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so my name is amy

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van drimlin and i’m a pro i guess an

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arts programmer here so

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yeah and what i like about this space is

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where it is and

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how it is and i feel like it’s like a

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really accessible

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entry point for artists of all different

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levels and whether you’re emerging or

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you’ve never had a show before and you

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just have a good idea

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or even more like more established

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artists definitely have done stuff

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at the ministry in the past and it’s a

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good mix

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of a working space so there’s a bunch of

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artist studios here and different

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all different kinds of artists who are

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working in this building every day and

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then we have our gallery

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which is available for exhibitions

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and events and stuff like that we have a

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pretty strong

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vision and mission but they’re they are

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also

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pretty casual so i think it’s just more

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of an

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ethos of the space which is being

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accessible

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on our website it says we don’t want to

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see your cv ever

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so we don’t care about people’s

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credentials

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we care about their ideas and

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therefore i i would hope that we

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continue to be

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a space where someone who might feel

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uncomfortable with the normal

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art world or art in quotations could

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come

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and approach us with an idea

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so that’s sort of the main the main

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mission

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i would say in a nutshell of the

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ministry so i have a series of

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film and sound screenings that i put on

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here so where i can get musicians in and

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doing live score for films and stuff

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like that

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connecting with different curators using

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the space in different ways having

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interactive exhibitions and stuff like

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that

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and i think it’s a space where anyone

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walking by

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you know we’ve met so many people who

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just walk by when we have our doors open

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and

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that’s what’s so cool about the artists

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in residencies that we have here in the

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summer

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that we had last year for the first time

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was that we met

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a lot of neighbors and made connections

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with people in the neighborhood that we

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probably wouldn’t have made

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if we just had the the door closed and

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like less kind of stuff happening

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so yeah to me that means a lot because i

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live just down the street so

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it’s my neighborhood and so it’s really

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special to have this type of thing here

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so the window gallery is our other main

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gallery that we run we have a lot of

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interest in the window right now there’s

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a lot of

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people who want to show their work there

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because

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of how accessible it is and it’s just so

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cool to have that space

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available to us in downtown victoria and

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it’s provided by

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cenote which is a bar and restaurant

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just around the corner so they actually

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own

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that window gallery and instead of using

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it for advertising or

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they could they could you know be

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renting it to someone but instead

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they’ve donated it to us

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to use so it’s it’s really great

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to have that as kind of rare so yeah

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we’re hoping for more

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window gallery opportunities in other

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locations as well i think

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yeah my name is austin

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i’m a artist based here

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and so i’m participating in our kind of

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summer residency that we’re doing here

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and so i got to take over the gallery

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space for two weeks

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and build a number of things and then

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kind of do this

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open studio so a number of the works are

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projects that i’ve been

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sort of working through for a while over

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the past

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um maybe year or more

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and then a number of them are kind of

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new more experimental things

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so this has been a really um i guess

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meaningful

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location for myself just because it was

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kind of the first place i

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came to um after finishing my degree

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and uh just full of really welcoming

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friendly people who are also wonderful

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artists here

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um and yeah it’s just been a very

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accessible place

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to kind of start start my career

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as an artist and to really like

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begin experiencing what that’s like

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outside of a school environment

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yeah so that’s that’s why that’s been

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nice for me

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oh we’ll wait for the old

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car to drive

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[Applause]

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on our website it says we don’t

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you

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