By Curtis Galbraith

City Hall

City Council planning more discussion around a new performing arts centre

Feb 6, 2024 | 6:00 AM

One of the things mentioned in the City’s new Recreation and Culture Strategy is a new performing arts space.

Councillor Grant Berg brought this up at the January 29 council meeting, saying he wants to bring attention to this.

“That was one of the reasons that I ran for city council is how can we improve the quality of life in Grande Prairie, and so I’ve been waiting for this report, knowing it was coming for quite some time.”

“I’ve actually been on some different committees throughout my life where the report comes out and it gets shelved, and it disappears. So, what I wanted to do was make sure that that doesn’t happen.”

Council approved a motion made by Councillor Chris Thiessen to have a more discussion about a performing arts centre at a future meeting.

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Berg adds a project like this can take four to ten years.

“And if we don’t start acting now, in ten years from now, we’re once again going to be having these same conversations and we still won’t have a performing arts centre.

Berg says an idea he has in mind is a concert hall and theatre with 1,000-1,250 seats.

“(The Douglas J. Cardinal Performing Arts Centre) is a beautiful space at Northwestern Polytechnic, but it is small and a lot of these events that are doing the tours are not going to play in hockey rinks. It’s just not feasible.”

“We’ve got a gap in our service delivery to out citizens that this performing arts centre would accommodate.”

This idea is only being talked about right now. There are no firm plans in place.