[BCMA] 'New' MOA launches as part of Cultural Olympiad

Mon Dec 14 17:27:13 PST 2009

MOA Press Release	

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Save the dates! Museum of Anthropology Presents 'A Celebration of Creativity' 

The Launch of the 'new' MOA 
January 23, 24, 26, 2010
Presented with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad

MOA's $55.5 million expansion and renewal project is nearly complete. For several years, MOA staff and a host of community partners and talented associates have been working hard to create new and amazing opportunities for visitors to explore different ways of knowing, understanding, and appreciating the world’s arts and cultures. 

As part of the project, we are dramatically redesigning our Visible Storage Galleries – to be known as the Multiversity Galleries – to provide maximum visual access to some 16,000 objects from around the world. Our innovative new MOA CAT (digital catalogue) system will make additional collections information – images, audio, and video – available throughout MOA at the touch of a screen. (A variation of the MOA CAT will also be accessible from MOA’s website, so you can search the collections online, anytime.) In partnership with the Musqueam Indian Band, Stó:lō Nation, Stó:lō Tribal Council, and U’mista Cultural Society, MOA has also created the first-ever digital network (the Reciprocal Research Network) linking Northwest Coast collections in institutions worldwide. Our new 5,800 sq ft major exhibit hall – The Audain Gallery – along with enhanced visitor amenities and additional storage, research, teaching, and public programming spaces, have all been designed to provide students, scholars, visitors, artists, and community members with unprecedented access to the collections of the Museum and the Laboratory of Archaeology. 

The launch of these amazing new facilities in January 2010, along with a major exhibition of contemporary works by 12 international artists, Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures, signals a new era and a new global focus for the Museum. 

To mark this exciting occasion, we are planning a three-day public festival – “A Celebration of Creativity” – on Saturday, January 23, Sunday, January 24, and the evening of Tuesday, January 26, 2010. Presented with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, the event involves MOA’s First Nations and other community partners, our very generous funders and sponsors, Museum members, donors, and supporters, as well as dignitaries, artists, and luminaries from the around the world. 

Performers on January 23 and 24 include First Nations dance troupes, a world rhythms drumming session led by renowned percussionist Hari Pal, a late-night dance party with Vancouver-based Celtic/Bhangra/Dub band Delhi 2 Dublin, and the world premiere of Imprint, a specially commissioned interdisciplinary performance piece by Turning Point Ensemble, Owen Underhill, and Henry Daniel. We’ll also be offering Cantonese Opera demonstrations, film screenings, and behind-the-scenes tours of our amazing new collections storage areas, conservation and design labs, ceramics, textiles, ethnology, and archaeology Research Rooms. 

On January 26, from 7:00-9:00 pm, as part of a public reception to mark The Audain Gallery’s inaugural exhibit, Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures, two of the exhibiting artists, Tania Mouraud (France) and Rosanna Raymond (England/Samoa) will present performance art pieces
related to the show. (For details on Border Zones, visit www.moa.ubc.ca/exhibits)

Come early, stay late. THIS IS A THREE DAY PARTY YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS! Mark your calendars now for this FREE public festival.

A Celebration of Creativity and the exhibition Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures are presented with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Additional sponsors: The Vancouver Foundation, The Canada Council, Consulat Général de France à Vancouver, and Audrey Hawthorn Fund for Publications in Museum Anthropology. 

MOA “Partnership of Peoples” Renewal Project funded by the Audain Foundation, BC Knowledge Development Fund, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Department of Canadian Heritage Cultural Spaces Program, Faculty of Arts, UBC, Koerner Foundation, Toronto. Seasonal sponsors: CBC, NUVO Magazine, The Georgia Straight

Photos (from top): MOA, Eddie Jang; Delhi 2 Dublin, courtesy the artists; Dancers, courtesy Henry Daniels; Git Hayetsk Dancers, courtesy the artists.

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Contact
Jennifer Webb, Communications Manager
604.822.5950 or jenwebb at interchange.ubc.ca
UBC Museum of Anthropology
6393 N.W. Marine Drive, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2 www.moa.ubc.ca 

Museum and Shop Hours
Winter (through January 18, 2010): Closed Mondays. Open Tuesdays 10 am to 9 pm. Open Wednesdays through Sundays 10 am to 5 pm. Closed December 25 & 26. Spring: from January 19, 2010: open daily 10 am to 5 pm; open Tuesdays 10 am to 9 pm.

Café MOA Hours
Open Tuesdays through Sundays 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. Closed from December 19 to January 4, reopening January 5, 2010.

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