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-

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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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