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events

UPcoming


The Work Yet To Come
Mar
26
to Mar 29

The Work Yet To Come

  • The Hourglass (1101 Yates St, Victoria BC) (map)
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An exhibition of contemporary art by early career Indigenous artists based in and around Victoira

Featured artists include: Dahlila Charlie, Jeannie Chipps, Neve Correne, Coulee, Napik N Kolola, Mary-Jane Laronde, Mishelle Lavoie, and Cosiniye Paul.

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Bracken Hanuse Corlett Workshop - Live Visuals Workshop
Mar
26

Bracken Hanuse Corlett Workshop - Live Visuals Workshop

  • Taqsiqtuut Indigenous Research-Creation lab (A134) ; UVic Visual Arts building (map)
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In this workshop we will use up to three layers of video that will output into a layered moving image collage that can react to audio signals. Bracken will briefly talk about his path as a Video Artist and specifically in Live-Visual performance since 2010. In the workshop we will look at the software Bracken uses, Resolume Arena 7 and how it works in tandem with the hardware, the Akai 40 APC mkII midi controller. We will also look at some freeware or open source VJ programs that you can use to start your live-visual journey. 

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Amanda Strong from Spotted Fawn Productions Workshop - Stop-Motion Storytelling Animation
Mar
25

Amanda Strong from Spotted Fawn Productions Workshop - Stop-Motion Storytelling Animation

  • Taqsiqtuut Indigenous Research-Creation lab (A134) & Grey Room (A146); UVic Visual Arts building (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join us for a stop-motion animation workshop with the artist, Amanda Strong, from Spotted Fawn Productions. Amanda, Red River Michif/Métis member of the Manitoba Métis Federation, is a filmmaker and will lead this workshop in storytelling through stop-motion story-telling and techniques.  

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Haa huupa Lunch with Dr. Heather Igloiorte
Mar
24

Haa huupa Lunch with Dr. Heather Igloiorte

  • Taqsiqtuut Indigenous Research-Creation lab (A134); UVic Visual Arts building (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Please bring your lunch to this continuing series, organized by Fine Arts Indigenous Resurgence Coordinator Karla Point. Meaning “to share the teachings” in Nuu chah nulth, Haahuupa offers a chance for us to digest some Indigenous knowledge along with our food. This month’s guest is Heather Igloliorte, Visual Arts professor, speaking on “Curating With Community.”

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Shirley Moorhouse's Artist in Residence at Taqsiqtuut Lab
Mar
11
to Mar 27

Shirley Moorhouse's Artist in Residence at Taqsiqtuut Lab

  • Taqsiqtuut Indigenous Research-Creation lab (A134); UVic Visual Arts building (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Between March 11-27, we invite you to drop into the lab to visit with Inuk artist Shirley Moorhouse, the 2026 Taqsiqtuut Spring Artist in Residence and see her art practice in process. Drop in is Monday to Thursday 10am to 4pm

Join us for Shirley's Living Artist, Living Art talk on Wednesday March 18, 5pm at the Sngequ House, RSN 133!

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Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie's Printing Resistance Two-Day Workshop
Mar
10
to Mar 11

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie's Printing Resistance Two-Day Workshop

  • Taqsiqtuut Indigenous Research-Creation lab (A134); UVic Visual Arts building (map)
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Join us for T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss and IM4's presentation on the IM4 Lab's VR work. Experience Cease's storytelling told through a ceremony of tea and see IMR's projects through the oculus.

T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss is an Indigenous Matriarch of the Skwxwu7mesh, Sto:lo and Hawaiian people.

Through her work as an ethnobotanist, artist, activist and community-based educator, they strive to share Indigenous customs, teachings, and futures and to connect Indigenous peoples. Wyss's thirty-year career encompasses a vast array of practices, from weaving, making remedies, medicine walks to the realm of Indigenous Digital Futurisms. Ceases' interactive, community-based work is insightful and informative of their contemporary conditions.

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Cease Wyss and IM4 Media Lab presents ReciprociTea and VR Workshop
Feb
27

Cease Wyss and IM4 Media Lab presents ReciprociTea and VR Workshop

  • Taqsiqtuut Indigenous Research-Creation lab (A134) & Grey Room, Visual Arts Building (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join us for T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss and IM4's presentation on the IM4 Lab's VR work. Experience Cease's storytelling told through a ceremony of tea and see IMR's projects through the oculus.

T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss is an Indigenous Matriarch of the Skwxwu7mesh, Sto:lo and Hawaiian people.

Through her work as an ethnobotanist, artist, activist and community-based educator, they strive to share Indigenous customs, teachings, and futures and to connect Indigenous peoples. Wyss's thirty-year career encompasses a vast array of practices, from weaving, making remedies, medicine walks to the realm of Indigenous Digital Futurisms. Ceases' interactive, community-based work is insightful and informative of their contemporary conditions.

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Across Lands and Waters: CERC Spring Gathering 2025
Apr
29
to May 1

Across Lands and Waters: CERC Spring Gathering 2025

  • Phillip T. Young Recital Hall (MAC B125) (map)
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As the first major gathering of the network of the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices, this event brings together artists, scholars, students, museum and gallery directors, curators and community members from across Canada and internationally.

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Taqsiqtuut Research-Creation Lab Launch
Feb
28

Taqsiqtuut Research-Creation Lab Launch

  • Taqsiqtuut Indigenous Research-Creation lab (A134); UVic Visual Arts building (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

We are delighted to invite you to the official launch of the Taqsiqtuut Research-Creation Lab led by Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices. In Inuktitut, taqsiqtuut refers to patterns and designs.

Please join Dr. Igloliorte and Prof. Carey Newman, Impact Chair in Indigenous Art, to celebrate the opening of this new Indigenous arts research space in the Visual Arts department of the Faculty of Fine Arts!

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Dec
13

Comparative Arctic Colonialisms discussion with Julie Edel Hardenberg and Svend Hardenberg

  • Taqsiqtuut Indigenous Research-Creation lab (A134); UVic Visual Arts building (map)
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Please join us for lunch at noon followed by an informal group conversation on comparative Arctic colonialisms (Greenland, Canada, and beyond!) led by Julie Edel Hardenberg and Svend Hardenberg between 1-3pm, this Friday, December 13th.

This event is a soft launch of the Taaqsituut Research-Creation Lab led by the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices, Dr. Heather Igloliorte, and it is the concluding event of Hardenberg's semester-long residency with the CERC, located in the department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts.

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