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2015
August
July
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Family Fun at the Library: Northern Light
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Join us for fun-filled art, craft and discovery sessions, exploring aspects of our current exhibition The Far North.
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Family Fun at the Library: Inuit Summer
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Join us for fun-filled art, craft and discovery sessions, exploring aspects of our current exhibition The Far North.
June
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Dynamic Identities: The Deconstruction of an Inuit Stereotype
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Museum objects often conjure up images of southerners' heroic exploits and their unique encounters with 'ancient' people living in a frozen landscape. This talk critically examines southern stereotypes of the Canadian Arctic and its people by exploring the dynamic nature of contemporary Inuit identity across art, language, and hunting.
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Stitching Skins, Filming Lives: Inuit Hunting Families Today
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This talk is based on Dr Wachowich's recent anthropological fieldwork in an Inuit community, Mittimatalik, (Pond Inlet), in Canada's Eastern High Arctic.
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Polar Horizons
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What happened when polar explorers took to the skies in the 1920s? Dr Marionne Cronin discusses how the Far North was re-imagined in the age of aerial exploration and how the resulting images continue to influence contemporary debates about the region.
May
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Collection Close-up: Audubon and Gould
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Get up close and personal with the treasures of the Special Collections Centre.
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Fine Feathers Family Fun
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Suitable for families with children aged 3-10 years but all welcome.
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Expeditions into Naboland
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On the occasion of The Far North exhibition at the Sir Duncan Rice Library, join us for Reinhard Behrens' illustrated and lively talk about his 40-year-old artistic concept of Naboland that features a toy submarine, penguins, Orientalist camels, Viking adventures and an excursion through Flemish art history on the way...
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Do zoos have a role in preventing the extinction of polar bears?
-An evening talk by Douglas Richardson, Head of Living Collections at the Highland Wildlife Park.