All Together Now contributor Maurice Guibord and curator Viviane Gosselin acknowledge the 50th anniversary of Expo 67 with insights, memories and collectables from this ground-breaking Canadian event
Date/Time: Jan 19 2017, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Vancouver, Museum of Vancouver | Event calendarCost: $15.00
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Did you attend Expo 67 – the world exposition in Montreal, held during Canada’s 100th anniversary? Join historian, All Together Now contributor and penultimate Expo-phile Maurice Guibord and share your memories and souvenirs. Indeed, some of us enthusiasts did purchase and wear tacky sombreros on the Expo site as if it was the coolest thing to do that summer!
Expo 67 had varying impacts on various communities; the exhibition meant different things to different people. What did Canada gain from the Expo 67 experience, and what did people take home with them? How did this event impact Montreal and other French-Canadians and Anglophone communities across the country? On many levels Expo 67 was a formative event for Canada, and an indelible moment in our history and our consciousness. Let’s celebrate it together on its 50th anniversary!
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Maurice Guibord has been active in history and heritage for almost 30 years. His museum experience in the curatorial and programming areas in Calgary’s Glenbow Museum and the Burnaby Village Museum matches his involvement in heritage, cultural and museum organizations in Alberta and B.C. He is also a founding director of the Heritage Vancouver Society, and is active with the Vancouver Heritage Foundation and with Radio-Canada as a historical chronicler. He holds a Masters degree in History from Simon Fraser University of which he is a Sessional Instructor. Guibord is an active Board member of the BC Historical Federation and is the President of the Société historique francophone de la Colombie-Britannique. He has been a resident of the Lower Mainland for over 25 years.
Viviane Gosselin, senior curator at MOV, led the All Together Now exhibition project. She has a long-standing research interest in the relationship between private and public memories. A few years ago, she conducted interviews as part of a memory study in which Vancouver and Montreal-based participants shared their recollections of Expo 67, forty years after the event. She will bring forward highlights of this study in conversation with Maurice
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