We cordially invite you to the garden pARTy! Come on over from the Wednesday farmer's market or spend your lunch with us as we listen to live performers and get creative with artists

garden pARTy: HIBIKIYA + Sandra Lamouche + Faye HeavyShield

garden pARTy
Live music, performance art and art-making from 11am – 2pm in the pergola at Galt Gardens!
We cordially invite you to the garden pARTy! Come on over from the Wednesday farmer’s market or spend your lunch with us as we listen to live performers and get creative with artists

HIBIKIYA + Sandra Lamouche + Faye HeavyShield
Wednesday, August 9
11:00am – 2:00pm
Free

HIBIKIYA (plays at Noon)
Taiko drumming group, HIBIKIYA, was formed originally in 2007 under the Lethbridge Community Taiko Association and then established itself independently as the Southern Alberta Taiko Society in 2014. There are presently ten members who belong to the group.
We are passionate about sharing our love of and respect for Taiko drumming in Lethbridge and throughout communities in southern Alberta. We perform at many community events as well as in schools. We share our knowledge of Japanese culture as it relates to Taiko drumming. We offer workshops and hands on drumming experiences to the community. In order to learn and perfect new songs we meet once a week for several hours to practice.

SANDRA LAMOUCHE (performs at 12:45pm)
Sandra Lamouche is from Bigstone Cree Nation. She received her B.A. from the University of Lethbridge in 2007 and completed an M.A. through Trent University in 2022. Sandra has over 15 years of dance experience and started hoop dancing in 2005. She created her first choreography in 2010. In 2013, she was nominated to become a member of the International Dance Council and is proud to represent and advocate for Indigenous dance.

PUPPET MAKING AND PERFORMANCE WITH FAYE HEAVYSHIELD
Faye HeavyShield is a member of the Blackfoot Confederacy and Kanai (Blood) First Nation of the Foothills region of southern Alberta. She is fluent in the Blackfoot language and studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. The landscape of her home community near Stand Off is present throughout in the images and materials from nature that she uses in minimalist works. His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions: Nations in Urban Landscapes (Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver); rock paper river (Gallery Connection, Fredericton); Into the Garden of Angels (The Power Plant, Toronto); and blood(Southern Alberta Art Gallery). His works are now part of the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the McMichael Museum (Ontario), the Alberta Foundation of Art and the Glenbow Museum in Calgary (Alberta), the Heard Museum in Phoenix (Arizona), the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina (Saskatchewan) and the Kelowna Art Gallery (British Columbia).

garden pARTy schedule:
August 2 – Willy Big Bull + Madeson Singh
August 9 – HIBIKIYA + Sandra Lamouche + Faye Heavyshield
August 16 – Bridge Brass Quintet + Angeline Simon
August 23 – Little Lethbridge Opera Theatre + Mary-Anne McTrowe
Keep tabs on all the art events in Lethbridge at https://artslethbridge.org/events/
This is a collaborative project between the Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.
Funding support from the City of Lethbridge.