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Robin Metcalfe has been Director/Curator of Saint Mary's University Art Gallery in Halifax, since 2004, and was previously Curator of Contemporary Art at Museum London. Widely published as a writer, he has a particular interest in diasporic, post-colonial and Queer identities; in gender and the body.

Ursula Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist from Nova Scotia with Mi’kmaw ancestry. She graduated with a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. Her art draws upon performance, installation and sculpture, often incorporating traditional Mi’kmaw basketry. Johnson explores the impact of colonialism on Indigenous material and linguistic culture, and challenges the museological and ethnographic frame imposed upon it. She has been a finalist for the Salt Spring National Art Prize and twice long-listed for the Sobey Art Award.

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Join us for coffee and conversation.

“The Drawing Bar” is public programming for “grown-ups”. As the title suggests, one Thursday night per month, there is a cash bar to go along with drawing activities.

Building a destination; Possibilities for our next 50 years

Renoir’s anti-war masterpiece. A French captain in World War I and his mechanic are shot down and captured. What follows is an examination of class differences, friendship, love between enemies, and a series of mostly failed escape plans. In French with English subtitles.

In 1980s El Salvador, young Chava tries to piece together a normal life in a world that is being destroyed around him by civil war. Based on the true story of a child soldier. In Spanish with English subtitles.

A talk by Dr. Gabe Rosenberg of Duke University

A Talk by Dr. Gabe Rosenberg