Where The Rivers Meet
Where The Rivers Meet is a display within the City Gallery that centers the Original Peoples who have been on this land since time immemorial. It includes information about migration,…
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Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Unsettling The Grand: Legacies of Settlement in the Grand River Valley, from 1700 to the Present Day
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaWhat do John Galt and the Canada Company, the Upper and Lower Canadian Rebellions of 1837-38, a canal-building enterprise, and current (and future) land claims all have in common? Using a Two-Eyed Seeing approach, this exhibition examines the failed enterprise of the Grand River Navigation Company (1832-1861) as a lens through which we can explore…
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Light A Candle To Curse The Dark
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaAmid the pomp and plump of Canada’s sesquicentennial, fifteen metalsmiths from across the country marked the occasion by crafting new sculptures from melted-down post-Confederation silver. Each piece is an expression of form and function – art object and candleholder – that, together, nod to the past and offer a glimpse of the future. The original…
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Spotlight Series: Marjan Kaviani
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaThe Spotlight Series centres the work of contemporary artists in dialogue with past and present-day lived experiences in the place we call Guelph. Recognizing that the month of November invites reflections of remembrance, the Spotlight Series broadens understandings of war through the lens of two contemporary conflicts, in Ukraine and Iran. This instillation features the…
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Spotlight Series: Taras Lachowsky
The Spotlight Series centres the work of contemporary artists in dialogue with past and present-day lived experiences in the place we call Guelph. Recognizing that the month of November invites reflections of remembrance, the Spotlight Series broadens understandings of war through the lens of two contemporary conflicts, in Ukraine and Iran. This installation by Ukrainian…
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Tales From the Hill: Guelph Guild of Storytellers
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaTales from the Hill is presented by the Guelph Guild of Storytellers and features a guest teller in addition to Guild tellers. The evening includes hot cider, light refreshments, and…
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Reading Between The Rows: In Conversation with Our Waters
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaTeioháte Kaswenta, or Two Row Wampum, was made between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and early settler-colonial states (1613, 1664). It symbolized 'Two Peoples' – settler and Indigenous…
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Military Lecture: From Wartime Refuge to Peaceful Hippie Haven: Generations of Youth on Grindstone Island
Learn how a private island on Big Rideau Lake, Ontario was presented, experienced, and embodied as a refuge for youth endangered by or alarmed by war. Between 1917 and 1963,…
