A virtual talk presented by the Canadian Society for Asian Arts and the Vancouver Maritime Museum
Get ready to travel back in time and discover the Manila Galleon Wrecks of North America. Your guide at this virtual event on March 27, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. will be archaeologist Scott Williams.
Large galleons built in the Spanish colony of Manila travelled between Spain and Acapulco, Mexico for 250 years from 1565 to 1815. The galleons were the largest ships of their time and carried luxury goods such as silk, Chinese porcelain and spices from Asia to Spanish colonists in the New World.
Three of those galleons were wrecked in North America:
These wrecks have been studied by archaeologists over the past two decades and Scott Williams will share the results of those investigations. Each of these wrecks is the oldest shipwrecks in its area, and the wreck in California is the oldest shipwreck on the west coast.
Scott Williams is a professional archaeologist with over thirty-five years of experience conducting archaeological research throughout the Pacific Northwest, the islands of the Pacific and Australia. Williams is currently the cultural resources program manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation, where he oversees the agency’s archaeology and history program. He is also on the board of the Maritime Archaeological Society and serves as the principal Investigator for the Beeswax Wreck Project, a non-profit project investigating the Manila galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos which was wrecked on the north Oregon coast in 1693. He has just completed an edited volume on the three galleon wrecks in North America.
Registration for this presentation is free for Canadian Society of Asian Arts participants.
We hope you are well and adapting to the changed world of Covid-19. In response, CSAA is re- organizing 2020 programs and developing future plans.
We want to share the following information with you:
The “Ink Dance: 50 Years of Calligraphy by Yim Tse” exhibit, scheduled for a May 24th opening is on hold. We are in discussion with the Asian Centre and the Asian Library at UBC to select a new opening time for the exhibit and the accompanying programs. The comprehensive display, with calligraphy accoutrements, will be enriched with a full catalogue.
Also planned is an illustrated talk by Scott Williams on the west coast Manila Galleon shipwrecks, presenting new research and Asian ceramic finds. Scott’s talk in 2018 was standing room only. A lively and engaging speaker, he is returning by popular demand, in cooperation with the Vancouver Maritime Museum.
The 2020 program schedules will be announced, as health guidelines inform our options.
In 2021, an exhibit, “Mokuhan: Woodblock Prints by Naoko Matsubara and Noboru Sawai” is tentatively scheduled for March – May, in cooperation with The Nikkei Museum in Burnaby. The celebrated artists, active in Canada, have married traditional techniques with contemporary expressions.
Several talks and demonstrations are also under development, including a Japanese Kodo or Incense Ceremony and Japanese Noh Mask Carving. Both programs offer rare opportunities to experience these art forms in Vancouver.
Check the website for updates, to become a member, donate or encourage contacts to sign up for the newsletter.
CSAA acknowledges we are all in challenging times. We look forward to sharing Asian art and culture with you in the future.
Take care,
The CSAA Board
To be held in conjunction
with an illustrated talk by Sam Carter,
CSAA Director and Professor Emeritus,
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
THE POWER OF DESIGN:
Feng Shui & Genius Loci –
creative cultural industries and
sustainable urban design East & West
Sunday, March 15th, 2-4pm
at 6769 Balsam Street, Vancouver, BC
Members and Non-Members are welcome!
Membership is required in order to vote at the AGM
Memberships can be renewed by mail and on site
Light refreshments will be served
Upcoming Programs for Dragon Jars & Lotus Bowls
at the Museum of Vancouver
Saturday, June 1st, 11am
Dragon Jars & Lotus Bowls talk and tour of the exhibit in the Studio Gallery. Asian ceramic specialist Michael Chen will walk through the exhibit, highlighting a variety of ceramic types and design motifs, including the magnificent Dragon jars. Michael will identify special ceramics from the collection from popular blue and white examples to delightful small animal figures.
Sunday, June 9th, 1pm to 3pm
Julie Grundvig, education specialist, will provide an opportunity to explore Asian ceramic treasures and decorate your own ceramic ware with traditional or personal designs. Your ceramic creation is yours to take home. Free Program, all materials provided. The program is for anyone of any age; families welcome.
Saturday, July 6th, 11am
Dragon Jars & Lotus Bowls talk and tour of the exhibit in the Studio Gallery. Asian ceramic specialist Michael Chen will walk through the exhibit, highlighting a variety of ceramic types and design motifs, including the magnificent Dragon jars. Michael will identify special ceramics from the collection from popular blue and white examples to delightful small animal figures.
Sunken Treasures: An exhibition of ceramics from shipwrecks found in Pacific seas
Cargoes from shipwrecks, filled with silk, tea, spices and prized Chinese and Southeast Asian ceramics, attest to the vigour of trade and the rich cultural history of the Asian region. Trade flourished from the 14th to 19th centuries. Chinese junks and Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish and English galleons were among the many ships actively plying the South China Sea, the Manila to Acapulco route and beyond, forming a ‘Maritime Silk Road’.
Ships laden with ceramics, and the especially esteemed blue and white porcelain, tell the story of wares highly valued throughout Asia, the Middle East and eventually Europe. Known for their beauty and utility, Asian ceramics offered a wide variety of forms, glazes and designs popular centuries ago and still popular today.
The Sunken Treasures exhibition presents shipwreck ceramics: snapshots in time that expand our knowledge and appreciation of cultural treasures from long ago, retrieved only recently from the bottom of the sea.
Appreciating Ceramics through the Japanese Tea Ceremony
an introductory workshop and demonstration
with Maiko Behr
April 14, 2018, 2-4pm
at SaBi Tea Arts, 3675 W 16th Avenue (@Dunbar)
Participants will receive an introduction to various kinds of ceramics used in Japanese tea ceremony and learn basic handling techniques followed by a demonstration of a basic tea service and sampling of wagashi sweet and matcha tea. The demonstration will be held in a traditional tatami room with seating in chairs in front of and on low stools inside the room. Guests are not expected to sit on the tatami.
Reservations: maiko@sabiteaarts.com or phone 604-992-8617
Maximum of 12 participants
260 – 5655 Cambie Street
Vancouver BC V5Z 3A4
csaa@telus.net
Charitable Registration #0371849-22-27