Rights of Passage: Participatory Performance Event

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Join Branscombe House Artist-in-Residence Lou Sheppard for a participatory walk/roll following the pathway of one of Richmond’s lost streams. Participants will move through approximately 2km pathway from Branscombe House to Steveston Harbour.

Rights of Passage (river dances 1-4) are a series of pathways mapped through Richmond following the course of buried, rerouted and lost streams. Each path reimagines a riparian passage through the city’s current geography. Participants will move through the pathway together re-inscribing the lost movement of the water on the landscape with collective movement through the path.

Register in advance for the free outdoor activity by RSVPing to [email protected].

Accessibility notes: The planned 2km route is paved and suitable for wheelchair users. Please note that the pathway is not a loop. Participants can either walk back to Branscombe House or arrange transportation from the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site.

This activity is part of Richmond Culture Days and will be documented with video and photography.

COVID-19 SAFETY PRECAUTIONS:

- Registration in advance required due to limited capacity and contact tracing requirements.

- Physical distancing protocols in effect.

- Face coverings are optional.

- All visitors must self-assess before participating. Please stay home if you are not feeling well.

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Branscombe House Artist Residency

Branscombe House is located at 4900 Steveston Highway and is one of the earliest settler homes built in the area; as such it is significant for its historical association to Steveston and for reflecting the pattern of commercial and related residential development that occurred in Steveston’s early history.

The Branscombe House Artist Residency is an 11-month live-in residency program. Visiting professional artists activate Branscombe House with community-engaged workshops and events throughout the year in exchange for studio and living accommodations.

Lou Sheppard is a Canadian artist working in interdisciplinary audio, performance and installation. They have exhibited in Canada and internationally, notably in the Toronto Biennial, in the Antarctic Biennale and the Antarctic Pavilion in Venice.

Of settler ancestry, Sheppard was raised on unceded Mi'Kmaq territory and is based in Halifax/K’jipuktuk. Sheppard graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2006 and then studied English and Education at Mount Saint Vincent University. In 2017, Sheppard received the Emerging Atlantic Artist Award and in 2018 was an international residency recipient of the Sobey Art Award.

In their current practice, Sheppard uses processes of translation and metaphor to interrogate structures of power and performativity in data and language. Their work often leads them to collaborate with communities and with musicians, visual artists and performing artists.