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Can you imagine a group of young women mountaineering high in the Rockies then sitting down to a cup of tea and a plein air painting session? After researching this artist I learned Hilda Vincent Foster composed this red-breasted nuthatch in the…
Exhibition: For The Records
This is my sister and me on our annual trip to the museum as kids. We would always stay at the Delta hotel and then spend a full day at the RBCM. I was just so excited to learn!
Little did I know, I would end up sharing that excitement for…
Exhibition: RBCM through the Ages
Jeff and Cheryl met in 1983 while they were both living in Victoria, British Columbia. They married in 1985. Almost forty years later, they’re still happily married with three kids and two grandkids. “We both share a passion for our children and our…
Exhibition: Climate Hope
I am Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw
I am looking for independence
I am learning to love myself
I am listening to my dad blast The Cars in the morning as he gets ready for work.
I am remembering when I went to school- when I saw myself in the…
Exhibition: I Am Here
Sophie is a writing and philosophy student currently studying on the unceded territory of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ nations. She grew up in Nanaimo, a small harbour city on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, with her mother, step-father, sister and…
Exhibition: Climate Hope
On March 14, 2020, at the outset of a global pandemic, Canadian artist Adad Hannah took to the streets of Vancouver to record this pivotal moment in time. Over the span of a year, he created 237 video portraits of everyday people that capture our…
Exhibition: COVID-19
I am a tree
I am looking for a paper eagle
I am learning to write
I am listening to music
I am remembering jumping off a roof
I used to write songs and stories
I am a tree
I am waiting for the sun
I am running with shoes
I am chasing a…
Exhibition: I Am Here
We are not like the stereotyped Hollywood Indigenous people, the ones that ride horses and shoot bows and arrows and wear headdresses. They are based on Plains First Nations; other nations are totally different. Horses came to the plains in the…
Exhibition: I Am Here
Jasna is a journalism student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. As a child, Jasna chose to play with a pen and paper before toys. She was an independent child and pursued many creative hobbies such as making crafts and putting on theatre…
Exhibition: Climate Hope