Local Arts and Culture

The St. Albert Public Library is getting ready to start handing books and other materials back out again. It is set to start up its curbside pickup service at the Jensen Lakes location next week.

PK grad Curtis LeBlanc just released his second book of poetry. Birding in the Glass Age of Isolation sounds like it was meant for everyone who lived through a pandemic but it's really a very personal look at mental illnesses: his.

The Gazette will feature art created by local high school students twice per month as part of with.draw.all, a project championed by art teachers at Bellerose Composite High School, Paul Kane High School and St. Albert Catholic High School.

Their love is a secret no longer. PK grad Chris Bolan's new documentary is a home run: a feel-good story of his great-aunt Terry Donahue and her partner Pat Henschel.

2020 is not your typical year. That's why the Art Gallery of St. Albert and the Visual Arts Studio Association have other ideas, other online ideas, as does intermedia artist Brad Necyk. He was meant to offer a solo exhibit at a Nova Scotia gallery.

The city's new poet laureate Julia Sorensen (with an ‘E’) has big plans for the post, some of which will be online through her social media just for the time-being.

Leif has a new book for people's mental health. It's the story of his own psychosis and struggle with medications and hospitalizations but it should resonate more strongly with the community at large during these strange times of physical distancing and mass isolation. Alert and Oriented x3 is available for free from his website.

The Gazette will feature art created by local high school students twice per month as part of with.draw.all, a project championed by art teachers at Bellerose Composite High School, Paul Kane High School and St. Albert Catholic High School.

There's a fresh young voice at the mic. Jaden Babiuk is a Grade 12 student at ESSMY working off his "extreme boredom" by interviewing people around St. Albert.

This year – 2020 – seemed like a good opportunity for an online retrospective. Call it 'hindsight' if you will but the wealth of video arts will have you expecting great things from the future.