Residents are invited to lend a hand to artist David Jacob Harder to give suggestions for words to include on his Helping Hand sculpture that will be part of a display at Penticton City Hall.
On Thursday (March 28) Harder will visit a number of locations across the city to talk about the sculpture and residents are encouraged to drop in to speak with the artist and provide their suggestions.
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On March 28, artist David Jacob Harder, will visit a number of locations across the City to talk about the work with citizens and get their suggestions for words to include on his Helping Hand sculpture. Members of the public are invited to drop by the following locations on March 29 to speak with the artist and provide their suggestions of words that fill in the blank for the sentence “my Penticton is _.”
Harder will be at the Penticton Art Gallery (10 to 11 a.m.), downtown at the corner of Main Street and Westminster Avenue (noon to 1 p.m.) and at the Cannery Brewing (3 to 5 p.m.).
Once the words are collected, a shortlist will be created and members of the city’s shapeyourcitypenticton.ca website will be invited to vote on the final words to be used on the sculpture. The final list will be translated into nsyilxcən (Syilx Okanagan) in collaboration with the Enowkin Centre, as well as some of the languages commonly spoken in Penticton in collaboration with the South Okanagan Immigrant and Community Services Society.
Anyone unable to make an event can submit their words through shapeyourcitypenticton.ca or at city hall.
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