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"Composing Us": A Conversation between the artists of A Seat at the Table
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Join us for a “hot pot style” conversation with three of the artists featured in our “A Seat at the Table” exhibition: Judy Jheung “Composing_You Chinatowns”, Paul Wong “Grandmother’s Cupboard”, and Stella Zheng “Thank You, Come Again”. Each artist will talk to us about their pieces in the exhibit and then simmer together on what it means to have a “seat at the table” as Chinese Canadian artists across genres, mediums, and diasporas. A Q&A portion with the audience will follow. The panel will be moderated by Winnie Kwan.
Prior to this 8pm panel, attendees are invited to join special tours of the exhibit with a focus on the artists’ work.
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Artist Highlight
Paul Wong
Paul Wong is a media-maestro making art for site-specific spaces and screens of all sizes. He is an award winning artist and curator who is known for pioneering early visual and media art in Canada, founding several artist-run groups, leading public arts policy, and organizing events, festivals, conferences and public interventions since the 1970s. With a career spanning four decades he has been instrumental proponent to contemporary art.
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Mother's Day Cedar Bracelet Weaving Workshop
Tomorrow - 2 Timeslots, 10AM – 12PM or 1PM – 3PM
Join Rita Kompst of the Musqueam Nation for a Mother’s Day-themed workshop on traditional Coast Salish cedar weaving. Participants will learn about the cultural and traditional techniques of Coast Salish cedar weaving. Using the cedar bark that was harvested and prepared by Rita herself, participants will weave their very own cedar bracelets and roses.
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Boarder X
On view!
The blackboard in MOV's feature exhibition, Boarder X, is an open space for visitors to share their thoughts on skateboarding, space, histories, and identities.
The artwork featured in the exhibition, draws parallels to urban areas prohibiting skateboarding, ski runs unwelcome to snowboarders, and surfers’ constant search for uncrowded waves. Originally exhibited at Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2016, the travelling exhibition curated by Jaimie Isaac reveals skateboarding, snowboarding, and surfing as vehicles that challenge conformity and status quo.
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That Which Sustains Us
Watch the video about the exhibition!
The Movement section of That Which Sustains Us explores how our daily lives are shaped by the natural world.
The long-term exhibition asks questions that touch on the intelligence of trees, their interconnection with their environment, industrial violence, and also land stewardship practices. Through the lenses of Land and Water, Food, Movement, Economy, and Home, this exhibition explores the idea that culture ultimately shapes how people choose to interact with the natural world. Teachings that embrace stewardship leave less obvious traces on the land, when compared to historical viewpoints that commodified “natural resources” like wood and promoted the clearing of land as a pre-requisite of “ownership”.
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c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city
Currently on view!
This collaborative and award-winning exhibition aims to generate public discussions
about heritage and Indigenous history, and to raise awareness of the significance of
c̓əsnaʔəm for the Musqueam people and for the City of Vancouver. Visitors are invited to: Pronounce hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ words, view an animated version of a Musqueam story, and “Meet” several community members through a series of recorded interviews.
“c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city aims at ‘righting history’ by creating a space for Musqueam to share their knowledge, culture and history and to highlight the community’s role in shaping the City of Vancouver.” - Elder Larry Grant
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The official exhibition catalogue is now available in both English & Simplified Chinese and English & Traditional Chinese.
This engaging and thought-provoking publication offers a rich record of the themes, stories, images and objects presented in the multi-sited, multilingual, award-winning exhibition. Featuring nuanced curatorial essays by all three curators and forewords by exhibition partners and funders, the catalogue presents further developed content that augments what is already on view in the multi-sited exhibition.
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MOVing Towards a Climate Safe Future
Creative Green Tools Canada
Earlier this year, MOV partnered with Creative Green Tools to take a step forward towards a greener arts and culture sector. On Earth Day (April 22, 2022), MOV took the first step to begin measuring its environmental impacts. As one of the over 5,000 organizations, in 50 countries worldwide, MOV is now using an innovative set of carbon and environmental calculators to record, measure, and understand the impacts of the organization. The results collected are used to inform MOV's environmental strategies and organizational priorities.
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Indigenous Plant Guide
Learn to identify and pronounce plant names in hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ Language.
Can you identify some of these Indigenous Plants? How about in hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ or Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim?
The Pacific Northwest is the most biodiverse region in Canada. Local Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) relating to Indigenous plants is extensive with more than 145 species utilized by members of the host nations for technology, food, medicine and ceremony. This guide spotlights a few of these plants in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim and hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ – the languages spoken by the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh communities. We thank them for sharing some of their knowledge with us.
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We are hiring!
Become a MOVer and work with us
Our team is expanding and this summer we are hiring for 2 new auxiliary positions. Learn more about our current opportunities and how to apply!
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Opening Night Event: Finding Our Voices, Telling Our Stories
May 7, 2022
As BIPOC artists in the literary and performing arts, how can they now entering the film and theatre industries foster community amongst other BIPOC artists? How do they navigate predominantly White institutions as BIPOC individuals? And how can such knowledge inform artistic practices beyond the institution? In addition to this important dialogue about how art can be a powerful antidote to racism, the evening ends with a film screening that showcases the artistic creations of the featured speakers and a presentation of the 2022 ACWW Community Builders Award to one individual who has been a leader and pioneer to the arts and literary community in Canada.
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Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden: AAPI Heritage Month
Throughout May, 2022
Since the early 1990’s Canadians have come together every May to celebrate Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a time to reflect upon the long and rich history of Asian Canadians whose immense contributions and inclusive rhetoric has helped to shape Canada into a vibrant, inclusive and compassionate society. This year, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden will host various programs and event for all age groups to explore the Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage.
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exploreASIAN Festival: Opening Ceremony
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, April 30, 2022
Join exploreASIAN Festival for an in-person Festival Opening Ceremony on April 30th! Together you will celebrate the start of Asian Heritage Month and explorASIAN Festival 2022 at the Vancouver campus of Simon Fraser University. This free ceremony will include a catered reception, speeches by esteemed guests, and performances to showcase the growing communities of Pan-Asian heritage and their rich, vibrant history in Canada. Space is limited, register early!
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We acknowledge that MOV is located within the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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