Aboriginal Gathering Place

Aboriginal Gathering Place | Room C2290, 2nd floor

Join us and share your experiences now that we've wrapped up the first semester in our new howm.

The Aboriginal Gathering Place is hosting a Community Talking Circle with guests Ron Burnett and Bonne Zabolotney. This is an opportunity to learn from our shared past and move forward to a renewed future.

Squamish cultural leader Gene Harry will welcome everyone and Laura Lee Way Laq will facilitate the Talking Circle.

Annual Aboriginal Student Exhibition
RE-FORMING
March 24-April 3, 2017

Opening Reception | Friday, March 24 from 4:30 to 6:30PM
Concourse Gallery

Dr. Heather Igloliorte
REWRITING INUIT ART HISTORY | TOWARDS AN INCLUSIVE FUTURE
Thursday, February 23, 2017 | 7 to 9PM
Lecture Theatre | Room 301, South Building 

Join us for a lecture, Rewriting Inuit Art History - Towards an Inclusive Future, with Curator, Art Historian and Research Chair in Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement at Concordia University, Dr. Heather Igloliorte.

Please join the Charles H. Scott Gallery for a panel discussion with Emily Carr University's Master of Applied Arts graduates. The select group of graduates will discuss their work in the current exhibition "see level".

Through a reflective conversation moderated by recent Emily Carr MAA graduate Christann Kennedy, the artists will discuss parallels between their disparate practices, searching for commonalities within their respective research, concepts, places, spaces and surfaces.

About the Artists

On National Aboriginal Day, June 21, 2013, the Mayor of the City of Vancouver took the extraordinary step of declaring a Year of Reconciliation, a year-long effort that seeks to heal from the past and build new relationships between Aboriginal peoples and all Vancouverites. A year later, on June 24, 2014, the City of Vancouver formally acknowledged that the city of Vancouver is on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. This was an important acknowledgement, as it validates what First Nations have been saying since before confederation.

Please join us for a talk with acclaimed artist Lyle Wilson.

Please join us for a talk by Sami artist/designer/architect Joar Nango at the Emily Carr Aboriginal Gathering Place. Joar will discuss his recent installations and art/design projects. His upcoming solo exhibition of his work is at Western Front from November 14 to December 20, 2014. The opening for this exhibition will take place on Thursday, November 13, 2014, at 7pm.

This talk is sponsored by Trading Routes a research and creation project supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and by Emily Carr University Faculty of Visual Art and Material Practice visiting artist series.