Last night we watched the first fireworks display in this year's Celebration of Light. It was probably more impressive from the beach but definitely not from the apartment terrace. It was a creation and presentation from the United Kingdom, accompanied by songs from Bond films...uninspiring!
This morning we joined Heather, Chris and Augie for a visit to the Museum of Anthropology. A special exhibition entitled "Safar/Voyage: Contemporary works by Arab, Iranian and Turkish artists" was the highlight. An installation piece by Taysir Batniji, a Palestinian artist, featured thousands of red pencil shavings on a floor space about 8' x 16'. It was entitled "Hannoun", the Palestinian word for poppies, an association with the memory of freedom fighters. It looked like the floor was littered with thousands of flower petals. I wondered who handled the installation of the installation!! Unfortunately no photos were allowed.
In one of the hallways we discovered a collection of ceramic mosaic figures created from broken china and tiles.
Another project for Shuswap artists??
MOA houses over 40,000 ethnographic objects from around the world, including the South Pacific, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The MOA building also holds 535,000 archaeological objects under the care of UBC's Laboratory of Archaeology.
The ethnological collections are comprised of over 15,000 objects from Asia, almost 12,000 from North America (including over 7,100 from B.C. First Nations), approximately 4,300 from South and Central America, 4,000 from the Pacific islands and over 2,300 are from Africa.
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