It’s open!
The Strathcona Performing Arts Centre in Bonnyville offered its first public performance March 21, and followed up with its inaugural Lakeland Live show March 29.
Mike Plume headlined the March 21 show with songs and stories about his youth in Bonnyville and his subsequent life on the road as a touring musician. It was the first of many high-calibre performances from leading entertainers slated for the brand-new stage.
The Lakeland Live series is another important part of the centre’s mandate. From its inception, the Clayton Bellamy Foundation For the Arts—the driving force behind the theatre project—insisted that the venue would provide opportunities for local artists to learn and perform.
Lakeland Live will be a quarterly concert featuring local performers from a variety of genres and disciplines.
The Clayton Bellamy Foundation took up the torch for a Bonnyville arts venue in 2022, a couple years after the venerable Lyle Victor Albert Centre was torn down in 2020.
The new Strathcona Performing Arts Centre will offer professional and amateur productions in music, dance, theatre, and other performance disciplines as well as educational programming through Portage College and Grant MacEwan University.
The theatre’s grand opening will take place April 30.
Photos by ALYSSA MCKIBBON/NOVA CREATIVE
