MOTHLIKE/silvery-blue

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As part of Culture Days weekend launch, the Gallery hosts a free public performance at Brunswick Point (at the end of River Rd in Ladner, or 2524 River Rd).

*This performance is an outdoor walk. Please come prepared with adequate clothing/footwear, sunscreen/sunglasses + water to enjoy.

Artist Amy-Claire Huestis and collaborators present this site-specific community piece for choir and dance. MOTHLIKE/silvery-blue celebrates kinship with birds and the interconnectedness of all things.

Please join us for this community performance in an internationally recognized area of critical ecological importance for migratory birds in the Fraser River Estuary.We invite you to attend, visit the site, or follow the durational score as together we perform a mytho-poetic story cycle on the dike trail. This site-specific durational work animates artworks in the story cycle, as a choir from the BC Choral Federation, volunteers, and artist participants follow an experimental score, performing roles in dance, sound, walking, and reading at the sites over a two-week period. Visitors to the sites and attendees will encounter what is a delicate piece in both diffused and focused elements. The performance culminates at sunset on the Autumnal Equilux on September 24th, with a procession from 5 – 7 pm.

Omar Zubair (composer, NYC), Jody Sperling (dancer/choreographer, NYC), Rachel Harris (dancer, Montréal), and Brigid Coult (choir director, Richmond Chorus) come together in community with the wild kin of the marshland for this participatory event. This project is in research consultation with Hwlitsum First Nation, and is funded by Canada Council for the Arts, KPU, and Richmond Art Gallery. It is in partnership with Birds Canada, and is concurrent with the community guided walk project, walk quietly: ts’ekw’unshun kws qututhun (walk with respect and care for the shoreline).

The communal performance stems from artist Amy-Claire Huestis’s ongoing research in the Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) of Hwlhits'um (Brunswick Point in Ladner), in the ancestral and present-day lands of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the Hul’qumi’num Mustimuhw (Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group of Seven Coast Salish Nations), scəw̓aθən (Tsawwassen), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).

To learn more about the artists and the score, visit the artist’s website: http://www.amyhuestis.com/

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• More information richmondartgallery.org
• Artist Website amyhuestis.com

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Richmond Art Gallery

Richmond Art Gallery (RAG) is a non-profit municipal art gallery established in 1980. The gallery produces an array of exhibitions and programs that connect, empower, and provoke conversation with our diverse Richmond, BC communities. RAG actively contributes to Richmond’s cultural communities through our commitment to supporting artists via exhibitions, educational programs, publications, and a permanent collection.

Richmond Art Gallery is dedicated to promoting dialogue among diverse communities on challenging ideas and issues of today as expressed through local, national and international contemporary art. Through its exhibitions, publications, educational programming, collections and significant partnerships, the Richmond Art Gallery provides opportunities for the enhancement of life in Richmond while serving the contemporary arts community in Canada.