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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Kamloops Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">October 5, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:51.9pt"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Blaine Campbell,
<i>Transcendence Engine 2023-a,</i> 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">October 14 to 21, 2023</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i>Luminocity</i>: Kamloops Art Gallery’s free outdoor art exhibition transforms urban spaces</span></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><br>
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</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">transforms urban spaces with dynamic video projections and immersive light experiences at Riverside Park and the exterior of
the Kamloops Art Gallery. Join nightly tours at Riverside Park and walk through <i>
Luminocity's</i> focal point, a larger-than-life kaleidoscope that will bend your vision as you walk through its core. This outdoor art exhibition is free for everyone to visit, after dark from October 14 to 21!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Luminocity features 12 artists and collaborators from East Africa, Northern
Europe, the Pacific Rim, South America, and Turtle Island. Stunning choreographies and soundscapes transport audiences with cinematography, mesmerizing storytelling, and energetic beats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i>Luminocity</i> </span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://luminocity.ca/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">here.</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Charo Neville, Curator</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">250.377.2410</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:cneville@kag.bc.ca"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">cneville@kag.bc.ca</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">About the Kamloops Art Gallery</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">The Kamloops Art Gallery, established in 1978, is located
in Tk</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">̓</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">emlupsemcúlecw,
the traditional and unceded lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc. The largest art gallery in Secwepemcúl</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">̓</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">ecw
(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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw; the traditional territory of the Secwépemc people.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir LT Std 35 Light";color:#333F50;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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