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Dr. Shannon Leddy smiling under a sunny sky, with details of her webinar, "Learning Together in a Good Way: Ethical Relationality and Indigenous Storywork" taking place May 23, 2023.

Learning Together in a Good Way: Ethical Relationality and Indigenous Storywork

DATE: May 23, 2023 TIME: 6:00pm – 8:30pm LOCATION: Zoom In this webinar Dr. Shannon Leddy will guide participants through the process of phenomenological art inquiry, in which a dialogic approach to spending time with the work of Indigenous artists can reveal to viewers the ways in which their understandings of Indigenous peoples have been […]

​​Black gallery wall with “Today’s Special / 今日特餐” lettered above three display cases holding contemporary and older condiment and food vessels and words, translucent, on the plexiglass front, including “Traditions / 傳統” (in Traditional Chinese), and “Solidarity”. Detail from A Seat at the Table exhibition at the Museum of Vancouver.

Making Space: Asian Heritage Month

DATE: May 18, 2023 TIME: 6:00pm – 8:30pm LOCATION: Museum of Vancouver From 2020-2023, the Museum of Vancouver had the privilege of hosting the exhibition “A Seat at the Table”. Now travelling to Cumberland, B.C. and launching in summer 2023, this exhibition celebrates Chinese Canadian Heritage identities and experiences through the lens of food and […]

Kyra Philbert dressed in costume with blue plastic isolation gown, nurse’s cap, and goggles beside text advertising Nurse Angélique Presents…! Performance on May 8, 2023, 7:30pm. Parodically styled after the Canadian Nurses Association’s National Nursing Week promotional materials with the tagline “Our nurses. Our future. Our history.” A quote is overlaid on a rainbow: “To the white head nurse,[her blackness was the reason for her incompetence.” p.111 Karen Flynn, Moving Beyond Borders (2011).

Nurse Angélique Presents….!

DATE: May 8, 2023 TIME: 7:30pm – 10:00pm LOCATION: 6133 University Boulevard Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 In 1734, a Black Portuguese-born woman known by the name Marie-Joseph Angélique was publicly executed in Montréal, Canada for setting a fire as a distraction in an effort to escape enslavement. Nurse Angélique Presents….! features performances by local queer […]