<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="margin:4.95pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">August 1, 2019</span></p>
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Announcement</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:2.55pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sharing experiences and broadening
connection: a potluck and free workshop on racialization, stereotypes and
allyship. <br>
</span><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Armstrong-raised Romi Kim, Caetani
Cultural Centre’s current artist-in-residence, is hosting a conversation about
being human and doing better.</span></i><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
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workshop and potluck will be on Thursday August 22<sup>nd</sup> from 5-7pm in
the Caetani Centre’s Studio Gallery.</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> “As a second-generation Korean Canadian queer person,
I’m continuously questioning how I see myself and how others see me. I spent my
pubescent years in Armstrong, the population of Koreans being just my family.”</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Because
of this, Kim searches for stories of belonging to explain society and its
hierarchies. </span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Romi
Kim obtained her BFA at the University of Victoria in W̱SÁNEĆ and Lekwungen
peoples territories in a double major of Visual Arts and Gender Studies and,
after spending 2 years in South Korea, has returned to the North Okanagan after
being awarded one of Caetani Cultural Centre’s 2-month Fresh!AiR Artist-in-Residence
spots.</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">She
primarily works within an interdisciplinary approach in video, installation,
and performance, so, <em>in addition to searching through histories of the Caetani house,
Kim returned to her old home in Armstrong to do a performance piece, walking
the streets of in full drag, wearing a handmade paper gown inspired by Sveva
Caetani's gown.</em></span></p>
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information please visit </span><a href="http://www.caetani.org" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">www.caetani.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> or contact the Caetani
Centre at 250-275-1525.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="margin:0.45pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-7123904794742492869gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Janelle Hardy<div>Artist in Residence Program Coordinator<br>Caetani Cultural Centre</div><div><a href="http://www.caetani.org/creative-residencies" target="_blank">www.caetani.org/creative-residencies</a></div><div>250 275-1525<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>