Playgoers of Lethbridge is looking for a few good men and women for their next British farce to run in October.

The longstanding local theatre group is holding auditions this week for their October production of  Ray Cooney and Tony Hilton’s “One for The Pot,” which is scheduled to run at the Sandman Inn, Oct. 19-22.

 Auditions are Sept. 7-8 at the Bowman Arts Centre from 7-9 p.m.
 A cast of six men and three women are needed.
“It ( One for The  Pot) ran for 1,200 performances at the White Hall Theatre from 1961-64,” observed Playgoers  of Lethbridge president Ed Bayly.

“One For the Pot,” originally performed in 1959, is a farce set in the 1920’s  about a gormless Yorkshireman, Billy Hickory Wood, a wealthy northern mill owner who is looking for a beneficiary of a 10,000 pound inheritance. The only caveat is  they must be the only living relative. After Hickory Wood puts an ad in the newspaper, Billy Hickory Wood  is the first to arrive, followed by numerous others.

There is a lot more to blue jeans than just comfortable, all purpose pants for every occasion. The GWG company has a long and storied history in Alberta.
So, with that in mind, the Galt Museum has a special program lined up for Labour Day, Sept. 6 at 7 p.m.

GWG: Piece By Piece explores the history of Edmonton’s  Great Western Garment Company  with a special free presentation of GWG: Piece By Piece, which includes Juno nominated  folk singer Maria Dunn as well as a multi-media presentation with historian  Catherine C. Cole who is an expert on unions, particularly their effect on women workers in the early twentieth century.

“We’re starting with a  talk from Catherine Cole who will be speaking about the history of the GWG garment factory in Edmonton,” said Leslie Hall,  Community Program Co-ordinator.

“The workers there formed the very first union in Alberta. They helped improve working conditions for a lot of Albertan women and  seamstresses,” Hall continued adding the production has been shown at several Alberta museums.

Local writer Michelle Greysen  didn’t know if Lethbridge had any other writers, so she decided to set up a writer’s group.

“I’m shocked. I didn’t think I’d find so many people. I didn’t do any advertising, I just put up the Facebook group and wrote it on the blackboard at the Penny Coffee House and I had eight people at the first meeting (in February),” said Greysen, who is a freelance writer for numerous magazines and self published a book of poetry in addition to publishing and editing community newspapers including the Calgary Straight. She is currently finishing  her first novel.

“ But every meeting there’s more people and it’s not usually  people bringing people. It’s people who  are complete strangers. It’s unusual because writing is so personal. But it  shows how brassy writers can be. When you go to a group where you don‘t know anybody,” she said adding the  August meeting, which was held at Henderson Lake Park, attracted 30 writers. It also featured the first people to volunteer to read their works to the group, which is something she’d like to see continue.

 The group includes all ages from teens to seniors from all backgrounds plus encompasses all genres  and styles including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, playwrights, scriptwriters and even songwriters.
The original intention of the group was to meet on the second Tuesday of every month to discuss writing strategies, techniques and trends  and to share works with each other.
 However, the different members have branched off into their own little groups according to their interests and styles to workshop each other’s works.

“So we’re going to have each group host one of our meetings so it isn’t just me speaking, so we’ll have themes like fiction,” she said.

In honour of their 100th anniversary, Sept. 26, The Galt Museum is looking for the keys to the building, which was formerly the Galt Hospital and they are hoping you can help.
One hundred years ago on Sept. 1, 1910, Sir Wilfrid Laurier attended the grand opening of the Galt Hospital building in Lethbridge where, after some scrambling to locate the misplaced key, he opened the doors to the brick structure with the deserving fanfare.

 So in honour of that fascinating tidbit of Lethbridge history, Galt Museum staff are trying to recreate that moment by hiding the “key” to the museum, somewhere in Lethbridge city limits. The lucky person who finds it officially gets to open the museum  on Sept. 26, for their centennial celebrations.
“It was never written about in the Lethbridge Herald because we read all of the articles, but oral history tells us they misplaced the key,” said Galt Museum special projects co-ordinator Lori Harasem, adding to help, they will be issuing one clue per week, every Tuesday through Facebook, Twitter, their website and local media.

The first person to find the key will be the person to open the doors to the Galt Hospital building in a recreation of the 1910 event on Sunday, Sept. 26 at 11 a.m.  
“It’s quite a large old fashioned key. It’s not the actual key because we can’t do that. There will be a note explaining what to do and contact us. It could be anywhere, under a bench, a rock, anywhere,” she said.
 The first clue is: “Trees! Water! Go there, you'll see!  Walk or race, you set the pace. Peek around Lethbridge's beautiful gathering space.”