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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 evening of reading and conversation with Ivan Coyote and Tegan Quin as they discuss Coyote's poignant memoir, Tomboy Survival Guide.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Coyote, Ivan, Author: Quin, Tegan
Date created: 2018-03-06
Queer Arts Festival and SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement presented a lecture by Jonathan David Katz, PhD, on the exhibition ART/AIDS/AMERICA at the Tacoma Art Museum from now until Jan 10, 2016. Generally considered merely a tragic tangent to US culture, AIDS has in fact been one of the most powerful shaping forces in American culture since the 1980's. We have repressed AIDS’ role in the making of our culture in keeping with our longstanding, repression of AIDS in general. But repression, as known from psychoanalysis, is the sign of great power. The lecture was followed by a Q&A with Dr. Katz.Jonathan David Katz is a pioneering academic and gay activist who works at the intersection of art history and queer history. Widely recognized as a leading authority in queer art history, his work as curator, scholar, and activist has had a profound impact on the understanding of queer art and artists in both academia and the larger world. Katz founded the Harvey Milk Institute, the world’s largest queer studies institute, and serves as president and chief curator of New York City's Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. His recent work includes co-curating “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Art,” an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery that broke ground by focusing on LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) issues. Katz directs SUNY Buffalo’s PhD program in visual studies. Katz is currently co-curating ART/AIDS/AMERICA at the Tacoma Art Museum from now until January 10, 2016, and will curate the 2016 Queer Arts Festival visual arts exhibition this coming June.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Katz, Jonathan David, Author: Queer Arts Festival
Date created: 2015-11-26
Panelists:Bill Cranmer is a Hereditary Chief of the N’amgis First Nation.Andy Everson is a contemporary First Nations artist from the K’omoks First Nation on Vancouver Island. Holding a master’s degree in anthropology, Andy is the grandson of one of the film’s stars—Margaret Frank—who played the role of Princess Naida.Owen Underhill lives in Vancouver where he is a composer, conductor, artistic director and faculty member in the School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU and is the artistic director of Turning Point Ensemble.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Curtis, Edward, Author: Browne, Colin, Author: Cranmer, Bill, Author: Everson, Andy, Author: Underhill, Owen
Date created: 2015-11-13
Recording of book launch In the Long Run We Are All Dead by Geoff Mann.
Author: Mann, Geoff
Date created: 2017-10-12
This is the video of the event "Lighter Living: Better Everyday Lives for People and the Planet" (1 hour, 45 mins), held in Vancouver on 5 October 2019 at Simon Fraser University. The evening was a chance to explore how to mainstream environmental sustainability into our daily lives, here in the region.
Author: One Earth, Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2019-10-05
Author: Gosnell-Myers, Ginger , Author: Soutar, Rena , Author: Todd, Kamala, Author: Lindsay, Spencer, Author: Khelsilem, Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2019-09-25
Lief Hall is a composer, singer-songwriter, director/choreographer and creator of opera, musical theatre, video and installation. Hall was previously the vocalist for Vancouver no wave punk band Mutators (2007), a vocalist for the improvisational trio Glaciers (2009), and one half of Canadian ‘femme noir’ pop duo MYTHS(2012). Her most recent EP Transform (2015) marks a new direction in her solo musical work, creating dark electronic pop, which merges the experimental dance music with layered vocal harmonies, exploring themes of love, identity, and fear in a post-human world. Hall has performed her solo music alongside artists such as Bear in Heaven and Inga Coupland and was named on NME’s list of ’50 Brand New Artists Set to Storm in 2015′.Her interdisciplinary installation and performance works explore themes of nature, technology and the body as they relate to mythology, feminism and the production of cultural ideology. In 2005 Hall completed her BFA at Emily Carr University, and has since presented work at VIVO Media Arts Centre, Simon Fraser University (both Vancouver, 2012), Or Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, and 221A Gallery, (all Vancouver 2013). Hall has been working as a visual production designer since 2011 and has created and collaborated with such bands as Grimes, The Belle Game and Hannah Georgas as well creating visual and set designs for her own electronic music duo MYTHS.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Hall, Lief
Date created: 2015-11-09
The core purpose of EMMA Talks is to bring important stories by women identified* writers, activists, thinkers, storytellers, makers and doers, from the periphery to the public. Together their stories will build a powerful and engaging collection of talks, celebrating and building on the conversations, imaginings, and hard work of so many individuals, communities and movements, which will lead to a creative cross-pollination of ideas. *including two spirited, trans* and gender non-conforming folks
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Goto, Hiromi, Author: EMMA Talks
Date created: 2015-11-04
The core purpose of EMMA Talks is to bring important stories by women identified* writers, activists, thinkers, storytellers, makers and doers, from the periphery to the public. Together their stories will build a powerful and engaging collection of talks, celebrating and building on the conversations, imaginings, and hard work of so many individuals, communities and movements, which will lead to a creative cross-pollination of ideas. *including two spirited, trans* and gender non-conforming folks
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Flett, Julie, Author: EMMA Talks
Date created: 2015-11-04
Panelists:Mary Clare Zak, Managing Director, Social Policy & Project Division, City of VancouverMatt Hern, instructor in SFU Urban Studies and author of Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future, Co-founder/Director of 2+10 IndustriesPaul Taylor, Executive Director of Gordon Neighborhood House in the West End, and formerly Executive Director of the DTES Neighborhood HouseViveca Ellis, Single Mothers AllianceMargot Young, law professor at UBC Bill Beauregarde, Community Coordinator, Aboriginal Front Door Society Moderated by Charlie Smith, editor of the Georgia Straight.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Zak, Mary Clare, Author: Hern, Matt, Author: Taylor, Paul, Author: Ellis, Viveca, Author: Young, Margot, Author: Beauregarde, Bill
Date created: 2015-11-02
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, and images that cause us to turn away in a state of trauma, fatigue or willed ignorance? Does cinema (more than photography) run the risk of “aestheticizing” the suffering of people, ecosystems and other living things?The global environmental crisis, encompassing climate change, dwindling natural resources, decimated rain forests and animal habitats, toxified industrial sites and acidic oceans, is a pressing problem that affects us all. But the majority of empowered citizens in industrialized economies have been slow to realize the extent of the damage done (including our eradication of 50% of many animal species since the 1970s) and apathetic to streamline our lifestyles and consume less. While many citizens have remained poorly informed for decades due to the dominant media system built largely around corporate interests, others have chosen to ignore the mounting crisis. Psychologists call this process of willed ignorance disavowal, which can be a symptom of trauma. Cinematic representations are therefore of interest because they confront us with imagery we may prefer to ignore.Dr. Anil Narine, editor of the book Eco-Trauma Cinema (Routledge 2015), discussed this subgenre of eco-cinema in its three general forms: accounts of people who were traumatized by the natural world, narratives that represented people or social processes which traumatized the environment or its species, and stories that depicted the aftermath of ecological catastrophe. Eco-trauma cinema represents the harm we, as humans, inflict upon our natural surroundings, or the injuries we sustain from nature in its unforgiving iterations. The term encompasses both circumstances because these seemingly distinct instances of ecological harm are often related and even symbiotic. In avant-garde, commercial, and documentary cinema, images of ecological trauma confront us. But to what end? Can these images of ecological trauma shock us in ways that activate us as citizens, rather than pacifying us as audiences? Might cinema be the “cognitive map” we need to enable us to rethink our relationship with the imperiled natural world?
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Narine, Anil
Date created: 2015-10-29
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Indian Summer Festival
Date created: 2015-10-28
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 form of colonialism—settler colonialism. As anthropologist Patrick Wolfe has noted: “The question of genocide is never far from discussions of settler colonialism. Land is life—or, at least, land is necessary for life.” The history of North America is a history of settler colonialism. The objective of government authorities was to terminate the existence of Indigenous Peoples as peoples—not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide. US and Canadian history, as well as inherited Indigenous trauma, cannot be understood without dealing with the genocide committed against Indigenous peoples. From the colonial period through the founding of states and continuing in the 21st century, this has entailed torture, terror, sexual abuse, massacres, systematic military occupations, removals of Indigenous peoples from their ancestral territories, forced removal of Native American children to military-like boarding schools, allotment, and policies of termination.Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. Her grandfather, a white settler, farmer, and veterinarian, was a member of the Oklahoma Socialist Party and Industrial Workers of the World. Her historical memoir, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie, tells that story. Moving to San Francisco, California, she graduated in History from San Francisco State University and began graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley, transferring to University of California, Los Angeles to complete her doctorate in History, specializing in Western Hemisphere and Indigenous histories. From 1967 to 1972, she was a full time activist and a leader in the women's liberation movement that emerged in 1967, organizing in various parts of the U. S., traveling to Europe, Mexico, and Cuba. A second historical memoir, Outlaw Woman: Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975, tells that story. In 1973, Roxanne joined the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the International Indian Treaty Council, beginning a lifelong commitment to international human rights, lobbying for Indigenous rights at the United Nations. Appointed as director of Native American Studies at California State University East Bay, she collaborated in the development of the Department of Ethnic Studies, as well as Women's Studies, where she taught for 3 decades. Her 1977 book, The Great Sioux Nation: An Oral History of the Sioux Nation, was the fundamental document at the first international conference on Indians of the Americas, held at United Nations' headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Two more scholarly books followed: Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico and Indians of the Americas: Human Rights and Self-Determination. In 1981, Roxanne was invited to visit Sandinista Nicaragua to appraise the land tenure situation of the Mískitu Indians in the isolated northeastern region of the country. In over a hundred trips to Nicaragua and Honduras, she monitored what was called the Contra War. Her book, Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War, was published in 2005. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States was published by Beacon Press in September 2014.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Date created: 2015-10-27
Melody Ma, Developer at MEC & Kids Coding Advocate | Melody is a developer at MEC and a Kids Code Advocate for various organizations including Kids Code Jeunesse, Hour of Code and BC Youth Coding Initiative. Melody is a software product marketer turned web developer who wondered why it took her a decade from graduating from high school to realize that coding is cool and can turn into a career. With a coalition of organizations like the Ministry of Education, BCTF's Computer Using Educators of BC and Hour of Code, Melody is advocating for coding and computer science education for kids in BC schools, so that our next generation don't follow the same fate that she did.Sarah Goodman, CEO of VitalSines | Sarah Goodman is the CEO of health-tech company VitalSines. Her experience in marketing and public relations as well as her background as both a registered holistic nutritionist (RHN) and certified personal trainer (CPT) provide her with the knowledge and skills to be an effective leader and communications professional for the VitalSines team.Natalie Cartwright, Co-Founder & COO of Payso | Nat Cartwright is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Payso, a mobile app for sharing money with IE Business School. Before founding Payso, Nat worked at the Global Fund, the largest global financing institution for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria programs, where she managed USD 250 million in investment to countries like Djibouti, South Sudan and Tajikistan. Whether working in international development or App development, Nat likes to act on the potential she sees for improvement and innovation.Saadia Muzaffar, Founder of Revvly & Partnerships at Tech Girls Canada | Saadia Muzaffar is a tech entrepreneur, investor, and an internationally prolific media advocate for diversity and equity in the science and technology sectors. She is the Founder of TechGirls Canada, the hub for Canadian women in STEM - and is the Senior Director of Marketing at the global software firm AudienceView. She has been featured on CNN Money, Canadian Business, Vice, Motherboard, National Post, TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin, CBC Radio One - The Current, Techvibes, The Globe and Mail, Profit, and Maclean's. She is a proud feminist who sees colour. Nikki Wong, Program Director at Spring.is | As the Program Director at Spring Activator, Nikki helps entrepreneurs build thriving businesses that make the world a better place through technology. Nikki oversees Spring's educational programs and works on strategic partnerships to ensure that entrepreneurs receive the best access to capital, mentorship, and other entrepreneur resources. Nikki is also the lead organizer of Spring's flagship event, VanIMPACT; this year's conference drew over 400 attendees, one of the largest single events during Vancouver Startup Week.Amie Rotherham, Account Executive at Rsquared Communication | Her current and past accounts include local and U.S. startups like Slack, Trello, Eventbase, Freshbooks, and Boris Wertz of Version One Ventures & Andreessen Horowitz board partner. Prior to joining Rsquared Communication, Amie worked for the UBC Thunderbirds, where she was responsible for promotions and communications to student pass holders of varsity games. Cause-related work is important to Amie and she's built her background in communications working with several non-profit organizations, including: A Little More Good, the Pacific Assistance Dogs Society, and the restoration campaign for the Kinsol Trestle in Shawnigan Lake, B.C. She has a Certificate in Public Relations from Simon Fraser University.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Ma, Melody, Author: Goodman, Sarah, Author: Cartwright, Natalie, Author: Muzaffar, Saadia, Author: Wong, Nikki, Author: Rotherham, Amie, Author: Barryman, Romila
Date created: 2015-10-28
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Vancouver New Music, Author: Roden, Steven
Date created: 2015-10-20
Author: Laboucan-Massimo, Melina , Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2016-11-23
Author: Hanuse, Banchi, Author: Tailfeathers, Elle-Máijá , Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2016-11-09
Author: Sacco, Joe, Author: Panchasi, Roxanne, Author: Al-Zobaidi, Sobhi , Author: Brayshaw, Chris , Author: Lang, Alison , Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2016-11-02
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Edelson, Nathan
Date created: 2019-03-13