So Many Events and You're Invited!
This Autumn is Full of Activities at the MOV
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How to Dye with Fungi and Plants with Rita and Zoe Kompst
November 4, 2023
Where do the colours in your clothes come from? It may be from a mushroom! Join Musqueam mother & daughter artists Rita and Zoe Kompst who will share Indigenous knowledge and their expertise on natural dyeing with mushrooms and plants. Participants will create a reference card and dye their own wool skein to take home. Sign up for the workshop here.
Dressed for History Exhibition Tour with Fashion Historian Ivan Sayers
November 9, 23, and 30, 2023
Join fashion historian Ivan Sayers, as he guides you through remarkable and rare collections of women’s fashion from 1750 to 2000. Ivan’s collection is one of four featured in the exhibition. These tours always sell out, so do not wait. Book your spot now.
Watercolour Meditations on Place: Bigleaf Maple
November 16, 2023
Are you looking for an evening of meditative painting? Love the Bigleaf Maple? Did you know it's the largest maple in Canada and it only grows in the southwest corner of BC? If you’re inspired by the Bigleaf Maple, join artist Marisa Pahl for this watercolour workshop! Participants will experience guided, meditative painting and be invited to reflect on their own relationships with native plants and trees. Click here for more details and to register.
Transgender Day of Remembrance: Two-Spirit Beading with Oliver MacDonald
November 18, 2023
Commemorate Transgender Day of Remembrance through an Indigenous led beading workshop, thoughtfully guided by Oliver (he/they), a talented artist of many mediums. Oliver, a two-spirit member of the Peguis Nation, invites you to experience the good medicine of beading. In this workshop, we embrace the healing nature of crafting and fostering a sense of community and belonging while we create a teardrop in the colours of transgender flag to take home. Reserve your space here.
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Save the Date! Mini Indigi-Market on December 3!
Come meet, learn from, and support local Indigenous artisans and makers at the Museum of Vancouver's first Mini Indigi-Market! This special one-day event will be held on Sunday, December 3 from 10:30am-5pm. Admission is by donation and includes access to the museum’s galleries for the day as well as access to the market. Confirmed vendors so far include Massy Books, Tsatawa Craftsand, MeYow Art. Stay tuned for more updates!
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The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival is inviting artists to produce new work to celebrate haiku poetry and the beauty of the flowering cherry tree.
Interested artists will choose one of six haiku poems and propose a visual piece that will be installed in Vanier Park in the Museum of Vancouver’s courtyard, aka “Cherry Blossom Grove.” Illuminated cylinders will be wrapped with your art printed on translucent fabric around cherry tree trunks and backlit using LED flex lights.
Artists—with priority given to those who identify as Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and/or Japanese-Canadian—are invited to apply by November 15. Artists will be chosen by a panel of Festival artists.
To learn more, and to access the application form, visit the call for artists form here.
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Tar Sands Songbook
An evening of music and storytelling at the MOV
November 28, 2023
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Born in Fort McMurray, near the site of the world’s largest bitumen reservoir, musician, author and activist Tanya Kalmanovitch decided to become a musician as a teen because “it had nothing to do with oil.” But when Fort McMurray shot to international attention as the flashpoint of clashes over energy, the environment, and the economy she was called to go home.
In Tar Sands Songbook Tanya weaves storytelling, research, field recordings, photography, and a live, improvised musical score that gathers the voices of First Nations elders, activists, oil patch workers and members of her own family into an arresting meditation on our complicity in extractivist culture. With a fiddle in one hand and a laptop computer filled with sounds and images from Fort McMurray in the other, Tanya’s first-hand stories, visuals, and sounds place audiences at the centre of a place they might not see, but that has everything to do with how we all live today.
Register here for this FREE performance on Tuesday, November 28th at the Museum of Vancouver and stay after the show for a discussion about the show, the tar sands, and our invisible relationship to oil.
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Know before you go:
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Museum of Vancouver is open from Sunday-Wednesday 10:00am - 5:00pm and Thursday-Saturday 10:00am - 8:00pm.
- Please note that ticket sales end 45 minutes before closing.
- Visit MOV on the first Sunday of each month and pay what you can for admission.
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We are located at 1100 Chestnut Street in beautiful Vanier Park in the neighborhood of Kitsilano in Vancouver.
- The Museum is wheelchair, stroller and scooter accessible, including washrooms, ramps and elevators, and wide entrances and exits.
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When booked in advance, groups of 10 people or more are eligible for a discounted rate. Learn more.
- Admission is free for the people who self-identify as Indigenous.
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We acknowledge that MOV is located within the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. | | |
604-736-4431
1100 Chestnut Street
Vancouver, BC
V6J 3J9
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