Over at the Bowman Arts Centre,  March 5, Sonis McAllister and the Barracuda Orchestre showed a bit of their history and entertained the crowd with wild experimentation and a touch of blues and jazz.

 One of the exhibitions opening upstairs featured a few “artifacts” from the band including samples of their tour diary, an unusual sculpture, a gold record, old tour posters and a lot more.

 Downstairs in the dance studio, the band  dressed in white,  rapped out cacophonic  rhythms on an array of pipes, wheels, television sets and a lot more, backdropped  by three pillars featuring coloured rubber balls on the top of them.

Their second song had more of a New Orleans jazz feel as McAllister got the audience moving  and chanting along with them.

The Penny building downtown is going to be a regular gallery for University of Lethbridge professors and students. They held their first big opening, March 5 which drew a good sized crowd. 

There were a variety of works from a sauna which incorporated a video display. Other  works included  paintings, photographs, a video of a fully dressed man  sitting in a ice- cold tup of water, spaceship sculptures made of found items, drawings and several other sculptures.