[BCMA] MOA News for Nov/Dec

Sun Nov 1 12:13:27 PST 2009

UBC MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Press Release	

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MOA: NOV-DEC 2009

What's New and What's Next?

NEWS

MOA Always Free for Staff, Students, & Faculty
Exercise your free admission privileges at MOA, then stop by Café MOA for
lunch or a snack. Use your UBC ID card to sign up for free membership as
well, and receive invitations to special events, as well as 15% savings in
the Shop! (To become a member, visit the MOA Admission Desk)

Windows on the World Art Bazaar
Mark your calendars! From November 24 to December 24, you can shop the world
at MOA’s annual global art bazaar. For details, email shop at moa.ubc.ca.

Just announced! Calvin Hunt Canoe to Carry the Olympic Torch
Calvin Hunt’s long-tail canoe, now on display at MOA (see details below)
will be carrying the Olympic torch across the bay at Port Hardy on Tuesday,
February 2, 2010. The torch will arrive at the east side of Hardy Bay via BC
Ferries, and then be paddled across the waters to the Port Hardy Pier. From
there it will follow a designated land route to the Civic Center for a great
evening of celebration.

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EXHIBITS

Crafted Elegance: The Northwest Coast Canoe
Ongoing through Sunday, December 13
The exhibition of this newly carved 38 ft Tlingit long-tail canoe by Calvin
Hunt allows visitors to experience the true elegance and ingenuity of the
Northwest Coast canoe, and to learn more about its continuing importance to
the First Peoples of BC. Accompanying text and historical photographs of
wooden canoes complement Hunt’s canoe, and illustrate the importance of
canoes in general as modes of travel, items of prestige, and beautiful water
crafts. 

MOA’s Multiversity Galleries - Welcome to a work in progress! 
Visit MOA now for a sneak peek of our new Multiversity Galleries (formerly
Visible Storage). These galleries will be opened officially on January 23,
2010, but for now, we are pleased to be able to show you our installation
work in progress. When complete, the Multiversity Galleries will showcase
more than 16,000 objects from around the world, out of MOA’s total
collection of 36,000. In the area now open, you’ll find a selection of
objects from the Northwest Coast of British Columbia.

Labels will soon be installed with more information about the objects. MOA
is also developing ‘MOA CAT,’ allowing visitors access to catalogue
information, digital photographs, and links to other cultural information
relating to the collections. This will be available on a number of Computer
Access Terminals throughout the Multiversity Galleries and on the web in
January 2010.  In the meantime, please enjoy the space and come back often
to see work progress in the Multiversity Galleries. Hope you enjoy the
preview! 

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Tibetan Monks in Residence
Sunday, November 8 to Sunday, November 15 (regular admission)
As part of their 2009 Sacred Art Tour, five Tibetan monks will spend 7 days
in residence at MOA in November. The monks will create a sand mandela in the
Great Hall while answering visitors’ questions about Tibetan culture and
practice. (A sand mandala is a traditional meditation piece made from
millions of grains of coloured sand.) MOA is also creating a series of
school programs in which children can learn about Tibetan culture while
creating their own butter sculpture. Call 604.822.5978 for details.

Michael Mel Lecture 
Tuesday, November 10, 5:00 pm, Cecil Green Park Coach House, 6323 Cecil
Green Road, UBC (Free)
Performance artist, curator, and teacher Michael Mel is currently Senior
Lecturer and Head of Expressive Arts and Religious Education Department at
the University of Goroka. An expert in the local arts and oral traditions of
Papua New Guinea’s rich and diverse cultures, he focuses on issues of
cultural identity and survival, education through art, the understanding and
re-evaluation of indigenous wisdom, and the preservation of positive aspects
of local cultures. Co-sponsored by MOA and Green College.

Repatriating Stories: Catharine McClellan’s Subarctic Legacy: Lecture by
Julie Cruikshank
Tuesday, November 24, 4:00-5:30 pm, Michael M. Ames Theatre, Museum of
Anthropology (free for UBC staff, students, and faculty)
Julie Cruikshank is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at
UBC. Her ethnographic experience is rooted in the Yukon Territory, where she
lived and worked for many years, recording life stories with Athapaskan and
Tlingit elders.

Her presentation focuses on Catharine McClellan’s contributions to the
history of anthropology in Canada during her lifetime (1921-2009).
McClellan’s outstanding ethnographic research in the western Subarctic is
well known in North America; in Yukon communities, where she worked for six
decades, her contributions are legendary. Prof. Cruikshank will discuss
three new volumes of oral narratives McClellan recorded with Athapaskan
elders during the late 1940s and 1950s, now circulating in communities where
the narrators lived. The ongoing social life of these stories in Yukon
communities, Prof. Cruikshank argues, conveys much about ancient narrative
traditions, modern history, social relations and contemporary land claims.

Images: MOA & Shop by Goh Iromoto; Calvin Hunt canoe courtesy the artist;
MVG Installation by David Campion; Tibetan monk courtesy Sacred Art Tour;
Michael Mel photo courtesy the artist.

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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.

Café MOA Hours
Winter: through January 18, 2010: closed Mondays. Open Tuesdays 9:30 am to
7:30 pm. Open Wednesdays through Sundays 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. Closed December
25 & 26.

Please note that MOA's $55.5 million renewal project is still underway.
Although most galleries are now open to the public, construction continues
on the Multiversity Galleries (formerly Visible Storage) and MOA's major
temporary exhibition gallery. MOA's grand re-launch of ALL of our new spaces
is being planned for January 23 and 24, 2010.

 <http://www.moa.ubc.ca> 

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