<div dir="ltr"><b>We sincerely apologize if you have received this twice.</b><div><b>We had some problems with our email server last week and we were not able to see if it was successfully sent or not.</b></div><div><b>It contains time sensitive materials as the event is this Thursday, March 24.</b></div><div><b>Thank you for your patience!</b></div><div><br></div><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Public
Service<span style="letter-spacing:-0.6pt"> </span>Announcement</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a name="OLE_LINK11"></a><a name="OLE_LINK10"></a><a name="OLE_LINK9"></a><a name="OLE_LINK6"></a><a name="OLE_LINK5"></a><a name="OLE_LINK4"></a><a name="OLE_LINK3"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Unique Collaboration between the
Vernon & District Museum & Archives and the Caetani Centre:</span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a name="OLE_LINK1"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">UK artist Rebecca Key creates
installation based on Caetani artifacts and story<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Reception and
Conversation with the Artist: Thursday, March 24, 7 – 9 pm</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(38,38,38)">At the Greater Vernon Museum and Archives</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="OLE_LINK8"></a><a name="OLE_LINK7"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Rebecca Key </span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">is
an artist based in the North West of the United Kingdom. She has exhibited
internationally, and also worked as an art director in the film and television
industry. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Key uses objects to examine the relationship
between artist and gallery space. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">She
uses set dressing to explore myths that surrounds the creative process within
the institution, and other specific sites.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Key is in Vernon for a unique Caetani Centre
residency in collaboration with the Vernon Museum during the month of March. Key
has undertaken extensive research on Vernon’s Caetani family, as well as with
archival material and objects from the Caetani family, located in the Vernon
Museum, and the installation will also include her own photographs taken in
response to her own research on the enigmatic and mysterious Caetani family. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Key’s area of concentration has been the time
period following the death of Sveva Caetani’s father, Leone, in 1934, to the
death of her mother, Ofelia, in 1960. As many local residents are aware, this
was the period of time that the young Sveva was kept a virtual prisoner in her
own home, for approximately 25 years, not allowed out of her house for the
first three years, and restricted to the grounds and short excursions into town
for the remainder. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Sveva
was encouraged to read, but vehemently denied the freedom to write, draw or
paint. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Following her mother’s death, she was to emerge
into the community, eventually able to obtain her teaching certificate from the
University of Victoria, and returned to the North Okanagan to become a
respected teacher, mentor, artist and writer for many years before her own
death in 1994.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Rebecca's
investigation focuses on this 25 year period of Sveva's life, using
archival objects and new visual metaphors to illustrate the relationship
between this mother and daughter, and the dynamic similitude of love and
control, isolation and suffocation. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Key says about her residency: “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Reading texts by Heidi Thompson and Karen Avery
offer exceptional insight. I am pleased to be able to stay in the house where
she (Sveva) and her mother (Ofelia) spent the many years following the death of
her father. This will be a great piece of work to engage dialogue with all ranges
of people, to talk about the life of such a unique and generous woman.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">In a
review by The Washington Post, they wrote about Rebecca Key’s previous work:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">"<i>Once
we're familiar with a place, we almost always tune it out. Key jolts us awake
by making the familiar strange. For a moment, at least, we're aware of what
surrounds us</i>."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The public is invited to attend a reception and conversation
with the artist on Thursday March 24<sup>th</sup>, beginning at 7pm at the
Vernon Museum, where Rebecca will give short introduction to the work and will
answer questions about the installation, her research and the Caetani family,
along with Caetani Centre's executive director Susan Brandoli. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Rebecca's
residency is funded by Arts Council England, and she is currently studying a
practice-based PhD at the Art & Design Research Institute at Middlesex
University, London, financially supported by the BBC Grace Wyndham Goldie Trust
and The Snowdon Trust.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.45pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">For<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> more </span>information<span style="letter-spacing:0.6pt"> </span>please<span style="letter-spacing:-0.35pt"> </span>visit
our website </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.caetani.ca"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">http://www.caetani.ca</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">CON<span style="letter-spacing:-0.8pt">T</span>ACT<span style="letter-spacing:0.45pt"> </span>INFO:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">For more information please contact:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Caetani
Centre – 250-275-1525</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"></span></b></p>
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