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Public Programs
Transformation from Sapling to SeaSaturday, February 4, 2012
from 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Included with regular Gallery Admission
Adults $10, Seniors/Students $7, Youth/Child $5 (plus HST)
Members FREE
Doug Paul and Ray Natraoro. Photo: Gary Fiegehen Photography
Ray Natraoro has carved 19 Salish dugout canoes. He will bring his insight into what it takes to transform a tree into a seagoing canoe. Choosing the right tree in the forest to carve a canoe is no simple task. Any tree that is chosen needs to exhibit some very special characteristics. Master canoe carver Natraoro will talk about how these specific characteristics determine the destiny of the tree.
Sesiyam, Ray Natraoro (formerly Natrall) is of Salish and Tuchone descent. He was born and raised in Vancouver and is the 7th generation craftsman in his family who has transformed monumental red cedar into seagoing ocean canoes.
Natraoro is a highly respected Master Carver dedicated to his community, family, culture and the creation of high quality Coast Salish art. In addition to his art, he is currently working towards earning his certificate to teach the Squamish Language.
Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe is a companion book to the eponymous exhibition mounted by the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art that runs until February 19, 2012 and will subsequently tour to the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ontario.
Past Events
Book Launch: Bill Reid and the Haida CanoeThursday, December 8, 2011
from 5:00pm - 7:00pm
FREE Admission
Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe
Cover courtesy of Harbour Publishing
Photo: © Philip Hersee Photography
Join Dr. Martine Reid, principal author and editor of Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe at the Bill Reid Gallery, Thursday, December 8th, 5:00 – 7:00pm for the launch of this new book, published by Harbour Publishing.
Program
5:15pm Remarks by Dr. Martine Reid
5:30pm General discussion and book signing by Dr. Reid
Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe tells the story of the pivotal role of the canoe in Northwest Coast art, cultures and communities. It traces its zenith in pre-contact times, through its decline in the late nineteenth century, to its revival in Lootaas (Wave Eater) which Bill Reid and his team carved for Expo ’86, to its culmination in tribal canoe journeys of the twenty-first century and The Spirit of Haida Gwaii sculptures. Bill Reid expressed awe for the traditional Haida canoe and what it represents visually, symbolically, and culturally. In his words, “Western art starts with the figure – West Coast Indian art starts with the canoe.”
“Too often, the Northwest canoe has been portrayed primarily as a utilitarian object. We see the canoe as a complex, multi-faceted symbol, an essential carrier of culture, and as art. Through the telling of Haida artist Bill Reid's intellectual and physical involvement with canoes, we discover new insights into his creative journey, the place of the canoe within it and within the larger spectrum of his artistic development and practice. Reid’s understanding of the symbolic power of the canoe to connect people to each other, to the land and the sea, to their past and future, and to a renewed sense of themselves guided his journey to the end”, says Dr. Martine Reid.The story is told through writings and artworks by Bill Reid, consummate photographs by Phillip Hersee, Ulli Steltzer, Robert Semeniuk and others, texts by Dr. James Raffan, Dr. Martine Reid, and Mike Robinson, and first-hand accounts by First Nations paddlers and canoe makers.
Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe is a companion book to the eponymous exhibition mounted by the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art that runs until January 8, 2012 and will subsequently tour to the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ontario.
The Bill Reid Gallery acknowledges the generous support of TELUS on this project.
Principal author and editor Dr. Martine Reid is Director of Content and Research at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art in Vancouver, BC.
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Red Cedar Archaeology
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
from 2:30pm - 3:30pm
K’aas Gaandlay. Photo: Elizabeth Bulbrook
Included with regular Gallery Admission
Adults $10, Seniors/Students $7, Youth/Child $5 (plus HST)
Members FREE
Join Elizabeth Bulbrook MA, former Heritage Coordinator for the Council of Haida Nation’s Forest Guardians, for a presentation on Red Cedar Archaeology (RCA).
Red Cedar Archaeology (RCA) is the study of red cedar trees (Thuja plicata) that have been culturally modified by First Nations people in British Columbia. The term RCA was coined by Haida historian and consultant Captain Gold, English name Richard S. Wilson, who has over 35 years experience in the field of Haida Gwaii archaeology. RCA is used to identify various classifications of red cedar trees based on what they were traditionally harvested for. The canoe classification being the highest quality of tree that could be found in the forest, followed by trees that could be used for totem poles, houses and harvested for bark. Elizabeth’s presentation will introduce the study of Culturally Modified Trees, RCA and its benefits to the artistic traditions amongst the First Nations peoples of the Northwest Coast.
This public program is presented as a part of the Gallery’s featured exhibition. Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe conveys the pivotal role of the canoe in the Northwest Coast art, cultures and communities, through photos by Phil Hersee and Robert Semeniuk, and sketches by Bill Reid.
The exhibition runs through January 8, 2012.
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Mamook Chantie - Traditional Singing
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
from 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Skidegate Performance, 2007. Photo: Kwiaahwah Jones
Included with regular Gallery Admission
Adults $10, Seniors/Students $7, Youth/Child $5 (plus HST)
Members FREE
Mamook Chantie is a term in Chinook (trading jargon developed throughout the Northwest Coast) meaning to sing. Every coastal nation celebrates with song and dance. There is a great diversity and depth of songs and music throughout the region, as this musical tradition has developed over thousands of years.
Through Mamook Chantie you will experience and celebrate the singing traditions of four different Northwest Coast nations: Salish, Kwakwakw’akw, Tsimshian and Haida. Each singer will share canoe travel songs, welcome songs, traded songs from other nations, and their meanings.
This public program is presented as a part of the Gallery’s featured exhibition. Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe conveys the pivotal role of the canoe in the Northwest Coast art, cultures and communities, through photos by Phil Hersee and Robert Semeniuk, and sketches by Bill Reid.
The exhibition runs through January 8, 2012.
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Peter Morin Reflects on his Curatorial Approach
from 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Kispiox, Gitxsan, Skeena Valley, 1967. Photo: © Adelaide de Menil
Included with regular Gallery Admission
Adults $10, Seniors/Students $7, Youth/Child $5 (plus HST)
Members FREE
In Revisiting the Silence, guest curator Peter Morin has selected 22 powerful images of an 800 image body of work created by New York photographer, Adelaide de Menil during her journeys to see totem poles from 1966 to 1968. Morin will talk about his curatorial process, following indigenous practices to create this exhibition, and unfold his sense of the image telling a story of the land. The inspiration for this exhibition emerged from the collaborative publication, Out of the Silence, (published in 1971 and now out of print) featuring text by Bill Reid in concert with 66 of De Menil’s documentary works.
This public program is presented as part of the Gallery’s featured exhibition. Revisiting the Silence follows the tradition of travelling to see the totem poles along the Northwest Coast, as reflected in the powerful black and white photos taken by New York photographer, Adelaide de Menil in the 1960s.
The exhibition has been extended and will run through June 12, 2011.
PETER MORIN
Peter Morin is a Tahltan Nation artist and curator. He is a recent MFA graduate of UBC Okanagan. Peter’s work looks deeply into de-colonization and healing through indigenous language learning and speaking. As a practicing curator, Peter explores issues of land, history, and indigenous ways of knowing. Peter is also a community educator, who draws on art to help First Nations youth reconnect with their culture and traditional practices. In 2010 Peter received the British Columbia Creative Achievement Award for First Nations’ Art.
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Senescence, Death and Rebirth in the Rainforest
Saturday, April, 30 2011
from 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Old Kasaan, Kaigani Haida, Alaska, 1968. Photo: © Adelaide de Menil
Included with regular Gallery Admission
Adults $10, Seniors/Students $7, Youth/Child $5 (plus HST)
Members FREE
In the moist and cool rainforests of coastal British Columbia, trees grow to immense size and great longevity. Fire is nearly absent, and unless logged, these primeval rainforests can persist for centuries undisturbed. Individual trees do eventually grow old, decay and die naturally, and it is this subtle process of mortality that is at the heart of the rainforest’s renewal. Dr. Moola will parallel a core observation of Revisiting the Silence, where we see the resting places for some of the totem poles that were able to finish their lives and return to the earth. Standing snags support rainforest gardens, and downed logs become the homes and habitat for a cornucopia of plants and animals - as do totem poles. Join the David Suzuki Foundation's Science Director, Dr. Faisal Moola, on an exploration of BC's ancient rainforests.
This public program is presented as part of the Gallery’s featured exhibition. Revisiting the Silence follows the tradition of travelling to see the totem poles along the Northwest Coast, as reflected in the powerful black and white photos taken by New York photographer, Adelaide de Menil in the 1960s. The exhibition runs through June 5, 2011.
FAISLA MOOLA PH.D.
Dr. Faisal Moola is the Director of the Terrestrial Conservation and Science Program at the David Suzuki Foundation and an adjunct professor of Forest Conservation at the University of Toronto. Faisal is a practicing scientist and has published widely in scientific journals on ecology, conservation biology, and environmental policy. He has conducted research in some of Canada's most significant wilderness areas, such as the Boreal Forest, the old-growth rainforests of British Columbia and the Acadian woodlands of Atlantic Canada.
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Photographing the Totems:
The Expeditions of Adelaide de Menil
Saturday, April, 2 2011
from 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Village Island, Tlingit, Alaska, 1968. Photo: © Adelaide de Menil
Included with regular Gallery Admission
Adults $10, Seniors/Students $7, Youth/Child $5 (plus HST)
Members FREE
In 1966, Adelaide de Menil began her four journeys to coastal villages, from Washington State through British Columbia, and north to Alaska. In this program, Dr. George MacDonald, Director of the Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Studies at Simon Fraser University, will give important insight into these photographic expeditions of de Menil, which turned out to be the last comprehensive examination of poles and monumental art of the Northwest Coast Art in their original locations, where most of them returned to the land.
This public program is presented as part of the Gallery’s featured exhibition. Revisiting the Silence follows the tradition of travelling to see the totem poles along the Northwest Coast, as reflected in the powerful black and white photos taken by New York photographer, Adelaide de Menil in the 1960s. The exhibition runs through June 5, 2011.
GEORGE F. MACDONALD, C.M. Ph.D.
Director Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Studies
at Simon Fraser University
A renowned expert on Northwest Coast art, Dr. MacDonald has written a series of books on the subject including Haida Monumental Art, published by UBC Press. Some others are: Haida Art, Chiefs of the Sea and the Sky, and Ninstints: A World Heritage Site.
Dr. MacDonald is the Director of the Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Studies, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and holds an LL.D. from the University of Calgary. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in July 2006.
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Time Warp - It's A Wrap
Saturday, February, 26 2011
from 2:00pm - 4:30pm
Included with regular Gallery Admission
Adults $10, Seniors/Students $7, Youth/Child $5 (plus HST)
Members FREE
Join internationally renowned textile artists, Delores Churchill, Evelyn Vanderhoop, and Lisa Telford as they bid a fond farewell to our groundbreaking textiles exhibition Time Warp: Contemporary Textiles of the Northwest Coast. Program highlights will include remarks by the artists, and dancing of robes to traditional drumming.
This public program is presented as part of the Gallery's featured exhibition, Time Warp: Contemporary Textiles of the Northwest Coast. Time Warp celebrates the textile and fibre art of 20 emerging, mid-career and internationally recognized Aboriginal artists from Alaska, Yukon, BC, and Washington State. The exhibition runs through Feb 27, 2011.
Left: Evelyn Vanderhoop and Delores Churchill, Participating artists. Photo: Anne Seymour.
Right Top: "Ice Man Hat", circa 2003, Delores Churchill; Right Bottom: Pocha Haida, 2009, Lisa Telford. Photos: Kenji Nagai
DELORES CHURCHILL Haida
Master weaver and teacher, she is credited with being instrumental in reviving and keeping traditional Haida weaving alive for future generations. She has mentored both Evelyn Vanderhoop and Lisa Telford.
EVELYN VANDERHOOP Haida
Exhibition Co-curator, Haida artist and master weaver. Evelyn has specialized in Naaxiin (Chilkat) regalia for 16 years and is one of only a handful of weavers who has mastered this complex technique. Sharing and Teaching this knowledge is one of her life goals.
LISA TELFORD Haida
Lisa comes from a long line of weavers. Recognized internationally for her creativity in weaving contemporary cedar bark dresses and shoes.
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Weaving Demonstration
Saturday, January 29 and Sunday January 30, 2011
from 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Included with regular Gallery Admission
Adults $10, Seniors/Students $7, Youth/Child $5 (plus HST)
Members FREE
Clarissa is one of 20 Aboriginal fibre artists participating in the Gallery's featured exhibition, Time Warp. Of Tlingit ancestry, she is a dynamic presenter and excels in both Naaxiin and Raven's Tail weaving and other art media, winning six best-of-show awards to date. She will be demonstrating both Raven's Tail and Naaxiin (Chilkat) weaving.
This public program is presented as part of the Gallery's featured exhibition, Time Warp: Contemporary Textiles of the Northwest Coast. Time Warp celebrates the textile and fibre art of 20 emerging, mid-career and internationally recognized Aboriginal artists from Alaska, Yukon, BC, and Washington State. The exhibition runs through Feb 27, 2011.
LEFT: Clarissa Rizal at the Time Warp Opening Reception. Photo: Anne Seymour
RIGHT: Copper Child by Clarissa Rizal and Lily Hudson, Photo by Brain Wallace
CLARISSA RIZAL Tlingit
Clarissa Hudson excels in both Naaxiin and Raven's Tail weaving and other art media, winning six best-of-show awards to date. Clarissa apprenticed with Naaxiin weaver, Jenny Thlunaut, and took classes with Selina Peratrovich, Delores Churchill and Cheryl Samuel. She studied clothing design and metalsmithing at the Institute of American Indian Arts, in Santa Fe, NM. Between 1983 and 2005, she designed and created 50 traditional Alaskan ceremonial robes. She attended the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, and majored in Art at the Lewis College, Durango, Colorado.
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Gender and Weaving
Saturday, December 4, 2010 from 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Included with regular Gallery Admission
Adults $10, Seniors/Students $7, Youth/Child $5 (plus HST)
Members FREE
Among the many art forms on the Northwest Coast, weaving has been marginalized and viewed as "women’s work", implying purely decorative and without meaning. This session, led by textile artist, William White, will explore how perceptions of gender contributed to the exclusion of textiles within Northwest Coast art forms.
LEFT: Thunderbird Apron 2006, William White. Photo: Kenji Nagai
RIGHT: William White at the Time Warp Opening Reception. Photo: Anne Seymour
WILLIAM WHITE Tsimshian
William White, Lii Am Laxuu, is Tsimshian and a member of the Raven Clan of the Git-wil-gyoots, "the people of the seaweed", from Lax Kw'alaams, northern BC. William has chosen a very unusual artistic path. In 1982, while he was in his early twenties, he started to learn basketry and traditional Chilkat (Naaxiin) style of weaving with his aunt Betty Sampson. He later studied with renowned Haida weaver Delores Churchill taking up an art form traditionally the sole domain of women. In doing so, he preserved one of the most important artistic traditions of his people. As a man practicing a traditional women's art form, his journey has not been without challenges and self-doubt. Wiliam is a passionate teacher, training many Tsimshian and other Northwest Coast First Nations students in basketry, Raven's Tail and Chilkat (Naaxiin) weaving styles. He works on the balance point between tradition and innovation. William White received the BC Aboriginal Achievement Award in 2007. In 2008, he was given the hereditary house chief's name Tsymiyaanbiin, "Barnacles on the Belly of the Supernatural Being". William White lives in Prince Rupert, BC.
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The Power of Weaving
Saturday, November 6, 2010 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Included with regular Gallery Admission
Adults $10, Seniors/Students $7, Youth/Child $5 (plus HST)
Members FREE
Time Warp textile artists Debra and Robyn Sparrow will demonstrate Coast Salish weaving and spinning techniques. Hear about their discoveries of old pieces in various international museums and their journey as contemporary weavers. They will also talk about the symbolic meaning of geometric designs, the mesmerizing effect of the whorl on the spinner, and the power imbued in weaving.
DEBRA SPARROW Coast Salish Ceremonial Dress 2010
Commissioned for the Olympics’ opening ceremony
Merino wool
Photo: Kenji Nagai
DEBRA SPARROW Coast Salish, Musqueam, Vancouver, B.C.
Debra Sparrow and her sister, Robyn Sparrow, were commissioned to create original works of art for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic games. Together they created two weavings, Thunderbirds and Keepers of the Sky that are now permanent installations in the Thunderbird Arena at the University of B.C. Debra a versatile artist collaborated with Stuart Iwasaki to create the graphic design of the Team Canada 2010 Olympic hockey jersey produced by Nike.
ROBYN SPARROW
Coast Salish, Musqueam, Vancouver, B.C.
Robyn was among the first group of Musqueam women who revived the Coast Salish weaving practice that had been lost for almost a hundred years. She researched and studied Coast Salish weavings in North American museum collections and was a resource teacher and instructor at the Museum of Anthropology and at Point Grey Secondary School. She is the Co-Director of the Musqueam Weaving School, on the Advisory Committee for the Vancouver Airport Authority, and a resource teacher and artist-in-residence at the Southlands Elementary School.
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Our Silent Teachers: Weavings of the Past for our Future
Friday, July 16, 2010 from 11:00am to 12:30pm
Members: $8, General: $10 (plus HST)
Meet the Time Warp artists who will share their knowledge of their connections to the ancient Northwest Coast weaving styles.
Hear Delores Churchill's personal story of how she wove an exact replica of a spruce root hat worn by the pre-historic "Ice Man" (discovered in 1999 in the Yukon). The story culminates when she discovered through DNA tests that she is genetically related to the "Ice Man", a fact which brought great joy to her and her family.
Delores is a renowned Haida weaver of bark, root and wool, a mentor to many artists and recipient of multiple international awards. She lives in Ketchikan, Alaska.
DELORES CHURCHILL
"Ice Man" or "Kwaday Dän Ts’inchi" Hat circa 2003
Spruce root, ermine. Collection: Courtesy of Dr. Sharon Busby
Photo: Ron Reeder
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June 17 - July 11, 2010
The Bill Reid Gallery launched a Public Aboriginal Art Walk (PAAW) on June 17, 2010 as a kick-off to
National Aboriginal Day on June 21.
The art walk was a great success with many participants.
Read Miss 604's blog
AND THE WINNER IS...
All of the trivia question submissions were compiled and reviewed.
The final draw on Monday July 12, 2010 revealed the following winners:
- TERI DAMRON: limited edition print by Haida artist John Brent Bennett
- FINLAY MCINNES: annual membership to the Bill Reid Gallery
- SHEILA KIRKBY: 2 complimentary admission tickets to the Bill Reid Gallery
- DOROTHY MILLS: 2 complimentary admission tickets to the Bill Reid Gallery
- JUDY LINDSAY: 2 complimentary admission tickets to the Bill Reid Gallery
The above individuals have been notified via email.
For any questions, contact Navida at info [@] billreidgallery.ca or 604.682.3455 x 223.
Thank you to all who participated!
ABOVE: Human Spirit by Susan Point. On display at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
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Haida Fashion Designer Dorothy Grant
Join renowned Haida fashion designer Dorothy Grant in the Gallery as she presents her latest design collection. Dorothy was the 2008 recipient of the Honor Award presented by Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She'll be available after the show for fashion consultations. Members: $40
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A Tribute to Claude Lévi–Strauss
Friday, November 28, 2008
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Claude Lévi–Strauss
World–renowned French anthropologist
Honourary Director of the Bill Reid Foundation
Admission is Free
Please join us in a tribute to Professor Lévi–Strauss.
Program Welcome by Dr. Martine Reid in the presence of the Consulate General of France
Master of Ceremonies Miles Richardson III
Readings by Vicki Gabereau and Christopher Gaze
Film by Frédéric Mitterrand — Les Amériques de Claude Lévi-Strauss
Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Studies at SFU
PRESENTS
Lecture Series by Dr. George MacDonald, Centre Director
November, 5, 12, 19, 2008 from 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Three evening presentations by Dr. George F. MacDonald, explore through historical photographs the distinctive art of twenty-five Haida villages, that stretch along the north coast from the World Heritage Site of SGang Gwaay at the southern tip of Haida Gwaii to the Kaigani villages of Southeast Alaska.
A renowned expert on Northwest Coast art, Dr. MacDonald has written a series of books on the subject including Haida Monumental Art, published by UBC Press. Some others are: Haida Art, Chiefs of the Sea and the Sky, and Ninstints: A World Heritage Site.
Dr. MacDonald is Director Emeritus of the Bill Reid Foundation, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and holds an LL.D. from the University of Calgary. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in July 2006.
Price:
Student special: $6 per lecture or $18 for all 3 (valid id required)
Members: $8 per lecture or $20 for all 3
Non-members: $10 per lecture or $25 for all 3
Wednesday, November 5: The Southern Villages
SGang Gwaay, Tanu, Cumshewa, Skedans, Xaina, Chaatl, Kaisun and Skidegate
Wednesday, November 12: The Central Villages
Kayang, Kung, Hiellen, Kiusta, Yaku, Dadens, Tian and Masset.
Wednesday, November 19: The Northern Villages
Kasaan, Klinkwan, Suukwan, Koninglas, Howkan.
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BILL REID: "Mythic Messengers" 1984
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