Taking a guided tour through the Raven Travelling exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery took me back to the memories of the museums and sights I had seen on the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gawii). From the ornately decorated ceremonial masks to the various shapes and sizes of the canoe ors and fish boxes, a real sense of the first nations tradition was eminent. There were also heavy political undertones in the artworks of local native artists on the second floor. Hanging on the wall encased in a glass frame was a riffle and an actual copy of a native treaty published by the Canadian government with multiple bullet holes through it. Another political piece was of a decorative wooden box, also hanging off the wall like a medicine cabinet with barn doors that opened up to reveal the words "SELF GOVERNMENT" inside. The guided tour took the bulk of the remaining gallery hours that Kyle and I had no time left to see the Arthur Erickson exhibit, which was my main focus. I'll just have to come back again.
Kyle, Jamie, Sigrid, and I indulged in sweet and savoury crepes at Café Crêpe on Robson after the gallery and shared the four flavours between us. We were going to meet Kayla at Celebrities afterwards, but never quite made it as time pushed over to 2200. Instead, as we were walking back towards the West End, we had decided to teach Kyle how to execute cartwheels on a patch of grass by the sidewalk. Kyle, being 6'2", had a higher centre point of gravity, so he struggled to get his legs up in the air to complete a revolution. He tried his best though, and in the 20 or so attempts at executing cartwheels with the assistance of Jamie and the encouragement from Sigrid and I, he did two successful revolutions (not consecutively). Given that he had never attempted doing cartwheels before, I think his ten-percent success rate is a great start, heheh! Go Kyle!
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