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NOV 04 | 7:00 pm
New
Fossils,
New Ideas
IN CONJUNCTION WITH
Donald Henderson, Curator of
Dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, will
lead a walk-through of the exhibit followed by a thought-provoking
discussion!
One of the most significant recent
findings has been the discovery of fossil feathers associated
with a wide range of carnivorous dinosaurs, including an early
relative of Tyrannosaurus rex. This latter finding
suggests that even T. rex itself had feathers at some
time in its life. The presence of feathers also gives us important
clues about things that don't fossilize such as dinosaur body
temperature.
As well as reinforcing the idea that
birds are dinosaurs, it is now clear that feathers and feather-like
structures first evolved for other uses, and only later were
they adapted for flight.
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Wed
APR 08 | 7:00 pm
What
Makes A Hero?
IN CONJUNCTION WITH
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Ask any person for a definition of a hero and you are
likely to find these are rarely the same. From Hercules
to pop stars, from firefighters to athletes, heroes
take many forms. Sometimes it is hard to fit a person
comfortably into the mold of a hero.
Everett Soop was such a person. Looking at his life
through his works it seems that he was irascible, tenacious,
scathing, and courageous.
If we believe that a hero does not need to be perfect,
can it be that Everett Soop, aboriginal activist who
did so much to improve the lot of the handicapped, is
a true hero? Exhibit curator Geraldine Chimirri-Russell
investigates.
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Geraldine Chimirri-Russell, a curator
at The Nickle Arts Museum at the University of Calgary,
has curated interdisciplinary exhibitions such as
Everett Sooop:
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Cartoonist, Activist. She
has also written a chapter in the upcoming book in a series
of Museum Studies volumes entitled "Representing
Disabilities" that relates to the Everett Soop exhibition.
Her main responsibility is for the numismatic collection
of ancient coins at The Nickle Arts Museum with which
she has been working for the last ten years. The main
focus of research has been on South Arabian coins, Celtic
and Sicilian coinage. She has given international presentions
at Madrid, Paris, London, Cambridge and Stanford that
have mainly focused on her research on Celtic coinage.
Chimirri-Russell is broadening her research to include
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Wed
MAY 20| 7:00 pm
Oh,
look! There's a train
on the Bridge!!
IN CONJUNCTION WITH
Many people of southern
Alberta form strong emotional connections to the High Level Bridge. We
look at it as an icon, a special landmark. We bring visitors to see the
bridge in hopes of watching a long train cross it. We walk under its towers,
take photos of it, write poems and prose expressing our thoughts about
it. What is it about the bridge that fascinates us?
Curator Presents begins with a Curator's Tour
of The Mighty Bridge with exhibit Curator Wendy Aitkens, followed
by a presentation and lively discussion about our connections with the
bridge.
Wendy
Aitkens moved back to Lethbridge in 2006 when she joined the Galt Museum
& Archives as Curator. Prior to her arrival here she was at Fort Calgary
for 16 years. After a long absence from Lethbridge, she felt like she
was coming home when she drove into the Oldman River valley and could
see the High Level Bridge once again.
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