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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
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-…
Exhibition: RBCM through the Ages
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…
Exhibition: RBCM through the Ages
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…
Exhibition: RBCM through the Ages
I am Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw
I am looking for my happiness,
(I was seven)
to come back again
I am learning to speak my language
I am listening to the rain fall and drip down my window,
in the mornings
I am remembering the times when my dad took me to…
Exhibition: I Am Here
Hannah is a student at the University of Victoria, double majoring in French and writing. She plans on becoming a French immersion educator. “I love to read in my free time. I like to go for walks, basically any kind of grandma activities,” Hannah…
Exhibition: Climate Hope