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Portside Park 2
Title
Portside Park 2
Keyword
Shipping Industry, Ecology, Transportation
Date
2018-01-30
Description
Image of shipping cranes and containers with trees on either side of the shot.
TELUS World of Science 6
Title
TELUS World of Science 6
Keyword
Earth, Waste
Date
2018-01-22
Description
Image of garbage embedded in the top layer of an exhibit of layers of earth.
Museum of Vancouver 1
Title
Museum of Vancouver 1
Keyword
Museums, Language, Musqueam Knowledge, Relationality
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Image of a white wall with a welcoming message in the Musqueam language as well as in English and French.
Stanley Park 98
Title
Stanley Park 98
Keyword
Totem Poles, Indigenous Culture, Relationality, Positionality, Trees, Colonialism
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of totem poles and trees. There is a sign stating "Please STAY OUT of the Totem Pole Area" at the bottom left of the shot.
TELUS World of Science 22
Title
TELUS World of Science 22
Keyword
Choices, Transformation, Environmental Impact
Date
2018-01-22
Description
Image of a sign discussing choices in relation to protecting the environment. The sign is covered in drops of water, suggesting that it had recently rained.
Stanley Park 93
Title
Stanley Park 93
Keyword
Totem Poles, Indigenous Culture, Relationality, Positionality, Trees
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of totem poles and trees with people walking and cycling on the paths.
False Creek 62
Title
False Creek 62
Keyword
Development, Land Use
Date
2018-01-22
Description
Image of a sign on a chain-link fence describing a land development project.
TELUS World of Science 4
Title
TELUS World of Science 4
Keyword
Earth, Systems
Date
2081-01-22
Description
Image of an exhibit involving rocks and waterwheels with BC Place and other buildings along False Creek in the background.
Jordan Abel Interview 1
Title
Jordan Abel Interview 1: Clip 1
Keyword
Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline, Totem Poles
Date
2018-01-19
Description
In this clip, Jordan Abel discusses his relationship to Vancouver as a place and how his family histories and traumas are tied to Vancouver and the legacy of colonial violence. He discusses the placement of Indigenous art throughout Vancouver (and the totem poles in Stanley Park in particular) and the complexities around displaying Indigenous art and tradition in such a public space, weighing accessibility against voyeurism.
Downtown Eastside Vancouver 4
Title
Downtown Eastside Vancouver 4: Gore Avenue
Keyword
Shipping Industry, Transportation, Trees
Date
2018-01-30
Description
Image of shipping cranes and containers with trees and cars in the foreground.
Stanley Park 96
Title
Stanley Park 96
Keyword
Totem Poles, Indigenous Culture, Relationality, Positionality, Trees
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of totem poles and trees with two people standing nearby.
Museum of Vancouver 2
Title
Museum of Vancouver 2
Keyword
Musqueam Knowledge, Colonialism, History, Museums, Relationality
Date
2018-01-24
Description
Image of a wooden wall with a message describing how the area has changed from Musqueam space to Vancouver and introducing a museum section about Musqueam history.
TELUS World of Science 7
Title
TELUS World of Science 7
Keyword
Earth, Waste
Date
2018-01-22
Description
Image of garbage embedded in the top layer of an exhibit of layers of earth.
TELUS World of Science 21
Title
TELUS World of Science 21
Keyword
Development, Knowledge, Industry, Pollution, Ecology
Date
2018-01-22
Description
Image of a sign discussing Vancouver's shift from "a city of gas (and coal, and lumber, and concrete, and metal...)" to a "city of glass," claiming that "pollution levels are [now] much lower" and that "wildlife is returning to the area." The sign is covered in drops of water, suggesting that it had recently rained.
Stanley Park 73
Title
Stanley Park 73
Keyword
History, Violence, Colonialism
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of a plaque on stone describing the Nine O'Clock Gun.
Wayde Compton Reading
Title
Wayde Compton Reading: Excerpt from "The Lost Island" found in The Outer Harbour
Keyword
Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline
Date
2018-01-23
Description
Wayde Compton reads a scene from his short story "The Lost Island." In this scene, the characters Jean and Fletcher consider the newly emerged volcanic island off Vancouver's coast and Fletcher proposes they go to the island as an act of anti-colonisation. This story appears in Compton's 2014 book of interconnected short stories The Outer Harbour.
TELUS World of Science 17
Title
TELUS World of Science 17
Keyword
Earth, Waste, Geology
Date
2018-01-22
Description
Image of an exhibit of layers of earth with garbage embedded in the top layer and with a sign describing each different layer.
Stanley Park 43
Title
Stanley Park 43
Keyword
Coast, Ecology, Rocks, Sand
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of moss on the top of Vancouver Seawall with tree branches on a sand shore in the background.
Portside Park 41
Title
Portside Park 41
Keyword
Barriers, Ecology, Shipping Industry
Date
2018-01-30
Description
Image of a chainlink fence with shipping area in the background.
Stanley Park 113
Title
Stanley Park 113
Keyword
Trees, Ecology
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of tall trees.
Phinder Dulai Clip 1
Title
Phinder Dulai Clip 1
Keyword
History, Poetry, Polyphony, Archives, Transnationalism, Archives, Colonial, Voices, Refugee, Reality
Date
2019-06-06
Description
In this audio clip, Phinder Dulai discusses his work Dreams/Arteries. He comments on his use of archives, the form of poetry, refugees, and the polyphony of voices in his work.
Jordan Abel Interview 4
Title
Jordan Abel Interview 4: Clip 4
Keyword
Landscape / Skyline
Date
2018-01-19
Description
In this conclusion of Jordan Abel's interview, he restates the complexity of places like Vancouver, and acknowledges that a place can be simultaneously beautiful and devastating.
TELUS World of Science 9
Title
TELUS World of Science 9
Keyword
Earth, Waste
Date
2018-01-22
Description
Image of garbage embedded in the top layer of an exhibit of layers of earth.
TELUS World of Science 18
Title
TELUS World of Science 18
Keyword
Development, Knowledge, Colonialism
Date
2018-01-22
Description
Image of a sign discussing the "CHANGING LANDSCAPES" around False Creek. The sign is covered in drops of water, suggesting that it had recently rained.
Wayde Compton Clip 4
Title
Wayde Compton Clip 4
Keyword
Advertisement, Language, Power, Manipulation, Government
Date
2018-01-23
Description
In this final clip of the interview, Compton discusses the nature of the conclusion to The Outer Harbour. It then shifts to a discussion of land claims and diasporic and Indigenous politics, and the experience of writing within such a political landscape.
Cecily Nicholson Clip 3
Title
Cecily Nicholson Clip 3
Keyword
Identity, Language, Poetry, History, Settler, Culture
Date
2019-06-06
Description
In this final clip, Nicholson concludes her discussion on settler-colonialism and language use.
Stanley Park 20
Title
Stanley Park 20
Keyword
Shore, Rocks
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of small rocks on a muddy shore.
TELUS World of Science 2
Title
TELUS World of Science 2
Keyword
Earth, Waste, Geology
Date
2018-01-22
Description
Image of an exhibit of layers of earth with garbage embedded in the top layer and with a sign describing each different layer.
Portside Park 18
Title
Portside Park 18
Keyword
Shore, Rocks, Birds, Ecology, Shipping Industry
Date
2018-01-30
Description
Image of a rock shore with large rocks, birds, and a fallen tree. There are shipping cranes and containers in the background.