Date: Mar 6
7:00 pm
- 8:00 pm
Where: Theatre
Please join renowned photographer, filmmaker and activist, Sheilagh O’Leary in conversation with Mireille Eagan, Curator of Contemporary Art as they discuss Sheilagh’s newest body of work, A Sea Change, on now in the Level 3 Art Gallery.
Sheilagh O’Leary’s exhibition, A Sea Change, is a tribute to three generations of women in her family. Her work explores cultural erasure and resurgence from a feminist, matrilineal standpoint—drawing inspiration from her mother's experiences as a French-Mi'kmaw woman in Newfoundland in the 1930s-50s. Analogue (non-digital) portraits and cyanotypes blend the body with elements of the sea to symbolize life, renewal, and change. Throughout, the work reveals complex interactions between embodiment and absence, power dynamics and identity, as well as the key role of cultural narratives in responsible environmental stewardship.
Cash bar and reception to follow.
Tickets: $12 (plus HST). Free for Rooms Members. Includes admission to exhibitions.
For centuries, fishing for cod has played a vital role in the lives of the peoples of Newfoundland and Labrador. Generations of fishing men, women and children made use of the land and sea to sustain them and spent their lives “making fish”.
Offered Wednesdays and Saturdays 10:30 am. Included in the cost of admission.
In Beaumont-Hamel and the Trail of the Caribou exhibition find out about the impacts of the First World War on Newfoundlanders and Labradorians and how events overseas dramatically altered our lives at home.
Offered Tuesdays 10:30 am and Saturdays 2:30 pm
Included in the cost of admission.