- Photographer Roy Hamaguchi, whose work is featured in the ongoing Wild Birds exhibit at the Japanese Canadian National Museum, will be speaking at the JCNM on Thursday, November 6th at 7pm. Hamaguchi will be sharing a digital presentation called “Two Cranes, Two Continents” that will highlight two species of cranes, the Sandhill Crane of North America and the Red-crowned Crane of Asia. This event is free to attend.
- Clothing historian Ivan Sayers will be speaking about “Floral Representation in European Fabrics, 1700-1790” at VanDusen Botanical Garden’s Floral Hall on Thursday, November 6th at 7:30pm. Sayers will explore the use of flowers in 18th century garments at a time when clothing embellishment was all the rage. Tickets are $15 per person and will be available at the door.
- During the month of November, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden will be hosting five Vancouver-based artists who, drawing inspiration from the Garden, will apply their own artistic styles, histories and experiences onto traditional Chinese fans, which will then be on display in the exhibit Folding Cultures: Contemporary Art on Classical Chinese Fans. The exhibit will also include previous and current samples of each artist’s work so that visitors can observe the relationship between this work and what appears on the fans. The exhibit opening will be held Friday, November 7th from 5-7:30pm with all five artists in attendance: The Dark, Traviss Corry, Milko Amorth, Charisse Baker, and Phresha. The exhibit runs to November 30th.
Photo by yewenyi (Flickr)
- Earlier this year, the Royal BC Museum mounted Free Spirit: Stories of You, Me and BC, an exhibition of stories and artifacts in honour of British Columbia’s 150th anniversary. Saturday, November 8th is the last day to view the travelling version of this exhibit, the Free Spirit Conservation Tour, at St. George’s Anglican Hall in Fort Langley. The exhibit is being hosted by the Langley Centennial Museum and admission is free.
- An exhibit of German artist Kai Althoff’s work begins Saturday, November 8th at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Gallery Director Kathleen Bartels and guest curator Jennifer Volland will discuss Kai Althoff’s newest installation and their experiences working with the artist during a special talk on Sunday, November 9th at 2pm in the gallery. The Kai Althoff exhibit runs to February 15, 2009.
- The Japanese Canadian National Museum will be holding a free guided bird watching walk in connection with the museum’s Wild Birds exhibit on Saturday, November 8th at 10am at the Conservation Area at Maplewood Flats. For more information or to register please contact the JCNM at museum@nikkeiplace.org or 604-777-7000 (ext. 109).
Photo by SqueakyMarmot (Flickr)
- Learn how to research family history by registering for the Climb Your Family Tree program at the Langley Centennial Museum. The program is offered on select Saturdays throughout November and into December from 1:30-4:30pm. The next program date is Saturday, November 8th, which will be followed by November 22nd and 29th and December 6th. The fee is $50. Please contact the museum directly to register or for more information.
- Surrey Museum’s Remembrance Day Film Series continues on Saturday, November 8th with a screening of Endings and Beginnings, the third and final part of the National Film Board’s series Canada Remembers. The screening takes place from 3-4pm and admission is by donation.
- Take an 1888 Christmas lantern tour of Irving House in New Westminster on Saturday, November 8th at 6:30pm. This activity is suitable for all ages and will take you back in time to celebrate Christmas with the Briggs family. Listen carefully to the chatter of the family and town residents as they deck the halls for a Victorian Christmas and chat about the one-year-old CPR branch line to New Westminster. Register for the tour by calling Irving House at 604-527-4640. The registration fee is $5 per person.
- The Jewish Genealogical Institute of BC presents Trace Your Jewish Ancestry: Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy workshops during November at the Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia. The second workshop in the series takes place Sunday, November 9th from 1-3pm. The theme of this workshop is “Getting Started,” and will address interviewing techniques as well as the collection and analysis of interviews, documents and photographs. Click here to learn more about the other workshops in the series. The fee for each workshop is $15 per person. Contact the Jewish Museum & Archives of BC at 604-638-7288 to register.
- The Delta Museum & Archives has two exhibits on display to highlight Delta’s wartime history. The exhibit Delta Remembers is on display at the North Delta Recreation Centre until November 14th and focuses on pilot training at the RCAF Boundary Bay Station and the Air Raid Precautions Unit. The exhibit Soldiers’ Letters Home is on display until November 15th and features letters written home by World War I soldiers Arthur and Sidney Swenson. The Delta Museum & Archives will be open from 10am-2pm on Remembrance Day to give those attending the ceremonies at Memorial Park an opportunity to view the Soldiers’ Letters Home exhibit.
- The SFU Writing and Publishing Program invited people who live(d) and work(ed) downtown to participate in the Downtown Memory Project by sharing their memories of downtown Vancouver. These memories were then put on display in the hallways of SFU Vancouver (at Harbour Centre) and in the windows of Belzberg Library facing West Hastings Street. The Downtown Memory Project is no longer on display downtown, but will be re-staged in the lower lobby of the Vancouver Museum where anyone can view the Project free of charge beginning Thursday, November 13th. The Downtown Memory Project will remain at the Vancouver Museum until January 4, 2009.
Image courtesy of the Downtown Memory Project
- The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre will be holding a public forum and discussion about the “Freedom to Hate” on Thursday, November 13th at 7:30pm at the Norman Rothstein Theatre at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver. Topics to be covered include: hate speech today, talking about the Holocaust and hate in the classroom, hate on the internet, and the media perspective on hate. This event will be moderated by Barbara Buchanan of the Law Society of British Columbia. For more information, please contact the VHEC at 604-264-0499 or info@vhec.org.
- The exhibit Weird and Wonderful White Rock at the White Rock Museum & Archives closes Friday, November 14th. This exhibit showcases the stranger side of White Rock’s history, and will have you pondering the functions of mysterious medical gadgets, peeking at some blush-worthy unmentionables, and discovering the forgotten history of midget wrestling.
