CASA FACILITY:
Casa continued to provide low-cost opportunities for community members to take arts classes, develop art practices in their preferred mediums and exhibit art works in gallery and auxiliary spaces visited by thousands of people each year. In addition, Casa is the home of many local arts groups and guilds who use the facility for meetings, rehearsals, performances, lectures, fundraisers, classes, demonstrations and markets.
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ANNUAL REPORT
Arts-related events hosted at Casa in 2018 included performances by the Musical Theatre Society, Centric MusicFest, Lethbridge Shakespeare Performance Society, Chinook One-Act Festival, Chinese Manie Opera Society, the Lethbridge Symphony, New West Theatre and the LCI Fine Arts department dance troupe, to name but a few. Numerous other arts events took place that were open to the public, such as photography workshops, artist talks and information sessions. Casa acted as host venue for the Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival adjudicated performances, Trinity College speech examinations and other local groups using the space for theatric auditions and casting calls.
