This year’s?UBC Okanagan Summer Indigenous Art Intensive?will be held during July, 2017, and will feature a series of world-renowned speakers, a variety of related undergraduate and graduate credit courses, and a group of resident artists.
? Description of Summer Indigenous Art Intensive Program
? Description of?Undergraduate and graduate courses offered this summer?in Theatre, Visual Arts, Creative Writing, Indigenous Studies.?All courses are open to all UBC students and will also be available to visiting students.
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In addition to our resident artists, we are hosting two senior Indigenous artists: James Luna has??an exhibition?running from July 7-21 at the Alternator Gallery, and presented a performance on July 9 (lotion TBA), as well as conducting a Master Class in Indigenous performance from July 10-12; Alex Janvier will be visiting from July 13 to 28 and will be painting in the FINA Gallery (UBCO mpus, Creative and Critil Studies Building), where he will present his work at the end of the residency.
The keynote talks will all be held every Wednesday starting at 12 noon PST at the University Theatre (ADM026) and will be live streamed below. The keynotes?include artists and theorists France Trépanier and Chris Creighton Kelly (Vancouver Island), Monika Kin Gagnon (Montreal), Jeannette Armstrong (Okanagan),?Shawn Wilson (Australia), and Linda Tuhiwai Smith and Graham Hingangaroa Smith (New Zealand). All keynote talks will be livestreamed, and subsequently published in a monograph format.
The UBCO Summer Indigenous Intensive is pleased to host world-renowned Māori edutors and critil thinkers Linda Tuhiwai Smith and Graham Hingangaroa?Smith. As authors and university ademics,?both Linda and Graham have been forceful influences both on Māori edution within Aotearoa/New Zealand and on Indigenous and progressive edutional practices globally. Both will…
2017 Summer Indigenous Intensive
July 3 - 28, 2017.