Upcoming Events

1. December 06, 2011 Japanese Taiko Drum

Please mark your calendars, invite your friends and come join in on the dedication ceremony as we dedicate the Japanese Taiko Drum at the Atrium at City Hall on December 06, 2011.

In the year 2001 a delegation from Towada City, Japan came to Lethbridge and met with members of the Lethbridge Twinning Society (LTS). The delegation represented the Towada Association for International Relations (T-AIR). The purpose of the visit was to engage in a twinning agreement between Lethbridge and Towada City.

In 2002, His Worship, Mayor Bob Tarleck, LTS Director for Towada City relations, Ms. Carol Kensley and LTS President, Harold Pereverseff attended in Towada City. An official twinning agreement of friendship relations between the T-AIR and LTS was achieved.

In 2004 the Mayor of Towada City and a delegation of T-AIR Members visited to Lethbridge and presented a Taiko Drum to the LTS. This drum was later used to initiate the first ever Taiko Drumming group in Lethbridge, "Kaze no Rhythm".

The drum was decommissioned in 2008, refurbished and set as a lasting memorial of our growing friendship bond with Towada City.

In light of the our decade of twinning relations with Towada City we have obtained the approval of the City of Lethbridge to have the drum permanently displayed in the main atrium of the Lethbridge City Hall.

We intend on having this drum officially placed at City Hall on the afternoon of December 06, 2011 at 1:30PM. A ceremony dedicated to the friendship twinning with Towada City along with remarks from City Officials and other Government Representatives will follow at that time. We do expect to have a presentation of Taiko drumming by the University of Lethbridge, Global Drums.


2. April 14th – 2011 Students from Timashevsk, Russia

The Lethbridge Twinning Society will welcome Rostislav and Dasha, students from Timashevsk, Russia to Lethbridge. Rostislav and Dasha will be here for 2 months and will be studying English at Lethbridge's Immanuel Christian Highschool. They will be hosted in a home stay environment and will be engaged in Canadian cultural activities and sight seeing and events.

Student exchanges are a most effective way of bringing our twin cities of Towada City, Japan, Culver City, California and Timashevsk, Russia together. Thanks to the efforts of Ms. Tatiana Ponomareva in Timashevsk, we will welcome Rostislav and Dasha to Lethbridge.