Against the Current: Orca + Salmon

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Salt Spring Arts Council, "Against the Current: Orca + Salmon," 2020

Against the Current: Orca + Salmon

This multi-media event, initiated by the SSAC, and inspired by Orca Soundings, will engage the Salt Spring community and school youth in learning and deepening their understanding of Art and the Environment, specifically Orca and Salmon. Art in the hall will inform the workshops and talks and offer participants the opportunity to explore their thoughts, feelings and actions related to our changing natural environment with a focus on Orca & Salmon.

Artists in the exhibit include Karin Beviere, Matteo Bishop, Paul Burke, Anna Gustafson, Quentin Harris, Tracy Harrison, Joyce Majiski, Jane MacKenzie, Quinn Masselink, Briony Penn, Natasha Van Netten, Meave Wilde, Mr. Lightfoot’s 2018/19 Grade 5 class, Salt Sping Centre school students, many students in all elementary and middle schools on Salt Spring.

Art created by youth and the community will be an important accumulative component of the event. Come and learn about our Southern Resident Killer Whale population and how artists have responded to their predicament.

February 14 at 7pm at Mahon Hall: Opening night of Against the Current: Orca+Salmon will feature a showing of the documentary film To the Orca, With Love. Directed by Natalie Lucien and with Rob Stewart, David Suzuki, Paul Spong, Alexandra Morton. Its Valentines Day, lets show the Southern Resident Orcas our love! 7pm at Mahon Hall – $10 at the door. What we do to nature, we do to ourselves.

Workshops: Art Makers Lab, A Naturalist’s Sketchbook: The Salish Sea w/Briony Penn, for ages 6-13. Sat, Jan. 25, Feb.1, 8 + 15 from 10-1pm @ Mahon Hall. $165 all materials included. To register https://ssartscouncil.com/product/art-lab-sketchbook/. Bursaries available.

Mixed-Media Accordion Book-Making w/Joyce Majiski ( SSAC Artist in Residence) – for ages 16+, Sat+Sun, Feb. 22+23, 10-4pm at Mahon Hall, $195 +GST. To register https://ssartscouncil.com/product/accordion-book/

Willow Sculpture Family Workshop w/Sarah Hyams – Sat, Feb. 22, 10-1pm at Mahon Hall, free drop in, please rsvp @ wor@ssartscouncil.com or call 250-537-0899 Exhibition – Feb. 14-23 from 10-5pm each day at Mahon Hall. Please RSVP at wor@ssartscouncil.com or call 250-537-0899

Salmon Stencils by Quentin Harris – Participatory Art Making – daily – Add  your art to the exhibit! Come and color or write poetry on a chinook salmon and offer it to the Orcas.

Talks

Tuesday, Feb. 18 from 5:30-7pm – Let the Herring Live – Join us in partnership with Pacific Wild to welcome Hereditary Chief of Tsawout Erick Pelkey and Marine Science Specialist Vanessa Minke-Martin in their talk on herring. They will discuss the restoration of the Salish Sea’s distinct herring populations in order to bring vitality back to communities for whom herring was a foundational species. This includes the effect this has on our Southern Resident Orca population who feed on Chinook Salmon who in turn feed on the herring.  Exhibit runs from 10-5pm that day.

Thursday, Feb. 20 from 5:30-7pm –  Cetacea – Join us during the Against the Current: Orca+Salmon exhibit to hear Michael deRoos B.Sc. and Michi Main M.Sc. discuss their work in restoring whale skeletons for museum exhibits. Their talk with focus on Orca’s and their recent adventures in Australia. Cetacea has elevated the science of marine and terrestrial skeleton articulation to artistic process. Using the finest quality craftsmanship, Cetacea excels in its field creating exhibits that capture subjects as they would be found in the natural world. Projects are meticulously managed from start to finish so that each skeleton is precisely articulated and entirely unique. Exhibit runs from 10-5pm that day.