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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt">New Exhibit Explores Relationships with
<span style="color:black;background:white">stɑl̓əw̓ </span><span style="color:black">Watershed</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;color:black"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:1.1pt"><b>Langley, BC</b> – <span style="color:black">
A collaborative research-creation project that addresses climate change at the local scale of the lower Fraser River watershed has resulted in an exhibition titled
<i>Upstream/Downriver: Walking the <span style="background:white">stɑl̓əw̓ </span>
Watershed</i>. The new display at Langley Centennial Museum takes audiences on a journey of walking, listening, and learning.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:1.1pt"><span style="color:black">Artists Alysha Creighton, Erica Grimm, and Joshua Hale have combined video, sound, installation and drawing to connect viewers to the realities of climate impacts in our region.
Their works also give voice to the river, pointing the way to how we may reimagine our relationship with the land and learn to walk in a good way on this territory we call home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:1.1pt"><span style="color:black;background:white">Commonly referred to as the Fraser River, <i>stɑl̓əw̓ </i>is the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ word for “big river.” The artists</span><span style="color:black"> and Project
</span>Siyá:m<span style="color:black"> Patricia Victor </span><span style="color:black;background:white">walked and listened to experts about
</span><span style="color:black">the <span style="background:white">stɑl̓əw̓</span> and how climate change is affecting the region</span><span style="color:black;background:white">, including Sesmelot (Fern Gabriel), Kwantlen Language Keeper, Andrew Victor,
Chief of</span><span style="color:black"> </span>Xwchíyò:m <span style="color:black">
Nation, and Annelyn Victor, </span>Xwchíyò:m<span style="color:black"> Youth<i>.
</i>Their voices joined with other experts in the areas of geology, biology, math, poetry, urban geography and philosophy, including Heesoon Bai, Katharine Bubel, David Clements, Tim Cooper, David Jordan, Maxwell Ofosuhene, Sam Pimentel, and Bruce Shelvey to
create a soundscape for the exhibition experience. The sounds of the river are carefully blended with their words.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:1.1pt"><span style="color:black">“The importance of holding these voices as equal was our aim,” Artist, Erica Grimm reflects. “But all of these voices agreed that climate change is serious, human caused, and the
time to act is now.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:1.1pt"><span style="color:black">Grimm’s work maps the bloodline of the stɑl̓əw̓, tracing lost tributaries and the coming flood lines of the lower Fraser River watershed. Another piece by Grimm and Tracie Stewart
suspends bandaged cedar roots and willow branches from the museum’s ceiling, drawing a river through the gallery space. Alysha Creighton’s video work immerses viewers in the river, seeking to dissolve boundaries between human and environment.
</span><span style="color:black;background:white">Joshua Hale’s work explores the potential effects of climate change on the region, imagining multiple possible futures; red string connects his pieces like an evidence board, frantically trying to find solutions,
while the way forward for humanity remains unclear. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:1.1pt"><i><span style="color:black">Upstream/Downriver: Walking the
<span style="background:white">stɑl̓əw̓ </span>Watershed </span></i><span style="color:#333333;background:white">is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The exhibit
</span><span style="color:black">is open at Langley Centennial Museum until February 6, 2022. For more information, please contact 604.532.3536 or
</span><a href="mailto:lcmbookings@tol.ca">lcmbookings@tol.ca</a><span style="color:black">.</span><span style="color:#333333;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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