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Indigenous Places
of Renewal
February 1 to 23, 2003 |
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Indigenous Places of Renewal brings together an impressive line up of films and videos made by aboriginal artists located in the Okanagan Valley, Vancouver, Alert Bay, the Yukon and Toronto. The works selected for this exhibition all respond in their own way to the overall theme of healing and renewal despite societal oppression.
Indigenous Places of Renewal has been organized by the Penticton-based Indigenous Arts Service Organization, in partnership with the Okanagan Producers collective known as the Ullus Collective. The Ullus Collective supports the training and development of aboriginal video and visual artists and provides a forum for voicing stories, issues and concerns that are not addressed by current mainstream media.
This exhibition is being presented in venues throughout the Okanagan Valley including Vernon, Penticton and Kelowna. The Kelowna Art Gallery is very pleased to host Indigenous Places of Renewal. Each television monitor features a program of four of the eight selected works, with each program running about two and one half hours.
The Gallery is also pleased to be able to augment the exhibition with a selection of George Johnston photographs provided by the Yukon Archives. George Johnston (1884-1972) was a hunter, trapper, entrepreneur and photographer. His photos, taken between 1920 and 1945, document his family at work and play, and lovingly portray a sense of history and a zest for life in the Yukon community of Teslin, where he lived. George Johnston's life and photographs have been featured in the National Film Board documentary Picturing A People: George Johnston, Tlingit Photographer, 1997, which is included in this exhibition. |
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