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hybrid beasts and wild charactersinhabit odd and imaginary lands,Mid-Nov Z’otz* in the gallery to publiclycreate a 30-foot-long wall mural;The Faculty Show, 11 art and designinstructors of Medicine Hat College’sVisual Communications Program,new paintings, drawings, prints, photographs,sculpture, graphic designand projected video; Dec 31-Feb 13Soft Geometry: The Quilts of JudithTinkl, three decades of skill and experiencein textile art; Out of the Vaults:Medicine Hat’s Heritage Quilts, safeguardedfor posterity in the EsplanadeMuseum Collection, quilts made,used and loved in Medicine Hat from1910 onwards.BRITISHCOLUMBIAABBOTSFORDThe Reach Gallery MuseumAbbotsford32388 Veterans Way ✆604-864-8087www.thereach.catues wed fri 10am-5pm thurs 10am-9pm sat & sun 12-5pm. Thru Jan 8Punjabi Visions Exhibition, in celebrationof the 100th anniversary ofthe Khalsa Diwan Society Sikh Templein Abbotsford, regional, nationaland international artists explore thesocial memories and cultural heritagesof the Punjabi/Sikh communities;Randall Steeves, “SomaticEvidence”, encaustic paintings; OurCommunities Our Stories: Use itUp, Wear it Out, Make it Do or DoWithout, permanent collection artefactsdemonstrate early successesat reuse, recycling and repurposing;GROTTO AND SOUTH GALLERY PatrickWood, “Opstraction”, series ofpaintings with the investigation ofpattern, colour and mathematics.BURNABYBurnaby Art Gallery6344 Deer Lake Ave✆604-297-4422www.burnabyartgallery.catues-fri 10am-4:30pm sat-sun 12-5pm. Admission is free. Thru Nov 13Rhonda Neufeld and RodneyKonopaki “Chance Operations 2 “,touring exhibition of recent collaborativedrawings, prints and photographs;One Vision/Multiple Hands,collaborative artworks by a diversegroup of Canadian artists are a smallsampling of the ways in which artistshave worked together to addresssocial, political and/or cultural issuesof the day; Nov 25-Jan 22 Chroniclesof Form and Place: Works on Paperby Takao Tanabe, retrospective exhibitionfeatures drawings and watercoloursfrom 1945 to the present; ;ART IN THE LIBRARY: BOB PRITTIE METRO-TOWN BRANCH LIBRARY, 6100 WIILLING-DON AVE, 604-436-5400 Nov 7-Jan 8Christina Bernadette Gray, “VancouverA-Frames”, watercolour studies;MCGILL BRANCH LIBRARY, 4595 ALBERTST, 604-299-8955 Nov 7-Jan 9James Mah, “New Portrait Series”.★ Japanese CanadianNational Museum6688 Southoaks Cres✆604-777-7000 www.jcnm.catues-sat 11am-5pm. Thru Dec 3Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration,prints from Japan and Cape Dorset,Nunavut, from the late 1950s andearly 1960s, 50 years ago Jameswww.preview-art.com PREVIEW 23