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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Royal Art Lodge</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Not titled</span></i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">, 2001</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">watercolour, ink on paper</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of Monty James Cooper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Stories that animate us<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">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<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">October 5 to December 28, 2024</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Curated by Diana Freundl and Zoë Chan<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">From Fairy Tales to Cultural Resilience:
<i>Stories that animate us</i> at Kamloops Art Gallery <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<i>Stories that animate us,</i> 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. <i>Stories that animate us</i> <a name="_Int_mTnafzYS">invites</a> the public to reflect on the importance of storytelling in their lives:
<i>What stories inspire you, what stories need to be told, and which will you pass on?</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="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;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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. <o:p>
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</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">Charo Neville, Curator</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</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">250.377.2410</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
<a href="mailto:cneville@kag.bc.ca"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:blue">cneville@kag.bc.ca</span></a></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"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">About the Kamloops Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">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 Secwepemcúl</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">̓</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;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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lands of the 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-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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