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Archives
Archival Mysteries: Where Is It? |
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| On-going |
Archival Mysteries: Where Is It? is the first in a series of archival exhibitions featuring unidentified material from the collections of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division. It features photographs, digitally reproduced from glass plate negatives, which although are beautiful, remain a mystery in terms of their geographical location within Newfoundland and Labrador. Visitors to The Rooms are encouraged to submit suggestions on image locations to assist staff in the identification process for these historic images. |
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Archives
Discovering Bartlett: An Archival Exploration |
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As part of the Celebrating Bartlett 2009 commemorative year and to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1909 expedition to the North Pole, The Rooms is featuring an exhibition of archival records relating to the life and career of Captain Robert Abram (Bob) Bartlett, the Bartlett family, and Hawthorne Cottage ¿the family residence in Brigus. The exhibition highlights textual records, photographic images and certificates from the newly acquired Parks Canada Collection of Bartlett records that are also available to the public for research.
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Museum
Connections: This Place and Its Early Peoples |
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Come face to face with a polar bear on the tundra. Look closely at carnivorous plants in a bog. Marvel at seabirds, sea mammals, and all kinds of sea life. And meet the peoples who came to make their lives on the land and from the sea. |
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Stroll the grounds of Fort Townsend where British soldiers marched and police paraded. Inside, interpretive panels tell the story of this 18th century symbol of England’s domination over the international fishery and the proud history of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary who have made the site their home since 1870. |
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Art Gallery
Deanne Fitzpatrick: Darkening the Door |
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| Friday, December 12, 2008 to Sunday, March 22, 2009 - Level 3 |
Based on Deanne Fitzpatrick's experiences exploring her family connection to Placentia, Newfoundland, this exhibition of hooked rugs explores the importance of visiting – "what it is to knock upon the door unannounced", as she puts it. Fitzpatrick has exhibited widely and her work is included in various public collections. She has written books about rug hooking and operates a rug hooking studio in Amherst, Nova Scotia. |
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Art Gallery
Michele Karch-Ackerman: The Lost Boys |
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| Thursday, October 16, 2008 to Friday, January 09, 2009 - Level 4 |
Please join us for the public reception for Michele Karch-Ackerman: The Lost Boys, Thursday October 16, 2008. Everyone is welcome.
In The Lost Boys, Karch-Ackerman explores a generation’s transition from childhood to adulthood, during the harrowing events of World War 1, when conscription or a sense of duty led many young people to the battlefields of Europe and to the abrupt end of childhood innocence. Weaving together fictional tales with biographical stories of so many lives lost in the First World War, the artist honours and pays tribute to these “Lost Boys,” referencing found photographs, and incorporating hand-knitted sweaters and other domestic materials.
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| Friday, September 26, 2008 to Sunday, January 25, 2009 - Level 3 |
Please join us for the public reception for Newtopia; Friday, September 26 at 7:30 pm, everyone is welcome.
Newtopia explores key developments in modern Newfoundland, considering the ‘new’ province’s early decades as a series of Utopian experiments. The exhibition focuses specifically on the post-Confederation period, when nascent industrialization spawned a series of major, idealistic development projects. The show assembles artists whose investigations tackle visionary Modernist design, the Cold-War American presence, Smallwood-era industrialization and the current lure of big oil. Curated by Bruce Johnson, Newtopia features installations by John Haney, Janaki Lennie, Scott Walden and Peter Wilkins.
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Art Gallery
Raymond Roddick: Trauma Sutra |
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| Friday, September 26, 2008 to Sunday, January 25, 2009 - Level 3 |
Please join us for the public reception for Raymond Roddick: Trauma Sutra, Friday September 26, 7:30 pm. Everyone is welcome.
In Trauma Sutra, wall-mounted steel sculptures reveal patterns of raised marks; these polished, metal ‘welts’ are the signs of impact, created by bullets from a .357 handgun, precisely targeted. Accompanying these sculptures is a series of subtle, process paintings that blur boundaries between representation and minimal abstraction. An essay by guest writer, Dr. Peter Trnka, accompanies the show. Trauma Sutra is the third of The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery’s ongoing Space-Based exhibition series |
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