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before we start with the welcoming and

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opening talks i would like to

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acknowledge that the art gallery of

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greater victoria is located on the

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traditional territories of the lakongan

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peoples today known as the ascoimalt and

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sanghi’s nation we extend our

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appreciation for the opportunity to live

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and learn on this territory so to honor

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the land and protocol i respectfully

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invite seonghei’s

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member

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florence dick to welcome

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us here on this territory thank you

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mcwitch

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florence for being with us here today

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and this is just as a small gift of uh

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gratitude

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thanks quiche i want to thank the art

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art gallery for doing proper protocol to

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our people to our ancestors

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to our elders to our youth

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today

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it’s always important to open up events

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in a good way

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and

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in a good way an indigenous way it’s

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always acknowledging the ancestors of

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the land

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and my job as a liaison

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i come

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and i do this portion and welcome people

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in a proper way

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a way that was taught to me by an elder

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and my job

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what i do

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and how i ground people to the land

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that our ancestors walked on

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you know

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they walk and they continue to walk as

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we hold those names

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to this day

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and that’s a big honor

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to be here

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and have them in the space with you

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thank you florence for that uh that

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wonderful opening and welcome

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um as a newcomer to victoria i would

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like to acknowledge and thank the

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clunkin people for allowing me to live

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work and play on your territory i look

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forward to exploring it and learning

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more

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so some of you will know um some of you

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may not know i came made my way to aggv

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as of monday um via the art gallery of

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nova scotia so i’ve moved from halifax

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all the way across the country i was at

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the argument of nova scotia for about

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five and a half years prior to that i

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was in vancouver for a decade so coming

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back to the west coast is like coming

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home for me and it feels very good and

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i’m very excited about the prospects and

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the things that we’re going to do at the

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aggv

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i really look forward to getting to know

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all of you better and to working

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together to really create meaningful art

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based experiences for people because

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that’s what we’re about

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and tonight is absolutely no exception

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and it’s i have to say strange my first

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big in-person opening

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in this pandemic reality and it’s really

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nice to have people back together

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looking at the real thing looking at the

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art and being able to socialize and talk

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about it and i’m really pleased that

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we’re

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able to open two shows tonight adorned

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and reverberations

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i’d like to

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begin by acknowledging all the artists

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who are here and those that aren’t here

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um we would not do this work without you

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um i had the pleasure of meeting many of

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you upstairs which was lovely

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um you make such a contribution to not

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just exhibitions and programming but to

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our lives in general and we’re grateful

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for that um

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we really are going to strive to have

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great conversations through art and this

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is just the beginning i hope of what

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will become a post-pandemic reality that

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we can get together and do these things

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so uh thank you all for joining us

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tonight so

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i know we all missed this

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so much occasions like this

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i guess we just miss the seeing the real

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things

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to see the real thing that is why

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museums and other galleries exist and

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why we still need them the aggv holds

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over 20 000 pieces of collections

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collections are not acquired to be

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sitting in the board

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each piece has a life has a history they

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need to be seen to be added onto

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to be

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to be engaged with to keep them alive

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this is the whole idea behind the

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reverberations project

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we invited artists from our local

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communities to review our connections

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and to give their response

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and these amazing audience they selected

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works from our collection which they

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felt a resonance resonance to

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and

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expressed their own interpretation and

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reflections

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through their unique and special

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artistic approaches

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we are deeply thankful to them they

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brought in fresh eyes fresh minds they

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added new voices and the new meanings

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they also created conversations and

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prompt thinking

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so thank you all for your wonderful work

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thank you for your great efforts to make

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this gallery a more meaningful place and

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i hope you all enjoy tonight and enjoy

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the reverberations thank you

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so it’s now my pleasure to share um my

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first curated exhibition at the agtv so

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adorned an interdisciplinary group

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exhibition bringing together artists and

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designers and historical

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ancestors objects

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to speak to histories and futurisms

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through ways and wills to be adorned

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the deeply considered connections to

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process and material have

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interdisciplinary approaches imbued with

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meanings beyond what is seen

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aesthetically the exhibition design

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methodology was to have sustainability

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in mind

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so now i’d like to thank the artists

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these institutions gallery spaces

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museums really would not exist without

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the amazing work of artists and

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cultural ties so i just wanted to thank

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all of the artists in the exhibition

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they’re not all here right now but i

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want you to spend some time with your

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work

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and

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enjoy yourself tonight good evening

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everybody

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my name is kenneth cameron

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and i am originally from kenya i’m a

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producer of victoria eco fashion week

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and what we do is to promote and support

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and create awareness about

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sustainability in sustainable fashions

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work with small designers

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getting started with what they do

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today it’s a very special day because we

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celebrate a new collaboration with the

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art gallery of

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the greater victoria so we

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say thank you so much to these audience

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and this community and this institution

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for welcoming us to collaborate with you

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and give young people like us who are

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pursuing their

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dreams and pushing something that we

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believe can change our climate because

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as you all know that

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fashion is a huge polluter of

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environment and

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everybody has a stake or has a

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responsibility to take so my

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responsibility what i do is to

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to do to produce more of sustainable

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fashion and uh where people are able to

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recycle and reuse and uh refurb us give

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a new life so i hope you will come you

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enjoy the fashion show that we’re gonna

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have be sure we should be showcasing

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some of the designers that we produced

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recently you can see their work and

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hope you enjoy and have a lovely evening

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thank you so much

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