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Celebrate Creativity!

Celebrate Culture Days in Canada in Burnaby. Experience fun and free public programming at the Burnaby Village Museum, Burnaby Art Gallery and the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

Friday, September 29

• Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

  7-8pm	Visual Art Tour & Talk  Migrations: Birds and People  Gallery Spaces	By Artist/Curator Taslim Samji. An exhibition that addresses immigration by twelve Burnaby artists.
  7-8pm	Lecture: The Legacy of Potter John Reeve Studio Theatre	Nora Vaillant speaks about the legacy of potter John Reeve. Following an apprenticeship at the Leach Pottery, John Reeve (1929-2012) taught and made pots in Canada, the USA and England. This lecture presents his work in stoneware, porcelain and earthenware.
  7-8pm	Lecture: My 50th Year in Photography - The Sequel Studio 105	Henri Robideau is a photographer and cultural narrator. His life in photography spans nearly five decades. This lecture is a continuation of his Capture Festival talk that took place last spring.
  8-9pm	Culture Days Reception Studio 103	Free admission | All ages | Drop-in

Saturday, September 30

• Burnaby Village Museum

  12noon-4pm

  Culture Days at the Carousel

  Village is closed. Carousel rides $2.65 Everyone is invited to make a carousel thaumatrope and a special Culture Day pin, play carnival games and enjoy the creative skills of Sylvia the Balloon Lady.

• Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

  10am-4pm	The Station/Steam Plant Open House
  10am-12noon & 12:30-2:30pm	Tintype Photography Demos Atrium/Plaza	Witness Phillip Chin, dressed in period costume; demonstrate how this historical practice captures an image directly onto a metal plate using 150-year-old formula and large format camera. This slow, meticulous hand-crafted process offers a depth and beauty to a portraiture not found anywhere else.
  11am-1pm & 11am-2pm	Art Activity  Migrations: Birds and People Exhibit 11am-1pm Atrium 11am-2pm Centre Aisle and Encores Gallery Spaces	A large map outlining lines of migration of birds and people is the center piece of an exhibition by the same name. Artist/Curator Taslim Samji will lead an activity where participants add their own legacy to the map. All ages are welcome, children under 12 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.
  1-1:30pm	Community Umbrella Dance Project South Plaza	Audience/viewing welcomed. Registration and rehearsals required for participation.
  1:30-2:30pm	#dancehappy Studio Theatre	A dance class for all bodies that want to move! Dancers and dance lovers of all ages and experience welcome. Come and #dancehappy with us!
  1-4pm	Ceramic Woodfire Unload  The Station	Visit with our Summer 2017 Artist-in-Residence Sharon Reay with her expressive and delightful sculptural figures and functional pottery in the Steam Plant. See firsthand the results of pottery glazed in molten wood ash as it is taken out of the kiln.

Sunday, October 1

• Burnaby Art Gallery

  10-11:30am	Deer Lake Plant Walk Main Gallery	Registration recommended.
  10am-12noon & 1-3pm	Sun Printing Lawn	Registration recommended.

• Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

  1-4pm

  Poetry Reading with Jonina Kirton Studio Theatre

  Guest reader Jonina Kirton is a prairie born Metis/Icelandic poet, graduated from Simon Fraser University's Writer's Studio in 2007. Jonina received the 2016 Mayor's Arts Award for Emerging Artist under the Literacy Arts category. Her second collection of poetry, An Honest Women, was released with Talonbooks in April 2017.