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A photo of a corridor on the mezzanine of the Bill Reid Gallery featuring glass cases, Haida-style wood carvings depicting abstract faces and creatures on the wall, and a totem pole emerging from the first floor.
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The Art of Dimension reveals Indigenous knowledge through Haida metalwork

Kelly Chia July 19, 2023

One of the featured artists in the newly opened The Art of Dimension exhibit, Skii Xaaw Jesse Brillon, writes that repoussé is a method of art where you hammer out metal from the inside. You can see that in the elements around each curve in Jesse’s hammerwork: the details of each facial wrinkle convey stories and folklore. Jesse’s art is displayed alongside his niece’s, Haaylingtso Marlo Wylie Brillon, who debuts her art in this exhibit in the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art. Marlo has been working in textiles since a young age, but credits learning how to create…

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Creative Corner: Sculpting reminds me art is about impulse and process

Kelly Chia June 16, 2023

I’m sure many people, like me, see creativity as a luxury they can rarely indulge in during adulthood. I can’t count how many unfinished projects pile up in my brain, waiting for the day I declare I finally have time…

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Cat staring at a fly on a window
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My arduous journey to fight flies

Kelly Chia May 24, 2023

I’m just an ordinary gal with an ordinary dream: to punch every fly I meet in the face. I admit this dream has no rhyme or reason, much like a fly’s existence. No, I am not being dramatic. Just imagine…

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An illustration of a girl with long flowing hair. Astrological signs and stars shine around her.
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Horoscopes February 20–27

Michelle (Megistus) Young February 21, 2023

Aries: Hu Tao. Maybe your friends worry that you are burning both ends of the candle, but you always make it through (looking a little haunted) in the end! She is the perfect, fiery, high-energy date for you — even…

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Illustration of a doctor grinning nervously at a lectern for a press conference. BC and Canada flags to the side of the lectern. A cloud is seen behind the doctor and the cloud can have words popping out like COVID statistics and dropping masking policies
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Top five ways to hide a pandemic

Michelle Young October 9, 2022

COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in 2020, but we’re over it now. It’s too much hassle and we’ve decided to focus on treating each other with the very real act of kindness and washing our hands instead of tangible protocols…

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Reflecting on mental illness

EIC November 24, 2014

My name is Alison. I’m 21 years old, and I’m just about to finish my undergrad degree. I know it seems silly to introduce myself with my name and photo right there in the byline, but I think it’s important…

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