Upcoming events and programs
Opening Reception:
GEORGE CLUTESI: ḥašaḥʔap / ʔaapḥii / ʕac̓ik / ḥaaʔaksuqƛ / ʔiiḥmisʔap
Thursday, May 8 | 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Join us in celebrating the exhibition opening of GEORGE CLUTESI: ḥašaḥʔap / ʔaapḥii / ʕac̓ik / ḥaaʔaksuqƛ / ʔiiḥmisʔap at Legacy Downtown.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Free + open to the public
Image: George Clutesi, The Storm, 1959, oil on canvas, private collection.
Curator's Talk & Poetry Reading:
With Carolyn Butler-Palmer and Avis Rasmussen
Saturday, February 8 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Join us for an afternoon of insightful discussion led by The Point Group curator Carolyn Butler-Palmer and local artist Avis Rasmussen.
Enjoy a guided tour with the curator, where you'll learn more about the history of The Point Group artists and the curation decisions that went into creating the exhibition.
Following the tour, hear a selection of poetry inspired by The Point Group from The View From Here by Avis Rasmussen.
Light refreshments will be provided.
This event is a unique opportunity to discover more about the history of Victoria's vibrant art scene. Don't miss out!
Free event | Registration required (Register now)
Please note that this event will require some standing or movement around the gallery. Limited seating accommodations will be available throughout the event to ensure guests are comfortable. Learn more at the registration page.
Opening Reception:
Victoria and Expressionism's Second Wave:
The Point Group
Saturday, January 11 | 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Join us in celebrating the exhibition opening of Victoria and Expressionism's Second Wave: The Point Group at Legacy Downtown.
The reception will include snacks, refreshments, and the opportunity to hear from the curator.
Free + open to the public
Image: Michael Morris, Untitled (Pat Bay Highway Renovation Series), 1962, U996.18.1, (detail).
The Chorus is Speaking: Artists in Conversation
Artist Talk & Reception
Saturday, November 23| 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
1:00 - 2:30 PM Artist Talk (Gallery closed to public)
3:00 - 4:00 PM Open Public Reception
Join Legacy Art Galleries for a discussion panel examining the exhibition themes and artistic practices of the exhibiting artists.
Panelists include: Charles Campbell, Chantal Gibson, Karin Jones, and Syrus Marcus Ware.
Moderated by: Jenelle Pasiechnik, co-curator of The Chorus is Speaking; Curator of Contemporary Art, Campbell River Art Gallery.
Following the discussion will be a reception, celebrating the participating artists of The Chorus is Speaking and the adjoining exhibition, Rooting for Reclamation.
Free | Artist Talk registration full. Sign up for the waitlist below.
Please note this panel discussion will be recorded.
Image: Karin Jones, The Bond, (detail), 2024. Image courtesy of Art Mûr.
Opening Reception for The Chorus is Speaking
Wednesday, September 18 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Join us in celebrating the opening of The Chorus is Speaking at Legacy Downtown.
Attend the reception to catch a sneak peek of the exhibition before its official opening day on Thursday, September 19.
snacks + refreshments | free + open to the public
Image: Karin Jones, The Bond, (detail), 2024. Image courtesy of Art Mûr.
Clearcut Reanimated
Artists' Talk and Q&A with Broken Forests Eco-Artists Group
Wednesday, August 21 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Come meet members of the Broken Forests Artist Group, a collective of artists, curators, and activists dedicated to focusing attention on the exploitation and eradication of forests and sacred sites in Canada and around the world. The collective will be sharing some of their recent projects, including the current Clearcut Re-Animator Project.
Free + open to the public
How to Build a Fire
Performance by Kerri Flannigan
Saturday, August 3rd | 7:30 PM
Sunday, August 4th | 7:30 PM
Intrepid Studio | 2-1609 Blanshard St
Lekwungen territory
How To Build a Fire is a performance accompanied by projections, sound and live narration. Connections to nature, changing climates and wildfire are explored through the relationship between Kerri, the performer, and their father Mike. As an adult, Kerri realizes that although their father is a fire expert, they don’t actually know that much about fire, and they begin recording conversations with their dad. The performance features excerpts of these interviews and conversations which eventually start to bring in additional fire experts as well as touching on memories of growing up on a fire research station, the legacy of fire suppression and fire as “enemy” ushered in with settler-colonialism, shifting cultural views around wildfire, the state of the forest, and more. This performance asks questions about what kind of relationships we should have with each other, with fire, and with the land around us.
Tickets are available by donation through Eventbrite.
Presented by Legacy Art Galleries and Impulse Theatre
Creating Climate Resistence
Climate circle and artmaking session with Sabrina Guzman Skotnitsky
Tuesday, July 30th | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Led by climate justice advocate and artist Sabrina Guzman Skotnitsky, this workshop will give young people (15 - 30 year olds) the space to explore their thoughts and feelings around climate change and environmental degradation. Climate circles are informal conversations where participants can freely share their feelings about the climate crisis in a supportive space. Attendees will also participate in a collaging exercise related to the subject.
Participants are invited to visit the Fire Season exhibit before the session to reflect on their own relationships with fire and get inspiration from the artwork. No artmaking experience or expertise about climate change is required. This is space to create ‘bad’ art to process your emotions about climate change with likeminded others.
Register online for this free event. Limited to 15 participants.
Shapeshifter
Mask making workshop with Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde
Saturday, July 6th | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
In this workshop we will create a mask using your own face. We will explore our complex identities from both the internal and external perspectives in order to reveal hidden aspects of the self. We will then embody these masks with sound, movement and transformation to reimagine ourselves outside the confines we create- ultimately, allowing for the shapeshifter within to find new vision.
Registration: $10 per person, payable in cash at the door. Limited to 10 participants.
Register here.
Cyanotype workshop for AfriCa Fest
With Ruby Smith Díaz
Saturday, June 22nd | 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Led by AfroLatina multidisciplinary artist and educator Ruby Smith Díaz, this workshop will guide participants in the art of cyanotype printing featuring shadow art, and historical images of Black individuals and groups that have worked towards social justice in equity in so-called canada.
Come make art and learn about Black history!
Free + open to the public
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Stories on Fire: Sharing Lived Experiences with Climate ChangeTwo-day workshop |
Create powerful testimonies of climate change in this two-day workshop with the editors of UVic’s Climate Disaster Project.
In this two-day workshop, the editors of the University of Victoria’s Climate Disaster Project will teach you the trauma-informed process to create powerful first-person testimonies from fellow participants’ experiences of climate change.
Past testimonies have been published by Reader’s Digest, the Royal BC Museum, and The Tyee, and interviews from this workshop may be shared by similar publications and organizations.
Through learning how to compassionately listen to other people’s stories and telling them, you can help show the world that climate change isn’t something that’s far away. Instead, it’s something close at hand that’s affecting each of us in countless ways: from the smoke that keeps us indoors during the summer to the blazes that have taken so many homes away.
Register online for this free event.
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Opening Reception for Masked Identity:
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Join us in celebrating the opening of Masked Identity: Artworks by Robert Burke at Legacy Downtown.
Read more about Robert Burke here.
snacks + refreshments | free + open to the public
Image: Robert Burke, Spirit Mask (detail), 2003.
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Opening Reception for Fire SeasonSaturday, April 20th | 2:00 PM |
Join us in celebrating the opening of Fire Season at Legacy Downtown with remarks by co-curators, Amory Abbott and Liz Toohey-Wiese.
Read more about the curators here.
snacks + refreshments | free + open to the public
Image: Sara-Jeanne Bourget, Charcoal Ritual III (detail), 2021.
UVic Visiting Artist Series: Robert Burke
March 27th, 2024 | 7:30 PM
Visual Arts Building, Room A162 | UVic Campus
Lekwungen Territory
Robert Burke (Denesuline/Black) spent 10 years in residential schools in Fort Resolution and Edmonton. He spent much of his adult life in the forestry industry before pursuing his long-time passion for art at age 53, when he began painting the story of his life, including the challenges and social and political injustices he has experienced as a Survivor of mixed heritage.
This talk is a part of the UVic Visual Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
Follow the link to add the event to your calendar.
Image: Anahita Ranjbar
Intervening in the Collections Vaults
Curator and Artist Talk
Saturday, March 9, 2024 | 1 pm – 3 pm
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Join curator Dr. Carolyn Butler Palmer and artist Lynda Gammon for a conversation about how their work in the Latent exhibition contributes to the ongoing body of research about women artists in museum collections. The event will include a short meditation session led by Lynda Gammon, based on her photographic series, Intervening in the Collections Vaults.
About the Curator
Carolyn Butler Palmer
Carolyn Butler Palmer is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies and Legacy Chair at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. She earned an M.S. in Folklore and Architectural Studies from the University of Utah and a Ph.D. in the Histories of Art and Architecture from the University of Pittsburgh. She is an engaged art historian who practices and writes about engaged art history. In terms of content, she focuses on Indigenous and Settler relations to art in the Pacific Northwest region, theories and practices of curating, digital presentation of art historical work, and advocacy within the discipline of art history for engaged art history. Her program of research is community-based, public, and open.
Carolyn authored "Big Art History: Art History as Social Knowledge" for the Journal of Canadian Art History, is currently contributing to new CAA Standards for the Practice of Art History that include public scholarship, curating, community-based research, and digital scholarship. At present, she is also working on a book manuscript tentatively titled "Writings from the Edges of Art History" along with an array of other book and curatorial projects.
About the Artist
Lynda Gammon
A significant area of Lynda Gammon’s artistic production has dealt with ideas of space and time through the disciplines of photography, sculpture, performance and assemblage. A number of her projects explore artistic production in relation to feminist practices and present alternative strategies for the representation of inhabitation through ephemeral, temporal and contingent conceptions of the spatial.
Gammon, studied at The University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, [B.A. English] and York University [M.F.A.]. She is currently Associate Professor Emeritus in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Victoria where she taught for over thirty years. Lynda Gammon’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and she has been the recipient of numerous BC Arts Council and Canada Council grants. In 2004 Gammon established flask a micro press dedicated to the production and publication of books by artists and writers. She served as a Board member at Open Space and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and currently serves on the board of the Victoria Art Council.
Working with Indigenous Artists
Friday, February 16, 2024 | 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Spectrum Community School | 957 Burnside Rd. W
Lekwungen territory
In partnership with the Tapestry Conference for K-12 Southern Vancouver Island Educators, we will be offering a hands-on professional development workshop with Métis mural artist, Jesse Campbell. The workshop will include a presentation from Jesse on how to work with Indigenous artists in the classroom, provide a hands-on art activity from a past exhibition, and supply educators with resources.
Educators must be registered for the Tapestry Conference in order to attend.
Register here.
Learn more about conference fees and funding eligibility.
View here.
Critical Conversations about Collections
Saturday, January 27, 2024 | 10 am – 4 pm
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
A series of public lectures and a roundtable discussion about art collections, organized in conjunction with the Latent exhibition.
Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture
"Getting the Keys to the Vault: How Feminist, Decolonizing and Anti-Racist Work is Changing Collections", Dr. Anne Dymond, Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art, University of Lethbridge
Watch here
ORION Visiting Scholar Lecture
"Curating in Crisis: Benin Bronzes to Extreme Weather", Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim, Professor of Art History and Concordia University Chair in Critical Curatorial Studies and Decolonizing Art, Department of Art History
Watch here
Roundtable Discussion
Critical Conversations about Collections
Watch here
Latent opening reception
Saturday, January 6, 2024 | 2 pm – 4 pm
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Join artist Lynda Gammon and curator Carolyn Butler Palmer to celebrate the opening of Latent at Legacy Downtown.
Light refreshments provided | Free & open to the public
Under the Shade of the Lotus Tree
Panel Discussion
Saturday, November 18, 2023 | 2 pm – 4 pm
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Under the Shade of the Lotus Tree: Pari Azarm Motamedi and Rozita Moini Shirazi is an exhibition that features the works of two Persian-Canadian artists as they examine the impacts of leaving one’s homeland and the need for a connection to one’s roots. Join Legacy Art Galleries for a discussion panel examining the shared human experiences of connecting to one’s communities through displacement, longing, and culture. The panel will touch on cultural identity, freedom through social movements, and women’s empowerment.
Panelists
Pari Azarm Motamedi, Artist
Rozita Moini Shirazi, Artist and Instructor, Emily Carr University
Dr. Peyman Vahabzadeh, Professor, Sociology, University of Victoria
Facilitator
Anahita Ranjbar, Curator of Collections, Legacy Art Galleries
Image: Rozita Moini Shirazi, The Valley of Unity (detail), 2022.
Untitled ṮEṮÁĆES Artist Talk
Saturday, October 7, 2023 | 5 pm – 7 pm
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Join artists TEMOSEṈ Charles “Chazz” Elliott (Lekwungen/W̱SÁNEĆ), Jesse Campbell (Métis) and Dr. Kim Shortreed to discuss the creation of the interactive haptic map, Untitled ṮEṮÁĆES, with panel moderator Myrna Crossley. The artists will talk about their personal experiences bringing together three different mediums to form the map. The panel will explore the role of play in the map and its design, how community collaborated on the piece, and the importance of SENĆOŦEN placenames.
Free | Open to the public
Image: Chazz Elliott,Jesse Campbell, Kim Shortreed, Untitled ṮEṮÁĆES (detail), 2023.
Poetry Reading with Pari Azarm Motamedi and Rozita Moini Shirazi
Saturday, September 23, 2023 | 2pm – 4pm
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Join the artists from Under the Shade of the Lotus Tree for a Persian poetry reading and discussion in Farsi and English.
Free | Open to the public
Image: Rozita Moini Shirazi, The Valley of Unity (detail), 2022.
Under the Shade of the Lotus Tree: Pari Azarm Motamedi and Rozita Moini Shirazi Opening Celebration
Friday, September 22nd | 5 - 7 PM
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Celebrate the opening of Under the Shade of the Lotus Tree: Pari Azarm Motamedi and Rozita Moini Shirazi at Legacy Art Gallery. The exhibition, organized by the West Vancouver Art Museum and curated by Hilary Letwin and Anahita Ranjbar, explores the power of Persian poetry for self-expression and cultural preservation through the works of two Persian-Canadian artists.
The evening will include an introduction to the exhibition. Persian snacks and tea will be served.
Free | Open to the public
Image: Pari Azarm Motamedi, Freedom, 1994.
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Closing Celebration for Walking Thru My FiresSaturday, September 2nd | 12 - 2 PM Join us on Saturday, September 2 to celebrate the success of Walking Thru My Fires. Visitors can enjoy reflections and storytelling by Francis Dick, and a last chance to explore the exhibition before it closes. Free & open to the public. |
Art Making Workshop with Francis Dick
Sunday, July 16th | 11 - 2:30 PM
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Participate in an art making workshop inspired by Francis Dick's art practice.
Registration required | $30 per person
Registration full. Please email legacy@uvic.ca to be added to the waitlist.
Atla'gimma (Spirits of the Forest)
Saturday, June 17th | Doors at 11:30 AM | Event from 12 - 3 PM
Wawadit'la (Mungo Martin House) | 675 Belleville Street
Lekwungen territory
The Atla’gimma shares a very old Kwakwaka’wakw story of a man from Wuikinuxv (Rivers Inlet). The man is a grouse hunter, but he no longer hunts only for food and is now killing much more than he needs to survive. In doing so, he is damaging the balance between himself and the natural world. In his dreams, the hunter is visited by the Spirits of the Forest who teach him how to make amends for what he has done and restore balance.
This timely cultural offering carries the possibility to bring healing, not only to the natural world but also to the relationships between people. The Atla’gimma was the cultural property of the late Chief Kwaxsistalla wath-thla (Adam Dick) and is now danced again with permission by his daughter, Francis Dick.
The mask dance will be followed by a community feast.
Free & open to the public.
Limited space available.
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Opening Ceremony for Walking Thru My FiresSaturday, April 29th | 5 - 7 PM Join us in celebrating the opening of Walking Thru My Fires, a new solo exhibition by Francis Dick, at Legacy Downtown. The celebration will include a territorial welcome from UVic Elders-in-Residence Doug and Kathy LaFortune, an introduction to the exhibition by co-curators Lorilee Wastasecoot and Francis Dick, and music by Kate Roland. |
Mapping Black Creativity in the Arts, Sciences, Technology, and Business
Saturday, March 11 | 5 - 7 PM
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Join us for an evening with Black scholars working at the crossroad of the arts, sciences, technology, and business. Panelists include Distinguished Professor and choreographer Dr. Henry Daniel with international guest researchers Adjua Akinwumi, Edward Sembatya, and Shauna-Kaye Brown.
Devi Mucina, curator of Gule Wamkulu: Dancing Indigenous Governance will lead the panel in a discussion of the journey that led each of them to their current area of research and how approaching research through the lens of Blackness generates new knowledge and futurities.
Click here to register
Registration is required for this event.
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Poetry Reading with Dr. Afua Cooper
Details: view here |
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Drawing Our Humanity: Teachings of Ubuntu
Join us in the gallery for a free Family Day activity inspired by our latest exhibition, Gule Wamkulu: Dancing Indigenous Governance. Visitors of all ages are invited to create crafts using the Adinkra symbols that appear throughout the exhibition and reflect and celebrate the importance of diverse traditions in our families and communities. |
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Exhibition Opening EventSaturday, January 28th, 2023 | 3-5 pm
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Gule Wamkulu: Dancing Indigenous Governance Opening Event
Celebrate the opening of Gule Wamkulu: Dancing Indigenous Governance at Legacy Art Gallery with an introduction by guest curator Dr. Devi Mucina, Program Director of the School of Indigenous Governance at UVic.
The celebration brings together speakers Barbara Hudlin (BC Black History Awareness Society) and Simone Blais (director of Dance Like Everybody’s Watching), alongside a contemporary dance performance and the opportunity to bear witness to a Gule Wamkulu masked dance ceremony to honour Ubuntu ancestors and Elders.
This event is free & open to the public, but guests are encouraged to bring loonies and toonies to offer as tokens of gratitude for the knowledge and teachings of the Gule Wamkulu mask carriers.
Snacks and refreshments will be provided by Stir It Up.
Limited space available. Doors open at 2:30 pm, event begins at 3 pm.
Shaping Relations, Tethered Together
Exhibition opening reception
Friday, November 25th, 2022 | 4-6 pm
On campus | Mearns Centre – McPherson Library | Lower level, Room 025
Join Shaping Relations, Tethered Together curator Mel Granley for a tour of the new exhibition and conversation with artist Rain Cabana-Boucher. Snacks, fefreshments, and free parking available.
RSVP here.
Piers
Exhibition opening reception
Thursday, September 29th, 2022 | 7 pm
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Join us for the opening of Piers, an exhibition curated by Kim Dhillon. Piers features work from Visual Arts faculty, sessional instructors, and staff alongside work by artists they consider mentors and artists they have mentored throughout their careers.
Free | Open to the public | Light refreshments & cash bar
UVic Visiting Artist Lecture Series 2022-23 & Legacy Gallery Present:
a performance by participating Piers exhibition artist James Legaspi
Wednesday, September 28th, 2022 | 7:30 PM
Visual Arts Building A162 | UVic + Online
As part of the programming ofr the upcoming Legacy Art Gallery's exhibition Piers, the UVic Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents a critical conversation about art, writing, and pedagogy between emerging artist James Legaspi and faculty member Beth Stuart, introduction by Piers curator Kim Dhillon. The conversation will be followed by a performance by Legaspi.
Out of Place
Opening event with performance by Connie Morey
Friday, July 8 | 7-9pm
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
For the opening of her solo exhibition Out of Place, Connie Michele Morey will perform Rootless, which explores the embodied experience of being displaced from the earth-as-kin in the face of the industrialization of living things.
Image: Connie Morey, Roof Over My Head, Slag Heap, Coal Mine #1, K'omoks Traditional Territory (Comox Valley, BC), 2019
Still Standing: Ancient Forest Futures
Opening reception
Friday, June 25 | 4-6pm
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Join us for the opening reception of the new exhibition curated by Jessie Demers. Still Standing: Ancient Forest Futures brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists to reflect on our relationship with old-growth forests in B.C. from a range of cultural and philosophical perspectives. The exhibition explores the relationships between art, ecology and activism in order to envision futures which honour reciprocal relationships with nature.
Image: Jeremy Herndl, The Black Cedar, 2021.
Gift of Food Art Hive
With Natasha S. Reid (Assistant Professor of Art Education, UVic)
Saturday, June 18 | 12-3pm
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Free and open for all ages
Come join us for a pop-up art hive in the gallery! Visitors are invited to experiment with art-making in a welcoming drop-in community setting. As a starting point, Natasha S. Reid will facilitate an activity that explores various fruits and vegetables commonly grown in Jamaica.
At the end, you can give your finished artwork to ISSAMBA’s La Teranga Food Distribution to be added to a food hamper or you can bring it home and gift it to someone you know.
This art activity is an extension of Natasha’s artwork Plantain Belt currently exhibited in the Breaking the Mold exhibition at UVic’s Legacy Gallery (630 Yates Street).
Image: Natasha S. Reid, Plantain Belt, 2022.
CANCELLED: With the Seasons
A Storytelling and Drawing Art Hive
Saturday, May 28 | 11-3pm
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory
Stories and drawing with Inuk artist-curator Asinnajaq | 11-12pm
Drop-in multi-media art-making with Natasha S. Reid | 12-3pm
This event is now canceled. Please see the below information for the rescheduled art hive at Legacy on June 18th.
Free and open for all ages
During this pop-up art hive (www.arthives.org) at Legacy Gallery downtown, Inuk artist-curator Asinnajaq (curator of With the Seasons at the McClure Gallery) will engage participants in a drawing session while telling stories about the in-between spaces of the weather and the land. The art hive will continue until 3pm, facilitated by Natasha S. Reid, Assistant Professor, UVic Art Education. In an art hive, everyone is welcome and recognized as an artist. We invite you to play with the materials provided or bring your own project to work on in this community art-making space.
Sponsored by and live-streamed from McClure Gallery, Montreal, PQ
With support from the Canada Council for the Arts
'that to which we cling'
Drop-in clay hand-building workshopwith Regan Rasmussem, UVic Art Education
Free and open for all ages
This workshop is dedicated to the theme of resilience. Using local mollusk shells as inspiration and applying clay hand-building techniques, participants will respond to a ceramic sculpture installation from the exhibition Breaking the Mold by making their own small ceramic artifact while considering the question: What beliefs and practices do we cling to for sanctuary and resilience in times of adversity?
Japanese Canadians in the arts: "Did you think it'd come true?"
Opening reception and Lansdowne Lecture with Bryce KanbaraGovernor General’s Award in Visual & Media Arts (2021)
April 23, 2022 | Doors 6:30pm | Event start 7pm
UVic Legacy Art Gallery Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Bryce Kanbara received the 2021 Governor General’s Award for outstanding contributions in Visual and Media Arts. A painter, sculptor, and printmaker, he aspires to bring together Japanese Canadianess, abstract expressionism, locality, literature and community. The proprietor of you me gallery in Hamilton, Bryce Kanbara was a founding member and first administrator of Hamilton Artists Inc. He has held curatorial positions at Burlington Art Centre, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant, and Art Gallery at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (Toronto). A lifelong activist in the Japanese Canadian community, he has worked extensively building bridges with other communities.
Samantha Marsh (she/her) is a mixed-race yonsei cultural worker and independent curator, currently based in Vancouver, the traditional and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Sel̓íl̓witulh peoples. Both within her personal and professional life, Samantha is passionate about making art and culture engaging, relevant, and accessible for underrepresented communities. Since completing her Msc in Museum Studies from the University of Glasgow, Samantha has worked with the Powell Street Festival Society and the Japanese Canadian community to create intercultural and intergenerational programs, events, and initiatives.
Live Tattoo Demo and Artist Talk
with Audie Murray and Nicole Neidhardt
March 12 2022 | 12-4pm
UVic Legacy Art Gallery Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Click here to go to Facebook event with live stream link.
Sounds That Bring us Together
Feb 24, 2022 | Doors 6:30pm | Event start 7:00pm
UVic Legacy Art Gallery Downtown | 630 Yates St
Please note the capacity for this event is 40 attendees. Proof of vaccination is required for this in-person event. We will be checking proof of vaccination at the door.
A live stream link will be available for those unable to attend in person. Join the Facebook event or access the live stream at this link: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/85188049931
Attending to the sounds around us can offer new perspectives on the spaces we inhabit. Sound is also a powerful tool to convey emotion and connect us with our past. Inspired by the current exhibition Derrumbeat – The Beat of Collapse, anthropologists, artists, musicians and composers will discuss how they think about and integrate sounds in their work with a focus on how sounds contribute to new forms of connection, collaboration, relation, and synthetization in the participants’ ways of thinking, reflecting and imagining.
Panelists:
Adi Laflamme, Composer, Producer, Performer, MA candidate School of Music, UVic
Sue Frohlick, UBC Okanagan, Professor, Anthropology, Gender and Women’s Studies, UBC-Okanagan
Paul Walde, Sound and Visual Artist, Associate Professor, Visual Arts, UVic
Moderator:
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Associate Professor, Anthropology, UVic
Asia Youngman Screening with Q&A
Feb 12, 2022 | 6 - 7:30PM
UVic Legacy Art Gallery Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Join us for an evening with Cree-Métis filmmaker, Asia Youngman. We will host a screening of Asia Youngman's film This Ink Runs Deep, a documentary short about the revival of cultural tattooing, and nx̌aʔx̌ʔitkʷ (na-haha-eet-ku), a narrative short about a teenager who must navigate peer pressure when her next door neighbour convinces her to explore a nearby island in search of a legendary lake monster.
A Q&A session with Asia will follow each film.
Capacity is limited to 30 people. Proof of vaccination is required for this in-person event.