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Please browse the gallery below to discover images, videos, and audio from the exhibition "BADO: The Francophonie Through Pencil Strokes." Click on an image to see an enlarged version with a description, or to play the video or audio clip.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: N.B.: Higgs sets up an official languages secretariat Illustration: A man trying to assemble a bookshelf, unable to understand the instructions. Frustrated, he is thinking: The instructions are only in English!
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: French immersion in New Brunswick Illustration: A man is drowning, his feet in a block of cement with the inscription “Higgs”, the name of the province’s Premier.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: Bilingualism in New Brunswick Illustration: Two men standing face to face. On the left, a well-dressed man, and on the right, a man in jeans, open collar shirt and cap, hands in pockets. The man on the left says: Shares awe me!
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: L’Évangéline closes its doors, no more French-language newspaper for the Maritimes Illustration: Drawing of Évangéline, the symbol of Acadie, with the inscription “1887-1982”.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: Assimilation of francophones Illustration: A hand sticking out of the water and a cry of “Help!”.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: French-language instruction outside Quebec Illustration: The outline of an invisible school drawn in dotted lines, symbolizing the difficulty in gaining access to education in a minority language.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: Francophone minorities are clearly declining Illustration: A man stuck in quicksand up to his waist, is holding a newspaper and saying: No way we’re going to be assimilated!
Abstract drawing by Bado.
Abstract drawing by Bado. A three-dimensional labyrinth.
Abstract drawing by Bado. Bubbles against a rainbow backdrop.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: Modernizing the Official Languages Act Illustration: Justin Trudeau juggling eggs. One egg is inscribed C-13, and is intact. Several eggs have fallen to the ground and are broken. These are inscribed: Garneau, Lambropoulos and Housefather. Trudeau is thinking: I should have picked another number for that Bill.
alt= Translated from original French artwork. Title: Modernizing the Official Languages Act Illustration: A race car, without wheels, standing on bricks. The car is decorated with red maple leaves, and labeled “C-32”.