute to Kelly Mark
FEB. 21, 2026 - FEB. 28, 2026
OFF-SITE

VIEWABLE AT 918 7 AVE S NIGHTLY, DUSK TO DAWN

To mark one year since the death of much-loved conceptual artist Kelly Mark, a group of artists and curators across Canada are working together to present her singular work, Glow House, in tandem for the night of 21 February, 2026.

Originating with a three-week presentation at Deluge Contemporary Art (Victoria), curated by Kegan McFadden, Glow House will also be presented by Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin (Lethbridge); University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon); One Night Stand (Winnipeg); and the Kelly Mark Estate, with parallel installations taking place in Toronto, Hamilton, and Halifax.

A text by Robin Metcalfe, reflecting on his long-running curatorial work with Kelly Mark will be available for download in February.

A brief history of Kelly Mark’s Glow House:

One House & 35-40 television sets distributed throughout and all tuned to the same channel. The small flicker of light emanating from each TV is then turned into a ‘pulse’ of light throughout the entire house. As the scenes change, from whatever television program is airing at the moment, the house flashes and pulses as all televisions are in sync with one another. Gives the eerie impressions that the entire house has been gutted to create one vast illuminated space. During commercials it is as if fireworks are going off inside…

Previous iterations include:

Glow House #1
House, 30-40 television sets, coaxial cables, splitters & signal booster. Solo off-site project for Plug In ICA. Winnipeg MB, 2001. Curated by Cliff Eyland & Les Newman

Glow House #2
House, 40-50 television sets, coaxial cables, splitters & signal booster. Solo off-site project for The Ikon Gallery. Birmingham UK, 2003. Curated by Jonathan Watkins & Deborah Kermode

Glow House #3
House, 40-50 television sets, coaxial cables, splitters & signal booster. Solo off-site project for The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. Toronto, 2005. Curated by Reid Sheir.

Glow House #4
House, 35-40 television sets, coaxial cables, splitters & signal booster. Commissioned by Micah Lexier for the exhibition Here Now or Nowhere,  off-site projects for The Prairie Art Gallery. Grand Prairie AB, 2009. Thanks to Jayne & Cameron Tofer.

Glow House | Tribute to Kelly Mark curatorial committee: Anthony Cooper, Stefan Hancherow, Dean Baldwin Lew, Micah Lexier, Kegan McFadden, Robin Metcalfe, jake moore, Su Ying Strang, Adam Whitford, Collin Zipp

Glow House | Tribute to Kelly Mark is presented in partnership with Deluge Contemporary Art (Victoria), University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon), One Night Stand (Winnipeg), and the Estate of Kelly Mark (Toronto).

The Southern Alberta Art Gallery Maansiksikaitsitapiitsinikssin’s presentation of Glow House is supported by Pat and Joy Ackerman.

Kelly Mark (b. 1967, d. 2025) was a conceptual artist who lived and worked in Toronto. She was known for isolating moments of the everyday in ways that were unpretentious and unglamorous but full of warmth, ritual, and wit. Time, duration, measurement, and process are essential focal points in Mark’s multidisciplinary practice. Time’s governance of our reality, especially its undeniable grasp over working-class experiences, is a central concern in her oeuvre. Mark’s practice is embodied in a variety of media such as sculpture, video, installation, drawing, photography, sound, multiples, performance & public interventions.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada and abroad, including The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), The Darling Foundry (Montréal), Musee d’Art Contemporain (Montréal); MSVU Art Gallery (Halifax), Bass Museum (Miami), University of Houston (Texas), Real Art Ways (Hartford), The Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Ikon Gallery (UK), Dundee Contemporary Arts (Scotland), The Physics Room (NZ), Netwerk Centre for Contemporary Art (Belgium). Mark represented Canada at the Liverpool Biennale in 2006 and the Sydney Biennale in 1998. She was also a recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award in 2002. Notable public collections include The National Gallery of Canada, The Canada Council Art Bank, Art Gallery of Ontario, and Global Affairs Canada. She is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

The Estate of Kelly Mark is represented by Olga Korper Gallery.

Join us for this free drop in parent and child playgroup. Great for families with children under 5. No registration required.

Join us for a free drop in parent/caregiver and child play group for children up to age 8. No registration required.

Join us for this free drop in parent/caregiver and child playgroup. Great for families with children under 5. No registration required.

Open Mic Poetry at the Owl Acoustic Lounge

with MC Teri Petz

Sponsored by Shelley K’s Maple Fusion

Wednesday, 2026 February 25th. 6-8:15 PM

606-3rd. Ave South, Lethbridge

Free admission

Showcasing local talents

Poets, bring your poems to read

For more info:

https://facebook.com/tellit.like.it.is.poets/

Join us for this free drop in parent and child playgroup. Great for families with children under 5. No registration required.

Join us for this free drop in parent and child playgroup. Great for families with children under 5. No registration required.