The District of Oak Bay in partnership with the Songhees Nation and The Robert Bateman Centre present:
In
1916 an English visitor by the name of Alice Lisle spent a year in Oak
Bay staying with friends at the Oak Bay Boat House. During her visit
she took photographs of
Songhees village sites on Discovery and Chatham Islands and of First
Nation entrepreneurs and residents around the harbour of Victoria.
In 2016,
the Songhees Nation and Robert Bateman Centre worked together to
incorporate these rare photographs in an exhibit called Resilience of the People: A Visual
History of the Traditional Territory of the Lekwungen/Songhees People. This exciting exhibit is now on display at the Oak Bay Municipal Hall, August 1 to 31st, 2017.
The
exhibit covers a visual history of what is now Greater Victoria, the
Songhees First Nation’s traditional territory. Visitors will discover
the complexities of the lands around them, and witness
how the Songhees’ resilient relationship to the conditions of their
ancestral lands has changed, including how their relationship has
developed up to the present day.
The exhibit is open from August 1 to August 31, 2017 at the Oak Bay Municipal Hall, Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm.
The exhibit will also be open during the Oak Bay Night Market on Wednesday, August
9th 4-8pm and on Saturday, August 19th 10am-4pm to celebrate Oak Bay’s Arts & Culture Week.
Free admission.
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