Where You Are – CVAG Winter Incubator Labs

In the book ‘The Art of Relevance’, author Nina Simon poses the question “What is Relevance?” and then goes on the answer with these words: “Relevance is the key that unlocks meaning. It opens the doors to experiences that matter to us, surprise us, and bring value into our lives .”
Where You Are / CVAG Incubator Labs provides an opportunity to activate relevance in our community through cross-cultural sharing, emergent artistic practice + professional development, creative residency, inquiry based research, and innovative experimentation + creation.
During the upcoming weeks CVAG programming weaves cultural practices, generational + gender divides, interdisciplinary research and discovery.
January 19 – February 14, 2022 – Installation Presentation at CVAG / January 22 at 4PM – Opening Ceremony / February 12 at 11:30AM – Closing Ceremony – “NOOJIM OWIN”…THE GIFT OF THE HEALING DANCE….WHEN WE DANCE, WE DANCE FOR THE PEOPLE – A circle of cultural practice participants engage community collaboration and activation through cross-cultural sharing through the Jingle Dance Project.
Cultural presenter JoAnne Restoule with IKWE NOOJIM OWIN NIIMI IDIWIN – Women’s Circle Dancers
Kim McWilliam, Jaqueline Morgan, Gwen Monnet, Holly Douglas, Maybel McDonald, Brooke-Lin Jestico, Danielle Chartand, Serena Rotter, Jeannie McDonald, Jeannine Walker
January 5 – 15, 2022 – Inquiry-based hands-on learning. Guided by educator Stew Savard, the S.T.E.A.M. Incubator 2022 brings together the students who recently graduated from the Montessori program at Queneesh Elementary School are now participating in the ENTER program at Highland Secondary School. S.T.E.A.M. incubators support young girls in navigating historically male dominant areas of education.
January 12 – February 18, 2022 – body space object – NIC student experience + presentation at CVAG
NIC Fine Arts students return to the gallery for onsite experience at CVAG to install, present, document and write about their work emerging out of ‘body, space, object’ thematic research from the Sculpture and Integrated Art Practices courses at North Island College. Working in the Galler’s flex spaces: Gather Place and the George Sawchuk Gallery the students have the opportunity to experiment, innovate, and grow their artistic practice.
February 18 – March 4, 2022 – Fathom Sounds Collective Creative Residencies – The artist collective Fathom Sounds return to continue ongoing research and to facilitate community connections + activations as they prepare and install work for their site responsive exhibition Salt Stained Streaks of a Worthwhile Grief opening at CVAG on March 5, 2022.
Image: Alun Macanulty
Events
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WOMEN'S MEMORIAL MARCH / NOOJIM OWIN CLOSING CEREMONY
Women behind Jingle Dance dresses will lead this year's march to honour missing and murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
February 14 2022 / 11:30am - 12:30pm -
Opening Ceremony: NOOJIM OWIN / THE GIFT OF THE HEALING DANCE
live streamed event beginning at 4PM.
January 22 2022 / 4:00 - 5:00pm -
NOOJIM OWIN / THE GIFT OF THE HEALING DANCE – WHEN WE DANCE, WE DANCE FOR THE PEOPLE
... we dance for the people who have come before us, the people yet to come, and for the people who need healing.
January 19 - February 14 2022 -
body space object / NIC student experience + presentation at CVAG
FIN 231 Sculpture and Integrated Art Practices student experience at CVAG in 2022.
January 19 - February 18 2022 -
STEAM Incubator - January 2022
S.T.E.A.M. incubators support young girls in navigating historically male dominant areas of education.
January 5 - 15 2022 -
Fathom Sounds Collective / Creative Residencies at CVAG
Ongoing site specific research, community connections + activations.
November 26 2021 - March 2 2022