Forever Yours, Nancy

A 16mm Closing Celebration for Nancy Columbia

Sunday, August 5, 2018 - 12:00pm to 6:00pm

 

Forever Yours, Nancy

Suggested Donation $4 Students/Seniors $6 General Admission

12:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M.

16mm Screenings 3:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.

Advance reservations are not necessary for this event.

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John Cannizzaro of Smokehouse films joins the Velaslavasay Panorama in a closing celebration of our lobby exhibit Nancy Columbia And The Arctic Beyond with a series of 16mm Polar-related films from the Smokehouse Films Archive.

Sunday, August 5th, 2018 from Noon 'til 6:00 P.M., the Velaslavasay Panorama will be open to the public giving visitors a last chance to explore our lobby exhibit on the life and ephemera of Nancy Columbia, Queen-Of-The-Paystreak. To make way for a new lobby exhibit related to Shengjing Panorama, we bid adieu to materials from the archives of Russell Potter and Kenn Harper that have been on view since 2014.

Intermittently from 3:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M., John Cannizzaro will present 16mm educational and artistic films on the Arctic and Antarctic terrain. This presentation includes a mixture of live & pre recorded sound along with readings of Inuit poetry and Arctic memoirs by Kathryn Bucher.

This event is part of Maiden LA 2018,  an inclusive and expansive county-wide survey of art happenings in August 2018.

Nancy Columbia, the "Most Beautiful Eskimo that Ever Lived!" was born at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and named the Queen of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Esquimaux Village in 1909. Columbia was also the first Inuit to write and star in a film in 1911, entitled The Way of the Eskimo. The exhibit features stereoviews, photographs, and ephemera from several World's Fairs, highlighting the success and persistence of "Esquimaux Villages" and Arctic obsession in the 19th to 20th centuries.

The Nancy Columbia Exhibit will be on view through August 5th, 2018 and features objects from the collection of Kenn Harper, Dr. Russell Potter and other arctic collectors.

Films selected by John Cannizzaro include interpretations of Inupiat folktales filmed on location in Alaska as well as an animated short, Owl and the Raven, which recalls an Inuit legend. Film selections also include the documentary series of "Tuktu" stories from 1968 which was created for educational purposes. 

 

Images from the event!

Photography by Forest Casey

 

Forever Yours, Nancy is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.