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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US">We Are Kwantlen: Ancient Artifacts Connecting Home, Belonging, Place</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">January 18 – March 26</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ancient artifacts are usually seen as dusty bits and pieces dug up from the ground and disconnected from modern life and society. The Kwantlen Nation wants to change this perception with its new exhibit.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As the exhibit title suggests, ancient artifacts from the Kwantlen collection -- some of them reaching back in time more than 12,000 years -- speak of life in the deep past, but these artifacts also connect today’s Kwantlen
members with their traditional territory, with modern cultural practice, and with everyday life.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The focus of the <i>We Are Kwantlen</i> exhibit is dialogue and reflection -- the connection of modern people with an ancient past that endures and is remembered in many ways.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Important artifacts are not just made of stone and bone— they are also the living legacies of language and art, ceremony and personal ritual. The exhibit celebrates living connections with the past in large black-and-white
portraits, in stunning photographic landscapes, and in new art. It profiles Kwantlen members of today as they reflect on these ties, and their reflections are curated alongside important artifacts, including stone tools and weapons millennia-old, a baby basket
recovered from the muddy land that has kept it safe for more than 800 years, and a feast bowl that speaks of the importance of gathering.
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<p class="MsoNormal">After a ceremonial opening reception, the exhibit will open to the public on January 18.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For more details, please contact the museum at 604.532.3536 or
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Kobi Christian | Arts & Heritage Curator</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Recreation, Culture, and Parks Division | Township of Langley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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604.533.6090 Ext. 5007</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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