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Part 1At the intersections of history, memory, and trauma are confluences; spaces that offer opportunities for growth and understanding to occur. Engaging in this process does not diminish the…

This event launched Matt Hern’s new book What a City is For: Remaking the Politics of Displacement (MIT Press, 2016).Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful and livable cities in the United…

Facing firsthand the impacts of the Alberta tar sands to her traditional territory, Laboucan-Massimo has been a vocal advocate for Indigenous rights for the past 10 years. She will discuss green…

A conversation with Siddharth Dube, an author and activist born in Calcutta, India. Dube released his most recent book earlier this year. "An Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of Outlawed…

Are we deranged? Acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so, given our imaginative failure in the face of global warming. In this powerful presentation,…

One Book one SFU, presented by Simon Fraser University Library and co-sponsored by the Tegan and Sara Foundation, Vancity Office of Community Engagement SFU Woodward's, Pulpfiction Books. An…

Drawing from her project Free Home University, Alessandra Pomarico shares her reflections around the necessity to re-imagine the education approach (and the art system), in order to build sustainable…

SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement hosted a screening and panel discussion on In the Land of the Head Hunters, the first feature film made in B.C. and the oldest surviving feature made in…

Performing together, Japanese Canadian taiko artist Kage (Eileen) performing on taiko and African-American, Music Research Strategist and percussionist Marshall Trammell will explore emergent,…

Hiromi Goto’s first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms (1994), received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in the Caribbean and Canada region and was co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award…

WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT NEIGHBOURHOODS?Neighbourhoods are often positively associated with community. They tend to have a combination of qualities that communities identify with which can make them…

Vancouver New Music hosted a conversation with visual and sound artist Steve Roden, who spoke to the various elements of his practice, including but not limited to his use of sound. Roden's…

CTRL ALT DELETE featured thought leaders and experts from various intersections of the tech industry. From health, finance, social good, this event aimed to highlight the various forms of disruption…

In Visible Colours is honoured to present a talk with Germaine Tremmel; lawyer, activist, renowned keeper of traditional and cultural practices and one of the Grandmothers who started Standing Rock.…

Geoff Mann lives in Vancouver, where he teaches political economy and economic geography at Simon Fraser University, and he directs the Centre for Global Political Economy.In the ruins of the 2007–…

Joe Sacco was born in Malta, October 2, 1960. He moved around the world to Australia, before settling in Los Angeles in 1972 and eventually to Portland, Oregon. As a child he vividly remembers buying…

Nathan Edelson will reflect on his experience of almost a half century as a community planner in Vancouver and other cities in North America. He has contributed to many innovative initiatives and…

Governmental policies and actions related to Indigenous peoples, though often termed “racist” or “discriminatory,” are rarely depicted as what they are: classic cases of imperialism and a particular…

As conventional natural gas is a fossil fuel that contributes heavily towards carbon emissions, the government of British Columbia is targeting this issue by instituting a 15% requirement of…

Can films that depict urgent social problems challenge viewers to change their views? What is the boundary between images that can change the world, like the tragic image of the drowned Syrian boy,…