All summer, in a nod to Canada's 150th birthday, the Art Gallery of Alberta is featuring Canadian art, photography, and sculpture as well as Andy Warhol's Wayne Gretzky prints. Aptly titled Past Imperfect, visitors are invited to write postcards to mail or to add their voices to the exhibit for others to read. There's also a wall display of notes from Canadians describing what they love about Canada.I was encouraged to read these postcards, these modern, inclusive, Canadian voices: a person offering support to LGBTQ Canadians, a writer questioning why some Canadian Indigenous communities don't have clean water, and an immigrant, who when questioned, described her Canadian boyfriend's ethnicity as "human."
Exactly: human aka humane aka benevolent.
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We saw those great exhibits too, on Canada Day when there was free admission to AGA. Man, the place was PACKED!
There is a lot to celebrate about Canada but our record on the treatment of indigenous people is scandalous. I hope we'll get to a tipping point on that very soon.
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