{"id":6642,"date":"2017-10-26T14:32:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/?p=6642"},"modified":"2017-10-31T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:47:07","slug":"art-and-mennonite-history-book-to-be-launched-at-the-canadian-museum-for-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2017\/art-and-mennonite-history-book-to-be-launched-at-the-canadian-museum-for-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Art and Mennonite history book to be launched at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly 10 years in the making, the official book launch of\u00a0Along the Road to Freedom \u2013 Mennonite women of courage and faith<\/em>\u00a0featuring the paintings of\u00a0artist\u00a0Ray Dirks will take place at the\u00a0Canadian Museum for Human Rights\u00a0on\u00a0<\/strong>Wednesday, November 8 at\u00a07:00 PM<\/strong>. All are invited, and admission is free.<\/p>\n

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<\/i>The book includes comments from each Along the Road to Freedom<\/em> committee member and Manitoba Lt. Gov. the Honourable Janice C. Filmon. The foreword by Dr. Marlene Epp, Professor of History and Peace and Conflict Studies, Conrad Grebel University College, offers a historical backdrop that connects with today. Dirks reveals his artmaking process\u00a0and recounts his journey with each painting and sponsoring family.<\/p>\n

Dirks, founder and curator of the MHC Gallery on the campus of Canadian Mennonite University, was visited by four senior citizens\u00a0in 2008 who\u00a0wanted to initiate a project honouring their mothers and others like them. These four individuals\u2014Nettie Dueck, Hans Funk, Wanda Andres, Henry Bergen\u2014escaped the Soviet Union during WW2 on what Mennonites call the Great Trek. In the midst of the war, 35,000 people, many widows with children, left their homes in what is now Ukraine and fled north and west, hoping to eventually reach Canada.\u00a0Twelve thousand\u00a0made it out to either Canada or Paraguay, while 23,000 did not make an escape.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Three of the four people had lost their fathers at an early age. The men were taken by the NKVD, secret police, and like so many others under Stalin, were either quickly murdered or shipped to Siberia where they died in the miserable gulag system. When it came time to flee, their mothers, alone, led them out under the worst of conditions.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Along the Road to Freedom<\/i>\u00a0has also been a travelling\u00a0exhibition of large story paintings honouring women, most of them widowed, who led children to freedom either during the time of anarchy, famine, and chaos following the Russian Revolution or during WW2 on the Great Trek. The exhibition has toured to 20 venues in Canada and the US. The corresponding book\u00a0will include all the paintings and stories on each of the women featured.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book will be available for $35.00 plus GST.<\/span><\/p>\n

BOOK ORDERING DETAILS FOR SINGLE AND MULTIPLE BOOK ORDERS WILL FOLLOW IN DAYS.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Please contact Connie Wiebe\u00a0(cwiebe@cmu.ca<\/span><\/a>; 204.487.3300, ext 344) for information on ordering book, including all bulk book orders.<\/span><\/p>\n

Along the Road to Freedom\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Mennonite\u00a0<\/em>is\u00a0<\/span>a MHC Gallery project 100% funded and created by donations and in kind contributions from writers, editors, and artist\/book designer Ray Dirks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The MHC Gallery is a self-funded gallery of Canadian Mennonite University.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information, please contact:
\nRay Dirks, curator
\n<\/span>CMU Press\/MHC Gallery
\n<\/span>500 Shaftesbury Blvd.
\n<\/span>Winnipeg, Manitoba\u00a0 R3P 2N2<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To interview Ray Dirks, write to rdirks@cmu.ca<\/span><\/a> or call 204.487.3300, ext 346. Print resolution images are available upon request.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nearly 10 years in the making, the official book launch of\u00a0Along the Road to Freedom \u2013 Mennonite women of courage and faith\u00a0featuring the paintings of\u00a0artist\u00a0Ray Dirks will take place at the\u00a0Canadian Museum for Human Rights\u00a0on\u00a0Wednesday, November 8 at\u00a07:00 PM. All are invited, and admission is free. The book includes comments from each Along the Road […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[888,596,887,889],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6647,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions\/6647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}