Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᏕᎫᏗ Performance by Elisa Harkins with Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Zoë Poluch
Join us for Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᏕᎫᏗ, an ongoing project (2017 – present) where artist Elisa Harkins sings in a combination of Cherokee, English and Muscogee Creek to electronic dance music, some of which is inspired by of sheet music of Indigenous music notated by Daniel Chazanoff during the 20th century. As an act of […]
What Artists Bring to the Table with Samantha Radons
Join us for a day of delicious food-making and engaging conversations with Victoria-based artist Samantha Radons. Explore the variety and creativity the preservation offers through pickling veggies, while learning the history of fermenting foods. The workshop is free, but registration is required as attendance is limited. LEARN MORE
To Talk With Others Opening Remarks
Join Yukon artists and the local community for opening remarks on this important exhibition. To Talk With Others responds to the minutes of a meeting in August of 1977 between Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and five Yukon First Nations leaders regarding the then-approved Mackenzie Pipeline. Project Coordinated by Mary Bradshaw and Valerie Salez | […]
To Talk With Others
Project Coordinated by Mary Bradshaw and Valerie Salez | Ker and Centennial Galleries To Talk With Others responds to the minutes of a meeting in August of 1977 between Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and five Yukon First Nations leaders regarding the then-approved Mackenzie Pipeline. Organized by the Yukon Arts Centre. LEARN MORE
Beautiful Trouble: A Conversation on Activism, Art and Buddhism with Suzanne Lacy and Jodie Evans
University of Victoria, Hickman Building, 105 Lecture Theatre In her various roles as a producer and global activist, Jodie Evans, author, activist and co-director of CODEPINK (Los Angeles), has had the opportunity to work with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, and the Zen master, Thich Naht Hahn, who advocated for a notion of engaged […]
Lecture on Nothing by Kay Larson
University of Victoria, Phillip T Young Recital Hall Kay Larson, art critic, columnist and author (New York), discusses and directs a performance of John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing, first performed at the 8th Street Artists’ Club in New York in 1949. The lecture is written as a piece of music organized around a series of […]