A still image of Amrita Hepi is taken from the Movement of Place (2019), highlighting New Zealand and Australia. It will be part of the outdoor mapping art shows in Inuvik, Fort Smith, Hay River, Fort Simpson and Norman Wells this month. image courtesy of NACC
Coderre said NACC typically puts on 40 shows a year outside of Yellowknife. The mapping art projects are special because of the lack of shows over the last year.
“It has been really hard,” she said when asked about preparing shows for areas outside the capital. “We were able to do a lot of stuff this year for Yellowknife. But with the Covid restrictions, it has been really hard to plan something around the small communities when it’s time to present something that was performing arts.”
Coderre said since last spring she has been working with the Western Arctic Moving Pictures’ Davis Heslep on the idea of having mapping art shows.
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“Back in Montreal, back in my home, I grew up with mapping art,” Coderre said. “It was everywhere and it is a project I had been wanting to do for a long time. It was just a matter of finding this technology and securing the money.
“The project that we’re presenting is a collective of six artists from different places like Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. And we are presenting a series of short films from them on a wall and in each community.”
Inuvik’s show is delayed until March 7 due to complications shipping the two projectors, which are being sent by cargo on Saturday.
Coderre said each show will be 30 minutes with a series of five-minutes videos.
The idea of having it shown on a wall outdoors is to ensure it is accessible to all people in the community during the pandemic.
“It’s very organic and is art gallery style, and people can come and go so it’s very casual,” she said, adding that the event is free.
“People can expect to see different kinds of films. Some will be of a more graphic design, projected on a wall, or some are more realistic with a dancer in a desert and the movie is choreographed and beautiful. Sometimes it’s going to be (a) film more with visual effects and lighting and graphic design. So people will get a blend of more abstract film and more reality.”
Coderre said Heslep had already been doing the screening of mapping art on a smaller scale and both were excited about doing it in the North. They finally were able to proceed with the project after securing enough money to travel and to rent large film projectors from Ontario.
LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
