Vancouver Indigenous fashion week
Prepare yourself to experience the future of Indigenous fashion. Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week and MOV partner to offer an intimate fashion show featuring works by 2 contemporary Indigenous designers who explore Northwest coast and Coast Salish designs.
VIFW brings global recognition to Indigenous fashion designers and artisans from the Northwest coast and across Turtle Island. VIFW showcases the power and beauty of authentic Indigenous art and design by supporting talent development and organizing showcases throughout the year, culminating with Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week. The fashion show at MOV will showcase designs not on view during the VIFW's showcase at the Orpheum. Our event will additionally feature traditional storytelling by local poet laureate, Christie Lee Charles.
Date: Saturday, November 23, 2019
Time: 3:00 - 5:00pm
Admission: $5 - $15 Sliding scale.
Event ticket includes FREE admission to our feature exhibitions There is Truth Here: Creativity and Resilience in Children’s Art from Indian Residential and Day Schools, Wild Things: The Power of Nature in our Lives, Haida Now: A Visual Feast of Innovation and Tradition and c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city (reg. $20.50). Consider arriving early with your event ticket to view exhibit.
Bios:
Ay Lelum is a second-generation Coast Salish Design House from Nanaimo, B.C. This design team are sisters who produce clothing featuring Traditional Coast Salish art by their Brother Joel Good and Father William Good. With the development of their exclusive fabric patterns with family artwork, Ay Lelum creates unique Coast Salish Couture pieces in their studio home in Nanaimo, B.C. and manufactures Limited Edition ready-wear in Vancouver. They incorporate the use of eco-friendly fabrics whenever possible as a canvas for their artistic design. Ay Lelum was awarded the distinction of a 2018 Indigenous Business of the Year Award in their category, through the BC Achievement Foundation.
Meghann O'Brien creates work that provides the wearer purpose, one that gives reference and reverence to the materials and techniques of her ancestors. O'Brien's work aims to transform tradition into contemporary forms of the everyday, one that reconnects ancestral past to the communal present, the global present, where all cultures and worlds are converging and colliding. More specifically O'Brien's work embraces and reconfigures the Naaxiin - a status symbol within Northwest Coast society - to make it accessible to multiple people, wearing it with a new purpose not bound by gender, genres, materials or form.
Christie Lee Charles or “Miss Christie Lee” of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm , with lineages to surrounding Coast Salish Nations, is an artist who expresses her gifts in many forms such as storytelling, Salish singing, poetry, weaving, film, raps , workshops and keynotes. Christie believes our language teaches us our way of life and holds us strong to work on our path.
Designer Gallery
Below the Radar: Interview with Joleen Mitton
ACCESSIBILITY:
Mobility Access: Museum of Vancouver (MOV) is wheelchair and scooter accessible, including washrooms, ramps and elevators, and wide entrances and exits.
Parking: The MOV parking lot is run by EasyPark, please remember to pay for parking before entering the building. There is also street parking available.
Transit: Plan your trip. Address: 1100 Chestnut Street
Bathrooms: There are a mix of single stalled and multi-stalled bathrooms located in the Lower Lobby of MOV, which can be accessed by elevator or stairs.
We acknowledge the Museum of Vancouver is located on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nations, at the site of the ancestral Village of Sen̓áḵw – neighbouring the current Sḵwx̱wú7mesh reserve of the same name.
