Speaking My Truth: Reflections on Reconciliation and Residential School

First Nations House of Learning Great Hall

Book editors Jonathan Dewar, Glen Lowry, and Mike DeGagné will share their journey in the development of ‘Speaking My Truth’ collection, highlight the importance of sharing the stories to advance awareness of the Indian Residential School system and engage participants in the notions of apology, denial, and reconciliation.

Walk for Reconciliation – Downtown Vancouver 2 – 4km

Downtown Vancouver (see web link)

Sponsored by Reconciliation Canada, the City of Vancouver, and other partners 8:30 AM Walkers Assembly & Entertainment 10:00 AM Walk begins 11:00 – 1:30 PM Post –Walk celebration ant the finish line This is the finale event of the Reconciliation Week Vancouver 2013 • Live entertainment, storytelling, song and dance before, after and along the […]

Performance by Peter Morin at the Belkin

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery 1825 Main Mall, Vancouver

Thursday, September 26, 2013, 12:30 pm Sunday, December 1, 2013, 1:30 pm Artist Peter Morin will perform This is not a simple movement at the Belkin Gallery as part of the Witnesses exhibition. In his words, “We live in a land created through forcible impact, a land influenced by the movement of steel scissor blades. […]

Artist talk with Beau Dick at the Belkin

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery 1825 Main Mall, Vancouver

Thursday, October 10, 2013, 12:30 pm Beau Dick is the Artist in Residence at the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory. Dick, acclaimed as one of the Northwest Coast’s most versatile and talented carvers, was born on Village Island, Kingcome Inlet, BC and lives and works in Alert Bay, BC. Reaching out […]

Artist talk with Cathy Busby at the Belkin

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery 1825 Main Mall, Vancouver

Thursday, October 31, 2013, 12:30 pm Cathy Busby is an Adjunct Professor of Visual Art in the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory.  Based in Halifax, she has been exhibiting her work internationally over the past twenty years. Busby grew up in the suburbs of Toronto until 1974 when she had the […]

Author Reading at IKBLC: Richard Wagamese

IKBLC Lillooet Room (Room 301)

Join us Thursday, October 31st, 2013 at 2:00 in the Lillooet Room (Room 301) at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre for a reading by author Richard Wagamese from his latest novel, Indian Horse. Join us Thursday, October 31st, 2013 at 2:00 in the Lillooet Room (Room 301) at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre […]

Symposium: Traumatic Histories, Artistic Practice and Working from the Margins

Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Friday, November 15, 2013, 9:30 am-5:30 pm Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre This symposium features lectures by a distinguished international panel of scholars, artists and curators.  Traumatic Histories will convene around questions arising from the exhibition, including curatorial issues, the role of artistic practice in reconciliation (along with a fundamental investigation of the […]

Concert by UBC Contemporary Players at the Belkin

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery 1825 Main Mall, Vancouver

Friday, November 29, 2013, 2:00 pm Join us for a concert by the UBC Contemporary Players at the Belkin Art Gallery. Ensemble directors Corey Hamm and Paolo Bortolussi present a program inspired by the Witnesses exhibition and Indian residential schools. All are welcome. Admission is free. For information on these events and public programming for […]

Performance by Peter Morin at the Belkin

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery 1825 Main Mall, Vancouver

Thursday, September 26, 2013, 12:30 pm Sunday, December 1, 2013, 1:30 pm Artist Peter Morin will perform This is not a simple movement at the Belkin Gallery as part of the Witnesses exhibition. In his words, “We live in a land created through forcible impact, a land influenced by the movement of steel scissor blades. […]