Allied Arts Council Lethbridge

Get your first taste of summer! Find out who is playing at Upside Downtown in July and August!
Join us Thursday, June 11 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm for the LINE-UP BREAKDOWN for Upside Downtown 2026 on Rotary Square at Casa.

Alberta Artist-in-Residence and Upside Downtown Alumnus, John Wort Hannam will be our featured performer, the AAC Bar will be open, and get ready to plan your Thursdays this summer!

Upside Downtown: Concerts + Art is thankful to FACTOR, WESTCO Construction, Spectrum Ale, Davis Auto Group and the Re-imagine Grant for the City of Lethbridge. Our funders and sponsors allow the AAC to keep these summer concerts free to the community.

Join us for our Summer Opening Celebration at The Gallery at Casa - Saturday, June 13 at 7:00pm. Exhibitions run June 13 through August 21, 2026.

The Main Gallery features Maracuyá by Colombian-Canadian artist Valerie Camila, a cinematic painting series exploring q***r intimacy and relationships, alongside The Cabinet of Queeriosities V, a group exhibition curated by Leila Armstrong that brings together more than twenty artists celebrating 2SLGBTQI+ identity, history, and community.

Throughout the gallery spaces, visitors will encounter Rosemary Allan’s installation Night Rainbow, Oseremen Irete’s photography and storytelling exhibition Sometimes I Forget, and Object Relations: Inner Symbolic Domains, a posthumous exhibition by acclaimed Alberta artist Elizabeth Ginn reflecting on healing, memory, and personal meaning.

Additional exhibitions include Expectations by Lethbridge artist Kennedy Chinn, Surface Tension: A Field Under Extraction by Iranian artist Shayan Shadjareh, a showcase celebrating 45 years of creativity by the Textile Surface Design Guild, and new work by contemporary Indigenous artist Torrie Ironstar in the Saokitapi Gallery.

The Gallery at Casa is FREE to visit, and open Monday to Saturday from 9:00am to 9:00pm, and Sundays from 10:00am to 5:00pm

ART/Work: The Art of Making It Work - with New West Theatre
June 18, 2026, 6:30 PM
New West Theatre Education Space (The Post - 704 4 Street S)

Join us for another exciting ART/Work Professional Development Session featuring Kelly Reay and the team from New West Theatre. This engaging panel-style discussion will take place in New West Theatre’s Education Space in the basement of The Post.

Gain valuable insight into the many pathways available within the arts sector, discover opportunities to grow and connect within our local creative community, and hear practical advice for building a sustainable artistic career.

ART/Work is the AAC's free and ongoing professional development series open to all artists, in all disciplines at any stage in their career or practice.

RSVP now: https://bit.ly/4uK6bu4

Are you passionate about the arts?

Are you well connected within an Indigenous or southern Alberta community?

Apply to the AFA by June 22 to be a Community Connector!

The AFA’s Community Connector program is looking for passionate well-connected Albertans to act as a bridge between the AFA and their regional, cultural, or d/Deaf and disability community.

This year long contract gives the selected Community Connectors the opportunity to help improve their community’s access to the province’s primary arts funder.

Deadline to apply is June 22.

Learn more: https://buff.ly/HT2NyE6