Only 1 more week to check out Trending!

If you haven't seen the latest window intervention for The Ephemerals: Trending, located in the Anthropology Museum windows on the 4th floor of Centennial Hall at UofW, you'd better hurry. The exhibit will only be on display for 1 more week. Above are photos from the intervention which includes a display of Cowichan sweaters - can you tell the difference between the real deal and the imitation?

In relation to this project, we are happy to report that anyone with a UofW Library card can now watch Christine Welsh's film The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters for FREE. Just enquire at the Circulation Desk!

TOMORROW: The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters

Check out this article from the Globe and Mail on the Coast Salish Knitters. It's an oldie but it connects to issues of appropriation and consumerism.

Meanwhile, come on out to see the film tomorrow night - Wed, Nov. 9 at 7:00 p.m. - at aceartinc., 2nd floor of 290 McDermot Avenue. See you there!

Together as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica, Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA present the film Crude Sacrifice

WINNIPEG MB, November 2, 2011 –

Together as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica, Gallery 1C03 and the University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) present the film:

Crude Sacrifice
Directed by Lawrence Carota
Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall
Tuesday, November 15, at 7:00 p.m.

Directed by award-winning film maker Lawrence Carota, Crude Sacrifice (Canada, 2011) was selected for presentation by The University of Winnipeg Aboriginal Students’ Council.

Crude Sacrifice takes a look at how one northern community, Fort Chipewyan, is affected by the exploitation of Canada's rich Tar Sands development, and how Canada is dealing with their concerns. The health of the land and the people living near the world's largest construction project is discussed by leading scientists and the Aboriginal Peoples. Although this town is located near the earth's second largest fresh water delta, they can no longer drink the water, or eat the fish and other game food which sustained them for thousands of years.

From the film’s website:

Passionate and fiercely independent, [Carota] took his film camera to Alberta through all four seasons of the year to allow the audience to experience the cycles of nature first hand.. to go on the river banks, to stand next to the tailing ponds, to see the Tar Sands under development from the air in order to experience the size and scale of the project. He spent weeks living in the northern community of Fort Chipewyan where he got an intimate look at a warm but hurting community full of people trying to cope with losing their way of life. As a cinematographer, he attempted to capture the honesty and beauty of a people along with a way of life which is being destroyed before their eyes. His intention is to showcase the positive nature and spirit of defiance which has allowed them to survive sustainably on the land for thousands of years.

Please stay for discussion after the film, with guest facilitator to be announced.

For more information about Crude Sacrifice, visit: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/film/crude-sacrifice.

For more information about the Cinema Politica network, please visit www.cinemapolitica.org.

All screenings will be open to all audiences – everyone is welcome. Admission is free, but donations to offset the costs of screening the film are welcome. Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall is located on the third floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg.

Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA wish to thank Cinema Politica for making it possible for us to participate in this network. We are grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for generously supporting this initiative. We also wish to acknowledge the Council of Canadians for supporting this presentation of Crude Sacrifice.

Image: Scene from Crude Sacrifice by Lawrence Carota.

Gallery 1C03 and aceartinc. present a public film screening: The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters Directed by Christine Welsh

Gallery 1C03 and aceartinc. present a public film screening:

The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters
Directed by Christine Welsh

Wednesday, November 9, 7:00 p.m.
aceartinc.
2nd floor, 290 McDermot Avenue
Free Admission – Open to all!

This film screening is presented in conjunction with Gallery 1C03's current programming initiative The Ephemerals: Trending. Trending began as a four-day performative embedment on The University of Winnipeg campus by The Ephemerals, an all-female Aboriginal collective of artists and curators. By inserting themselves into the university community, The Ephemerals have explored the trend of Indigenously-influenced clothing and accessories among post-secondary students, encouraging a critical reading of fashion as codified text and highlighting the need for a deeper awareness of its cultural implications. Further supporting this project is an ongoing intervention in the public display windows of the university’s Anthropology Museum, drawing from and responding to the Anthropology Department’s Ethnographic Collection, as well as a blog: www.theephemerals.wordpress.com.

Written and directed by Christine Welsh, The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters (Canada, 2000) draws attention to the identity of the creators of much-loved (and much-replicated) Cowichan sweaters. For almost a century, the Coast Salish knitters of southern Vancouver Island have produced Cowichan sweaters from handspun wool. These distinctive sweaters are known and loved around the world, but the Aboriginal women who make them remain largely invisible. Combining rare archival footage with the voices of three generations of woolworkers, The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters tells the tale of unsung heroines – resourceful women who knit to put food on the table and keep their families alive. This is a story of courage and cultural transformation – a celebration of the threads that connect the past to the future.

Christine Welsh is a Métis filmmaker, feminist and academic in Canada. She has produced, written and directed films for more than 30 years. Welsh's film credits include the 2006 National Film Board of Canada documentary Finding Dawn, about murdered and missing Canadian Aboriginal women. She is a resident of Saltspring Island. Welsh is an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, where she teaches courses in Indigenous Women’s Studies.

Please stay after the film for some refreshments and discussion!

Gallery 1C03 gratefully acknowledges financial support of The University of Winnipeg and the Manitoba Arts Council for making this program possible. We are also grateful for the support of aceartinc.

Image: Scene from The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters, a film by Christine Welsh. Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada.

Trending review in Uptown

We're playing a bit of catch up here, but read Sandee Moore's review of Trending in Uptown!

Ephemerals - Maiden Indian at ImagineNATIVE

The Ephemerals' Maiden Indian film was included in this review of the ImagineNATIVE festival called ImagineNATIVE short films: Ever loud, ever proud. Awesome!

Gallery 1C03 looking for art educators

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg is excited about what it does and wants to offer others opportunities to join in. We are presently looking for 1 or 2 people to join our team of volunteer art educators!

• Are you interested in visual art?
• Are you an Art History or Education student at the University of Winnipeg?
• Are you creative and energetic?
• Are you interested in gaining valuable experience that will stand out on your resume?

If you answered "yes" to these questions, then please read further!

Gallery 1C03 seeks students to plan and deliver art education workshops during the 2011-12 academic season. Workshops will consist of presenting information about Gallery 1C03 art exhibits to school aged children (grades 1 - 12) and facilitating creative responses to the exhibits. Each workshop is approximately 1 hour in duration.

If you have a background in teaching through the arts or want to develop these skills, please contact Art Curator Jennifer Gibson by calling 786-9253 or by sending an email to j.gibson@uwinnipeg.ca as soon as possible.