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I am Hesquiaht I am looking for Kora I am learning my culture I am listening to my language I am remembering going to the beach I used to step in puddles I am waiting for the rain I am running from the wind I am chasing the sun I am hoping…
Exhibition: I Am Here
I am Musqueam I am looking for the next chess game I am learning about my culture I am listening for words from home I am remembering Ayasha I used to have kittens, warm and furry I am wanting to know my people and my culture I am running on…
Exhibition: I Am Here
At twenty-two years old, Ashlee is in her last year of her undergrad at the University of Victoria, ready for the next steps of her career in professional writing and journalism. It’s a future a younger Ashlee would have never imagined. Curled up…
Exhibition: Climate Hope
Growing up in Victoria, British Columbia and spending time in Lisbon, Portugal, Sarah Suleman always felt very lucky to be raised around forests and oceans. “There's something about trees. Where you can see that there's been growth for a lot of…
Exhibition: Climate Hope
A group of kids, sometime in the 1970s judging from the outfits, check out the handling collection at the BC Provincial Museum. While most of the museum's collection items are best viewed with your eyes and not your hands, some pieces are designed…
Henry Hunt (October 16, 1923–March 13, 1985) was a First Nations (Kwakwaka'wakw) woodcarver and artist from British Columbia. Hunt trained under and succeeded famed totem carver Mungo Martin as Master Carver for Thunderbird Park at the Royal BC…
A picture from the BC Archives showing a behind the scenes look of the exhibit construction process of the much-loved Old Town. The now closed Becoming BC exhibition was completed and opened to the public in 1972 and featured a number of then state-…
Kristen is an English and journalism student at the University of Victoria. Over the past four years, she has split her time between Victoria, British Columbia and her childhood home in Langley, BC. Growing up as a middle child, Kristen’s parents…
Exhibition: Climate Hope
I am from the Huu-ay-aht First Nation My grandfather is Hereditary Chief Tom Mexis Happynook I am looking for success I am learning about my culture I am listening to birds I am remembering to do homework I used to do karate I am Jerret I am waiting…
Exhibition: I Am Here