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IDENTITY, LOVE AND ACHIEVEMENT
Three Responses To BC’s 150th Anniversary Year
Identity: Shaq’asthut, Gathering Place
Love: Anu 6
Achievement: Middle East Peace Quilt Project
To celebrate BC is to acknowledge it as a controversial, diverse, and ever-evolving construct with colonial roots that resists simple definition. It is a place whose population holds collective histories filled with voices of privilege, silence and oppression, cross-cultural connections and unique personal stories of Aboriginals, new Canadians, and the far-reaching cultural connections that influence their identity and often multiple existences. Identity, Love and Achievement, considers BC as dynamic ‘place’ that can not contain, predict, nor emphatically interpret human experience; it is a reference point to begin conversations between diverse communities and to work through multiple layers of truth. Identity, Love and Achievement creates a safe and respectful space for spontaneous dialogue and celebrates cultural communication as an important achievement, and a legacy that Aboriginal people, immigrants and people of colour have struggled against great odds to achieve.
IDENTITY: Shaq’asthut - Gathering Place
Exhibition: Tue Nov 4 – Wed Nov 19, 2008
Opening Reception: Thu Nov 6, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
in collaboration with the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective Conference
Artists: Marianne Nicholson, Larry McNeil, Nicholas Galanin, Peter Morin, Maria Hupfield, Kamala Todd and members of the Native Youth Artist Collective. Curated by Skeena Reece and Tania Willard. This community-oriented exhibition will feature projects that address critical themes and issues concerning the urban aboriginality in Vancouver, BC.
(Aboriginal Curatorial Collective Conference Nov. 6th - 8th)
OFFSITe Performance Art : Auntie-Hero
Fri Nov 7, 7 pm, Intersections Digital Studios (2nd floor entrance)
1399 Johnston St, Granville Island Info: accvancouver@gmail.com
LOVE: ANU 6
Performance: Thu Nov 20, 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Tickets: $20, $15/students seniors Group rate: 3/$45 purchased at the Yaletown Gallery 123-1208 Homer or 604. 687.2787 or at the door.
EXHIBITION: Love Rangoli; Leave your love notes by participating in public origami making. Tue Nov 4 – Wed Nov 19, 2008
ANU as inspired by the story of the Sumerian Sky God, Anu, who had one major responsibility: to learn to illuminate the other God’s creative powers to create the Universe. Through three days of rehearsals and informal gatherings, artists from different disciplines and cultural traditions, learn each other’s distinct abilities. They see, hear, feel, respond to, and support each other to maximize their creative performance potential exploring the theme of LOVE. FREE OPEN REHEARSALS: Wed(s) Nov. 5 & 12 at 7 pm. Sun Nov. 16 at 1 pm. Wed Nov. 19 Dress Rehearsal at 8 pm.
ACHIEVEMENT: This Land is My Land;
Fabric messages from the Middle East.
Exhibition: Tue Nov 4 – Wed Nov 19, 2008
Opening Reception: Nov 8, 1 - 4 pm
Community Workshops: Nov 8 and Nov 15, 1 - 4 pm
Ten years ago the international community art project, the Middle East Peace Quilt, opened at the Roundhouse and has been touring N. America ever since. Last year artist Sima Elizabeth Shefrin held self-portrait workshops with Jewish , Christian and Muslim women and children in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Participants wrote messages for the people of Canada. This work was later prepared for display through a series of quilting bees in British Columbia.
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