[BCMA] Traveling Exhibit- 150 Years and Counting - Fighting for Justice on the Coast - Call for Expressions of Interest

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To Museums/Galleries/Archives on the Coast:
150 Years and Counting: Fighting for Justice on the Coast
A Call for Expressions of Interest

The UVIC Asian Canadians on Vancouver Island project calls on interested museums and galleries to submit supporting letters for a grant application to develop a travelling exhibit 150 Years and Counting: Fighting for Justice on the Coast. Letters should include a brief explanation of why such an exhibit is worthwhile in the context of 2017, the 150th anniversary of confederation, and what contributions your institution might make to such a project (see explanation below).

Summary:
The Asian Canadians on Vancouver Island: Race, Indigeneity and the Transpacific project (http://vi-asiancanadians.ca) is submitting an application for a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant: Connecting for Canada’s 150th to develop a traveling exhibit, 150 Years and Counting: Fighting for Justice on the Coast. This exhibit will tell the stories of fifteen people—unsung and neglected champions for justice such as Cowichan Chief Charlie Isipaymit, who went to London to meet the King and demand land justice in 1906; Lee Yau Kain of Victoria, who led the fight against the head tax in 1884; Tomey Homma, who won the right to vote for Asian Canadians in 1901 only to have it snatched away by the BC Government; Kwakwa̱ ka̱ʼwakw Chief Dan Cranmer, who defended the right to Potlatch in 1921, only to be arrested by authorities; Mayo Singh, who established Paldi, the first multicultural community in BC; Bessie Tang, who organized among young Chinese Canadian women in Victoria; and Darshan Singh Sangha who brought non-white woodworkers from Victoria to Cumberland into the IWA, winning equal pay for the first time. The exhibit will provide a critical, popular history of the past 150 years, one that gives priority of place to the stories of First Nations, Asian Canadians and their allies who fought for justice on the Coast, unceded territories of the Coast Salish, Nuu-chah-Nulth, and Kwakwa̱ ka̱ʼwakw peoples.

The Grant:
SSHRC Connections 150 grants will provide funding of up to $50,000 on condition that the applicant finds cash or in-kind contributions equal to 50 percent of the grant. We are therefore seeking letters that will include financial commitments of in-kind (staff time, space leasing, etc) or cash, and an indication of how long the exhibit might run in specific sites.

Exhibit Scale:
The travelling exhibit we envisage will be flexible, modular and include a core exhibit requiring a minimum of 250 square feet, that can be expanded to 1000 square feet or more to include artwork, artifacts and local materials.

Duration:
The core exhibit will be ready by May 2017 (in time for the BC Studies Conference at Vancouver Island University) with the full exhibit ready by September, 2017.  Though the grant states all activities must be completed by early 2018 it also allows for activities aimed at longer-term partnerships and/or sustained programs of scholarly research.

Please Reply to acvi at uvic.ca<mailto:acvi at uvic.ca>

 John Price
Professor of History
University of Victoria,
Territories of the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSANEC Peoples
Room B 204, Clearihue Building
Tel: 250 721-7386
Fax: 250 721-8772

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