Archive: The Legacies Project
Images of Twentieth Century Politics and Society Through the Arts
The Legacies Project was a collaboratively organized and produced public program involving educational and arts organizations throughout the metropolis of Vancouver. Its purpose was to stimulate public reflection, discussion and debate on the social and political experiences of the century and their lessons for the next century. Many programs activities took place during the first six months of the year 2000, with events beginning in spring 1988. The following two lecture series launched the project:
Perceptions of Landscape towards the end of the Millenium: Public Prospects, Imaginary Geographics and Spatial Obsessions (February–March 1998)
Friday and Saturday Evenings, February 12–March 7, 1998
Supported by the Institute for the Humanities, with additional support from Independent Communication Association; funded by the Institute for the Humanities and the Canada Council for the Arts; with additional funding from the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Leon and Thea Koener Foundation and the Contemporary Art Society Vancouver.
Launching the Discussion (March–April 1998)
Tuesday and Friday Evenings, March 27–April 3, 1998
Sponsored by the Institute and the Vice-President, Academic, SFU; The Koerner Foundation; the Vancouver Public Library; and Green College, UBC.
- Modris Eksteins, “Culture and Catastrophe: The 20th century and its legacy”
- Arne Naess, “The Environmental Effects of Industrial Civilization and the Legacy of the Ecology Movement”
- Susan Griffin: “Private Lives and Public Meaning”
Legaices Project Lectures (March 1999)
Sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities, ECIAD, Department of Fine Arts, UBC, Vancouver Art Gallery, The Canada Council, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Contemporary Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver, Le Consulat General de France, School of Contemporary Arts Film Program, SFU.
- Eleanor Bond, ARTIST TALK Tuesday, March 2, 12:15 pm, Emily Carr Institute
- Ki-Ke-In, THLITSAPILTHIN Thursday, March 4, 7:30 pm Fine Arts Building UBC
- Valerie Raoul moderator: Women in Art: late 19th Century France, Thursday, March 4, 7:30 pm, Vancouver Art Gallery
- Stan Douglas, ARTIST TALK Thursday, March 11, 7:30 pm, Vancouver Art Gallery
- Okwui Enwezor, AGAINST THE GRAIN: MAKING EXHIBITIONS IN A GLOBAL WORLD, Thursday, March 11, 7:30 pm, Fine Arts Building, UBC
- Maureen Ryan, DEVIANCE, SEXUALITY AND PARIS IN THE 1890'S: RECONSIDERING TOULOUS-LAUTREC, Thursday, March 18, Vancouver Art Gallery
- Lani Maestro, ARTIST TALK, Tuesday, March 30, 12:15 pm, Emily Carr Institute
The Legacies Project: Reflections on the 20th Century Through the Arts
The purpose of the project was to stimulate public reflection, discussion and debate about the social and political experiences of the twentieth century, and their lessons for the next century. Continuing with our series of public lectures, two leading scholars in the filed of millennium studies came to Vancouver in March 1999.
- Hillel Schwartz, senior fellow at the Millennium Institute (Arlington, Virginia) and historian, discusses the world-wide effect of end-of-the-century celebrations, and the significance of thinking about the end in building new ideas for the 21st century. Friday, March 5, 7:30 - 9:30 pm, Vancouver Public Library.
Sponsored by Millennium Vancouver 2000, the Institute for the Humanities at SFU, Vancouver Public Library, Canadian Airlines International, Quality Inn, False Creek. Hillel Schwartz will also lead a seminar at Harbour Centre, March 6, 1999, 9:30 am-12:30 pm, room 1425.
- Kirby Farrell, author of Post Traumatic Culture, Injury and Interpretation, from the University of Massachusetts, will compare some end of the century phenomena, including experiences of victimization in the 1890s and 1990s. Friday, March 19, 1999, 3:30-5:00 pm, Harbour Centre, room 1700
