[BCMA] Kamloops Art Gallery Media Release | Stories that animate us opens October 5

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MEDIA RELEASE

For immediate release from
Kamloops Art Gallery
September 25, 2024

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Royal Art Lodge
Not titled, 2001
watercolour, ink on paper
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of Monty James Cooper
48.3 x 38.1 cm

Stories that animate us

Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo // Robert Davidson // Francisco de Goya // Jérôme Havre // David Hockney // Ed Pien // Marina Roy // Royal Art Lodge // Cauleen Smith // Amanda Strong // Camille Turner // Joyce Wieland

October 5 to December 28, 2024
Curated by Diana Freundl and Zoë Chan

From Fairy Tales to Cultural Resilience: Stories that animate us at Kamloops Art Gallery

Coming October 5, The Kamloops Art Gallery presents Stories that animate us, featuring a diverse group of thirteen artists, from historical masters such as Francsico de Goya to contemporary voices. Storytelling lies at the heart of the exhibition, highlighting works on paper and animations that draw from collectively shared oral histories, knowledge systems, and cosmologies, as well as personal memories, imaginings, and dreams. Stories span from fairy tales and explorations of the creative process to science fiction, the traumas of war, and Indigenous narratives of cultural resilience. Stories that animate us invites the public to reflect on the importance of storytelling in their lives: What stories inspire you, what stories need to be told, and which will you pass on?

Everyone is invited to celebrate the Kamloops Art Gallery’s fall exhibitions with a curators’ tour and reception on Saturday, October 5 from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm. The evening will feature live music, an art-making area for children, and refreshments, including wine sponsored by Twisted Spirits on 3rd and, beer from Bright Eyed Brewing, and coffee. This free public event is an opportunity to come together and celebrate arts and culture in Kamloops.

Stories that animate us is organized and circulated by the Vancouver Art Gallery under the Across the Province program and is curated by Diana Freundl, Senior Curator, and Zoë Chan, former Assistant Curator. Works by Ed Archie NoiseCat and Ed Pien drawn from the Kamloops Art Gallery collection are included as part of the Kamloops iteration of this exhibition.


Media Information
Charo Neville, Curator
250.377.2410
cneville at kag.bc.ca<mailto:cneville at kag.bc.ca>

About the Kamloops Art Gallery

The Kamloops Art Gallery, established in 1978, is situated on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw, the traditional territory of the Secwépemc people. The largest art gallery in Secwepemcúl̓ecw (the Interior of British Columbia), the Gallery offers national caliber art experiences through a diverse range of accessible and affordable exhibitions, talks, tours, and studio-based programming for all ages and abilities, and boasts a collection of over 3,000 works of art.




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KAMLOOPS ART GALLERY
101 – 465 Victoria Street, Kamloops, BC  V2C 2A9
250.377.2400  |  www.kag.bc.ca<http://www.kag.bc.ca/>


The Kamloops Art Gallery is situated on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw, the traditional territory of the Secwépemc people.

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