Events
The Intensive offers an immersive experience of undergraduate and graduate courses in Visual Arts, Creative Writing, Art History and Visual Culture, and Indigenous Studies, along with panel conversations, keynote addresses, art exhibitions and performances, readings, and various additional events and fieldtrips throughout – some planned, some impromptu.
Join us each Wednesday in July from noon to 4:00 pm for Keynote presentations and panel discussions with the visiting artists.
Saturday June 22nd - Sunday September 8, 2019
Kelowna Art Gallery
Exhibition: Her Body Will Remember
Mariel Belanger, Tsēmā Igharas, and Tiffany Shaw-Collinge
Her Body Will Remember is an exhibition about making and the technologies of making. Each of the three artists explore their body’s memories of practice and technology through making. Using innovative materials and technologies, the artists explore the ingenuity of Indigenous arts practices, passed through communities, families, and kin. Her Body Will Remember is guest curated by Erin Sutherland, an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Alberta.
In their poem, Leaks, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson writes,
“She’s always going to remember this
You are rebellion, resistance, re-imagination
Her body will remember”
Thank you to the Kelowna Art Gallery and Tania Willard for their support on this exhibition. And to Leanne Betasamosake for the words that inspired this exhibition.
Wednesday July 3rd, 2019 12:00pm - 4:00pm
University Theatre (ADM 026)
Keynote 1: Candice Hopkins
Curator Candice Hopkins will discuss International curatorial work like Documenta 14 in Athens and the Venice Biennale. “How is Indigenous art understood and positioned within mainstream contexts? What kinds of art histories does this inclusion represent and what does it leave out? What are the limits of translation with regards to the exhibition of Indigenous art–practices that more often than not draw upon culturally-specific origins and are responding to specific histories–within an art community that often lacks the knowledge of the contexts, cultures and economies that this kind of work emerges from.
Artist Panel 1: Audie Murray, Peter Morin, Lindsay Nixon
Artist Panel Facilitator: Tania Willard
Artist Panel Themes: Indigenous Internalization
Friday July 5th, 2019
Penticton Art Gallery
Exhibition: enTitle: Our home and Native land / Our home on Native land
Exhibition opening Sunday September 15th, 2019. 5:00pm at Penticton Art Gallery, including Syilx artist in residence Sheldon Pierre Louis. Free
Saturday July 6th - Sunday July 7th, 2019
Gellatly Fields and Johnson Bentley Memorial Park, Kelowna
Event: Okanagan Indigenous Music & Arts Festival
Passes: $15.00 - $100.00
Blue Moon Marquee | Kelly Fraser | Mob Bounce | Joey Stylez | Kubz | Elk The Moose | DJ Kookum | Danilion | Ms Panik | Nugebird & Jeremiah
Sunday July 7th - Friday July 19th, 2019
FINA Gallery (FCCS), UBCO Campus
TBA
Artists, Curators and Writers open studio.
Wednesday July 10th, 2019. 12:00pm - 4:00pm
University Theatre (ADM026)
Keynote 2: Jordan Abel
Artist Panel 2: Siku Allooloo, Lacie Burning, Eli Hirtle, Arielle Twist
Artist Panel Facilitator: Toby Lawrence
Artist Panel Themes: Experimental text, Indigenous poesis
Drawing from their own research and practices, including photography, film, virtual reality, documentary and text-based works, this panel addresses the importance of Indigenous art in the processes of cultural revitalization, land claims, and disrupting the hegemony of colonial systems and thought. Advancing conceptually informed modes of representation, artists and writers reorient us to consider interpretive models of futurity and ancestry as simultaneously affective.
This panel addresses the importance of Indigenous language and art in the processes of cultural revitalization, land claims, and disrupting the hegemony of colonial systems and thought.
Thursday July 11th, 2019. 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Milkcrate Records, 527 Lawrence Ave, Kelowna
Milkcraters of the Moon Reading Series with Jordan Abel and Arielle Twist
Free to the public
Friday July 12, 2019. 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, #103, 421 Cawston Ave, Kelowna
Exhibition Opening: Seeking Visions for a Better World
Free
Exhibition runs from Friday July 12th - Sunday August 23th, 2019.
Seeking Visions for a Better World is a call for images and aspirational sentiments that invoke constructive visions of the future to counterbalance the preponderance of dystopic visions presented in pop-culture, literature, and media. Inspired by traditional pictographs and contemporary graffiti culture, this collection of visions creates space for a dialogue where we can build on ideas, reflect on our culture, and imagine better outcomes for humanity. By working to develop mediations on futures we would like to see, we can generate societal visions that are worth pointing towards. Community-sourced contributions received before July 21 will be translated into graphic treatments that will progressively saturate the gallery from July 12-23.
https://www.alternatorcentre.com/shop/upcoming-exhibitions/
Saturday July 13, 2019. 5:30pm
Kamloops Art Gallery
Curator's Tour: Ionic Bonds
Tuesday July 16, 2019
Snotty Nose Rez Kids with artist in residence Soleil Launière and Madeline Terbasket
Snotty Nose Rez Kids are the combined talents of Yung Trybez and Young D, hailing from the Haisla Nation, ‘The People of the Snow.” Above all else, SNRK blend trap beats with woven lyricism that challenges Indigenous stereotypes that paint their people as ill-mannered savages. Their music is best described as thought-provoking club bangers. And their live shows prove it. Audiences will dance and sweat, but they’ll leave with new knowledge.
SNRK just wrapped their first official tour of 8 dates across Canada and are now embarking on the Trapline Tour Pt. 1, in support of their next album, TRAPLINE, which includes debut performances in Europe and more Canadian dates. TRAPLINE brings a refreshing energy and a new sound. The album features a diverse range of like-minded artists with important messages that stem from different perspectives on affecting positive change.
Web: https://snottynoserezkids.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/snottynoserezkids
Instagram: https://instagram.com/snottynoserezkids
Twitter: https://twitter.com/therezkids
Youtube: https://youtube.com/snottynoserezkids
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/16T3el1CEjX49qFA7UT2n5
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/snotty-nose-rez-kids/1291112510
Tickets available through: https://rotarycentreforthearts.com/events/event/59402/
Wednesday July 17, 2019. 12:00pm - 4:00pm
University Theatre (ADM026)
Keynote 3: Tanya Lukin Linklater
Artist Panel 3: Whess Harman, Michelle Jack, Ryan Feddersen, Soleil Launiere
Artist Panel Facilitator: Peter Morin
Artist Panel themes: Embodied Presencing/performance
This conversation explores embodied presencing, knowledge, and processes that connect to land, community, and culture through performance, collaboration, and interactive artworks. Elaborating on engaged art practices and methods of aesthetics that respond to socially-responsive action, artists discuss artist-led and community art projects. How do these methods enrich Indigenous cultural revitalization and/ or urban Indigenous communities?
This conversation explores embodied presencing, knowledge, and processes that connect to land, community, and culture through performance, collaboration, and interactive artworks.
Thursday July 18rd, 2019
On Campus, 11:00am - 2:00pm ART 104
Zine Making Workshop with Inspired Word Cafe
Tuesday July 23rd, 2019, 2:00pm
FINA Gallery, UBCO FCCS, Syilx Territory
Exhibition: Thesis Exhibition Steven Thomas Davies
Re-covering and Remembering
7 mins 22 seconds, 2019
Steven Thomas Davies
Snuneymuxw + European Media Artist + Filmmaker
Re-covering and Remembering is a collaborative documentary film that weaves Indigenous stories of cultural resurgence with political resurgence on Vancouver Island. While sharing stories about our families we collaborated to produce a film with a powerful counter-narrative to reaffirm Indigenous soveignty and connections to place.
Wednesday July 24, 2019. 12:00pm - 4:00pm
UNC 200 (ballroom)
Keynote 4: Marianne Nicolson
Discuss Hexsa’am and artist residency in community, land rights aesthetics.
Artist Panel 4: Mariel Belanger, Anne Riley, Sheldon Pierre Louis
Artist Panel Facilitator: Ashok Mathur
Artist Panel themes: Relational Aesthetics, Community embedded practices
This panel explores the community embedded practices, mentorship, and Indigenous ways of knowing and being that are integral to the work of artists. Particularly relational art practices that centre community experience and shift the location of art from the gallery to the community. Artists discuss experiences of artist residencies, performance, and socially engaged practice in both gallery and community sites.
This panel explores the community embedded practices, mentorship, and Indigenous ways of knowing and being that are integral to the work of artists.
Thursday July 25, 2019. 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Kelowna Art Gallery
Performance: Mariel Belanger
Introduction with curator Erin Sutherland.