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Media Advisory: Media Invited to Attend the Opening Reception of the Exhibition
Here to Stay: Cupids 1610 at The Rooms

Media are invited to attend the opening reception of the exhibition Here to Stay: Cupids 1610, tonight (Thursday, June 17) at The Rooms at 7:30 p.m. Representatives from lending institutions, the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, as well as the Cupids 400 Committee will be in attendance and available to the media.

As a part of the Cupids 400 celebrations, Here to Stay: Cupids 1610 explores the early decades of English colonization in the region using rare original documents — on loan and display for the first time ever in the province — and archaeological artifacts that tell the story of Cupids and its settlers, as well as the challenges they faced during their early days. The exhibition also delves into the impact that the first generations of English Newfoundlanders and Labradorians had on the province and on what would later become Canada.

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Media contact:
Chrysta Collins
Communications Officer
The Rooms Corporation
757-8091, 961-5681
chrystacollins@therooms.ca

2010 06 17                                                   11:25 a.m.