Stay updated with breaking news from கெநெத் லாவல்லீ. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Edmonton weather: A picture is worth a thousand words edmontonjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from edmontonjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Edmonton weather: A picture is worth a thousand words edmontonsun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from edmontonsun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Save to Read Later WHEN statues come down, it’s only natural to ask questions: who did they depict, what did they represent, who did they honour, who did they harm, which stories did they tell, which ones did they erase? Who decided to put them up in the first place? WHEN statues come down, it’s only natural to ask questions: who did they depict, what did they represent, who did they honour, who did they harm, which stories did they tell, which ones did they erase? Who decided to put them up in the first place? Those are good questions to ask, and they’ve been percolating in Manitoba since July 1, when a pair of idols depicting Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II, two British monarchs, were taken down by protesters who had split off from a peaceful Canada Day march in support of residential school survivors at the province’s legislative building. ....
Now, Lavallee and other Indigenous artists are re-imagining what could sit in front of Manitoba s legislature building. Métis artist Val Vint said an idea came to her in a dream, as she was trying to work through the pain of hearing about the hundreds of unmarked graves found on the sites of Canada s former residential schools. Usually I ll put tobacco down and pray in times like that because you need something to get through. And all my best things come in my dreams, Vint said. I woke up in the morning and I could see what I wanted there. I can t really say everything about it, but I have a piece in my head developed for that legislative site that would represent all our peoples. ....
Old Buildings, New Art: Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre and CO LAB, Edmonton, Alberta Old Buildings, New Art: Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre and CO LAB, Edmonton, Alberta An Edmonton firm revitalizes a pair of downtown buildings for two contemporary arts institutions. By Share RPK Architects transformed a 1960s brick commercial building in The Quarters Downtown district into one of Canada’s few spaces dedicated to Indigenous art. Photo by Laughing Dog Photography PROJECTS Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre and CO LAB, Edmonton, Alberta ARCHITECT Rockliff Pierzchajlo Kroman Architects PHOTOS Adam Borman Photography, unless otherwise noted In 2006, the City of Edmonton began the revitalization of a 40-hectare area just east of Churchill Square that is now known as The Quarters Downtown. Historically, this part of the city was called the Boyle Street neighbourhood, after John Robert Boyle (1870-1936), a prominent local lawyer and politician. Th ....