Visual arts & new media

When Archives Are Incomplete, History Becomes Incomplete

International cultural policy bodies, including UNESCO, have warned that gaps in digital preservation systems pose long-term risks to cultural diversity. When archival infrastructure is uneven, entire communities remain under-documented. Over time, these omissions become structural absences within the historical record.

In Calgary, Alberta, Filipino-Canadian cultural practitioner Rolando Jr. Montemayor Pepano is developing a response grounded in infrastructure rather than exhibition.

Join us for an evening with novelist Scott Alexander Howard, featuring a reading, discussion with Grant Stovel, and audience Q&A celebrating his acclaimed debut novel The Other Valley. Howard, who lives in Vancouver and holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto, brings a rich interdisciplinary perspective shaped by his postdoctoral work at Harvard on memory, emotion, and literature.