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Bob Williams is a former British Columbia cabinet minister who played a key role in establishing the Agricultural Land Reserve and Insurance Corporation of British Columbia during BC's first NDP government in the 1970s. More recently, Williams was influential in building the Vancity Credit Union into the leading co-operative financial institution in Western Canada.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Bob Williams
Date created: 2022-06-20
Michael Roberson is a public health practitioner, advocate, activist, artist, curator, and leader within the LGBTQ community. He is the co-creator of the nation's only Black Gay Research group and National Black Gay Men's Advocacy Coalition. He holds two Master degrees from Union Theological Seminary NYC, and is Adjunct Professor at both The New School University/Lang College NYC, and Union Theological Seminary NYC. He is an international art and politics consultant and a member of the international sound art collective entitled "Ultra-red." Michael is scholar in residence for the Center for Race, Religion, and Economic Democracy, as well as a recent TED Media Resident, where he performed a global TED talk about the underground Black/Latinx House/ball ballroom community, entitled "The enduring legacy of ballroom."For Black History Month 2021, Michael co-authored an article in Time Magazine titled "Why Voguing and the Ballroom Scene Matter Now More than Ever." Michael also serves as a cultural consultant for Pose, the FX television show. Additionally, he is a public health advisor and community engagement specialist for the NYC COVID-19 contract tracing initiative.Travis Salway (he/him) is a settler of German and English descent and queer man from Ohio (Shawnee, Myaamia/Miami, Kaskaskia, and Kiikaapoi territories), currently living as an uninvited guest on unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. He is a social epidemiologist who works to understand and improve the health of Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (2S/LGBTQ) populations. Since 2019, Travis is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and conducts research in affiliation with the BC Centre for Disease Control and the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity. In 2019-2020, he testified for two standing committees of the Canadian House of Commons, to inform federal policy to promote 2S/LGBTQ health equity. This resulted in the passage of Bill C-4, making it a crime to perpetrate anti-2S/LGBTQ practices, otherwise known as "conversion therapy." Travis directs the REAFFIRM Collaborative, an interdisciplinary team committed to researching 2S/LGBTQ+ health and co-directs the Two-Spirit Dry Lab, Turtle Island's first research group exclusively dedicated to understanding the health of Two-Spirit Indigenous people. He is the founder of MindMapBC.ca, a 2S/LGBTQ-affirming mental health service finder. In 2022, his team is administering the UnACoRN.ca survey, to understand the range of settings where Canadian youth have their sexual and gender identities supported or threatened.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Michael Roberson, Author (aut): Travis Salway
Date created: 2022-06-15
Michael Roberson is a public health practitioner, advocate, activist, artist, curator, and leader within the LGBTQ community. He is the co-creator of the nation's only Black Gay Research group and National Black Gay Men's Advocacy Coalition. He holds two Master degrees from Union Theological Seminary NYC, and is Adjunct Professor at both The New School University/Lang College NYC, and Union Theological Seminary NYC. He is an international art and politics consultant and a member of the international sound art collective entitled "Ultra-red." Michael is scholar in residence for the Center for Race, Religion, and Economic Democracy, as well as a recent TED Media Resident, where he performed a global TED talk about the underground Black/Latinx House/ball ballroom community, entitled The enduring legacy of ballroom.For Black History Month 2021, Michael co-authored an article in Time Magazine titled Why Voguing and the Ballroom Scene Matter Now More than Ever. Michael also serves as a cultural consultant for Pose, the FX television show. Additionally, he is a public health advisor and community engagement specialist for the NYC COVID-19 contract tracing initiative.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Michael Roberson
Date created: 2022-06-16
Author (aut): McGregor, Hannah, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-09-08
Author (aut): Fukumura, June , Author (aut): Magpantay, Anjela, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-09-15
Author (aut): Farha, Leilani, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-09-17
Author (aut): Freeman, Lindsey, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-09-22
Author (aut): Farzan, Faranak , Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-09-24
Author (aut): Lui, Yulanda, Author (aut): Lau, Rachel , Author (aut): Wong, Rachel, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-09-29
Author (aut): Del Bianco, Elvy, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-10-06
Author (aut): Farha, Leilani, Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-09-17
Author (aut): Farzan, Faranak , Author (aut): Johal, Am, Author (aut): Smith, Paige, Author (aut): Roach, Melissa, Author (aut): Feng, Kathy, Author (aut): Pinillos, Fiorella, Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement
Date created: 2020-09-24
Can art challenge us to shift our economy to one that embraces sustainability, equality, and justice? Can we create local and global economies that are not only resilient and thriving but inclusive of everyone?The Artist Round Table (A.RT) on New Economies brought together a diverse group of panellists who have provocative ideas about art, economy, and transformative change. Set within a staged 1983 corporate boardroom, the A.RT kickoff with a presentation by artist Marilou Lemmens about her collaborative, multidisciplinary practice with Richard Ibghy. Lemmens presented artistic projects that explore the ways in which the economic system pervades nearly every facet of our daily lives. In response, panellists from various fields engaged in a lively discussion, digging deeply into the issues at the heart of the duo’s practice. The panelists draw on their experiences in the realms of art and culture, activism and citizenship, and sustainability and radical urbanism as they tell stories, debate ideas, and challenge each other and the audience with thought-provoking questions. The audience was invited into a discourse on the emergence of a new economy and how art can be a driving force for social change.FEATURING:Marilou Lemmens is a visual artist based in Durham-Sud and Montreal, Quebec where she works in collaboration with Richard Ibghy. Spanning various media, including video, performance, and installation, their work explores the material, affective, and sensory dimensions of experience that cannot be fully translated into signs or systems. For several years, they have examined the rationale upon which economic actions are described and represented, and how the logic of economy has come to infiltrate the most intimate aspects of life. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at La Biennale de Montréal (Montreal, 2014), 27th Images Festival (Toronto, 2014), La Filature, Scène Nationale (Mulhouse, France, 2013-14), Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow, 2012), and the 10th Sharjah Biennial (Sharjah, UAE, 2011), among others.WITH PANELISTS:Community organizer, writer, and activist Matt Hern teaches at UBC and is known for his work in radical urbanism, community development, and alternative forms of education. He is founder of the Purple Thistle Centre, Car-Free Vancouver Day, and Groundswell: Grassroots Economic Alternatives.Cédric Jamet is a Project Manager at the Montreal Urban Ecology Centre and a Curator at Cities for People. His work explores the relationship between the urban imaginary, active citizenship, and the co-creation of sustainable cities.Artist and cultural producer Todd Lester has dedicated his career to supporting and enabling socially engaged artists around the world. He is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and founder of both freeDimensional and Lanchonete.org.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Lemmens, Marilou, Author (aut): Hern, Matt, Author (aut): Jamet, Cedric, Author (aut): Lester, Todd
Date created: 2015-05-29
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Adderson, Caroline, Author (aut): McDonald, Ian, Author (aut): Harcourt, Mike, Author (aut): Luxton, Donald, Author (aut): Waddell, Ian, Author (aut): Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2015-05-27
#FierceVoices: Ignite! Young Women Making Media, an event organized by Women Transforming Cities and Rabble.ca to inspire, amplify and celebrate young women’s voices through media.#FierceVoices: Ignite! Young Women Making Media claims space for young women in media. It focuses on both analyzing representation in media and building capacity for young women to create their own voices and media platforms. The event aimed to especially highlight marginalized voices, voices that are silenced in mainstream media.Keynote Speakers: Romila Barryman, creator of Textbook & Anne Theriault, blogger at The Belle Jar, with an opening by Musqueam First Nation activist, Audrey Siegl.Panelists include Kathryn Gwun-Yeen Lennon, poet and spoken word artist, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, filmmaker, writer, and actor, Kim Villagante (K!mmortal), multi-dimensional artist: visual arts, singing, emceeing, poetry, and acting.Performances by K!mmortal, Kathryn Gwun-Yeen Lennon and Youth for a Change.This is a lesbian, queer, and trans* inclusive event. We acknowledge that this event takes place on unceded Coast Salish lands.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Women Transforming Cities, Author (aut): Rabble.ca
Date created: 2015-05-23
This performance-lecture is an unconventional treatise that explores the lineage of the narcissistic-capitalist subject as the dominant neurotic way of being in the present world and its relation to the chronic discontent in society.Is it narcissism that drives capitalism, or is it capitalism that drives narcissism? Hilda Fernandez, a practitioner of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Vancouver, delves into psychoanalytic and social theory to ponder how the phallic self-image intertwines with the Freudian drive to arrive at the hegemonic capitalist discourse. She will consider the implications of this new human animal we have designed today and will relate it to its shadow side, the pervert.Hilda transforms into the narci-capitalist and in her reading, she tenses what possible relations between the individual and the collective, the private and the political, the conscious and unconscious.The Narci-capitalist is you - come and see your reflection.Panelists:Samir Gandesha who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and the Director of the Institute for the Humanities.Clint Burnham is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Simon Fraser University.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Fernandez, Hilda, Author (aut): Gandesha, Samir, Author (aut): Burnham, Clint
Date created: 2015-05-15
PANELISTSAndrew MacLeod is the Legislative Bureau Chief for TheTyee.ca website. His work has been referred to in the BC legislature, Canadian House of Commons and senate. He won a 2006 Association of Alternative Newsweeklies award for news writing and was a finalist for a 2007 Western Magazine Award for best article in BC and the Yukon. His reporting has appeared in Monday Magazine, the Georgia Straight, BC Business, 24 Hours, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Detroit’s MetroTimes, Portland’s Willamette Week and elsewhere. Andrew lives with his family in Victoria, BC.David Beers is the Tyee's founding editor. Under his leadership from 2003 to 2014, The Tyee's traffic grew to eclipse a million page views in a month and its team won many prizes including, twice, Canada's Excellence in Journalism Award, and, twice, the North America-wide Edward R. Murrow Award. He is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.Iglika Ivanova is Senior Economist and Public Interest Researcher. Her work investigates issues and trends in health care, education and social programs, and examines the impact of public services on quality of life. She also looks into issues of government finance, taxation and privatization and how they relate to the accessibility and quality of public services. Iglika’s other research interests focus on the Canadian labour market and in particular trends in income inequality, low wage work and the integration of immigrants. Iglika holds an MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia and a BA in Economics from Simon Fraser University. When she is not in the office, she can often be found swing dancing or sailing the coastal waters of BC.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): MacLeod, Andrew, Author (aut): Beers, David, Author (aut): Ivanova, Iglika
Date created: 2015-05-11