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17 Sep – 18 Sep 2022

Outdoor Screen: Stories from Musqueam

As part of Come Toward the Fire, an outdoor festival curated by Jarrett Martineau, curator in residence at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, the Belkin’s Outdoor Screen presents a selection of videos that feature the work and words of Musqueam artists, cultural knowledge keepers and community members. Highlighting Musqueam, upon whose traditional, ancestral and unceded territory the Belkin is located, the films acknowledge Musqueam’s presence and stewardship of this land for thousands of years through shared stories of listening, learning and relationships that are felt across time. The films will screen continuously between 9 am and 9 pm on Saturday and Sunday, 17 and 18 September 2022, and the Belkin will keep its doors open to the public until 7 pm for this weekend.

Program

Musqueam Elder Larry Grant’s Welcome Message (1m 55s)
Musqueam Through Time, 2010 (18m 22s)
Writing the Land, 2007 (7m 50s)
Weaving the Path, 2021 (12m 37s)
Reconciliation Pole: Bronze Disc Base, 2022 (4m 19s)

 

Come Toward the Fire, hosted by the Chan Centre and Musqueam, is an Indigenous-led, family-friendly and accessible gathering to celebrate Indigenous creativity, brilliance, culture and community and aims to lift up the voices of Indigenous artists, performers, musicians, speakers and dance groups from Musqueam and from Indigenous nations. In addition to the film screenings at the Belkin and events at the Chan Centre, the Museum of Anthropology will host Musqueam Teachings family workshops on 17 and 18 September. Visit chancentre.com and moa.ubc.ca for more information.

About the Films

Musqueam Through Time offers an overview of Musqueam history, traditions and contemporary community. The film was created for Musqueam Indian Band by Gryphon Productions.

In Writing the Land, Larry Grant discusses his journey toward speaking hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ that began again in 1998 with his enrolment in the First Nations Languages Program at UBC. Directed by Kevin Lee Burton, Writing the Land was produced by the National Film Board.

Weaving the Path documents artist Debra Sparrow’s series Blanketing the City, which has been a part of the Vancouver Mural Festival since 2018. The film explores the life of Sparrow, who is part of a group of weavers reviving Coast Salish weaving and its meaning in Coast Salish communities. Weaving the Path was directed by Cristóbal Ruiz and produced by Olli Dickerson, with Jan Shädle as the Director of Photography.

Reconciliation Pole: Bronze Disc Base details the collaboration between Richard Campbell (Musqueam), 7idansuu James Hart (Haida) and Max Chickite (Lekwiltok), who have been working to create a monumental bronze disc for the base of Hart’s Reconciliation Pole, which was raised on the UBC campus in 2017. The film was produced by the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory.

Image (above): Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Native Hosts, 2007

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