Events
A History of Fire
Speakers: Liz Toohey-Weise & Jen Baron
The VHS is pleased to partner with the Italian Cultural Centre on an exhibition and a pair of lectures related to wildfires. Liz Toohey-Weise takes a stunning artistic approach in “Fire Season: Collective sense-making on the topic of wildfires”.
Deeply interested in the history of landscape painting, her paintings explore contemporary relationships between identity and place. Born and raised in the suburbs of Vancouver, her work seeks to intervene in the broader notion of “landscape” in the cities and the surrounding natural areas she finds herself in.
Forest scientist Jen Baron takes a different direction with “Burning History: Uncovering the Role of Fire in British Columbia’s Ecosystems,” based on her expertise on Wildfire ecology and management, forest fire behaviour and risk, ecosystem resilience, restoration and conservation, climate change, landscape ecology, and remote sensing.
Jen is a transdisciplinary ecologist and researcher with the Pacific Institute of Climate Solutions (PICS) Wildfire & Carbon Project and Canada Wildfire Strategic Network, with a current focus on wildland fire, disturbance & landscape ecology, and data science.
From Sen̓áḵw to Kitsilano to Sen̓áḵw again – a Kitsilano lecture in Kitsilano
Speaker: Michael Kluckner
The history of Vancouver’s cherished Kitsilano neighbourhood will be explored from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) era to the 21st century in this richly illustrated presentatiion by author-artist Michael Kluckner. A history of Kitsilano presented in Kitsilano at the Museum of Vancouver, and live-streamed on our YouTube channel.
(Our previously announced lecture by historian Daniel Marshall has been postponed.)
Summer 2024
The May lecture is the last one until September. Director Denise Jacques is working on a program of field trips for the summer months.
NOTE: We have returned to the Museum of Vancouver since the April lecture. For those not wishing to attend in person, the lectures will be broadcast live on the Vancouver Historical Society’s YouTube channel.