Return To The Falls
by James Trevelyan
Exhibition Dates
July 9-19
Venue
Opening Reception
July 8
6:30 to 7:30
Followed by a free preview of
“Shakespeare In Love”
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
This year is the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Falls series at the Leighton Colony Banff Centre.
The theme was inspired by the memory of my late father H.G. Trevelyan, who was an avid mountaineer and resident of Lake Louise in the 1930s. Growing up in Calgary our family would visit the rockies frequently, hiking up the numerous falls in the Banff-Lake Louise area.
About the Land
“Return To The Falls” is on display at the historical Walterdale Theatre building, originally the Strathcona Fire Hall Number 1 built in 1910, in what is currently known as Edmonton, Alberta.
The Walterdale Theatre acknowledges that our theatre is located on Treaty 6, a traditional territory of the Cree and has been an important trading place of the Saulteaux, Blackfoot, Nakota Sioux, Dene, Saulteau, and Métis peoples of western Canada for many thousands of years. We also recognize and honour that we are Treaty people and therefore seek to uphold the spirit and intent of this Treaty of Peace and Friendship.
The Alberta Society of Artists (ASA) acknowledges that what we call Alberta, where our organization has found its’ home, is the traditional and ancestral territory of many peoples, presently subject to Treaties 6, 7, and 8. Namely: the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) Confederacy (Kainai, Piikani, and Siksika), the Nehiyawak (Cree), Dene Tha’ (Slavey), Dane-zaa (Beaver), Denesuliné (Chipewyan), Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, Iyarhe Nakoda (Stoney) (Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley), and the Tsuu T’ina Nation and the Métis People of Alberta. This includes the Métis Settlements and the Six Regions of the Métis Nation of Alberta within the historical Northwest Metis Homeland.
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