NAIT is pleased to be a major sponsor for The FIRST LEGO League (FLL) regional competition to be held this year on Saturday, January 21, 2012 at the NAIT gym on NAIT's Main Campus. Parking during the event is free.

At the FLL 2011 Body Forward  Challenge, "9 to 14 year olds will explore the cutting-edge world of Biomedical Engineering to discover innovative ways to repair injuries, overcome genetic predispositions, and maximize the body's potential, with the intended purpose of leading happier and healthier lives."

Please join the Alberta College of Art + Design as we celebrate Alberta Arts Days with a special extended exhibition in our Illingworth Kerr Gallery.

Alberta Arts Days at ACAD
Iran do Espírito Santo | Wall Drawings
Illingworth Kerr Gallery
September 30 – October 2, 2011

Iran do Espírito Santo produces some of the most significant site-specific installations in the world, exploring the space between the concrete and the abstract. Santo’s approach to large-scale drawings is idiosyncratic, a sleek blend of Minimalism, Pop and Surrealism. His objects are bound by a refinedsimulacra of common, style-conscious geometric objects whose forms have been altered or abstracted to varying degrees, skewing expectations of their representation and experience.
 
Santo has appeared in numerous international solo and group exhibitions including PlugIn ICA, Winnipeg, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art São Paolo, the 2000 Istanbul Biennial, the 2003 Venice Biennale, The Power Plant, Toronto, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He was featured in a mid-career survey at Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MAXXII) in February 2006 and created an installation at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal for the Biennale de Montreal in 2007.
 

Now in its fourth year, Alberta Arts Days is a celebration of culture, heritage, artistic diversity and provincial pride. Visit AlbertaArtsDays.ca to find out more about activities happening around the Province, and to learn more about how you can take parts in free events at many Alberta attractions from September 30 – October 2, 2011.

Stay in touch with ACAD and find out more about this event, and other events throughout the year. Whether it's visiting artists from around the globe, special public lectures about the future of contemporary art, design and critical thinking, or special celebrations on campus - ACAD invites you to join us to explore and inspire your creative process.

Iran do Espírito Santo produces some of the most significant site-specific installations in the world, exploring the space between the concrete and the abstract. Santo’s approach to large-scale drawings is idiosyncratic, a sleek blend of Minimalism, Pop and Surrealism. His objects are bound by a refinedsimulacra of common, style-conscious geometric objects whose forms have been altered or abstracted to varying degrees, skewing expectations of their representation and experience.
 
Santo has appeared in numerous international solo and group exhibitions including PlugIn ICA, Winnipeg, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art São Paolo, the 2000 Istanbul Biennial, the 2003 Venice Biennale, The Power Plant, Toronto, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He was featured in a mid-career survey at Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MAXXII) in February 2006 and created an installation at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal for the Biennale de Montreal in 2007.

We always have this tournament in September for one reason – it is the portion of the golf season that our students are back on campus in full force. 

Our students are always a very large part of our Golf Classic and patron feedback over the years consistently tells us that you love that about our tournament.  Our student ambassadors allow our industry, government, community, supplier and alumni friends to get the students’ first hand take on where Olds College fits in their life plans, and it provides all of our tournament supporters a very direct reminder as to why you are supporting the College. 

The friendly hospitality provided by our staff and student hosts, and the opportunity to socialize and network with colleagues and friends that share a commitment to the enduring success of Olds College!

Tournament Schedule

Olds Central Highlands Golf Course

• 9:00 – 10:00 am Breakfast
• 9:00 – 10:00 am Golfer Registration
• 10:15 am Foursomes head out to their starting Tee Box
• 10:30 am Shotgun Start
• 3:30 pm Tournament Play Wraps Up

Olds College Student Alumni Centre

• 3:45 pm Cocktails & Silent Auction
• 4:30 pm Dinner
• 5:15 pm Sponsor Recognition
• 5:30 pm Award Presentations
• 5:45 pm Silent Auction Closes
• 6:00 pm Closing Remarks

Our annual Gala celebration is recognized as the region's signature black tie event. Gala is an evening of philanthropy, friendship, music and all out fun. With 1200 attendees each year and a growing list of cash and in kind sponsors; there really is no limit to the success of this event.

Thanks to the amazing support of the community, Gala now raises over $300,000 each year and all the funds raised directly support Keyano students, educational programming and campus development.

On Saturday, November 5th, don't miss the Diamond Anniversary Gala - Romancing the Stone, featuring the music of Streetheart with Kenny Shields and Honeymoon Suite.

Lakeland College is officially starting its Centennial Countdown on November 17, 2011. Cake will be served to students, staff and alumni from 11:30 am to 2 pm at the Vermilion and Lloydminster campus cafeterias. More information about Centennial celebrations leading up to the official 100th anniversary on Nov. 19, 2013 will be available that day as well as on the Centennial website.

As more and more people move around the globe, the issue of im/migration is more important than ever at the local, national and geopolitical levels. In spite of people’s increased mobility, many countries are becoming less willing to welcome new im/migrants. Canada remains an exception, a shining example of openness, diversity and democratic pluralism. Even so, everyone who im/migrates to or within Canada has unsettling experiences as he or she settles into a new city, town or landscape, and encounters new people and cultures. What one expects to find and what one actually finds are often quite different.

Migrating Landscapes Exhibition
December 8 - 17, 2011 | Room 371
| Alberta College of Art + Design

Opening Reception Wednesday December 7, 2011 | 6:00 - 9:00 PM 

Opening Remarks in the Main Mall at 7:00pm

Presented by the Illingworth Kerr Gallery

Migrating Landscapes was selected by a national juried competition as Canada’s official entry at the 2012 Venice Biennale in Architecture. It is organized and curated by Winnipeg-based 5468796 Architecture and Jae-Sung Chon (University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture), who joined together for this project to form a new entity: the Migrating Landscapes Organizer (MLO). MLO has invited, through a national competition, young Canadian architects and designers to create videos and design ‘dwellings’ based on their cultural memories. The resulting exhibition is an enactment of ‘settling-unsettling’, with the videos and dwellings discussing various forms of migrated memories as they are ‘settled-unsettled’ into a modular, wooden ‘new landscape’.

The work will be exhibited in Regional Exhibitions in seven cities across Canada including Vancouver, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax. Local juries will select winners of each Regional Exhibition, who will advance to the National Final Exhibition in Winnipeg in spring 2012. National winners, together with MLO, will represent Canada in Venice as a young, architectural “Team Canada”.

The exhibition at the Alberta College of Art + Design is the second in a series of Regional Exhibitions, and will include entries selected from Alberta to compete for showing at the National Exhibition, and potentially at the 2012 Venice Biennale in Architecture. During the opening reception of the ACAD exhibition a representative from Migrating Landscapes will discuss the competition, the Venice project, and how things are progressing.

While the doors have been open since the end of August, Oct 27 will be the official opening of the day care facility on Lakeland College's Lloydminster campus.

The official ribbon cutting will be at 10:30 am while the public is invited to check out the child development centre between 10 and 11 am.

Lakeland's Vermilion campus has had a daycare facility for 3 decades and the child development centre is also a learning facility for students enrolled in the college's early learning and child care certificate and diploma programs.

The Lloydminster facility, located on the first floor near the main entrance of the campus building, has spaces for up to 40 children from 12 months to 5 years of age. The services is offered between September and June between 7:30 am and 5:30 pm.
 

 Pioneer Celebration

November 17, 2012

We're kicking off our centennial by going back to our roots and taking a look at the food, clothes, and activities of 1913.

October 5, 2012
Friday, October 5, 2012

Fantasyland Hotel
17700 - 87 Avenue
Edmonton, AB

Welding and steamfitter/pipefitter apprenticeship students are already enjoying the expanded facilities at Lakeland College's applied engineering building that opened for classes earlier this fall.

On Wed. Nov. 9 the expanded and renovated building will be officially opened with an event that runs from 1:30 to 3 pm.

The facility has expanded and updated the number of stations where students practice welding and there's a brand new area for steamfitter/pipefitter activities. A new study space as well as shower facilities with washrooms were also part of the modernization.

October 19 - 20, 2012

Lakeland College hosts a two-day open house on both campuses Friday Oct. 26 (9 am - 4 pm) and Saturday Oct. 27 (9 am - 3 pm). There's also a Career Fair on the Vermilion campus on Friday. Tours, mini-labs and classes, activities and talk with alumni.

2013 Alumni Homecoming and Rose Ball

June 7,8,9 2013

Lakeland Alumni, this is your chance to be a part of the biggest homecoming in the college's history!

read more

http://www.lakelandcollege.ca/centennial/events/event06071302.aspx

October 27, 2012

Twenty-five colleges, universities and organizations from across Alberta, Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and the UK will have representatives at SAIT to speak to students, alumni, faculty and staff about degree completion opportunities.

No RSVP required — everyone is welcome.

Get ready to Shake, Rattler n' Roll!

 A Smashing National Event

First Steps in the Path of College Life
You are invited to join Lethbridge College in its 2nd FNMI Welcoming Ceremony. Presented by RBC Financial, the FNMI Welcoming Ceremony is your first step into college life, guiding you in experiencing the support and activities available to you as an FNMI student….