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CALGARY HITS HIGH NOTE WITH NEW OPERA AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRES
Wagner will meet the Wild West when the Calgary Stampede and Calgary Opera “pardner” up to build a $33-million opera centre on the Calgary Stampede Youth Campus near 12th Avenue and Fifth Street SE. Scheduled to open in 2017, the opera centre will form part of a new arts hub in the heart of the city, close to the new National Music Centre and the new Central Library. Plans for the youth campus already include an arts academy charter school, a school of performing arts, and other cultural venues. The opera centre will also pony-up space for Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artists Program, two rehearsal spaces — one of which converts into a 300-seat theatre — and shared space for non-profit and youth organizations. Another Calgary performing arts venue, The Bella, will open its doors in September at Mount Royal University’s Conservatory. The $90-million venue will include 43 soundproofed practice studios, an early childhood instructional suite, six rehearsal halls, and a 773-seat concert hall, whose ceiling sound reflector panels evoke the petals of Alberta’s official flower, the wild rose. -Jacqueline Louie
Lethbridge College is on schedule, with phase one — the Crooks Schools of Transportation — set to open in September. It will house the school’s automotive service technician, parts technician, agriculture and heavy equipment technician classrooms. The second phase, which involves demolishing part of an existing
structure, will open two years later. It will be home to the wind turbine technology, engineering design, geomatics, civil engineering, electrical, welding, and interior design programs. The $65-million expansion will accommodate an additional 880 students, bringing the college’s trades and technology capacity to 2,300 spaces.
TRADES AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION GROWS IN LETHBRIDGE
Construction of a 15,000-square-metre Trades and Technology Facility at
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