Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
639 Hornby Street V6C 2G3 Vancouver, BC, Canada

To continue our celebration of the Resurgence: Indigequeer Identities exhibition, our next artist is... Sierra Tasi Baker (she/them)Kwakwala name: Gesuqwaluck (Creator/Creative One)Mediums: Urban Design, Public Art, Performance Art, Dance/Choreography and Creative Directing, Swxwú7mesh Úxwumixw, xmkym, Kwakwakawakw/Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw, ingít, Xaayda & Magyar from the Wolf, Eagle, Raven, Thunderbird, Lightning Snake and Turul Clans.... Chen chen stway is a Swxwú7mesh sníchim word which means to uphold and uplift each other. This principle is important to me in the work I do because this principle is what has raised and nourished me. I’m very fortunate to have grown up in an artistic, powerful, creative and spiritually open household. My parents celebrated a lot of my fluidity whilst I was growing up. Since then I’ve always been critical of these unsafe colonial spaces that are imposed on us and work to re-centre our ancestral laws and ways of being in everything I do, it’s an ongoing ever-evolving process. Photo courtesy of George Lawson @_gilphoto Photo courtesy of Nolan Guichon @nolanguichon For more information about Resurgence: Indigequeer Identities on view until January 24, 2021: https://bit.ly/3gNij8B . . . #SierraTasiBaker #2Spirit #Resurgence #Indigequeer #Indigiqueer #Identities #queer #LeviNelson #LilwatFirstNation #JazWhitford #Secwepemc #MorganWhitehead #PlainsCree #RavenJohn #CoastSalish #Stolo #existence #resistance #resilience#Haida #BillReid100 #BillReidGallery #billreidgallery #billreid #vancouver #Indigenous #northwestcoastart #MuseumfromHome #NWC #FirstNations #indigenoustourism

Join Onsite Gallery and Wapatah: Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge on Thursday, December 17, 2020 for a virtual celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Haida artist Iljuwas Bill Reid. Dr. Gerald McMaster will be joined in conversation by Jisgang Nika Collison and Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, with Bill Holm joining through a pre-recorded interview, as they examine how Iljuwas Bill Reid gained a sense of identity and purpose through his artistic practice.This event w...ill explore the legacy of Reid’s work and how it has shaped the perception and development of Northwest Coast art, and his long-lasting impact within the Haida community. In honour and celebration of the work of this iconic artist, the Art Canada Institute commissioned Dr. Gerald McMaster to author a book about Reid’s life and work. Wapatah is happy to announce that the online book launched on December 11, 2020 and available on the ACI website. https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/iljuwas-bill-reid/biography Register now: https://bit.ly/3nacfcR

This Saturday, December 12, 2020 - Celebration of Life - Bill McLennan - Online Tribute 11 am to 1 pm You are invited to join the staff of the Museum of Anthropology UBC, family members, friends, colleagues, and students in a virtual gathering to celebrate the life of Bill McLennan. The event will be also recorded and available later on MOA’s YouTube channel.... Event details: https://www.facebook.com/events/391800758796059 Bill McLennan, MOA Curator Emeritus conducting the Centennial Tours in honour of the centennial of Bill Reid’s birth at MOA on Sunday, January 12, 2020.

Catch Sgaawaay K’uuna (Edge of the Knife) (2018) tonight at 9 pm and tomorrow 12 am and 3 pm on APTN movies. Sgaawaay K'uuna (Edge of the Knife) is a feature-length Haida-language film about pride, tragedy and penance, co-directed by Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown. Adiits’ii, the lead character in the film, is mentally and physically pushed to the brink of survival and becomes Gaagiixiid / Gaagiid the Haida Wildman. The Gaagiixiid is one of Haida’s most popular storie...s, sustained over the years though song and performance. With less than 1% of Haida people being fluent in their ancestral language, Sgaawaay K’uuna (Edge of the Knife) was envisioned to support the Haida language, create local employment and promote Haida culture by bringing an ancient Haida story into a new space using the medium of film. https://www.aptn.ca/movies/ Sgaawaay K’uuna (Edge of the Knife), still from the video, 2018.

Join Nika Collison and Gwaai Edenshaw this afternoon at 3 pm for an online presentation of "An Unbroken Line: Haida Art and Culture". SFU Indigenous Studies, SFU Public Square and the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art present "An Unbroken Line: Haida Art and Culture". Nika Collison, Executive Director and Curator of the Haida Gwaii Museum and Gwaai Edenshaw, artist and co-curator of "To Speak with a Golden Voice" exhibition will share their personal reflections on Bill... Reid's art and legacy. Register now: https://bit.ly/3mSv0kN To Speak with a Golden Voice Speakers Series is co-presented by the Bill Reid Gallery and the Department of Indigenous Studies at SFU and is proudly supported by the Bill Reid Centre at SFU.

Lifeways: Reimagining Community, Spirit and Place December 9, 2020 January 24, 2021 Bill Reid Gallery Hummingbird Gathering Space... We are pleased to partner on Lifeways, a film exhibition featuring the work of UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Master students. Bringing together local Haida, academics, storytellers and an international group of design students, these films are part of a process for reconciliation. The stories reflect on self, community and spirit - an epic of humanity and nature coming together under the pressures of social, environmental, economic and political unrest. It is a set of animated stories inspired by the supernatural beings found in Haida mythology. This exhibition explores the formation of identity by reimagining the community, spirit and place we know as Haida Gwaii. https://bit.ly/33Uoz9l