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Author: Moulder, Vicki, Author: Boschman, Lorna, Author: Wakkary, Ron, Author: Odom, William, Author: Kuznetsov, Stacey
Date created: 2014
Chair: Dan Levitt, Executive Director, Tabor Village and Adjunct Professor, SFU Department of GerontologyLori Baxter, President, Board of Trustees, Performing Arts Lodge Vancouver;Teena Love, General Manager, Amenida Seniors CommunityRon Pike, Executive Director, Elim Village27min
Author: Baxter, Lori, Author: Love, Teena, Author: Pike, Ron
Date created: 2014-05
Andrew Wister, Professor and Chair, SFU Department of Gerontology;Rosalyn Kaplan, Director, Liberal Arts and Adults 55+ Program, Lifelong Learning, SFUapprox. 10 min.
Author: Wister, Andrew, Author: Kaplan, Rosalyn
Date created: 2014-05
Chair: Elizabeth Tang, Senior Consultant, BC Research and Information Transfer, CMHC“Boomers, Zoomers & Super-Centenarians: Changing Demographics and the Mature Adult Housing Market in Canada” Gloria Gutman,Professor/Director Emerita SFU Gerontology Research Centre & Department of Gerontology “An Overview of Congregate Housing (Assisted Living) in Canada: Findings from CMHC’s Annual Seniors Housing Survey” Sarena Teakles,Market Analyst, BC Market Analysis Centre, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation “Affordable Housing for Moderate Income Seniors” Karen Ungerson,Corporate Representative, BC Community Development Centre, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporationapprox. 62 min.
Author: Gutman, Gloria, Author: Teakles, Sarena, Author: Ungerson, Karen
Date created: 2014-05
Chair: Jack Wong, Executive Director, Real Estate Foundation of BCCharles Durrett, Architect and pioneer in cohousing in North America;Tricia Carpenter, Resident & Consensus Facilitator, WindSong Cohousing;Margaret Critchlow, President, Canadian Senior Cohousing Society & Founding member Harbourside Cohousing;Alan Forrester, Vancouver cohousing developer; 73min
Author: Durrett, Charles, Author: Carpenter, Tricia, Author: Critchlow, Margaret, Author: Forrester, Alan
Date created: 2014-05
Chair: Dan Levitt, Executive Director, Tabor Village and Adjunct Professor, SFU Department of GerontologyKate Mancer, Principle & Director of Business Development, Terra Lumina Life Lease HousingJudith Ray, President, Mission Association for Seniors Housing (MASH)67min
Author: Mancer, Kate, Author: Ray, Judith
Date created: 2014-05
Sharon Isaak, Senior Planning Table and Housing Outreach Coordinator, Gordon Neighborhood HouseAna Maria Bustamante, Community Development Consultant27min
Author: Isaak, Sharon, Author: Bustamante, Ana Maria
Date created: 2014-05
Chair: Krista James, National Director, Canadian Centre for Elder Law;Martha Jane Lewis, Executive Director, BC Centre for Elder Advocacy and Support;Jim Emmerton, Executive Director, BC Law Institute;Al Jina, President, Park Place Seniors Living60min
Author: Lewis, Martha Jane, Author: Emmerton, Jim, Author: Jina, Al
Date created: 2014-05
FREE PUBLIC LECTURECharles Durrett, architect and pioneer in cohousing in North America Chair: Rosalyn Kaplan, Director, Liberal Arts and Adults 55+ Program, Lifelong Learning, SFUPublic Lecture sponsored by the Ting Foundation106min
Author: Durrett, Charles
Date created: 2014-05
Chair: Andrew Sixsmith, Director, SFU Gerontology Research CentreAndrew Scharlach, Eugene and Rose Kleiner Professor of Aging, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley and Director, Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services70min
Author: Scharlach, Andrew
Date created: 2014-05
Chair: Gloria Gutman, Professor/Director Emerita SFU Gerontology Department & Gerontology Research CentreChristien Kaaij, Provincial Project Manager, United Way of the Lower Mainland Better at Home Program;Kara-Leigh Bloch, Executive Director, Seniors Services Society;Tom Parker, Former Senior Researcher, Housing for Seniors and Persons with Disabilities, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation;Rebecca Siggner, Manager Research and Planning, BC Housing;Karen Sandhu, Supervisor, Applicant Services, BC Housing80min
Author: Kaaij, Christien, Author: Bloch, Kara-Leigh, Author: Parker, Tom, Author: Siggner, Rebecca, Author: Sandhu, Karen
Date created: 2014-05
Chair: Katherine McManus, Former Program Director, Lifelong Learning, SFUKathy McGrenera, Resident & Consensus Facilitator, Quayside CohousingSandra Cusack, Resident Whitecliff Retirement LivingJill Hightower, Homeowner, Sechelt, BC69min
Author: McGrenera, Kathy, Author: Cusack, Sandra, Author: Hightower, Jill
Date created: 2014-05
Gloria Gutman, Professor/Director Emerita SFU Gerontology Research Centre & Department of Gerontologyapprox. 3 min.
Author: Gutman, Gloria
Date created: 2014-05
A visual artist who grew up in Vancouver’s Chinatown, Gwen Boyle’s work explores movement, history, and place. The granddaughter of a Pender Street jeweller, Gwen draws inspiration from the sights and sounds of her childhood — the clinking of beads on an abacus, the hammering of jade, the melting of gold. Gwen is in conversation with host Am Johal about experiences from her Chinatown upbringing. She shares what led her to pursue a lifelong career in art, and her fascination with the Arctic. She also speaks to some of her particular works, including the public art installation, “Abacus (Suan Phan),” an interactive sculpture symbolic of “merchants and old social fabric of Shanghai Alley and Chinatown.”
Author: Gwen Boyle, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Fiorella Pinillos, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2020-10-29
Alicia Massie is a Joseph Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholar and PhD Candidate at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Beyond her academic work she works as an educator, labour organizer, and community activist. Her activism and academic work focus on the intersections of gender, labour, and race in late capitalism, as well as investigating Canadian petro-capitalism from a socialist feminist perspective.Resources:— Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: www.policyalternatives.ca/— SFU's Community-Engaged Research Initiative: www.sfu.ca/ceri.html— Progressive Economics Forum: www.progressive-economics.ca/— Centre for Future Work: www.futurework.org.au/
Author: Massie, Alicia, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-07-20
Sue CarabettaSue has been a manager at NSCR since March of 2020. She loves people, laughter and journeying the highs and lows of life and health alongside others. She is passionate about building a thriving community on the North Shore and never ceases to be amazed at all the stories of incredible volunteers and seniors.Before taking time to raise her three kids, Sue graduated from UBC with a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics and worked with seniors as the Director of the Dietary department at Cedarview Lodge in North Vancouver. More recently, she worked in stroke recovery on the North Shore before joining our team. She currently oversees our staff and programs for Better at Home, Caregiver Support, Seniors One Stop, Volunteer North Shore, and our Inter-Agency Network.June MaynardJune is a retired early childhood educator who worked in direct child care, community care facilities licensing, and managing a child care resource program. She has always had an interest in intergenerational concepts and has seen first hand the life changing impacts of such programs. Once retired, June wanted to pursue intergenerational initiatives for the North Shore from a community development perspective. She assisted in the launch of the InterGenNS (Intergenerational North Shore) Project in July of 2019. In the process she has very cleverly created her own volunteer position and has had a rewarding experience in being a community representative for this Project.Rachelle PatilleRachelle Patille is a Gerontology Graduate Student at SFU who works as a Graduate Research Assistant on the InterGenNS Project, with the support of SFU and various North Shore Organizations. Her research focuses on the impact of intergenerational connections and relationships on older adults in a society that is segregated by age and divided generationally. She has previous experience in the public health and community health sectors with a specific focus on older adults health and well-being.Resources: — Celebrating Intergenerational Day with the InterGenNS Project: https://www.sfu.ca/gerontology/news-events/news/celebrating-intergenerational-day.html— North Shore Community Resources: https://www.nscr.ca/— SFU's Gerontology Research Centre: https://www.sfu.ca/grc.html
Author: Sue Carabetta, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: June Maynard, Author: Rachelle Patille
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Andrea Luka Zimmerman is a Jarman Award winning artist, filmmaker and cultural activist whose multi-layered practice calls for a profound re-imagining of the relationship between people, place and ecology. Focusing on marginalised individuals, communities and experience, the engaged practice employs imaginative hybridity and narrative re-framing, alongside reverie and a creative waywardness. Informed by suppressed histories, and alert to sources of radical hope, the work prioritises an enduring and equitable co-existence. Andrea grew up on a large council estate and left school at 16.Films include the Artangel-produced 'Here for Life' (2019), which received its world premiere in the Cineasti Del Presente international competition of the Locarno Film Festival (winning a Special Mention), 'Erase and Forget' (2017), premiering at the Berlin Film Festival (nominated for the Original Documentary Award), 'Estate, a Reverie' (2015) (nominated for Best Newcomer at the Grierson awards) and 'Taskafa, Stories of the Street' (2013), written and voiced by the late John Berger.Selected exhibitions include 'Civil Rites', the London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, 'Common Ground' at Spike Island, Bristol and 'Real Estates' at Peer Gallery. Andrea co-founded the cultural collectives Fugitive Images and Vision Machine (collaborators on Academy Award® nominated feature documentary 'The Look of Silence').Andrea co-edited the books 'Estate: Art, Politics and Social Housing in Britain' (Myrdle Court Press) and 'Doorways: Women, Homelessness Trauma and Resistance' (House Sparrow Press) and has published extended essays in 'Open Democracy', 'La Furia Umana', 'Another Gaze' and 'Homecultures', among others.Resources: — Fugitive Imageshttps://fugitiveimages.org.uk/about/— Taskafa, Stories of the Streethttps://lux.org.uk/work/taskafa-stories-of-the-street— Estate, a Reveriehttps://lux.org.uk/work/013429-estate-a-reverie— Here For Lifehttps://www.artangel.org.uk/project/here-for-life/— Shelter in Place https://www.estuaryfestival.com/event/detail/shelter-in-place.html
Author: Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-10-05