Tuesday, February 11
10:00 to 11:00 am
Open to KALS members   

Join us for an interactive guided tour of the exhibition Ithin-eh-wuk—we place ourselves at the center: James Nicholas and Sandra Semchuk led by KAG Interim Executive Director Emily Hope, and engage in lively explorations of some of the relevant themes.

For fifteen years, James Nicholas and Sandra Semchuk collaborated on a series of nationally exhibited photo-installations and videos which unveil the mindset and effects of colonialism through the lens of their remarkable intercultural marriage.

This exhibition brings together for the first time a comprehensive selection of their collaborations, tracing their creative output from their initial meeting in 1993 until Nicholas’s accidental death in 2007. Their work reveals a profound commitment to dialogue in which Semchuk’s identity as the child of Ukrainian-Canadian settlers from Saskatchewan meets Nicholas’s experiences as a Rock Cree man from Manitoba.

The questions Nicholas and Semchuk ask of each other are personal, at times humorous, at other times painful. Whether dealing with the marginalization of Ukrainian-Canadian settlers or Nicholas’s experiences as a residential school survivor, the effort is always, in Semchuk’s words, “to recognize the truths in each other’s stories.”

This program is offered in collaboration with the Kamloops Adult Learners’ Society (KALS). You must be a member of KALS to participate.

Registration is available online at kals.ca/registration/.

Visitors at the opening reception for Ithin-eh-wuk—we place ourselves at the center, January 2025.
Photo: Kim Anderson