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Recording of a panel discussion from a Shaping Vancouver event (2018)
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2018-11-15
Video of Patricia Reed's talk, "On Horizonless Futures", presented on October 17, 2018
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Reed, Patricia
Date created: 2018-10-17
Video of Proportional Representation Best Reflects the Will of the People: A Debate on BC’s Electoral Future | November 15, 2018
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: SFU Public Square
Date created: 2018-11-15
Recording of a panel discussion from a Shaping Vancouver event (2018)
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2018-10-11
Video of EMMA Talks presentation with Anoushka Ratnarajah.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Ratnarajah, Anoushka, Author: EMMA Talks
Date created: 2018-10-01
Audio recording of Shaping Vancouver presentation (2018)
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2018-05-10
Video of EMMA Talks presentation with Vivek Shraya
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Shraya, Vivek, Author: EMMA Talks
Date created: 2018-10-01
A presentation from EMMA Talks, Dr. Amina Wadud talks about the evolution of Muslim women are in the 21st Century as it relates to her own personal history and story. Dr. Amina Wadud is Professor Emiratis of Islamic Studies and Visiting Scholar at Starr King School for the Ministry. Author of Qur’an and Woman; and, Inside the Gender Jihad; she is a founding member of Sisters in Islam and resource person for Musawah: the global movement for reform in Muslim Personal Status Law.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Wadud, Amina, Author: EMMA Talks
Date created: 2018-05-03
Indigenous women are among the underrepresented voices in contemporary anthropology, and throughout its history. They were more likely to be the subjects of research into an ethnographic present, always portrayed in exotic terms and without agency. Perhaps in reaction to earlier studies Indigenous people are among the critics of the work that anthropologists produce. Despite this troubled relationship Audra Simpson has adopted a discipline that exists to explore the human condition.The current generation of anthropologists accept that research does not occur independent of the researcher’s perspective. Thus, indigeneity will inevitably direct the course of inquiry for anthropology conducted by Indigenous people. In this conversation, Dr. Simpson will reflect upon her career as an anthropologist. She will discuss the tropes, trends and themes that inform her research and how she contributes to the discourse of modern anthropology.Audra Simpson is in conversation here with Eldon Yellowhorn.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Simpson, Audra, Author: Yellowhorn, Eldon
Date created: 2018-03-21
Social innovation is at a crossroads. How will it embrace and build on the social justice movements of the past? Will we be able to move to action while holding the space for the real conversations that need to happen?SPEAKER BIOTonya Surman is a social entrepreneur with a passion for bringing life to world-changing projects. Tonya is the founding Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI), a coworking space, community and launchpad for people who are changing the world, with four locations in Toronto and one location in New York City.CSI provides its members with the tools they need to accelerate their success and amplify their social impact. Tonya has been creating and leading social ventures since 1987.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Surman, Tonya
Date created: 2018-03-07
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
Milestones 2017 is the third annual Vancouver City Planning Commission Year in Review public forum, it’s a look back that invariably turns into a dialogue about the future of the city.Four leading urban thinkers and achievers discuss 2017 decisions and events in planning and development that have been identified as possibly having a transformative influence on the evolution of Vancouver. The panelists will also offer their own ideas on proposed milestones of 2017.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Vancouver City Planning Commission, Author: Kershaw, Paul, Author: Ma, Melody, Author: Price, Gordon, Author: Scott, Ouri, Author: Singh, Sandra
Date created: 2018-02-05
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
About Free Home UniversityA project of Loop House (Lecce, IT) and Musagetes, Free Home University (FHU) is a pedagogical experiment grounded in experiencing life and creativity in common. FHU is a response to the need to generate new ways of sharing and creating knowledge. Created in collaboration with a pool of diverse international artists and thinkers, FHU is based in and around the city of Lecce, in the Puglia Region of southern Italy.FHU approaches the possibilities of education by producing collaborative artistic projects and coalitional knowledge. A positive alternative to the neoliberal and service-oriented system, FHU provides a home for radical thought, experimental action, learning-by-doing. It opens up existing competencies and encourages personal enrichment. The name Free Home University (FHU) refers to how a horizontal, inviting, energy-liberating environment (Free), within a protected and intimate space (Home), can provide an alternative, yet universal experience of sharing knowledge (University).
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Pomarico, Alessandra
Date created: 2015-11-23
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
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