Safar/Voyage: Contemporary Works of Arab, Iranian and Turkish Artists Presentation by Dr. Jill Baird

Date of event Thursday, April 4, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Location of event Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level, Central LIbrary
 

Safar/Voyage: Contemporary Works of Arab, Iranian and Turkish Artists opens at the UBC Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver on April 20, 2013. The exhibition brings together sixteen major international artists to reflect upon migration, war, geopolitics, and aesthetics. Although the west coast of Canada may seem worlds apart from the issues, cultures, and artistic practices of Arab, Iranian, and Turkish artists, their connection to ideas of migration, immigration, land rights and the importance of place resonates as much here in Vancouver as it does elsewhere in the world.

In this talk, MOA Coordinating Curator Dr. Jill Baird, Curator, Education and Public Programs speaks to the process of creating Safar/Voyage, from conception to opening.

Free admission. Seating is limited.
Co-sponsored by the Museum of Anthropology, http://moa.ubc.ca/

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