Shuffle Up and Deal is back the Owl Acoustic Lounge, but for a short time. They will be taken down from the Owl walls and moved to the Lethbridge branch of the Royal Canadian Legion on July 2.
You may have noticed a variety of new playing cards adorning the west wall of the Owl, many of them designed to look like attractive women.
That’s because the them
e for the second round of “Shuffle Up and Deal” is airplane nose art and will be a fund-raiser for the Lethbridge branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.
“It’s going great,” said organizer Todd Lacharite.
“I’m really impressed with the art,” he said.
It runs along similar lines to last year’s “Shuffle Up and Deal” for the adult art program at the Bowman Arts Centre— 53 artists were asked to design individual playing cards, which have been made into a deck of cards. The cards will be sold with all proceeds going to the Legion.
The 1,000 decks will be sold at the Farmer’s Market, July 6,13 and 20, at the airshow and at the Bowman Arts Centre.
As a special bonus, the original individual pieces are being auctioned off in a silent auction ending at a gala event at the Legion, July 23, during the Lethbridge Airshow.
There is a big book available at the Owl featuring separate pages for each individual card, with some beautiful pieces not even having one bid yet.
In addition there will be door prizes and as a special bonus, local artists including Rick Gillis and Darcy Logan will be making art on pieces of actual Second World War airplanes donated by the Nanton Air Museum.
“Rick Gillis, turned a piece of fuselage set on its end into a sculpture with steel rods representing grass and a butterfly on them. You have to see it,” enthused Lacharite. These larger pieces will be auctioned off at the gala event. Lacharite is looking for businesses to donate items which can be auctioned off in prize packages.
Local performers the Necessities and Matt Robinson along with some surprise guests will be performing at the Gala event, July 23. Tickets for the event cost $35 which a roast beef buffet dinner. Doors open at 6 p.m., with dinner being served at 7 p.m. Or you can just come for the live auction, which begins at 9 p.m. Tickets for just the auction and live music cost $15.
Tickets are available at the Bowman Arts Centre and the Owl Acoustic Lounge.
