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Author (aut): Ranjan, Anuisa, Author (aut): Shannon, Kate, Author (aut): Chettiar, Jill, Author (aut): Braschel, Melissa, Author (aut): Ti, Lianping, Author (aut): Goldenberg, Shira
Date created: 2019-08-09
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
Rawi Hage is an internationally celebrated fiction writer whose work has been translated into 30 languages, and nominated repeatedly for all major Canadian fiction prizes. Mr. Hage’s first novel, entitled De Niro’s Game (House of Anansi Press, 2006), and set largely in wartime Lebanon, won the International IMPAC Dublin Award. His second novel, entitled Cockroach (House of Anansi Press, 2008), won the Paragraphe/Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and was a Canada Reads finalist. His most recent novel is Carnival (House of Anansi Press, 2013), which won the Paragraphe/Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and is a riveting account of a taxi driver who reveals the frequently disavowed underside of our global cities.Madeleine Thien is the author of three books of fiction, including her most recent novel, Dogs at the Perimeter, which was a finalist of the 2014 International Literature Prize awarded in Berlin. She is a recipient of the City of Vancouver Book Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and the Ovid Festival Prize, and her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Granta, PEN America, Asia Literary Review, Brick and elsewhere. Her books have been translated into 22 languages. Since 2010, she has been part of the international faculty in the MFA program at City University of Hong Kong.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Hage, Rawi, Author (aut): Thien, Madeleine
Date created: 2015-05-08
Panelists:Riki Ott is a very well known oil spill expert and author. She has a Ph.D (1985) from the School of Fisheries at the University of Washington, WA, on the effects of heavy metals on benthic invertebrates. She is Co-director of Ultimate Civics, a project of Earth Island Institute. She was an Expert witness in the State of Alaska on certain issues relating to effects, fate and transportation of marine oil spills, and environmentally sensitive areas in the Copper River Delta. She co-founded and was Vice-chair of Oiled Regions of Alaska Foundation (2001–2009) to help Exxon Valdez oil spill claimants with financial management and charitable giving to rebuild oiled communities. She was on site of the Exxon Valdez spill 26 years ago. She is particularly well versed on the use of dispersants such as Corexit.Anita M. Burke holds a Bachelors of Science in Environmental Science and Physics from Northland College, where she was recently awarded their Alumni Environmental Achievement Award. At the University of Minnesota, Ms. Burke completed graduate course work in Physics. Anita has extensive experience responding to and restoring ecosystems ravaged by large scale industrial and natural disasters. Her emergency response experience includes: EXXON Valdez; Shell Refinery – Fidalgo Bay, Washington; Texaco Refinery – Bakersfield California; Ms. Burke served as General Manager and Senior Project Manager for the waste management and on-land site assessment activities associated with the clean up of the EXXON Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound. She also served as the Chairperson of the Anchorage, Alaska Hazardous Materials Commission and Chair of the Anchorage Local Emergency Planning Committee under SARA Title III. Ms. Burke also managed ENSR Consulting and Engineering’s Anchorage, Alaska Hazardous Waste Services Division for three years, where she developed an expertise in arctic exploration and production spill response and environmental issue management. In 2001, Ms. Burke left her career in the oil and gas industry due to complications and health. She has been on the frontlines of some of the world’s most devastating oil spills. She will share her insight into the health effects, ecosystem impacts, and how we can survive and thrive amidst the trauma of the English Bay Oil Spill. She is a trained Incident Commander and holds numerous health and safety certifications.Professor Doug McArthur, Director, School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University. Prior to joining SFU’s Public Policy Program as a founding member in 2003, Doug McArthur was Senior Fellow in Public Policy at the University of British Columbia. His areas of research and teaching include public policy theory and process, government management, forest and resources policy, First Nations policy and self-government, as well as negotiations and strategic planning.Karen G.Wristen is Executive Director of Living Oceans Society, a non-profit ocean conservation organization based in Sointula, B.C. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto and a law degree from Osgoode Hall. She has worked in the environmental movement in British Columbia since 1994. Karen joined the staff of Living Oceans in 2012 after serving as its Treasurer since 1998. Living Oceans is Canada’s largest organization working exclusively on marine conservation. She took on the Energy & Climate Change portfolio and has been actively involved in the assessments of the Northern Gateway and TransMountain pipeline and tanker proposals, working directly with expert witnesses, reviewing and preparing evidence for those hearings. Living Oceans provided expert evidence on, inter alia, oil tankers, oil spill response, the fate and behaviour of diluted bitumen in the marine environment and the international oil spill compensation regime. She has also provided input to the Province of British Columbia on its proposed land-based oil spill response regime. She is dedicated to protecting the Salish Sea!
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Gandesha, Samir, Author (aut): Samples, Shirley, Author (aut): Siegel, Audrey, Author (aut): George-Hollis, Taylor, Author (aut): McArthur, Doug, Author (aut): Ott, Riki, Author (aut): Burke, Anita, Author (aut): Wristen, Karen G.
Date created: 2015-04-29
Al Etmanski is a community organizer, social entrepreneur and author. He is a founding partner of Social Innovation Generation (SiG) and BC Partners for Social Impact. Previously, he co-founded Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN) with his wife Vickie Cammack and Jack Collins. Al is an Ashoka fellow, and a faculty member of John McKnight’s Asset Based Community Development Institute (ABCD). He once played air guitar with Randy Bachman of BTO (Bachman-Turner-Overdrive) in a rock video, which convinced him to stick with his day job.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Vrooman, Tamara, Author (aut): Harcourt, Mike, Author (aut): Li, Claudia, Author (aut): Mogus, Jason, Author (aut): MacPherson, Donald, Author (aut): Etmanski, Al
Date created: 2015-04-27
PANELISTSBerdine Jonker | Berdine Jonker is Acting Manager, Heritage Programs and Services with the BC Heritage Branch, Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. She has worked in the heritage conservation field since 1998, and currently leads the development of provincial heritage conservation policy for Crown Land management. Berdine has worked extensively in building local government capacity for heritage conservation planning and values based management of historic resources. She is a co-instructor of Heritage Resource Management in the University of Victoria’s Cultural Resource Management Program, and is currently a member of the Esquimalt Community Heritage Committee. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Art History), a Diploma in Cultural Resource Management, and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Victoria.Gerry McGeough | Gerry McGeough is the UBC University Architect and steward of the built environment and landscapes for UBC’s three campuses. His responsibilities include leading integrated planning and design of campus precincts, infrastructure, buildings and public realm. He is a Board Member of ICOMOS Canada, Chair of the Association of University Architect Sustainability Committee and member of the Advisory Committee on the Official Residences of Canada. He is also a member of the ICOMOS Canada’s Working Group – National Conversation on Cultural Landscapes. Prior to his start at UBC, Gerry had 21 years of professional architectural, planning and heritage practice as the Senior Heritage Planner for the City of Vancouver, adjunct professor with the University of Victoria Cultural Resource Management Program, and an architect specializing in infill and adaptive-reuse projects in Montreal. He has an Architectural degree from McGill University (1986) and a Master’s Degree in Real Estate Development from Columbia University (1992).Henry Yu | Dr. Henry Yu is an Associate Professor of History, and the Principal of St. John’s College, UBC. He was the Project Lead for the id="mce_marker".17 million “Chinese Canadian Stories” public history and education project (2010-2012). Currently, Yu and his research team are completing a project on Chinese and First Nations heritage sites along the Fraser River corridor, and he serves as the Co-Chair for the Legacy Initiatives Advisory Council for the Province of British Columbia overseeing legacy projects following its historic apology in May 2014 for BC’s history of anti-Chinese legislation. Between 2009-2012, he was the Co-Chair of the City of Vancouver’s project, “Dialogues between First Nations, Urban Aboriginal, and Immigrant Communities” and in 2012 received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his community service and leadership.Gordon Price | Gordon Price is the director of The City Program at Simon Fraser University. In 2002, he finished his sixth term as a city councillor in Vancouver, B.C. He blogs on urban issues with a focus on Vancouver at Price Tags. In July 2013, he received the President’s Award at the annual meeting of the Canadian Institute of Planners “in recognition of an outstanding lifetime contribution to education and professional planning in Canada.” MODERATORStewart Burgess | Stewart is an intern architect in Vancouver with Bruce Carscadden Architect. In just a decade of practice, BCA has designed and executed numerous building types with an emphasis on public and community recreation projects in the Lower Mainland and across Canada. Outside of this practice, Stewart is interested in public space activism, heritage and city building. He was part of the team that created Vancouver's first crowd-funded parklet on Commercial Drive and serves as a director of the Vancouver Public Space Network and Heritage Vancouver. Stewart is a graduate of the UBC Master in Architecture program.
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2015-04-16
Author (aut): SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author (aut): Hage, Rawi
Date created: 2014-11-05