Intro

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hi i’m allison bigg

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welcome to the archive artist run center

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first of all we would like to

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respectfully acknowledge the communities

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and nations

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in whose territories we work and live

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the lake wonkan

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then with sonic peoples archive artist

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run center

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has a gallery we’ve been here since 2017

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we’re a gallery but we also have nine

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working

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artists in different studio spaces

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around here

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in the five years we’ve been open we’ve

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had at least

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60 shows in this little gallery

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the show right right now is called what

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the cup opens today

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and it’s put on by the victoria mud lake

Victoria Mud League

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hi i’m leah five and lev of the victoria

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mud league

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currently the victoria medley consists

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of myself

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marina manson and sarah leckie we are

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three early career ceramic artists in

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victoria bc

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so what we wanted to do with the mud

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league was to just bring focus to a lot

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of the early career

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ceramic artists in victoria as well as

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all around bc what we did with the

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what the cup show this month is that

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we’ve asked

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all our favorite artists and friends to

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create something

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out of the ordinary out of their regular

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production line

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and to just kind of go wild with

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creativity trying new techniques so that

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is what we have with what the cup

Archive Artist Run Centre

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so my name is regan rasmussen and i’m

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one of the gallery coordinators at

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archive

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artist run center and as alison big has

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mentioned

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we have been an art society

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since 2017 so i’d just like to mention a

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little bit about our mandate

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as an artist run center we’re really

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really proud

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of being able to um support a lot of the

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emerging contemporary artists

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in victoria and we

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through our seven juried exhibitions

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throughout the year

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really wanted to promote diverse

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practices

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with the arts and the artists in the

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community so we have endeavored to

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include

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not just with our studio artists but

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also with

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the exhibiting artists um

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new media as well as traditional media

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we’ve had musicians we’ve had artists

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and we’re really proud of that rich

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collaboration that we’ve been able to

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build over the past

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five years and i think that probably in

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terms of our mandate other than

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facilitating these kind of diverse

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practices

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and honoring new media and experimental

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media

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it would really be that we have built

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upon in five years

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a lot of bridging of community within

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the arts community itself

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and an intergenerational component with

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people who may not be familiar with

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the arts and artist run centers and so

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we’ve embarked upon three separate

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project grants

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that have enabled us to have wide

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community outreach

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one of them was a makeshift textiles

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festival

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and then subsequent to that we had two

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bridge community festivals

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due to the pandemic the last one was

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purely online

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but due to allison and a number of other

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people that were facilitating that we

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were able to still have

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uh demos and we were able to invite

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people to artists studios

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in the community and have little

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passports where people could

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partake in the activities and upload

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them to one of our instagram

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hashtags so it gives me a great pleasure

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to

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be part of welcoming people to this

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space and to

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come and be part of what we have to

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offer here

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