On Valentine's Day we quietly installed a box in #Lethbridge, with the prompt: WRITE A NOTE TO A STRANGER We didn't say anything for a couple days; we wanted to see if people would find it & they did. Here is what they're writing.

Visiting the box for the first time since install. People have already been leaving notes in it 😭🥰 #yql

Shhhh....... 👀

Someone shoveled a clearing through the deep snow to make visiting the box easier 😭🥰 #lethbridge is the cutest, I can't be convinced otherwise

SURPRISE!! A digital black cat has crossed your path!! GOOD LUCK FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK. 🐈‍⬛

Before it snowed again, someone had shoveled the area in front of our very first Curiosity Box. (So many ways to love the world & somehow here I am, still finding more of them.)

The breathtakingly stunning art @lillianis.bsky.social (re)imagined for (re)surface, pt. 2 Could you even imagine? Thank you to all who came to see this while it was on exhibit last fall. #yql

Still finding poetry everywhere

(RE)SURFACE, Pt. 2

Lately I've been thinking a lot....... ....about how we encourage Good Things in a city.

A big issue is how VERY VERY few people participated in this.

Lethbridge cancels plan for safer cycling after citizens call for spending funding on cars #yql lethbridgenewsnow.com/2026/02/11/c...

#YQL council has agreed to move back to a CIC format from SPCs ... w/ almost no debate & no public $ considerations for an issue no councillor ran on during the election campaign. Better yet? The mayor now has his majority. The next 3+ yrs will be ... unique! lethbridgeherald.com/news/lethbri...

Ooooh, what's that, #yql?!

More secrets from #lethbridge

POCKET GALLERY, COMING MARCH FIRST to #Lethbridge 🥰 What is POCKET GALLERY? A gallery big enough to stretch across the whole city, but small enough to still fit in our vehicle. (You know we love a challenge)

My entire bluesky feed: horrible news updates about how the world is falling apart 😩, mixed with dark humour as a coping mechanism Me, a small Baked Good:

In Feb 2022, before STRUDELBRAND existed, our photographer volunteered for The Coldest Night Of The Year. For 6 hours, he took 📸 in the cold, broke his foot, & fell in love with event photography. We've since made this an annual ritual (minus the injury, though) secure.e2rm.com/registrant/T...

Speed-running community by setting up whimsical Trinket Trade boxes in #lethbridge & encouraging everyone to leave lil gifts for their neighbours 🥰

How obvious though 😎 ..is it because I identify as a Pastry 🥲

In #lethbridge, my roses are already starting to bud. As is my lilac (yet again, it first started trying back in November 🥲) My peony tree is looking dire. It bloomed for the very first time ever last summer -- 6 years after planting. I hope everything survives through until spring 😩

If, by any chance, you know how/when/why this rink got painted on the roof of the Henderson Ice Centre in #lethbridge... Let A Pastry Know! I am craving INFORMATION

9.5 weeks in to this project & for the first time, we received a report that a Curiosity Box was EMPTY! However, the experiment continues as the weather warms & more people learn about this project. What did YOU find in the box? 👀 #lethbridge

As seen on IG!

With the warmer weather, more people are discovering these boxes! And I find that so wonderful 💖 Can I fuel my entire life on whimsy & incurable optimism? So far, so good, anyway. #Lethbridge

Need a lil whimsy in your life these days?? Find it in a Curiosity Box There are 5 of them in #yql Have you visited, yet?

Filming for (RE)SURFACE, Pt. 2 begins again this week ... Finally!

Once upon a time I was so sick I could barely leave the house; walking 1 block required days of recovery I got used to that being my life Once I recovered (albeit very slowly) I was so grateful for all the abilities I once took for granted; the tiniest things brought indescribable joy. Pass it on.

But, wouldn't it 😌

My kind of music therapy 🎶 #yql

What are you doing next Monday? Coming to the Symphony with us?? Maybe?? 👀 think ya should #lethbridge

Anyone in the #Lethbridge area, I will be giving a public talk this week to address the question I get the most: Why study bird brains? I will discuss how studying bird brains led to some major discoveries and helps us understand bird behaviour. #yql #birds #Alberta www.sacpa.ca/why-study-bi...

Touch of Night, acrylic on canvas, 24x24in.

One more time, with feeling had to add a voiceover to this one because it needed it, and maybe, so did i

Some music for your Sunday 🎶 Enjoy 💖

every time my heart breaks, i get softer.

Gettin' ready for Playgoer's first show of the year! BURN 🔥 starts Feb 3rd at the Sterndale Bennett Theatre! #yql

First peek at a new iteration for the Art Of Curiosity project.... Dear Stranger Edition Coming soon, to #Lethbridge

An open book.

The only Curiosity Box in North #lethbridge.. at least, so far 😌😉

Northside Curiosity Box! Have you found this one yet?? 👀

New mural in #lethbridge .. with a bit of a funny story! (It isn't actually the same building owner BUT it was cleared mid-paint!) youtube.com/shorts/xZslf...

@strudelbrand.com, always nice to see whats is the box when im around. Keep up the good vibes!

Does this count as a tip? 🤣 (I, too, am seeking a lil bit of change) Figuratively, usually..! 😉

Leaving gifts for strangers in #yql

What are you doing next Monday? Coming to the Symphony with us?? Maybe?? 👀 think ya should #lethbridge

Matchy-matchy today at the uni for some filmy for the symphony

I find it incredibly beautiful. I hope it stays

About HiDDEN GEMS 2026 #art www.youtube.com/shorts/WS1cf...

Call for artists for HiDDEN GEMS: our summer Mystery Bag experiment. Want to create art for a stranger? Get in on it here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #lethbridge