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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="en-AS" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">NEWS RELEASE
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="en-AS" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For Immediate Release<br>
April 29, 2024<br>
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<b><span lang="en-AS" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New Website Launched by The Reach Unsettles Fraser Valley History<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="en-AS" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Abbotsford, BC – A truly unique educational resource has been launched by The Reach Gallery Museum in partnership with
the Abbotsford School District’s Department of Indigenous Education. <i>Grand Theft Terra Firma</i> turns the dire realities of colonial history in the Fraser Valley into an imaginary video game, encouraging users to consider the other side of the story.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="en-AS" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Artists Sandra Shields and David Campion borrowed the title and overarching concept from the immensely popular and controversial
videogame series <i>Grand Theft Auto</i> where the key to gaming success is to complete heinous criminal missions. The premise of the new website is a not-so-subtle similarity between the game and settler colonial histories. As the title suggests,
<i>Grand Theft Terra Firma </i>appropriates the language of digital gaming to reframe the settlement of Stó:lō Téméxw (now known as the Fraser Valley) as a complex heist conducted by a “gang of greedy thieves.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><i><span lang="en-AS" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Grand Theft Terra Firma</span></i><span lang="en-AS" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
made its first appearance in 2017 as an award-winning art exhibition at The Reach and later toured to public galleries across the country. Its appeal with audiences, particularly educators and students, led its creators to consider how it might be shared with
a wider audience. With the support from a Canada Council for the Arts grant and input from a knowledgeable range of contributors, including Stó: lō leaders, scholars, artists, and education advisors, the online experience was born.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="en-AS" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Combining a deep dive into local historical research with photography, creative text, and video vignettes, the website
unfolds as an imaginary gaming guide, complete with a cast of character and power objects necessary for gaming success, and “screen shots” that share key moments in game play. The twist, however, lies in the moral implications of the game’s goals: visitors
to the website are asked to step into the villains’ shoes: “Pick your thief and play your part in the crime,”
<i>Grand Theft Terra Firma </i>gamers are instructed. “Collect power objects and use your unique talents to complete missions. As you steal the land out from under the Stó:lō, make sure your moral compass never finds true north.” Through its careful and clever
reframing, the new digital resource encourages visitors to consider how history can become mythologized in its telling, and supports discussions and classroom activities around historical literacy and decolonization.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="en-AS" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The “characters” in the game will be recognizable to anyone who has read a Canadian history textbook. Though they are not
named as individuals, they include familiar archetypes like the Royal Engineer, the Settler, the Pioneer, and the Priest. The “power objects” necessary to complete the colonial missions are artifacts from local museum collections photographed by the artists.
For example, common objects like a gold pan, a shotgun, and a surveyor’s chain were sourced at regional museums like the BC Farm Museum (Fort Langley) and the Chilliwack Museum and Archives. The “missions” are drawn from significant moments in the region’s
colonial history. Composite photographs bring actors in period costume together with Stó:lō friends and neighbours who contributed to the project appearing in contemporary everyday dress, reminding us of the ongoing impact of this shared history.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-AS" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Visitors to the website encounter their guide and host, Stó:lō, St’át’imc, Nlaka’pamux multidisciplinary artist Malō:yhleq Ronnie Dean Harris (aka Ostwelve), who
shares knowledge and insights at various moments throughout the gamer’s journey in a format inspired by the popular gaming livestream service Twitch.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-AS" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The gamification of local history presents an accessible entry point to the brutal historical truths that have shaped the Fraser Valley as we know it today and provides
a useful lens not only for students and educators (the site features a robust Educator Guide), but also for everyone who has the privilege to call this region home. Although the resource is historically specific to a one region of BC, the premise is germane
to colonial histories across the country and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="en-AS" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The
<i>Grand Theft Terra Firma </i>website is now live and can be accessed <a href="https://grandtheftterrafirma.com/">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">at </span> grandtheftterrafirma.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="en-AS" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For more information about programs and events at The Reach Gallery Museum, visit
<a href="https://thereach.ca/">thereach.ca</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="en-AS" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Laura Schneider, Executive Director
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<a href="mailto:lschneider@thereach.ca">lschneider@thereach.ca</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="en-AS" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">T: 604-864-8087
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-AS">Stó:lō, St’át’imc, Nlaka’pamux multidisciplinary artist Malō:yhleq Ronnie Dean Harris (aka Ostwelve) provides commentary on key moments in Fraser Valley history in the new educational website,
<i>Grand Theft Terra Firma. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-AS">A composite photo in the <i>Grand Theft Terra Firma
</i>website, this image is inspired by a story told by Leq’á:mel elder Susan Lewis. Courtesy of the artists.<span style="color:#0A0A0A;background:#FEFEFE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-AS" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">One of the “gang of greedy thieves” in the
</span><span lang="en-AS" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">educational website,
<i>Grand Theft Terra Firma, </i>the <span style="color:black;background:white">Royal Engineer is “the specialist who cracks the safe and opens up the land for profit.” Courtesy of the artists.</span><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Exhibition visitors at the
<i>Grand Theft Terra Firma </i>opening at the Art Gallery of Peterborough in 2019. Photo by Matthew Hayes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Exhibition visitors at the
<i>Grand Theft Terra Firma </i>opening at the Art Gallery of Peterborough in 2019. Photo by Matthew Hayes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Laura Schneider (she/her)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Executive Director </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">t 604.864.8087 x 125 </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">The Reach is located on Stó:lō Téméxw, </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">in the unceded territory of the </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Semá:th and Mathxwí First Nations. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-top:2.0pt;text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4C94D8;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Hours of Operation:
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-top:2.0pt;text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4C94D8;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Tues, Wed, Fri 10am-5pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-top:2.0pt;text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4C94D8;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Thursday 10am-8pm</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#4C94D8;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-top:2.0pt;text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#4C94D8;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Saturday 12-5pm</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">The Reach Gallery Museum </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">32388 Veterans Way </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Abbotsford, BC V2T 0B3 </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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