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To “Pause” is to access the safety of quiet before continuing on your journey. We pause before processing our emotions and suspending our realities through art
To “Pause” is to access the safety of quiet before continuing on your journey. We pause before processing our emotions and suspending our realities through art in prison and on parole. Come honour the artistic creation of currently and previously incarcerated people at The Galley at Queen’s Park, New Westminster.
ART & Justice is a partnership between researchers at the UBC School of Nursing, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), and a network of Indigenous Elders, Peer Experts with lived experience of incarceration, and community activists and artists passionate about prison justice. Our mandate is to support the holistic mental health, wellbeing and dignity of people in prison through arts-based, Indigenous-guided community building. We aim to explore ways to improve and sustain the positive impacts of art and creative writing for incarcerated people, remain responsive to artist and storyteller needs throughout and following the pandemic, and collaboratively imagine additional ways to harness the power of storytelling for social change.
Exhibition Dates: May 8 – June 2nd, 2024
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 10:00am – 2:00pm
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May 8, 2024 10:00 am – June 2, 2024 2:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
The Gallery at Queen's Park
Centennial Lodge, Queen’s Park
Free
09mayAll Day02julThe Amelia Douglas Gallery Presents: The Long Road Home(All Day)(GMT-07:00)
Annette Nieukerk The Long Road Home May 9 – July 2, 2024 An Amelia Douglas Gallery solo exhibition by Vancouver-based artist Annette Nieukerk will explore
Annette Nieukerk
The Long Road Home
May 9 – July 2, 2024
An Amelia Douglas Gallery solo exhibition by Vancouver-based artist Annette Nieukerk will explore the concepts of aging, memory, and identity within the framework of beauty standards.
From the Artist Statement:
“The multi-media paintings of Annette Nieukerk question the notions of beauty and identity within the framework of our culture. As a female figurative artist now in her seventies, the focus of her work is the aging body, challenging and breaking down stereotypes that equate beauty solely with youth and that confront a dominant negative perception towards aging.
Her latest series ‘the long road home’ evokes the sensuality and desire that can exist at advancing years, the intensity of emotion and intimacy pulling two people together, and the deep yearning for connection buried in the human psyche”
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May 9, 2024 – July 2, 2024 (All Day)(GMT-07:00)
Downtown New Westminster
FREE
18may(may 18)10:00 am19(may 19)4:00 pmAsian Heritage Month10:00 am – 4:00 pm (19)(GMT-07:00)
From farmer’s markets to fishing, many of the things we love about living in the Lower Mainland are thanks, in part, to the long history
From farmer’s markets to fishing, many of the things we love about living in the Lower Mainland are thanks, in part, to the long history of Asian Canadian communities! Discover some of the many ways Asian Canadians have made the Fraser River Basin more enjoyable, delicious, well-researched, welcoming… and more!
Event will be held on Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM – 4 PM
May 18, 2024 10:00 am – May 19, 2024 4:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
Fraser River Discovery Centre
788 Quayside Drive
$8.00 (adult 19+); $6.00 (Senior 65+); $6.00 (Student w/ID); $5.00 (child 3-12); Free (0-2); $20.00 (Family 2 Adults + 4 Children)
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