Vernon Museum and Archives presents "How Turtle Set the Animals"

MAV’s large foyer display case features original costumes and set-pieces from Sen’Klip Native Theatre Company’s production of How Turtle Set the Animals Free. The costumes were designed by syilx artist and knowledge keeper, Barbara Marchand, and made by members of Sen’Klip Theatre using traditional syilx methods.

Sen’klip Native Theatre Company led the way in Indigenous theatre in Western Canada from 1988 to 2001. MAV is entering into a partnership with the company to display some of the costumes, masks, set pieces and backdrops used in their touring theatre productions.

Costumes, masks, and set-pieces representing traditional syilx captikʷł will be on rotating display through 2022 and 2023.

Vernon Museum and Archives presents "How Turtle Set the Animals"

MAV’s large foyer display case features original costumes and set-pieces from Sen’Klip Native Theatre Company’s production of How Turtle Set the Animals Free. The costumes were designed by syilx artist and knowledge keeper, Barbara Marchand, and made by members of Sen’Klip Theatre using traditional syilx methods.

Sen’klip Native Theatre Company led the way in Indigenous theatre in Western Canada from 1988 to 2001. MAV is entering into a partnership with the company to display some of the costumes, masks, set pieces and backdrops used in their touring theatre productions.

Costumes, masks, and set-pieces representing traditional syilx captikʷł will be on rotating display through 2022 and 2023.

Not The Indian Princess You Expected exhibits parts of interdisciplinary artist, Mariel Belanger’s private collection of original artwork and display items.

Belanger is a syilx interdisciplinary performance artist who has devised a life “of the land” with self-directed digital performance art as a way to revise history. A 2022 SSHRC doctoral scholarship recipient, Belanger’s lived experience impacts her studies as a student at Queen’s University. Following in her syilx grandmother’s footprints, Belanger weaves community-driven, land-based artistic knowledge and practice into projects and stories of caring for the land and maintaining matrilineal relationships.

The Gallery exhibit will shift and change with the seasons throughout 2022 and 2023. 

Not The Indian Princess You Expected exhibits parts of interdisciplinary artist, Mariel Belanger’s private collection of original artwork and display items.

Belanger is a syilx interdisciplinary performance artist who has devised a life “of the land” with self-directed digital performance art as a way to revise history. A 2022 SSHRC doctoral scholarship recipient, Belanger’s lived experience impacts her studies as a student at Queen’s University. Following in her syilx grandmother’s footprints, Belanger weaves community-driven, land-based artistic knowledge and practice into projects and stories of caring for the land and maintaining matrilineal relationships.

The Gallery exhibit will shift and change with the seasons throughout 2022 and 2023. 

MELODY DIACHUN is a vocalist, songwriter, arranger, and a warm performer praised for her “soulful confidence, exquisite intonation, phrasing, and sense of time.”-All About Jazz. With five albums as leader, Melody is an increasingly significant artist with her own sound, style, and approach to creating new music. Notable recordings include “EQ” and “Metaphora” with Altered Laws. The latter won ‘Outstanding Jazz Record of The Year’ at the 2008 Western Canadian Music Awards and was nominated for a JUNO. A year later, Melody was nominated for ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ at the National Jazz Awards. “She is – and will always be – a force to reckon with in contemporary vocal music.”-Toronto Music Report

MELODY DIACHUN is a vocalist, songwriter, arranger, and a warm performer praised for her “soulful confidence, exquisite intonation, phrasing, and sense of time.”-All About Jazz. With five albums as leader, Melody is an increasingly significant artist with her own sound, style, and approach to creating new music. Notable recordings include “EQ” and “Metaphora” with Altered Laws. The latter won ‘Outstanding Jazz Record of The Year’ at the 2008 Western Canadian Music Awards and was nominated for a JUNO. A year later, Melody was nominated for ‘Female Vocalist of the Year’ at the National Jazz Awards. “She is – and will always be – a force to reckon with in contemporary vocal music.”-Toronto Music Report

Local songstress Judy Rose most recently delighted Okanagan symphony audiences last March with a tribute to her lifelong idol Edith Piaf. She is delighted to reprise that repertoire and add even more nuance and layers in “E to the Power of Three” with songs of Edith, Ella and Etta with the Killer B’s to celebrate Valentine’s.

The lovingly assembled Killer B’s include the Valley’s finest musicians: the inimitable Neville Bowman on keys, the gifted Stefan Bienz on bass, the master Loni Moger on guitar and the one and only Scott Gamble on drums.

Local songstress Judy Rose most recently delighted Okanagan symphony audiences last March with a tribute to her lifelong idol Edith Piaf. She is delighted to reprise that repertoire and add even more nuance and layers in “E to the Power of Three” with songs of Edith, Ella and Etta with the Killer B’s to celebrate Valentine’s.

The lovingly assembled Killer B’s include the Valley’s finest musicians: the inimitable Neville Bowman on keys, the gifted Stefan Bienz on bass, the master Loni Moger on guitar and the one and only Scott Gamble on drums.