Art Admiration
"Keeping the Song Alive" and Artist Talk with Sonny Assu - Bill Reid Gallery
Despite many odds, recordings of the ancestral Songs of the Kwakwaka’wakw were created and survived. In January 2023 at Vancouver's Bill Reid Gallery, Ligwiłda'xw Kwakwaka’wakw multidisciplinary artist Sonny Assu gave a virtual artist talk about the chance rediscovery of this music, featuring his great-grandfather chief Billy Assu, and how a deepening knowledge of his heritage has influenced and featured in his practice and art work.