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Art Talks with Rebecca Albiani: What the Dickens?

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

In 1843 Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol extolled brotherhood and charity.  But seven years later, Dickens penned an extremely uncharitable review of the young painters styling themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, calling Millais’s Jesus “a wry-necked, blubbering red-headed boy in a bed-gown.”  Learn how their relationships evolved from poisonous rhetoric to respect and friendship.

Rebecca Albiani photo by Jonathan Vanderweit

December 14 | 11:00 AM

Earlier Event: December 11
'Twas the Night Before Christmas, 1776 | Theatre Series
Later Event: December 16
'Twas the Night Before Christmas, 1776 | Theatre Series

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.