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22 Tuesday June 23 2015 ARTS CULTURE FESTIVALS 6.8103 in x 6.3125 in By DALI CARMICHAEL Want to learn how to nail your audition for Folk on the Rocks Or how the festivals iconic owl logo came to be These secrets are revealed at the 35 Years of Folk exhibition which kicked off this weekend at the Centre Square Mall in Yellowknife. Formonthsthedisplaywaslovinglycurated by folkers Aine Kavanagh and Alexis Dirks. It showcases memorabilia from throughout the history of the NWTs foremost festival giving insight into the evolution of the North- ern summertime staple. We have an awful lot of stuff both in the Folk on the Rocks archives and among the people of Yellowknife Kavanaugh said. We thought it would be nice to bring it all together and showcase it in some way. Boxes of photographs from basements across the country have been unearthed and organized some seeing the light of day for the rst time in almost four decades. Its going to be pretty interactive whereby people who attend the exhibition were ask- ing them to help us tag the photos with dates and the names of people and memories Ka- vanaugh said. We have a lot of images that are undated that feature tonnes and tonnes of people from the last 35 years. Visitors to the exhibit can expect to see a wall display showing 35 t-shirts each com- memorating a years worth of volunteers who have helped to keep the festival alive. Folk on the Rocks really has been made possible by the volunteers since the very rst festival in 1980 Kavanaugh said. Music lovers reect on 35 years of Folk on the Rocks Archived footage from CBC North plays in the background showing scenes from the rst ever Folk on the Rocks. Old posters and programs some with original sitemaps and performer lineups paint pictures of music lovers dancing to Canadian music at the height of Yellowknifes summers. Some years were rained out oth- ers suffered from poor marketing efforts but still the crowds always seemed to come back. Weve got stories that Ive found in some of the really early programs Dirks said. They used to print things around music anecdotes interesting things like How to survive your Folk on the Rocks audition theres another story about womens music theres one I printed about how the owl logo originated and the artist who designed it sort of talks about the meaning of that symbol and how that relates to music and the festival. Theres just information thats happened since the beginning up until now that I think people will nd interesting. Throughout the run of the exhibition kin- dergarten through Grade 6 students from almost all of the Yellowknife schools will be attending festival-sponsored visual arts workshops in an effort to promote the arts in the community. Were going to give the students a quick tour of the exhibition and talk to them about the owl logo and how it originated and what they think it means Kavanaugh said. We have the owl logo printed out on large pieces of canvas so were going to get the students to do a large collaborative collage and cre- ate their own owl character then were going to display those at the kids section at the festival. The exhibit opened Friday with an inti- mate event and will remain open to the pub- lic until June 25. Folk on the Rocks runs this year from July 17 to 19. PhotoAineKavanagh A collage of Folk on the Rocks volunteer t-shirts from over the years is only one of the memorabilia collections featured in the 35 Years of Folk Exhibition taking place until June 25.