Vernon's Gallery Vertigo hosts national internment art exhibit – Castanet

Exhibit on dark chapter UCC Internment Video from Internment Canada on Vimeo. How national security fears and wartime prejudice led to the internment of thousands of people will be on display at Vernon’s Gallery Vertigo, starting Friday. In alliance with the Michelle Loughery Sunflower Project, and Vernon museum, Gallery Vertigo is hosting the national internment art exhibit Pause in Plight, June 3 to July 29. An interment camp comprised mostly of Austro-Hungarian and German Canadians was located in the field where W.L. Seaton Secondary School is now located. Before the camp closed in February 1920, some 1,100 men, women and children had passed through its gates. The exhibit is curated by Winnipeg visual artist Kerri Parnell, with support from the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund. The 17-piece exhibit aims to inform the masses of the First World War national security fears and wartime prejudice that led to the internment of 8,579 men, women and children identified as ‘enemy aliens.’ Pause in Plight is touring across Canada to help bring awareness to the historical injustice. The exhibit educate and enlighten viewers by raising awareness to those who are still uninformed of this dark piece of…
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