Events and exhibits
Each year, UVic Libraries hosts events and exhibits to showcase the knowledge and talents within the Libraries and UVic community. Check this page for details about our current exhibits and upcoming events.
See all current exhibitions at UVic's Legacy Art Galleries.
Kintsugi
August 6 – November 10, 2024
Unplugged Lounge (at the back of Mearns – McPherson Library)
The Japanese practice of kintsugi honours and celebrates the repair of what was once broken. This installation takes the fragmented pieces of self, story and culture, and attempts to reassemble them into something new through song. Kintsugi invites the user to create space to reflect on their own relationship to ancestry and examine how that relationship evolves over time.
Created by mixed-race musicians Annie Sumi and Brian Kobayakawa, Kintsugi is an anti-racist, interactive, multi-disciplinary art installation reflecting on racial identity, healing ancestral trauma, and the fragmented history of the Japanese Canadian internment. The audience can pump the foot treadle of the heirloom sewing-machine to reveal the hidden depth of the installation: a cycle of songs and videos weaving the past into the present.
Directly confronting the experience of reorienting in a post-internment Canada, Kintsugi brings music into the imposed silence of trauma.
tr̓ar̓ iʔ sʕax̌ʷip - interwoven roots
April 2, 2024 – March 31, 2025
Legacy Maltwood Gallery (lower level of Mearns – McPherson Library)
Inspired by childhood memories shared by Elder Jane Stelkia of the Osoyoos Indian Band, tr̓ar̓ iʔ sʔax̌ʷip explores the artistic and cultural legacy of a group of sukʷnaʔqinx (Okanagan) youth who attended the Inkameep Day School on the Osoyoos Indian Reserve in the Okanagan Valley during the World War II era.
Members of the Osoyoos Indian Band featuring Taylor Baptiste, Jenna Bower, Jordan Polychroniou, Sheri Stelkia, and Dora Stelkia, join Smyth Chair in Arts & Engagement, Andrea Walsh, in an exploration of contemporary photographic/sculptural installation, Indigenous curatorial practice, language revitalization, and creative research methods that deepen our understanding of history, and provide vital points of departure for cultural revitalization and growth.