The 18th annual Lulu Series: Art in the City kicks off this week in Richmond.
This year, the free, three-part speaker series features creators Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Klara Manhal, Howie Tsui, Djaka Blais and Brian McBay. The talks will take place at Richmond Art Gallery and Wilson School of Design at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Each speaker will explore how art connects with urban life. All talks begin at 6 p.m. on their scheduled dates.
The series opens on Thursday, March 13 with Drouin-Brisebois, director of national engagement at the National Gallery of Canada, at Richmond KPU's Wilson School of Design.
She will talk about recent projects the gallery has developed in public spaces across Canada. The National Gallery's mandate is to develop, maintain and make known their collections while promoting knowledge, understanding and appreciation of art.
On April 10, Vancouver-based contemporary artist Tsui will speak at Richmond Cultural Centre Performance Hall. He will give a presentation about his piece The Breath Below, a landmark public artwork at Richmond's new Capstan SkyTrain Station.
He will be joined by Manhal, a senior planner of public art at TransLink, who led the project. Together, they will discuss how this art became TransLink's "largest and most immersive work" in its collection to-date.
The series concludes on May 15 with an open discussion featuring Blais and McBay at the Richmond Cultural Centre Performance Hall.
They will explore the Cultural Land Trust movement as a model to preserve and grow cultural spaces in Canada.
The two creators will also recount the challenges that they've faced with their respective projects while considering the role of "ethnocultural communities in reinforcing land rights as well as reciprocity for Indigenous Nations."
The Lulu Series was created in 2003 to spread awareness of the importance of art in building communities and "establish goals for the growth of art" in Richmond and across the Lower Mainland, according to the City of Richmond.
For more information and to reserve seats, visit the city's website.
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