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	Distinguished Service: The Royal Newfoundland Regiment in the Great War January 3 to March 1, 2006 - Level 3
	Sunday Show and Tell Schedule The Evening Lecture Series Schedule
	*Siqiniq : Under the Same Sun* January 22 - June 28, 2006 - Level 2
	*Labrador Through Moravian Eyes* February 11 - May 28, 2006 - Level 2
	*Labrador Cultural Landscapes: 1969-1986* February 16 - June 18 , 2006 - In the Atrium
	*Cities of Canada: The Seagram Collection* December 16 to April 24, 2006 - Level 4
	Beauty Queens January 20 to May 21, 2006 - Level 3
	*Stages* January 3 to May 14, 2006 - Level 4
	*Where Wonder, What Weight* February 3 to May 14, 2006 - Level 4

Featured Exhibit

This exhibition documents the lives and experiences of the province’s soldiers and aims to encourage interest in Provincial Archives Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Located on level three at The Rooms, the exhibition focuses on the World War I service records of the Regiment, available at the archives on microfilm for the first time in this Province.

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Special Events:

Sunday Show & Tell

Evening Lectures

Exhibits:


	*Siqiniq : Under the Same Sun* January 22 - June 28, 2006

Level 2

An action-packed interactive exhibit from the Canadian Children’s Museum - Canadian Museum of Civilization that transports young people to a small community in the Eastern Arctic. They’ll experience life there and come to appreciate just how similar, and how different, they are from the Inuit who call it home. More


	*Labrador Through Moravian Eyes* February 11 - May 28, 2006

Level 2

Missionaries from Eastern Europe arriving in Northern Labrador more than 250 years ago had a profound and lasting affect on the Inuit who converted to their faith. This exhibit uses Moravian reports, maps, paintings and photographs to show almost every aspect of life in the mission stations from their point of view.


	*Labrador Cultural Landscapes: 1969-1986* February 16 - June 18 , 2006

In the Atrium

An exhibit by photographer Candace Cochrane that reveals the relationship of the Labrador Inuit to the land where they have lived for centuries - a cultural landscape known by heart, without the use of maps or road signs. More

Featured Exhibit:


	*Cities of Canada: The Seagram Collection* December 16 - April 24, 2006 / Level 4


	*Beauty Queens* January 20 - May 21, 2006 / Level 3

Beauty Queens explores concepts of identity and cultural autonomy within the unique situation of island experience. Drawn from Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and Vancouver Island, as well as the international settings of Ireland, Hawaii, and Trinidad, this exhibition presents the work of thirteen artists whose work emerges from and reflects upon their island settings. A joint project of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Confederation Centre Art Gallery and The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery. The exhibition is curated by Lisa Baldissera, Bruce Johnson, and Shauna McCabe. Featuring Artists:
Gerald Beaulieu, John G. Boehme, Gaye Chan, Christopher Cozier, Susan Dayal, Jim Hansen, Barb Hunt, Daniel Jewesbury,Melinda Morey, Wendy Nanan, Marianne Nicolson, Judith Scherer, Dan Shipsides


	*Stages* January 3 - May 14, 2006 / Level 4

Preliminary sketches and paintings from the Art Gallery’s permanent collection reveal the metamorphic nature of the creative process. Artists include: David Blackwood, Rhoda Dawson, A.Y. Jackson, David Milne, Helen Parsons Shepherd, Rae Perlin, Christopher Pratt, Gerald Squires, Tony Urquhart and Don Wright.


	*Where Wonder, What Weight* February 3 - May 14, 2006 / Level 4

St. John’s artists Will Gill and Beth Oberholtzer join in a collaborative exhibition of sculpture and installation. Exploring intersections between the personal and the cultural, the artists explore subjects including human conflict, spirituality, sexual identity and the environment.

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