

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Opening Event! Paul Walde: Weather Conditions
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us at the Legacy Art Gallery Downtown for the opening event celebrating the exhibition Paul Walde: Weather Conditions curated by Williams Legacy Chair Dr. Carolyn Butler Palmer.
 
Light refreshments will be served.

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Paul Walde: Weather Conditions
Sat Jan 17 to Sat April 11, 2026

Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Lekwungen Territory

Curated by Dr. Carolyn Butler Palmer, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies and Williams Legacy Chair at the University of Victoria.

Paul Walde: Weather Conditions features two video installations: Of Weather (for Geoff Hendricks), 2018-2024, and Tom Thomson Centennial Swim, 2017, by interdisciplinary artist and University of Victoria Visual Arts Professor Paul Walde (b. 1968). Each artwork documents site-specific performances accompanied by original soundtracks also created by Walde. Prominent within the exhibition are large-scale photographic prints of cloudscapes from Of Weather (for Geoff Hendricks). Both installations transport weather conditions from their apparent distance in the natural world into the immediacy of the gallery space.

Walde's artworks also pay homage to two art historical figures. Of Weather (for Geoff Hendricks) references the work of Geoffrey Hendricks (1931-2018), a member of Fluxus, who was nicknamed "Cloudsmith" for his long-term interest in depicting the sky and specifically clouds. Tom Thomson Centennial Swim of 2017 memorializes the life and death of Tom Thomson (1877-1917), a canonical figure in the history of Canadian landscape painting. In 1917, Thomson drowned while canoeing on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park, Ontario. 

Image: Paul Walde, Of Weather (for Geoff Hendricks), 2018, photo by Laura Gildner.
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- **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, sports, fine-arts, nonprofit, trips-adventures
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Victoria
- **state**: BC
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: 630 Yates Street, Victoria, BC, Canada, British Columbia V8W 1K9
- **lat**: 48.42662
- **long**: -123.36639
- **full address**: 630 Yates Street, Victoria, BC, Canada, British Columbia V8W 1K9

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: University of Victoria Legacy Art Galleries (https://allevents.in/org/university-of-victoria-legacy-art-galleries/26685661)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 02:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 630 Yates Street, Victoria, BC, Canada, British Columbia V8W 1K9
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** University of Victoria Legacy Art Galleries
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