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18 Sept 2021

19 Sept 2021

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Homecoming 2021: Outdoor Art Tours

Join us for a tour of selected works in the Outdoor Art Collection on UBC’s Vancouver campus. Taking place during the 2021 UBC Homecoming weekend, the tours will centre on questions of home, territory, and relationships to the land that UBC’s Vancouver campus occupies, which is the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. This year, we are offering two tours. Tours can accommodate up to fifteen people and spots will be reserved in advance on a first-come first-serve basis.

To RSVP / Register please send your name, your city, and affiliation (student, staff/faculty, UBC community, your degree, and year of graduation if applicable).

For more information about the 2021 UBC Homecoming events, see the Alumni UBC website.

Decolonization Tour

Saturday, September 18, 10:30-11:45 AM
Sunday, September 19, 1:00-2:15 PM

75 minutes, 1.5-2 kilometres
The Decolonization Tour highlights site-specific artworks by Indigenous artists and raises questions around issues of place, space and identity. Considering how these works address urgent social and political concerns, we’ll discuss ideas of settler colonialism, decolonization, reconciliation and the history of UBC’s Vancouver campus, which is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.

Includes works by:

  • Diamond Point (Musqueam), wəɬ m̓i ct q̓pəθət tə ɬniməɬ (2020)
  • Ellen Neel (Kwakwaka’wakw), Victory Through Honour (1948/2004)
  • Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyanne, Arapaho), Native Hosts (1991/2007)
  • 7idansuu (Edenshaw) James Hart (Haida), Reconciliation Pole: Honouring a Time Before, During and After Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (2015-17)

Before joining us on the Decolonization Tour, we encourage you to read the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action.

Ecologies and Economies Tour

Saturday, September 18, 1:00-2:00 PM
Sunday, September 19, 10:30-11:30 AM

60 minutes,  0.5 kilometres

The Ecologies and Economies Tour highlights artworks that engage with themes related to both social ecologies and the natural world, and people’s relationship with their surroundings on campus. We’ll discuss ideas around nature, culture, climate change and social change.

Includes works by:

  • Holly Schmidt, Fireweed Fields (2021-)
  • Myfanwy Macleod, Wood For the People (2002)
  • Rodney Graham, Millennial Time Machine (2003)*
  • Esther Shalev-Gerz, The Shadow (2018)

* closed during rainy weather

For all tours, wear comfortable shoes and bring an umbrella in case of rain!

IMAGE (ABOVE): DIAMOND POINT’S BANNER ALONG MAIN MALL, UBC. PHOTO: RACHEL TOPHAM PHOTOGRAPHY

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    Tours: Outdoor Art Collection

    Slow down and take a walking tour of outdoor art on the UBC campus. Works in the Outdoor Art Collection are situated across the Vancouver campus and together, give voice to stories about the history of campus, and are part of an ever-evolving narrative about art, space and place.

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Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

University of British Columbia

1825 Main Mall

Vancouver, British Columbia,

Canada V6T 1Z2 Map

xʷməθkʷəy̍əm | Musqueam Territory

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Telephone: +1 (604) 822-2759

Email: belkin.gallery@ubc.ca

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