[BCMA] "A Common Thread" Weaving Stó:lō, South Asian & Mennonite Textile Traditions - Sept 24 – Jan 3 -The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford

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Kat Wahamaa
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t 604 864 8087 x 124
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The Reach
Gallery Museum Abbotsford
32388 Veterans Way
Abbotsford, BC V2T 0B3
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A Common Thread: Textiles from Stó:lō, South Asian and Mennonite Communities
September 24 – January 3
The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford
32388 Veterans Way
 
The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford, working in collaboration with the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) Faculty of Arts, The UFV Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies, the Mennonite Central Committee BC(MCCBC), Stó:lō First Nations educators and artisans and the Maiwa Foundation, opened A Common Thread: Textiles from Stó:lō, South Asian and Mennonite Communities on September 24.  A Common Thread explores a tapestry of cultural traditions from weaving to quilting to the story-telling that embroiders each piece of work.
 
Artist Lois Klassen’s Comforter Art-Action: Princess City installation is part of the exhibition.  Since 2001 Klassen has hosted Comforter Art-Action, an ongoing material response to human displacement that has involved over 200 individuals and groups from over 20 countries and was recently featured at The Glenbow Museum’s Sew City exhibition in Calgary.
 
On September 26 from 1 to 5 pm the Reach will host A Common Thread Forum.  Speakers include:
Princess Urmila Devi - India - Treasured Textiles from Private Collections
Gordon Mohs - Stó:lō Weaving Traditions
Lois Klassen - Comforter Art-Action and other Bedtime stories 
Val Pankratz - Quilt Trunk Show

RSVP to kwahamaa at thereach.ca if you plan to attend the forum.

Tuesday, October 20 at 7 pm author Stephen Huyler will discuss his book Daughters of India: Art and Identity. In this lecture he will present individual profiles and place them in context of broader Indian textile arts and the development of women’s creativity as a part of their own personal empowerment.
 
Dr. Elizabeth Wayland Barber speaks on her book Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth and Society in Early Times on Thursday, October 29 at 7 pm.  Dr. Barber illustrates how the economic engine of the ancient and early modern worlds was the fabric of industry and almost the exclusive province of women. Dr. Barber is Professor of Archaeology and Linguistics and co-chair of the Classics Program at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
 
Also opening on September 24, Stories to pass on … by Deanna Bowen, September 24 to November 8 in The Great Hall  and Passions in Abstract  by Myrtle-Anne Rempel, SFCA, CSPWC,  September 24 to November 1 in The Grotto and South Gallery. The Reach is located at 32388 Veteran’s Way (corner of Trethewey and South Fraser Way) in Abbotsford.
 
Admission to the exhibitions, talks and forum is free. For more information please visit thereach.ca or call 604-864-8087.
 
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Kat Wahamaa
Cultural Programs Manager
t 604 864 8087 x 124
f 604 864 8048 
The Reach
Gallery Museum Abbotsford
32388 Veterans Way
Abbotsford, BC V2T 0B3
thereach.ca