Out to the wonderful Museum of Anthropology

It was the last day of the Salish Weaving exhibit and also there was a fashion show to end the exhibit.  There was great attendance and loved the fact that as an "elder" I could sit in the first row.  The first two rows were reserved for elders...now that's a tradition I love!  The exhibit and show were amazing and I was seated next to a Sechelt First Nations man whose wife was in the fashion show and also is the curator of the Sechelt Museum.  We had a very interesting chat and to top everything off there was food at the end...bannock and grilled vegetables,  coffee and a soft drink.  I just love this place and will probably volunteer where we are no longer in Palm Springs for almost half a year.

This looks like a very interesting museum and another reason to visit the Sunshine Coast.  It's been forever since I've been there.

http://www.shishalh.com/about-sechelt-first-nation.php

And you could even try out your hand at weaving.

I sat in a very comfortable chair looking over these wonderful trees, stones, and creek.

I'll have to go back soon to see this new exhibit.

The fashion show....just wonderful examples of First Nation's weaving.  Most of the participants were weavers and wove the garments they displayed or they were woven by family members.

The food was wonderful!

Lovely walk around UBC today

It's 8:26 pm Saturday night and the rain has begun in earnest again.  Well,  at least it isn't an ice storm like Toronto is getting.

It was really quite delightful weather for a change.

Our first stop was the Bookstore as that was where I needed to get my parking pass for events at Cecil Green for the Faculty Women's Club.  Ah yes...academic gowns and motar board hats.

So I got a photo of these bilingual signs which are very new.

Amidst all the new,  these old stone buildings are what we remember most about our days at UBC over 50 years ago.

The place where Jim and I went for coffee after we reconnected walking at UBC is now a Triple O's.

This facility was just opened recently and I'm so glad to see it.  I also like the design and the placement right at the heart of UBC as we know it....the old main library and clock tower.

Looking down the mall where we met.

And lo and behold,  there is this handsome man....did I know "nodding" would lead to being married for 50 years!

Love the cherry blossom trees.

 The old "Faculty Club" that students occupied in 1968.  Jerry Rubin was talking at UBC and had a pig.  He asked, "Where can't students go?"  and so they had a "sit in" and occupied the Faculty Club...the pig lead the way.   It was on a Thursday when there were only classes in the morning so students could attend special events. We usually tried to organize our classes so we didn't have to go out on Thursdays so we weren't on campus that day.  The next day students were still in the Faculty Club so we went as well and were there when a prof convinced everyone to leave.  The students who had been there since the day before were glad to have an out.  The next week we had a day that was called a "teach in" ....students taking over the class.  In my classes,  this didn't last long.

These next photo is of what was called the Graduate Student Centre and we had many drinks there overlooking the ocean and mountains when Jim was doing his MA and I was doing my teacher training year.  It still seems to be a place for things related to graduate studies.

Well,  there wasn't anything like this in our day.

Always wonderful views around and often we listened to the old fog horns drone on accompanying the prof's lecture.  There was something quite wonderful about the sound of these old fog horns and the fog. No fog today.

Way to go Maxine!

Acid Baroque

I read about this exhibition in Scottsdale, Arizona in the Desert Sun.  It did sound rather fascinating.

Description

Mexican-American painter Claudio Dicochea works at the intersection of colonialism, art history and contemporary popular culture in order to re-examine the concept of mestizaje or mixed race identity as well as the issue of media stereotyping today. Using the Casta painting model as a framing device for his resolutely contemporary works, Dicochea engages a broad diversity of cross-border topics, figures and references from pop culture, including celebrities, film and television stars, comics and history. His work is an interrogation of the process of re-appropriation of culture, historical models and current media. It is also a critique of the role that the visual arts have played, and continue to play, in shaping the social constructs of race, gender, and class in our society.

Organized by Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.

https://smoca.org