Chesa Restaurant: Shirley
Newton, Joan Frawr. To June
7.

Ferry Building Gallery:

Landscapes. The artwork of
Bob Araki, Tony Bruno,
Barrie Chadwick, Ross
Munro and Lynn Onley. May
26-June 14. Gallery hours:
noon. to 6 p.m., closed
Mondays.

North Vancouver District
Hall: Jacquie Morgan,
Watercolor paintings, and
Nellie Viaar, ceramics. To

June 25, Artist’s reception
June 11, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Exhibit is a program of the
N.V. Community Arts
Council.

North Vancouver Museum
and Archives: Muscum
closed June 1-25.

PGE Railway Station:
Arrivals and Departures:
Railways in North Vancouver.

. _ ‘NEWS photo cindy ‘Goodman
TAP dancer Tanya Phelps doffs her hat in rehearsal for the Anna Wyman Schoo! of Dance Arts year-end
recital 7 p.m. Sunday, June 14 at Centennial Theatre. Tickets: 926-6535.

An exhibition of archival
photographs and artifacts
dealing with North
Vancouver’s railway history
from 1914. Noon to 4 p.m.,
Weds. to Sun. Foot of
Lonsdale.

Presentation House
Gallery: Running Fence.
Geoftrey James' new project
analyzes the idea of “bor-

Friday, June 5, 1998 — North Shore News — 15

invitation
TO - THE - DANCE

“The liuxwindw's voice is heard all over the world. Assemble at
veur places dancers! at the edge of the world.”
— (from Hamasas song La’Lastquala, published in 1893}.

John Goodman
This Week Editor

YESTERDAY the Vancouver Art Gallery unveiled
the largest collection of Northwest Coast masks
ever assembled in one place for their massive
summer exhibit Down From the Shimmering Sky:
Mases of the Nortinvest Coast (June 4 to Oct. 12).

Museums and collectors from around the world have con-
tibuted more than )75 items tor the show curated by Robert
Joseph (a Kwakwaka’wakw
chiet}, Peter Macnair (former
curator of anthropoiogy at
the Royal British Columbia
Museum) and Bruce Grenville
(senior curator for the
Vancouver Art Gallery).

Two Nuu-chah-nulth
masks return to B.C. for the
first time since they were
takea to Europe by the
Captain Cook Expedition in
1778. .

One valuabie object from
the village of Kitkath is made
of stone. “We don’t know it’s
age but it’s antiquity is with-
out question,” says Macnair.
“It looks forward in time, it
looks backward. It is an
incredible piece.”

Getting the mask was
quite a coup tor the gallery.
Macnair travelled around the
province visiting First Nations
representatives with Robert
Joseph. “We went into
Robert Hill's office, he’s head
of the Tsimshian tribal council
in Prince Rupert, and
explained the concept of the
exhibit and he said immedi-
ately ‘phone George
MacDonald at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and tell
him ro send the stone mask,” recalls Macnair,

“I chink chat indicates: the kind of support ard participation
we vor from the First Nations groups in this venture. There are
many muscums thar fecl so possessive of these objects that
under no circumstances will they let ther go.”

The national museum is one of the major contributors to
the exhibit along with the Roval British Columbia Museum in
Victoria, the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. and the
Peabody Museum at Harvard.

The gallery has organized the collection into five sections:
the Human Face Divine precedes the four dimensions of the
First Nations’ cosmology - The Sky World, The Mortal World,
The Undersea World and The Spirit World. Two two-storey
galleries feature tableaux of figures engaged in aspects of ritual
performance, including the Hamatsa cult.

Among the artists in the exhibit are Robert Davidson,
Charles Edenshaw (side by side with his greatgrandsons who

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ders” with 32 large-format
black and white photographs
of the U.S./Mexican border.
To June 7. Kennedy
Bradshaw’s Yukon Friends.
photographs from the Keno
City mining museum, circa
1950, provide an intimate
look at a typical “company”
town., Opens June 13 at 2
p.m. with a lecture by curator

Robin Armour entitled Four
Photographers in 55 years in
the Yukon; 1900 ta 19355.
Gallery hours: Weds. to Sun.
noon to § p.m., Thursdays
noon to 9 p.m, Phone: 986-
1351.

Ron Andrews RecCentre:

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