News item. The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is proceeding with $900,000 expansion, which will provide 50 percent more exhibition space, storage space and work shops. Funding provided by National Museums Corporation, the BC Recreational Facilities Fund, an Intermunicipal Committee Grant and the members and friends of the Gallery. At present, says a spokesman, only 5-8 percent of the Gallery's total collection can be shown. Footage of construction start.

The item is an off air recorded video. The first segment of this Arts Calendar broadcast features an interview with Robert Amos about the proposed closure of the Emily Carr Gallery.

Interview. The life and artwork of Max Maynard (1903-1982) are discussed by his nephew, Derek Reimer, and his dealer, Paul Kyle. Recorded at Kyle's Gallery, Victoria.

News item. An all-around view of the Emily Carr Gallery. Close-ups of totem poles in Carr's paintings are shown to good advantage by the camera.

The item is a video of news items. (1) News item covering fire in Bastion Square restaurant; danger to Emily Carr Gallery. (00:03:10) (2) News spot on damage from fire. (00:02:04) (3) Interview with Leni Hoover; discussion about new gallery exhibit, "From Northern Villages II". (00:14:00)

The item is a video copy of an Arts Calendar program dealing with the proposed closure of the Emily Carr Gallery. Also, excepts from CHEK, BCTV and CBC coverage of the closure. Items date from February and March, 1991.

PERIOD COVERED: ;1930;-;1982 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1983-05-05 SUMMARY: A talk given by Gwladys Downes to open the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria's exhibition, "Max Maynard: Landscape as Metaphor", 03-May-1983.;

CALL NUMBER: T4335:0001 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981 SUMMARY: Interview with Herbert Siebner about artist Arthur D.J. Pitts, alias "Pitts of the Peninsula" (i.e. Saanich).

CALL NUMBER: T4335:0002 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1983-08-05 SUMMARY: Interview with James Erskine Nimmo about artist Arthur D.J. Pitts, alias "Pitts of the Peninsula" (i.e. Saanich).

Documentary. To find out how Vancouver's poets and painters look at life and art, Quebec filmmaker Leonard Forest explores their favourite haunts -- art galleries, private studios and espresso bars. Among the artists seen in the film are painters Donald Jarvis, Jack Shadbolt, Joy Long, and Margaret Peterson; printmaker Sing Lim; and poet bill bisset. The Al Neil Trio (with Glenn MacDonald and Don Thompson) is seen performing at The Cellar coffee house.

SUMMARY: "Monitor" was a radio series devoted to the arts in British Columbia. This episode offers a child's essay on arts events, an interview with Ellen Schwarz, an arts review [and?] the Vancouver Art Galle;ry Extension Program, and a review of "The Barber Of Seville".;

News item. Emphasis is on modern contemporary art. Footage of an exhibit being hung, but location not given.