Edmonton Ghost Tours at the AGA

Join us for the October edition of our Community Tour Series which invites a new speaker each month to lead a tour of a current exhibition, giving our audience a unique perspective on the artwork on display.  
 
This month we are excited to have partnered with Edmonton Ghost Tours to lead a tour of our current exhibition Conjured Images, Spirit Photography at the Turn of the 20th Century. This tour is happening during our monthly free night at the AGA, which happens the last Thursday of the month from 4-7pm. Please not that due to space limitation registration is required.  

About Edmonton Ghost Tours  

Edmonton Ghost Tours is an award winning Tour Company offering 8 unique tours.  Join us as we explore the darker side of Edmonton and unearth the areas true stories of ghosts, hauntings, murders and mysteries.  

About Conjured Images

This exhibition features early examples of photos that feature “extras” or ghostly apparitions who photographers and sitters claim were not physically present in the room when the photos were taken. Some believed these figures were the spirits of dead loved ones and claimed to recognize friends and family. Others blamed trickery or common phenomenon like double exposure. Spirit photography was incredibly popular at the turn of the century because of changing technology and the rise of the spiritualist movement. The core of spiritualism is a belief that there is an afterlife that is much like this life and from which spirits can actively communicate. Many famous spiritualists like Queen Victoria, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Mary Todd Lincoln made attempting to convene with the dead a mainstream hobby.  

Conjured Images: Spirit Photography from the turn of the 20th Century  is organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta and curated by Lindsey Sharman. Presented by Capital Powered Art, an exhibition series sponsored by Capital Power.