[BCMA] Gleaners exhibition opening at Nanaimo Art Gallery

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> *Gleaners*
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> *January 24 – April 11, 2014*
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> *Nanaimo Art Gallery*
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> *150 Commercial Street*
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> *Nanaimo, BC, V9R 5G6*
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> *Opening: Friday, January 23  7:00pm*
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> *Artists: Sean Alward, Mary Atkinson, Joost Conijn, Randy Lee Cutler,
> Steven Davies, Michael Drebert, Joar Nango, Kara Uzelman and Agnes Varda*
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> *Curated by Jesse Birch*
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> Nanaimo Art Gallery presents *Gleaners.* This exhibition takes its name
> from Jean Francois Millet’s painting *The Gleaners* (1857), which depicts
> three peasant women hunched down picking the remainders of a harvest. The
> traditional practice of gleaning involves gathering and sharing forgotten
> or ignored food crops, but gleaning occurs whenever things or ideas that
> were once cast aside are given new value. In this exhibition Canadian and
> international artists *glean for stories*.
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> Storytellers acquire their tales through travel to distant places, slow
> engagement with a single place or idea, or a combination of the two. In
> *Gleaners*, the process of collecting stories is integrated within the
> narratives themselves. These tales are shared through a range of media
> including photography, video, sculpture, music, and word of mouth.
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> The exhibition will be accompanied by information about Nanaimo’s
> organized food gleaning programs courtesy of Nanaimo Foodshare.
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> *Free events and public programming:*
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> A talk and tour on the relationship between collecting and storytelling
> with artist Kara Uzelman and curator Jesse Birch on Saturday, January 24,
> 2pm.
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> Screenings of Agnes Varda’s* The Gleaners and I* will be held at 7pm on
> Friday February 13, Friday March 13, and Friday April 10, Nanaimo Art
> Gallery’s Art Lab
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> Gleaners: Salt Walk
> Saturday April 19, 2pm
> A Salt Walk with Randy Lee Cutler. Join artist Randy Lee Cutler for a walk
> through downtown Nanaimo exploring the enduring relationship that
> civilizations have had with salt, from its importance in food preservation
> and healing to more aesthetic and philosophical implications.
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> For information on programs related to the exhibition, including art-based
> activities for children and adults, visit our website at
> www.nanaimoartgallery.com.
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> Image: Joost Conijn,* Hout Auto/Wood Car, 2002, production still *
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> Thank you to our sponsors: British Columbia Arts Council, City of Nanaimo,
> Vancouver Island University. We acknowledge the financial assistance of
> the Province of British Columbia.
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> For more information please contact Chris Kuderle, (250) 740.6350
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