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SUMMARY:Deployed: Canadian Army Reservists Overseas
DESCRIPTION:Dick Averns showcases a new exhibition at UCalgary Founders’ 
 Gallery\, Deployed\, providing a rare and candid look at the realities face
 d by Canada’s Reserve soldiers when deployed abroad.\n\nSpanning four dec
 ades of peacekeeping\, training\, and war\, from the 1970s – 2000s\, the 
 exhibition revolves around a feature-length documentary film made by Colone
 l Michael Vernon (Retired). With a focus on Alberta\, Deployed exemplifies 
 the Province’s military contributions in Afghanistan\, the former Yugosla
 via\, Congo\, Sierra Leone\, Egypt and Cyprus: a timely look at the critica
 l value of volunteer troops during a period of expanded Canadian recruitmen
 t and rearmament.\n\nColonel Michael Vernon (Retired) served with both the 
 Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Regiment and the Calgary High
 landers\, whilst also building a career as a journalist. In 1994 he reporte
 d from Croatia as a freelancer\, then reporting from Afghanistan as a video
 -journalist before returning as an army reservist in 2010. He also worked f
 or the CBC and later taught journalism at Mount Royal University.\n\nDeploy
 ed curator Dick Averns has produced numerous exhibitions as an artist\, pos
 t-secondary instructor\, and most recently curator for UCalgary Founders’
  Gallery at The Military Museums. He was deployed to the Middle East as an 
 official war artist with Canadian troops\, and is represented by the Herrin
 ger Kiss Gallery in Calgary.\n\nhttps://www.visitcalgary.com/events/deploye
 d-canadian-army-reservists-overseas\n\nhttps://events.ucalgary.ca/nickle-ga
 lleries/event/523410-nicklenoon-deployed-canadian-army-reservists-overseas?
 _u=7f26a7ab
LOCATION:Nickle Galleries\, Taylor Family Digital Library\, Calgary
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