This is an archived event from Culture Days 2024.
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Common Thread Opening Reception
In-person
Agriculture Fashion & costumes Fibre & textile arts Intercultural Museum PerformanceDate and time
Location
Kamloops Museum and Archives
207 Seymour Street
Kamloops, BC
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible.
About
PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE OPENING RECEPTION OF COMMON THREAD at the Kamloops Museum and Archives. This exhibition showcases materials and processes surrounding our region’s production of wool and other natural fibres. These objects, ideas, and opportunities to take part are threaded into a notion that, just as wool makes a transformative journey from landscape to workshop, to yarn, to clothing, to Instagram, to heirloom, etc., it echoes the way we make and keep history more broadly: by spinning what was fleeting and natural into what is enduring and cultural.
With interlacing artifacts, images, videos, and ways to actively participate, Common Thread stages the museum as a place for gathering and sharing stories, sharing work, and sharing culture. A space of warmth and togetherness timed with the arrival of cooler weather, the exhibition aims to weave a varied sense of community through a confluence of ideas and natural and cultural factors that bind us together.
The Kamloops Museum and Archives warmly invites you to the opening of Common Thread.
A free opening reception from 5:00–7:00 pm on Friday, September 20. The evening will include brief opening remarks and a live weaving demonstration. Light food and refreshments will be available.
Reception: Friday, September 20, 5–7pm
Opening remarks at 5:30pm.
Exhibition Runs: September 20, 2024–March 8, 2025
Kamloops Museum and Archives | 250-828-3576 | 207 Seymour St
Links
- Kamloops Museum and Archives Website kamloopsmuseum.ca
Organizer
Kamloops Museum and Archives
History by everyone. History for everyone.
The Kamloops Musuem and Archives holds a mirror to Kamloops, building relationships with those who aren't yet reflected. The Museum is committed to rigorously examining its own practices as it collects, interprets, and shares the cultural evidence of this region. This commitment supports the KMA's responsibility to make itself a radically inclusive and welcoming space for community members to share community histories through community voices.
The Kamloops Musuem and Archives is entrusted with and responsible for collecting, organizing, interpreting, and making accessible its collection of records and artifacts related to Kamloops and the Thompson-Nicola Regional District.