Yellowknife’s Down to Earth Gallery will be holding a special event to allow residents to reflect on the time they spent away from their homes during the summer evacuations.
The event is called “After the Fire”, and will feature various pieces of art and photography surrounding the experience that many of us had just a few months ago.
Fran Hurcomb, one of the artists who shows their work through the Gallery, helped to explain how this idea came about, stating that her and a few colleagues were sharing their evacuation stories with each other, when the idea was raised of making those stories into a show for the Gallery.
Hurcomb added that there will be works from fifteen different artists, all of whom regularly have their art displayed at the Gallery. She also shared what the public can expect to see should they decide to attend this weekend.
“It’ll be a little opening, and a bit of a social event. The Gallery is made of three main rooms, so we’ll clear out our centre room, which is our biggest room, and it will just be specifically dedicated to the pieces in the show. We’ve also asked the artists if they would write up a little explanation of their piece or what inspired them.”
The event will be initially opening at 7:00pm on Friday, October 27th, and will run all weekend long. The Down to Earth Gallery is located at the corner of Bryson and Franklin in Old Town in Yellowknife.
