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Three Rivers Art Exhibition Opening in Kelowna Draws Big Crowd
Highlighting a Successful Three Rivers Tour in Interior BC
More than 300 people attended the CPAWS-Yukon Three Rivers multi-media show at the Kelowna Community Theatre in February, then took the short walk to the Kelowna Art Gallery to experience first-hand the Three Rivers: wild waters, sacred places art exhibition. Participants responded enthusiastically to the Three Rivers story, commenting on the stunning landscape and wildlife imagery, combined with video clips featuring the people and music of the journeys. It was a fitting introduction to the Three Rivers group art exhibition, well displayed in the spacious main hall of the Kelowna Art Gallery. Public comments focused on the emotional impact, beauty, diversity and symbolism of the exhibition.
The Kelowna Art Gallery public event and exhibition opening was part of an eight community Three Rivers tour in the interior of BC. Kamloops, Vernon, Penticton, Creston, Kimberly, Golden and Smithers rounded out the roster of events, with more than 1100 people seeing and hearing the conservation story on the Three Rivers, the North, the Canadian and western Boreal, and the northern half of the Yellowstone to Yukon region.
The Three Rivers: wild waters, sacred places exhibition is in Kelowna until early April, then re-opens in Peterborough Ontario on May 18th. The new book, Three Rivers: the Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness (Harbour Publishing, 2005) will accompany the Three Rivers slide show as it moves across Canada.
CPAWS-Yukon thanks the Kelowna Art Gallery, CPAWS-BC, Kamloops Naturalists, North, Central and South Okanagan Naturalists, Wildsight, and Bulkley Valley Naturalists for co-hosting the BC interior events.
See also:
Preview, The Gallery Guide – Preview of Three Rivers exhibition
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