This website has been created to give Canadians an inside view of life on Vancouver's Eastside from an Aboriginal Artists' perspective.
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The design captures the feeling of looking forward and back and places the meeting point of the two views above the sun symbol. The logo is based on a traditional Haida design of the Raven.
Video Transcript: Hi my name is Don Howell and I’m with Looking Forward Looking Back, my role in this project is the videographer; meaning that I shoot the video, I edit the video. You’re probably wondering what Looking Forward Looking Back is about. Well, Looking Forward Looking Back is about looking at the downtown eastside through the eyes of the aboriginal artist that work and live here. I hope you enjoy and can share our stories. We’ll see on the website. Thank you.
By coincidence we named our projcet with the same name as the first chapter of the Royal Canadian Commission Report on Aboriginal Peoples. (1996).
Here are a quote from a seminar presentation held at the Stout Research Centre, Treaty of Waitangi Research Unit,, Victoria University of Wellington, July 2000 by Vincent O’Malley.
"...It is a remarkable tribute to the strength and endurance of Aboriginal people that they have maintained their historic diversity and identity. ...
