Aboriginal Art
Vancouver: Celebrating 10 Years of Aboriginal Performance – Talking Stick Festival 2011
Tickets on sale January 4, 2011 Prices range from$12 – $25 (plus HST and service charges). Group prices available. Full Circle: First Nations Performance presents the 10th annual Talking Stick Festival: a 13 day, citywide celebration of Aboriginal performance and art. In celebration of our 10th year, the 2011 festival will play its opening week [...]
Call: Lights, Camera, Take ACTION! Calling all Aboriginal Youth across Canada!
Be the next Wisdom Keepers and Story-Tellers of your generation! Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots for Aboriginal Youth is asking groups to create a mini-documentary about issues related to their peoples, animal and the environment that are important to them! Even better, we will provide you with a free flip camera!! Please see the flyers [...]
Prince George: Haida exhibit opens at gallery
By Teresa Mallam, Prince George Free Press, January 18, 2011 4:00 PM Installing a new art exhibition is always exciting but Two Rivers Gallery curator George Harris is particularly proud of this one: Eagle Transforming: the Prints of Robert Davidson. The works are by one of Canada’s most respected, important contemporary artists and they span [...]
Chilliwack: Sto:lo centre rooted in cultural pride
The sprawling new building will be a powerful repository of heritage and culture allowing Sto:lo stories from the past to be carried forward for future generations. The new $12 million Sto:lo Resource Centre opened Satuarday with a series of celebrations, including an address Saturday by B.C. Lieutenant-Governor Steven Point. “The new Sto:lo Resource Centre will [...]
BC Creative Achievement Awards for First Nations’ Art to be presented tomorrow
The 2010 BC Creative Achievement Awards for First Nations’ Art will be presented in a ceremony Friday (October 22) at the Fairmont Pacific Rim. The recipients of the $2,500 awards are Haida jeweller and carver Alvin Adkinds of Vancouver, Haida weaver Lisa Hagerman of Massett, Tahltan visual artist and educator Peter Morin of Victoria, Nuu-chah-nulth [...]
Two galleries pair up to present Northwest Coast art in Maple Ridge
Man, who doesn’t love Northwest Coast art? Visually, it’s striking, with its combination of native wood and bright, bold colours. Historically, it provides a moral compass for us as we move into the future. And viscerally, you somehow can’t help but feel more connected to nature when poring over it — even if you’re viewing [...]
Comox: First Nations gallery celebrating milestone
The I-Hos Gallery, which celebrates its 15th anniversary in the Comox Valley this November, serves some important functions. Besides showcasing native culture to the public, it employs K’ómoks Band members and provides a vehicle for native artists to sell their creations, explains I-Hos manager Ramona Johnson. Before I-Hos existed, Johnson took the resort management course [...]
Beyond mask and totem pole: Vancouver is the hub of a thriving market in contemporary works by Northwest Coast native artists
When British artist Damien Hirst went shopping for a totem pole for his house in Mexico, he set his sights on Vancouver. Hirst, believed to be the wealthiest artist in the world and for years the enfant terrible of the British art world, found what he was looking for at the Douglas Reynolds Gallery on [...]
Salish Hall Art Committee on point with Point
Salish Hall will have a magnificent piece of artwork going up on one of its walls courtesy of Salish artist Susan Point. The art committee chose Point from a list of artists that was provided and approved by the Washington State Arts Commission. The art committee unanimously decided on hiring a Native American artist to [...]
Port Alberni Nuu-chah-nulth artist wins award
A renowned Nuu-chah-nulth artist is among the recipients of a prestigious art award. Hesquiaht artist Tim Paul was named one of six winners of the 2010 B.C. creative achievement award for First Nations’ art. B.C. premier Gordon Campbell and B.C. Achievement Foundation chair Keith Mitchell announced the winners on Wednesday. “We are proud to celebrate [...]
Terasen Gas Volunteers Contribute To Aboriginal Culture At Stanley Park
As part of Terasen Gas’ annual Community Giving Day, approximately 100 Terasen Gas employees and their families will help the Aboriginal Tourism Association of British Columbia (AtBC) build an elder’s shelter and construct landscape art at the Klahowya Village in Stanley Park. The shelter will be in Stanley Park year-round and will also be available [...]
Cultural treasures will be repatriated to B.C. first nation
Nearly 300 historically significant Nisga’a artifacts collected in northwestern B.C. in the early 20th century — some described as “masterpieces” of native art — are to be repatriated next week by officials from two major Canadian museums. At a ceremony titled The Spirit of Our Ancestors Has Returned Home, elaborately carved masks, rattles and other [...]
Victoria: First Peoples Festival returns
After a five-year hiatus, the First Peoples Festival is back, thanks to new $10,000 sponsorship by the City of Victoria. The event features performers and an artists’ market. Under tight timelines, organizers aim to keep the reincarnated festival “humble but memorable,” said Leslie McGarry of the Victoria Native Friendship Centre. Gone is the big salmon [...]
Downtown Eastside mural ‘touches a little bit on everybody’, Painting is the largest public mural in Western Canada
The largest public mural in Western Canada depicts ravens, canoes, dancers and even a heartbreaking scene of children being sent off to residential schools. The 7,600-square-foot scene on the wall of a Downtown Eastside hotel celebrates native culture and its history, but it’s also aimed at bringing together natives and non-natives. “It touches a little [...]
Victoria: Coast Salish project takes shape, colour
Bonnie Quaite fine tunes the painted borders of a spirit in the sky, blowing a ship to shore. The idea behind the image, Quaite says, “is that you’re always surrounded, looked over and watched – taken care of in a way.” Quaite is the team leader of a group of six youth spending their summer [...]
