Spend an afternoon with Indigenous graffiti artist Larissa Healey, AKA Gurl Twenty Three, and learn about the contemporary art of tagging and the traditional elements she draws influences from. Participants will have the opportunity to work with both digital and paint graffiti surrounded by the visual inspiration of the Museum of Anthropology. Please bring a notebook/sketchbook and pencil.

Larissa Healey (Anishnabe) “Nimi koonz” Little Dancing Bear, AKA Gurl Twenty Three has been featured in many publications including the Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Sun and Down Low Magazine. Her work is featured in Wall to Wall: Tour of Mural Art in Vancouver and international best seller Graffiti Art and Women. Healey’s works have covered the walls of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Bill Reid Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada and more including various businesses and streets in Vancouver. She is a member of Beat Nation Live, a cross platform digital-arts performance collective. Healey is an experienced facilitator and has decades of experience working with at-risk and Indigenous youth.

Family & Youth Workshop | 1pm
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Adult Workshop | 3pm
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Cost is per person and includes supplies, museum admission and tax

• General: $30
• Student/Senior: $25
• Member/Indigenous: $20

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Join master weaver Jessica Silvey for a one-day wool weaving workshop and learn about the cultural significance and traditional techniques of Coast Salish weaving. Participants will make a Coast Salish wall hanging and learn how to operate the twill and the twirl.

Weave – to form by combining various elements or details into a connected whole. Many of my childhood hours were spent with my paternal grandmother in the forest. It is my favourite place to be, surrounded by cedar trees and silence. I have learned traditional techniques from research, as well as trial and error. I harvest and prepare my own materials. When I am ready to weave, the most time consuming work has been completed. Weaving is my passion and therapy for my soul.” – Jessica Silvey

Workshop cost per person (includes museum admission and all materials)
Adult | $140
Youth + Student + Senior | $125
Indigenous peoples + MOA Members + UBC Students / Faculty | $115

All ages welcome, children under the age of 12 should be accompanied by an adult. No experience necessary. Limited to 25 participants only.

Ed and Dale will present a richly illustrated talk about ancient basket making and invite visitors to interact with the ancient basket replicas they make. Dale and Ed also will launch their brand-new publication, Reawakening Ancient Salish Sea Basketry (available for purchase and signing).

The event celebrates the arrival of one of Ed’s Archaeology Baskets into the museum collection. This basket embodies memories and identities from four time periods spanning 4,500 years of Coast Salishan basketry. Held in conjunction with our latest exhibit, The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving, this program will provide a very deep time perspective of these practices.

Ed Carriere was born and raised on the Port Madison Reservation at Indianola, Washington. He has woven baskets for about seventy years, learning the art from his great-grandmother, Julia Jacob, who raised him. He started at 14 years old to learn the old Salishan tradition of split cedar limb basketry. Since then, he has mastered a wide variety of baskets including sewn coiled baskets, mats, and woven clam and burden baskets and hats. Ed and Dale have teamed up to replicate the 2,000 year old Biderbost wet site archaeological pack baskets from a site near Seattle (housed at the Burke Museum). They will bring their replicas to share and discuss their “generationally-linked archaeology” approach from their new book.

Photo credits: Dale Cross

The Filmmakers

Sarah Shamash is a Vancouver based media artist and PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program at UBC. Her research centres on Indigenous film and video from Brazil. Her work as an artist, researcher, educator, and programmer can be understood as interconnected and whole, they all revolve around a passion for cinema and its decolonizing potential.

Gavin Andrews is a Canadian documentarian, photographer and visual ethnographer. Gavin lived and worked in the Brazilian Amazon from 2000- 2016, where he founded Castanha Films, an independent production company dedicated to documentary and independent film in the Amazon.

The Films

Tekoha, Som Da Terra  (English: Tekoha, Sound of the Earth) by Rodrigo Arajeju & Valdelice Veron
Our mothers lead the struggle to recover the sacred land of Tekoha Takuara by our way of being and living – nhande reko. They call us Kaiowa because we live in the woods. How will our People live without the forest? And will the forest live without our People? As agribusiness advances upon Indigenous territories, we, Guarani Kaiowá, mourn our genocide in Brazil in our fight to recover our traditional lands in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul.

Indigenous Filmmakers: Mbya Guarani Interview with Patricia Ferreira (Yxapy) by Sarah Shamash
This filmed interview of Patricia Ferreira cuts between footage from the Guarani Cinema Collective’s films and Patricia’s reflections on filmmaking and creating a different type of cinema.

Hello, Hello Amazonia by Gavin Andrews
Synopsis: For nearly 60 years, the radio program “Alo, Alo Amazonia” has been relaying messages between isolated riverine communities in the Brazilian Amazon states of Amapa and Para. The documentary immerses us in the everyday life of the Amazon people, characterized by messages of all kinds – travel arrangements, birthday greetings, messages of love and unpaid debts.

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature closes on February 18, 2018.

Virago Nation
Founded in May 2016, Virago Nation is on a mission to reclaim Indigenous sexuality from the toxic effects of colonization. We believe that all people, especially Indigenous women, deserve a healthy, fun relationship with their bodies and we work to promote that expression. This is our reconciliation.

DJ Kookum
Cheyanna Kootenhayoo also known as DJ Kookum is a Dene/Cree Filmmaker and DJ. She is a member of the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation, originally from Cold Lake First Nations and is based out of Vancouver, BC. This hip hop, rap, trap, r&b, edm DJ is blowing up. This past year Kookum has opened for hip hop lady Princess Nokia. Threw down a back-to-back set with Dj Shub at the Honda celebration of lights festival. Held it down on the decks at the first Vancouver Indigenous Fashion week and at the 18th Annual ImagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival in Toronto. She is also a resident DJ at the Biltmore Cabaret and was nominated for break out DJ of the year at the Golden Owl Awards. Between DJing and Filmmaking, she will be working on cooking em beats in music production, stay tuned!

Skwetsimeltxw Willard ‘Buddy’ Joseph and Chepximiya Siyam’ Janice George are accomplished weavers and teachers from the Squamish Nation They co-founded the L’hen Awtxw Weaving Houseto share the teachings and practice of traditional Coast Salish wool weaving. Janice is a hereditary chief, trained museum curator and educator. George also co-organized the 1st Canada Northwest Coast Weavers Gathering, with other Squamish Nation Weavers. George and Joseph are from prominent Squamish families and have numerous ceremonial and cultural responsibilities in their community.

Joseph is the former director of the Squamish Housing and Capital Projects and currently consults on capital projects for First Nations communities. Along with Leslie Tepper, they also co-authored the 2017 book, Salish Blankets: Robes of Protection and Transformation, Symbols of Wealth.

“We have integrated the Squamish teachings from our Late Grandmother Kwitelut-t Lena Jacobs who was directly connected to pre-contact times and other Squamish ancestors into my teachings. In this short time of my weaving life, a few of my mentors have left this earth; their breathe is carried on in the teachings I pass on. I feel and see the pride that comes from reclaiming our inheritance from our elders and ancestors when we weave and when we wear our beloved weavings. We are taught spiritual protection is part of what we are wearing and feel the love that is put in each hand movement it takes to make a robe.” – Chepximiya Siyam’ Chief Janice George

This workshop is organized in conjunction with our newest exhibit, The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving.

Jessica is a self-taught weaver of Coast Salish and Portugese descent of the Silvey family in Egmont, BC. The workshop is organized in conjunction with our newest exhibit, The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving. Using the cedar that was harvested and prepared by Jessica herself, participants will get to take home their own cedar basket creations.

“Weave – to form by combining various elements or details into a connected whole. Many of my childhood hours were spent with my paternal grandmother in the forest. It is my favourite place to be, surrounded by cedar trees and silence. I have learned traditional techniques from research, as well as trial and error. I harvest and prepare my own materials. When I am ready to weave, the most time consuming work has been completed. Weaving is my passion and therapy for my soul.” – Jessica Silvey

Workshop cost per person (includes museum admission, light lunch, and all materials)
Adult | $140
Youth + Student + Senior | $125
Indigenous peoples + MOA Members + UBC Students / Faculty | $115

All ages welcome, children under the age of 12 should be accompanied by an adult. No experience necessary. Limited to 20 participants only.

Takeover Day, first launched in the UK, is a celebration of children and young people’s contributions to museums, galleries, arts organizations, archives and heritage sites. It’s a day on which they are given meaningful roles, working alongside staff and volunteers to participate in the life of the museum.

The event is open to youth of all ages. Kids under 12 should be accompanied by an adult. The event is free with museum admission or with the Kids Takeover UBC pass. Purchase the all-access pass here.

Event Schedule at MOA

12 pm – 4:15 pm
Youth-led art, social media and flash mob dancing
12 pm – 4 pm
Kids drop-in at the conservation lab
2 pm – 3 pm
MOA Members-only African dance workshop with Awal Alhassan and Sheinawu Abubakari
1 pm and 3:30 pm
Live African fusion music by the Zhambai Trio
4:30 pm
Awards ceremony

This tour will look at the history of these weavings and how they ended up so far from home.

Image courtesy of The National Museum of Finland, Photo by Markku Haverinen.

The Dancers of Damelahamid have had the honour to present many Indigenous dance artists from diverse cultural backgrounds including: Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, Kwakwakawakw, Gitxsan, Tsimshian, Nisga’a, Haida, Tagish and Tlingit Nations. Guest artists from across Canada, as well as international artists from South America, New Zealand, and Australia, have been invited to share their artforms, allowing the Coastal First Nations Dance Festival to connect with a global community of Indigenous dance.

Free with admission public shows

Saturday March 3 |1:00 – 4 pm
Sunday March 4 | 4 1:00 – 4 pm

Signature performances

Friday March 2 | 7:30 pm
Saturday March 3 | 7:30 pm
Tickets available through the Dancers of Damelahamid