Reconsidering Reconciliation artists took an overnight camping trip to Tania Willard’s land up by Adams Lake. Thanks to Stephen Foster (who couldn’t make the trip, but loaned us the wall tent), we had generous accommodations for all! Setting it up was another matter. This five-minute clip is not a preparation…

In addition to her collaboration with David Garneau, Cecily Nicholson also presented a sampling of her individual work. Below, Cecily’s solo poetry, truly inspired.

Cheryl L’Hirondelle, resident artist at recon/recon, works in new media, songwriting, community organization among many other media. One of her projects has been working with women in prison, workshopping songs with them, and eventually producing a video that represents this process. While in the residency, Cheryl enlisted the other women…

One of the other engaging principles at this Art+Reconciliation residency is how to present and represent artistic practice. Here, Peter Morin talks about how he gets to walk away with a Gabrielle Hill original, as she tattoos a hummingbird on his chest.

Peter Morin and Gabrielle Hill show their studios to Mike Arnouse, Elder from Adams Lake, who came to talk to the artists about the territory.

The Kamloops Art Gallery brought in Skookum Sound System to perform at the yacht club on July 26, 2013. This relates to the KAG’s current Beat Nation exhibition. Resident artists including Peter Morin and others shot a load of stills that we converted into a little mashup with the SSS’s…

@ayugotomathur is running 1600 km to ‘shadow’ and respect the walkers of Nishiyuu. This is a short clip from her run from the Tranquille site in to Kamloops. Turn the volume up to hear the silence give way to footsteps and the sonorous sounds of Cheryl L’Hirondelle, whose songs Ayumi…

Skookum Sound System will be in Kamloops this Friday, July 26, playing the yacht club! The vid above is a mashup called Vampire Slayer-Buffy St Marie remix. Skookum Sound System is an Indigenous Audio-Visual crew, with members living on the Sunshine Coast, and Vancouver BC – Coast Salish Territory. Skookum Collective members…

As part of her larger project, running 1600 km to recognize the Journey of Nishiyyu, resident artist Ayumi Goto paints one watercolour per day, representing her experience, and balances that with a poetic journal entry. This is the first 21 days.