Women Are Persons! Famous Five (youth version) - Decoding ART - Heritage Monuments
The project Decoding Art offers visitors of Canada's Capital Region the opportunity to discover the history and the artists who created national monuments in Canada's Capital Region, through multimedia clips available on smart phones using the QR code technology.
Famous Five Statue Calgary
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Gary with Famous Five Statues
Famous Five, Nellie McClung, Winnipeg
On the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature Building is this Memorial to Nellie McClung and the famous five.
BALLAD OF THE FAMOUS FIVE
The Famous Five
Carolyn Harley on October 18, 2009 went to Olympic Plaza in Calgary, Alberta to sing her song The Ballad of the Famous Five. 80 years earlier, on October 18, 1929, the Privy Council in England ruled that Canadian women were 'persons' in the eyes of the law. This was a significant achievement in Canadian history.
Famous Five Digital Audio Experience
Nearly a century ago five Canadian women came together and fought for gender equality. They bravely won their fight and their statues now stand in Calgary and Ottawa, Canada. Their message is as important and relevant today as it was then, but unfortunately it often goes unheard.
To inspire a new generation of women and girls, we brought the statues of the Famous 5 to life with a 360-degree audio experience.
The Famous 5 Monument - National Capital Commission
Imagine stepping into a voting booth and making your mark. Maybe you want to run for public office or own property. You want the freedom to choose what career you will pursue and decide how you will spend the money you earn.
Imagine it's Canada in the 1920s. If you're a woman, these choices are only a dream. But, thanks to five women, these dreams became a reality. The women demanded that the Canadian government recognize the most basic of human rights: the right to be legally defined as a person and be allowed to serve their country as a senator.
The five, all from Alberta, are now legendary: Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney, Nellie McClung, Emily Murphy and Henrietta Muir Edwards.
Every woman in Canada can trace her present-day rights back to the 1929 court battle the Famous 5 fought and won. On Parliament Hill, where statues of male politicians mingle with those of monarchs, the monument to the five is one of the few to honour ordinary citizens. A duplicate of the sculpture stands in Calgary's Olympic Square, and is reproduced on the back of the $50 bill.
Created by Alberta artist Barbara Paterson in 2000, the bronze sculpture depicts a celebration — on the grounds of the Parliament Buildings, where women now serve as senators and members of Parliament, the Famous 5 toast their victory with cups of tea.
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Calgary’s newest public art – not your traditional monument
Calgary’s newest public artwork titled Wolfe and the Sparrows will be installed on May 7 and 8 at the southwest corner of the new 12 Street Bridge in Inglewood. Canadian artist and professor of sculpture, Brandon Vickerd, hopes the work will encourage Calgarians to consider and reflect on how bronze monuments celebrate figures from our past.
Wolfe and the Sparrows is a cast bronze sculpture, inspired by an existing statue of General James Wolfe, sculpted by John Massey Rhind in 1898. General Wolfe was a British army general who led the British army to victory over the French during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759. The original sculpture was gifted to The City of Calgary by Glenbow Museum founder, Eric Harvie, and now stands in a park in the community of Mount Royal.
Wolfe and the Sparrows may first appear to be a traditional monument, cast in bronze and raised on a pedestal. But as you move closer, a flock of sparrows–a bird species native to England, Wolfe’s place of birth–explodes from the figure, distorting Wolfe’s head and shoulders.
“This sculpture doesn’t celebrate a historical figure; it is transformative,” says Vickerd. “My responsibilities to the public are not to simply parachute something into a community without considering the socio-political, economic and cultural institutions already at play. As an artist, I see my role as engaging people in a conversation and introducing new ideas and concepts.”
The piece was fabricated in Calgary by BronzArt Casting Ltd.
“Brandon has created a truly original and unique sculpture,” says Vaughn Stewart of BronzArt Casting Ltd. “Due to its uniqueness, there were some highly challenging fabrication aspects for the foundry. By working hand-in-hand with Brandon, we were able to bring his vision to life.”
A project-specific public art selection panel chose artist Brandon Vickerd for this project. The concept for Wolfe and the Sparrows is the result of numerous conversations and exchanges with the citizens from surrounding communities, a process that was essential to the development of the artwork.
“From the get-go, the opportunity to work with the community to make a piece of public art that came from conversations with the people who were going to see it every day is what really drew me to this project,” says Vickerd.
The artist was allocated $220,000 to design, build and install the public art piece. This funding comes from the 12 Street Bridge $26 million capital budget.
The City of Calgary is currently developing a new public art process and will present a new direction for the program in 2020. Wolfe and the Sparrows is one of the remaining pieces that were underway before City Council directed a suspension of all new capital public art projects. Calgarians will see three additional projects completed in 2019 as part of the previous program.
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Welcome to my channel, where I share with you my experience with moving to Canada, learning music, languages, and have some fun together in a few videos! Stay tuned for more!
We went to Calgary, which is like 3 hours away from where I live, so I wanted to share this little journey with you, since I enjoyed it!
Calgary is such a beautiful city in the province of Alberta, in Canada!
I LOVED IT!
My favorite spot was probably Stephen Ave in Downtown.
One of the best historical sites was The Famous Five Statues, that you can also find in Ottawa, I talked quickly about the importance of these 5 women when it comes to Women Rights in Canada.
It's like 50 minutes away from the Rocky Mountains, AND BY THE WAY, THESE MOUNTAINS ARE GORGEOUS! A WORK OF ART!
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National Aboriginal Veterans Monument - Decoding ART - Heritage Monuments
Transcript:
[Canadian Heritage signature]
Narrator: This capsule is presented by Canadian Heritage.
[Noel Lloyd Pinay, Aboriginal artist, his hand in the mouth of the sculpture of a bear]
Narrator: When he created this first monument dedicated to Aboriginal veterans in Canada, artist Noel Lloyd Pinay, of the Peepeekisis First Nation in Saskatchewan, was inspired by the memory of his father, a veteran of the Second World War.
This richly symbolic bronze sculpture represents the stories of thousands of men and women who have played a decisive role in defending the freedom of our country.
The artist makes frequent use of the circle and the number 4, which has spiritual importance for many Aboriginal peoples. The four warriors (two men and two women), which represent the diversity of First Nations, Metis and Inuit people, are facing the four points of the compass. They are guided by the spirits of four animals, which lead them to peace and victory.
These spirit guides are associated with qualities that are admired by Aboriginal cultures: the elk, for its wariness, the buffalo, for its tenacity, the bear, for its healing powers and the wolf, for its family values. A thunderbird is perched at the top of the sculpture.
It represents the Creator, and embodies the spirit of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada.
Looking closely at the sculpture, one can observe how the artist has conveyed a sense of balance by representing opposites: two predators and two prey, two women and two men, two weapons and two spiritual objects — the eagle feather fan and the peace pipe.
Through this work, Pinay expresses the idea that the desire for peace often lies at the root of war.
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11. Human Remains
In 2011, Don Selby in Salt Lake City, Utah was working with his crew in a homeowner’s yard. Some reports say they were digging out a water main while other reports suggest they were digging up a pond. Either way, they made a discovery – human bones. Frightened by the unexpected find, he called the police.
10. Bronze Age Headstone
When amateur historian Stephen Davis from England began researching the history of his house, he came across a reference to an ancient stone called the Horestone near Stroud, which had been lost for 350 years! Eventually, he began swapping notes with a local historian named Claire Forbes and eventually decided to go on a hunt for it.
9. Loaded Machine
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8. 1700s Cemetery
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7. A Hollywood Actress
In 1996, 47-year-old Canadian-born actress Margot Kidder, the spunky original Lois Lane in the “Superman” movies, was found in someone's backyard in Glendale, California. The actress, who was battling health and financial problems at that time, had been missing for three days before she was found. She was supposed to have flown to Arizona from Los Angeles to teach a class.
6. Church Bells
In 2013, a man from the Czech Republic was digging up his backyard to install some pipes when he stumbled across some unusual metal objects. Just as a side note, always call the city before you start digging deep in your backyard!
5. Mastodon Bones
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4. Meteorites
The chances of you finding a piece of meteorite in your backyard is pretty small, let alone a meteorite hitting your house six times in a row. But that is exactly what happened to Radivoke Lajic, a Serbian man living in a little village in northern Bosnia. It looks like the man´s property, for some reason, attracts space rocks!
2. Whale Fossil
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1. A Cheetah
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