Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

Event Description

CreativeMornings/Victoria is pleased to present our July speaker, Kay Gallivan. This artist talk will focus on the capacity for public art to either foster or destabilize a sense of being “at home” for people who live in a neighbourhood. The main project discussed in the talk will be the Tiny Town transitional housing unit, and other public art projects will also be drawn from. The discussion will be open-ended and collaborative, with the audience invited to share their own expertise. This talk is part of CreativeMornings July theme of "home." You can spend a lifetime looking for a sense of home. Sometimes we must leave our home in order to find it. In his poem “Journey Home,” Rabindranath Tagore writes, “The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own.” ... more...