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Join MOA for a series of special public tours of the feature exhibition Nuxalk Strong, led by a selection of activists and community leaders.These special tours enrich your exhibition experience through a unique community lenses that focuses on Indigenous culture, activism and identity. Nuxalk Strong: Dancing Down the Eyelashes of the Sun is a powerful exhibition of healing and sovereignty. Through this exhibition the Nuxalk Nation demonstrates their resurgence and return to Stl’mstaliwa—the full human experience. Nuxalk Strong illustrates how the Nation is bringing back ancestral governance, laws and protocols, revitalizing language, stewarding lands and waters, and awakening spirituality and ceremony by re-opening Nuslhiixwta, family treasure boxes that contain names, crests, songs, dances and regalia.
These 45-minute exhibition tours will give visitors the opportunity to engage with the themes and ideas of the exhibition, including complex identities, language revitalization, activism and Nuxalk sovereignity.
Capacity of 25 people per tour; first come, first served.
Schedule
Select Thursdays | 7 pm
August 28: Nuskmata–Jacinda Mack, Nuxalk and Secwepemc land defender, community organizer and researcher
September 25: Gerry Lawson, MOA’s Oral History + Language Lab Manager
October 30: Nunanta–Iris Siwallace, Nuxalk ancestral governance researcher
LEARN MORE: https://moa.ubc.ca/event/nuxalk-strong-not-your-average-tours/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
6393 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V6T 1Z2
