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Stories on Fire: Sharing Lived Experiences with Climate Change Two-day workshop Saturday, May 11th & Sunday, May 12th 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM  | 630 Yates St. Lekwungen territory

Create powerful testimonies of climate change in this two-day workshop with the editors of UVic’s Climate Disaster Project. 

In this two-day workshop, the editors of the 番茄社区’s Climate Disaster Project will teach you the trauma-informed process to create powerful first-person testimonies from fellow participants’ experiences of climate change.

Past testimonies have been published by Reader’s Digest, the Royal BC Museum, and The Tyee, and interviews from this workshop may be shared by similar publications and organizations.

Through learning how to compassionately listen to other people’s stories and telling them, you can help show the world that climate change isn’t something that’s far away. Instead, it’s something close at hand that’s affecting each of us in countless ways: from the smoke that keeps us indoors during the summer to the blazes that have taken so many homes away.  

for this free event. 

Opening Reception for Masked Identity: Artworks by Robert Burke Saturday, April 27th | 2:00 PM   | 630 Yates St. Lekwungen territory

Join us in celebrating the opening of Masked Identity: Artworks by Robert Burke at Legacy Downtown. 

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snacks + refreshments | free + open to the public

Image: Robert Burke, Spirit Mask (detail), 2003. 

Opening Reception for Fire Season Saturday, April 20th | 2:00 PM   | 630 Yates St. Lekwungen territory

Join us in celebrating the opening of Fire Season at Legacy Downtown with remarks by co-curators, Amory Abbott and Liz Toohey-Wiese. 

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snacks + refreshments | free + open to the public

Image: Sara-Jeanne Bourget, Charcoal Ritual III (detail), 2021. 

UVic Visiting Artist Series: Robert Burke

March 27th, 2024 | 7:30 PM 

Visual Arts Building, Room A162 | UVic Campus 
Lekwungen Territory 

Robert Burke (Denesuline/Black) spent 10 years in residential schools in Fort Resolution and Edmonton. He spent much of his adult life in the forestry industry before pursuing his long-time passion for art at age 53, when he began painting the story of his life, including the challenges and social and political injustices he has experienced as a Survivor of mixed heritage. 

This talk is a part of the UVic Visual Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series. 

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Image: Anahita Ranjbar

Intervening in the Collections Vaults

Curator and Artist Talk

Saturday, March 9, 2024 | 1 pm – 3 pm | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen territory

Join curator Dr. Carolyn Butler Palmer and artist Lynda Gammon for a conversation about how their work in the Latent exhibition contributes to the ongoing body of research about women artists in museum collections. The event will include a short meditation session led by Lynda Gammon, based on her photographic series, Intervening in the Collections Vaults.


About the Curator
Carolyn Butler Palmer

Carolyn Butler Palmer is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies and Legacy Chair at the 番茄社区 in British Columbia. She earned an M.S. in Folklore and Architectural Studies from the University of Utah and a Ph.D. in the Histories of Art and Architecture from the University of Pittsburgh. She is an engaged art historian who practices and writes about engaged art history. In terms of content, she focuses on Indigenous and Settler relations to art in the Pacific Northwest region, theories and practices of curating, digital presentation of art historical work, and advocacy within the discipline of art history for engaged art history. Her program of research is community-based, public, and open.

Carolyn authored "Big Art History: Art History as Social Knowledge" for the Journal of Canadian Art History, is currently contributing to new CAA Standards for the Practice of Art History that include public scholarship, curating, community-based research, and digital scholarship. At present, she is also working on a book manuscript tentatively titled "Writings from the Edges of Art History" along with an array of other book and curatorial projects. 

About the Artist
Lynda Gammon

A significant area of Lynda Gammon’s artistic production has dealt with ideas of space and time through the disciplines of photography, sculpture, performance and assemblage. A number of her projects explore artistic production in relation to feminist practices and present alternative strategies for the representation of inhabitation through ephemeral, temporal and contingent conceptions of the spatial.

Gammon, studied at The University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, [B.A. English] and York University [M.F.A.]. She is currently Associate Professor Emeritus in the Visual Arts Department at the 番茄社区 where she taught for over thirty years. Lynda Gammon’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and she has been the recipient of  numerous BC Arts Council and Canada Council grants. In 2004 Gammon established  a micro press dedicated to the production and publication of books by artists and writers. She served as a Board member at Open Space and the  and currently serves on the board of the 

Working with Indigenous Artists

Friday, February 16, 2024 | 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm
 | 957 Burnside Rd. W
Lekwungen territory

In partnership with the , we will be offering a hands-on professional development workshop with Métis mural artist, . The workshop will include a presentation from Jesse on how to work with Indigenous artists in the classroom, provide a hands-on art activity from a past exhibition, and supply educators with resources. 

Educators must be registered for the Tapestry Conference in order to attend.
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Learn more about conference fees and funding eligibility. 
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