March 29, 2021

Events happening today

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   The Earth is my El…

   
   

   February 03, 2021 08:00 PM      May 29, 2021 11:00 PM

   Krista Arias
   The Earth is my Elder is centred around the film, poetry and installation-based work of artist, poet and earth alchemist Krista Arias. Her work explores the complexities of reconnecting, as a woman and mother, to ancestral homelands, while living as an uninvited guest in Indigenous territories in the USA and Canada. As a member of the Xicana diaspora, Arias' direct connection to Indigenous land, language and culture has been broken over generations of migration arising as necessity from colonial structures. She explains: "My greatest resource in cultural recovery and transmission as a mother, of finding belonging even in the liminal space of home-not-home without traditional Eldership, has been my own body-as-earth connection and awakening." 
   
   The exhibition is curated by Toby Lawrence and will be presented in person at the Open Space gallery, 510 Fort St. Gallery hours: 12-4pm, Wed-Sat. Admission is free / by donation. Open Space is not wheelchair accessible and is accessed by a flight of 23 stairs with two landings. There are two gender-inclusive washrooms. COVID-19 protocols are in place throughout the gallery; the use of masks is required unless exempt. 
   More details at : https://openspace.ca/programming/krista-arias-earth-my-elder
   

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   Gabriela Hirt - TH…

   
   

   March 09, 2021 07:00 PM      March 29, 2021 12:00 AM

   German-Canadian artist Gabriela Hirt, investigates the traumatic legacy she has inherited growing up in the wake of the events of the Second World War. The work explores belonging and exclusion as well as the relationship between German guilt and de-colonial healing in her adopted home in Canada.
   Artist will be in attendance:
   
   Tuesdays (2:00-5:00), Saturdays (11:00-2:00)
   Wednesday, March 10 (11:00-2:00)
   Friday, March 12 (2:00-5:00)
   Thursday, March 18 (2:00-5:00)
   Friday, March 19 (11:00-2:00)
   Thursday, March 25 (2:00-5:00)
   
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   UVic Distinguished…

   
   

   March 29, 2021 07:00 PM      08:00 PM

   When it comes to working in the arts and theatre sectors, IBPoC artists (Indigenous, Black, People of Colour) face a number of barriers due to systemic discrimination — yet IBPoC artists have always created innovative and bold new work.
   
   
    
   As Puente Theatre’s artistic director, UVic Distinguished Fine Arts Alumna Mercedes Bátiz-Benét (Writing BFA ’02) has a number of IBPoC initiatives underway — including the conVERGE micro-residency with Intrepid Theatre — that will help address the gap in mentorship and support across the industry and in our own community. Discover how Puente Theatre supports and amplifies IBPoC voices and perspectives in this important discussion with professor Adam Con, Acting Associate Dean of UVic’s Faculty of Fine Arts.
   Registration for this free Zoom talk here: https://uvic.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a8oBEi_sT5ybogjlkRPteA
   
   
    
   A multi-disciplinary artist, writer and award-winning director, Mercedes’ direction of Puente Theatre’s Fado, The Saddest Music in the World earned the JAYMAC Outstanding Production Award at the 2020 Greater Victoria Regional Arts Awards.
   

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