Vancouver Trip 2010 - Day 7

Feb 27 Day one of the First Host Nations Aboriginal Artisan Village

The Aboriginal Artisan Village was held at the Vancouver Community College downtown campus. We had the opportunity to show and sell our work there for the last two days of our trip.

This was a great business experience and learning opportunity for us. There were many different types of arts and crafts at the market. We met many different people from all over the country who were selling there work: Haida, Micmac, Salish and many more. We were the only group of Inuit artists there, so our work was really unique!

Our booth was really popular, which gave us the opportunity to talk to many people from all over the world!

Vancouver Trip 2010 - Day 6

Joe drum dancing!

Feb 26

The day before our sale, we spent the morning at our residence going through all of our work, finishing up details, putting on cords and pricing work. In the afternoon, Henry, Patrick, Myles and Rose had the opportunity to show their work at the Northern House. There was another great crowd of interested on lookers! To add some fun to the afternoon, Silas was invited to demonstrate his high kick ability. He was amazing! We were all very impressed. After the arctic games demontration we saw Godson perform is awesome northern hip hop. Great show!

Silas shows off his high flying skills

Checking out Godson's show at the Northern House

At Green College caffeteria, getting ready for the big sale!

As an added bonus, we went to see Avatar in 3D at a huge movie theatre that night. It was awesome!

Vancouver Trip 2010 - Day 5

Feb 25

Today we had our first opportunity to showcase our work at the Northern House Pavilion. Silas, Kaajuk and Jutanie displayed their work and spoke to the eager crowds about life and art making in the north.

Great crowd of interested people!

In the afternoon, we bused out to Burnaby to hit up Mountain Gems, a great rock and gem store. The staff were really helpful and friendly as they helped us each pick out stones. We each got to choose out own gems and stones, so we could bring them home to learn gem setting.

Like kids in a candy store!

Vancouver Trip 2010 - Day 4

Feb 24

Today was a fun day! We got the Vancouver Aquarium in Stanley Park early in the morning. There were so many strange and interesting creatures to see! We were all impressed at the Canadian Arctic exhibit, and even saw photos of people and places we knew in the exhibit. We watched the beluga swim from a window bellow the surface of the tank. They were really beautiful! We also saw amazing animals from the Amazon and the BC coast.

One of the Belguas spitting water at the crowd!

From under the water. I view we don't see very often.

Moon jelly fish are magical to watch.

View from inside!

Colourful starfish

Our awesome glasses for the 4D movie about shallow oceans. We got sprayed by waves, attacked by sea snakes and got to swim with plankton. (or so it seemed!)

As if the Aquarium wasn't awesome enough, we spent the afternoon at the Capilano Suspension Bridge, in the middle of the gorgeous lush westcoast rain forest.

Totem poles in the park

Posing with some old timers

Crossing the bridge. It was 230 feet above the river and 450 feet across!

Learning about the forest

Tree hugging hippies...

Tree top walk

Huge trees!

Chating an interpreter native the the region. He told us some stories about the totem poles and the region. He was a pleasure to meet!

We all made it safely back across the bridge and home after an eventful and exciting day!

Vancouver Trip 2010 - Day 3

Feb 23rd
First thing in the morning, we head to the Museum of Anthropology on the UBC campus. We are greeted by Susan Rowley, professor and curator of circumpolar archaeology. She had some interesting and fantastic pieces to show us. We saw work done by the local first nations, as well as lots of great Inuit art from all over the north.

Susan explaining the beautiful stone mosaic outside the MOA. We were all amazed by the intricate stone work.

Silas finds a chessboard carved by his grandfather!

Line up of Kamiks

Carving by Bill Reid depicted on the $20 bill.

Amazing gold work by Bill Reid. Very inspiring!

After lunch, we spent the afternoon getting a tour of Emily Carr University of Art and Design. We were greeted by Ippiksaut Friesen, a 3rd year animation student from Ranket Inlet. Ippik was thrilled to have some fellow Nunavummiut in Vancouver and gave us a great tour all around campus. A tour of the fantastic metal shop


Nice view!

Our lovely tour guide Ippiksaut
The film studio In front of the green screen

Sharing our work with students from ECUAD

Tired bus ride home after a long educational day!