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Evan Gushul celebrates 95th birthday with photography exhibit

Friday, 22 July 2011 16:48 Richard Amery

If you aren’t at the airshow this weekend, check out a new exhibit of photography from Crowsnest Pass photographer Evan Gushul. Evan Gushul’s photography exhibit opens July 23 at the Waterfield Gallery. Photo by Richard Amery
Gushul celebrates his 95th birthday with an overview of his career, opening at the Waterfield Gallery in the Yates Centre, from 1-5 p.m., Saturday, July 23.

Gushul has had a distinguished career, winning awards fro his scenic photos as well as photos of miners, children, animals and much more. He also has some of his photos at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary.

The photos on display for this exhibit are on loan from the Crowsnest Pass Museum.

In addition to being a talented photographer, Gushul is also a musician who was the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra’s original principal violinist when they began in 1960.
The exhibit runs until Sept. 17.

— By Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor

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Shuffle Up and Deal helps the Legion this weekend

Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:16 Richard Amery

For an additional attraction to the Lethbridge Air Show this Saturday, July 23, check out a special Shuffle Up and Deal fundraiser at the Royal Canadian Legion. Aaron Hagan examines one of the pieces of art on a Lancaster airplane panel. Photo by Richard Amery
Todd Lacharite is looking forward to the second edition of his popular Shuffle Up and Deal project. The first time it was to raise money for the Bowman Arts Centre’s adult special needs art program. This time 100 per cent of the proceeds will be donated to the Royal Canadian Legion.
He contacted 53 local artists to explore the theme of “nose art” or art used to decorate the nose cones of airplanes in the Second World War.
“I’m really impressed with the art,” Lacharite said.

It runs along similar lines to last year’s “Shuffle Up and Deal” for the adult art program at the Bowman Arts Centre— 53 artists were asked to design individual playing cards, which have been made into decks of cards. The cards will be sold with all proceeds going to the Legion. The 1,000 decks were sold for $15 each at the Farmer’s Market, July 6,13 and 20, at the air show and at the Bowman Arts Centre.

As a special bonus, the original individual pieces are being auctioned off in a silent auction ending at a gala event at the Legion, July 23, during the Lethbridge Air show featuring live music by the Necessities and Matt Robinson.

The pieces were on display at the Owl until July 2 but have since been moved to the Legion. The silent auction has already begun through a bid book, with each piece having its own bidding page. While some pieces already have bids as high as $300, some don’t have any at all.

New exhibits at Bowman include pop culture and local music

Tuesday, 12 July 2011 16:55 Richard Amery

If you aren’t going to the South Country Fair this weekend, check out a couple unique art exhibits opening at the Bowman Arts Centre on Saturday, July 16.

Local artist Len Komanac and yours truly w Patrons get a sneak peek at Dr. Strangelen at the Bowman. Photo by Richard Amery ill both be opening our exhibits at the Bowman Arts Centre this weekend.
My exhibit, the Essence of Music: Musical Moments features a solid overview of my career covering music, both the cornucopia of amazing local acts as well as some superb touring acts.

Most of them have been blown up from digital photos from the past three years, since I started L.A. Beat. Most of them have appeared on the site or in the Lethbridge Sun Times.

I also went through my files and dug up some old black and white photos from the beginning of my career as photo editor/ photographer and writer for the University of Lethbridge newspaper the Meliorist back in the ’90s and found old pics of some of the cats still playing on the scene.
“It’s a good interesting historical archive of music in this city,” observed curator Darcy Logan who has made my work look pretty awesome in massive white matted frames.

Artists and musicians needed for Arts Days 2011

Wednesday, 22 June 2011 17:44 Richard Amery

Fire spinners were among the performers at Arts Days last year. Photo by Richard Amery The Allied Arts council needs artists and musicians for this year's, bigger and better installment of Arts Days, Sept. 30-Oct. 2. The deadline to get involved with this event is June 30.
“There will be a broad range of visual artists and music . And we’ll probably add a literary component as well,” said Ashley Markus, Allied Arts Council communications co-ordinator.

She said they have already received quite a few applications including several new faces.
As anyone who attended this two day arts party in Galt Gardens last year will attest, Arts Days is a great way for artists and musicians to show off their music and works.
There are three components to Arts Days which will be combined into one wild weekend.

The first one, the Art Walk , matches local artists and their works with local downtown businesses. Artists will have their works on display and may even be creating them right there, so you can watch the artistic process unfold. It takes place on the Friday and Saturday during the day. Over 50 artists and businesses were involved with the event last year.

The second part of the event is the artisans market, which takes place in Galt Gardens on the Friday and Saturday.

Shuffle Up And Deal back to help the Royal Canadian Legion

Tuesday, 21 June 2011 16:38 Richard Amery

Shuffle Up and Deal is back the Owl Acoustic Lounge, but for a short time. They will be taken down from the Owl walls and moved to the Lethbridge branch of the Royal Canadian Legion on July 2.

You may have noticed a variety of new playing cards adorning the west wall of the Owl, many of them designed to look like attractive women.

That’s because the them Shuffle Up And Deal original art at the Owl Acoustic Lounge. Photo by Richard Amery e for the second round of “Shuffle Up and Deal” is airplane nose art and will be a fund-raiser for the Lethbridge branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.

“It’s going great,” said organizer Todd Lacharite.
“I’m really impressed with the art,” he said.

It runs along similar lines to last year’s “Shuffle Up and Deal” for the adult art program at the Bowman Arts Centre— 53 artists were asked to design individual playing cards, which have been made into a deck of cards. The cards will be sold with all proceeds going to the Legion.

The 1,000 decks will be sold at the Farmer’s Market, July 6,13 and 20, at the airshow and at the Bowman Arts Centre.

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