What's On This Week @SFUVAN
The Veil of Nature, an interactive art installation is opening tomorrow, June 14 in Rm. 2205 at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.
The following is a look ahead at select upcoming events held at SFU Vancouver, for the week of June 14-21. For the full calendar of events, please visit:
https://events.sfu.ca/ViewCal.html?calendar_id=6
Coming up next week at SFU Vancouver:
Friday, June 14
Inclusive Innovation and Market Research at the BoP: A Practitioner’s View
Time: 10:30am-12:30pm
Place: Rm. 2300, Segal Graduate School, 500 Granville St.
Cost: Free, register online
The Jack Austin Centre invites you to a research presentation by Wendy van der Klein, learning and marketing expert at the BoP Innovation Center in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Wendy has a professional passion for facilitating transformation from an integral perspective creating collective impact for a better world. As a coach, Spiral Dynamics practitioner and Partnership Broker she loves to motivate teams to collaborate on a common agenda for solving a specific social problem. Wendy holds a Master’s degree in International Business Studies.
The Veil of Nature Opening Reception
Time: 6-9pm
Place: Rm. 2205, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings St.
Cost: Free
Come join the SFU community for the opening of an interactive art installation related to The Secret Doctrine held at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. Created by Martin Gotfrit, Gruben, and Toronto designer, Marian Wilhak, this installation which will provide a variety of experiences for the viewer will be open June 14-July 6.
How to Increase Cycling and Walking: Lessons from Cities across the Globe
Time: 7-9pm
Place: Rm. 1400, Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings St.
Cost: Free, register online
Professor John Pucher of Rutgers University will document the boom in cycling in European and North American cities. John will show that cycling can thrive even in cities with no history or culture of daily, utilitarian cycling, but only if government policies provide safe, convenient, and pleasant cycling conditions. Similarly, government policies are key to encouraging walking and making it safer. Safe infrastructure is a prerequisite, but it must be complemented by other supportive measures.
Saturday, June 15
Information Session: SFU’s Certificate in Digital Communication
Time: 10-11:30am
Place: Rm. 2540, Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings St.
Cost: Free, register for the waitlist online
As we go into the second decade of the 21st century, legacy industries are contracting while digital forms of communications continue to expand.
There are many employment opportunities in digital media. Employers are looking for skills in social media marketing and monitoring, community engagement and management, and social media recruitment.
Time: 8:30-3pm (various times depending on discipline)
Place: Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
Cost: Free, RSVP to lastoria@sfu.ca
SFU Student Services will be running "Blue-Print" sessions on July 3rd at our downtown campus. Prior to these sessions, the School for the Contemporary Arts will offer sessions in course selection for students entering our various programs: Dance, Film, Music, Theatre, Visual Art, and Visual/Performance Studies. These sessions will go over some basics of the programs, and course selection.
- 10:00-11:00 - Visual Art (11-12 walking tour to 611 Alexander Studios)
- 12:30-2:00 Visual Culture and Performance Studies
- 2:30-4:00 Theatre
Monday, June 17
Brazil-Canada Business, Innovation Science, and Technology Forum
Time: 8-11:30am
Place: Segal Graduate Business School, 500 Granville St.
Cost: $35-70, register online
Join us for a morning focused on Business Innovation and Science & Tecnology opportunities in the Brazilian economy. The opening speakers, Ambassador Sergio Florencio, Consul General and Dr. Jeremy Hall will provide an overview of the landscape in Brazil. The panel discussion includes industry leaders who have piloted extensive business in Brazil specifically in the agriculture, mining and infrastructure fields: Marcelo Sarkis, Heenan Blaikie; Ray Castelli, Weatherhaven and Rogerio Tippe, Javelin Partners. If you are interested in conducting business in Brazil and would like to understand more about the dynamics of the Brazilian economy and how businesses operate, please register now.
Tuesday, June 18
Time: 12-1:30pm
Place: Segal Graduate School, 500 Granville St.
Cost: Free, register online
This session will give you a chance to learn about how the Executive MBA(EMBA) program is uniquely designed to meet the needs of mid-senior level career professionals who wish to think strategically and thrive in their careers. The program brings leading edge theory and knowledge together with practical application that students apply at work tomorrow and in future leadership roles. Faculty, staff and alumni will be in attendance.
After the Crisis: Cooperatives and the Civil Economy
Time: 7-9pm
Place: Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings St.
Cost: Free, register online
Professor Stefano Zamagni, Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna, and the world’s leading scholar of co-operative economics will discuss cooperatives and the civil economy as a practical and resilient response to the contemporary crises of global capitalism. Professor Zamagni will discuss the role of co-operatives as generators of economic inclusion, resilience, and social capital.
A panel discussion will follow.
Wednesday, June 19
Time: 12-1pm
Place: Teck Gallery, Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings St.
Cost: Free
Meredith Quartermain and Miranda Pearson featured at June 19 Lunch Poems at SFU. Presented by SFU Public Square, 12-1pm in SFU Harbour Centre's Teck Gallery. Lunch Poems hosts well-known and up-and-coming poets on the third Wednesday of every month except July and August.
Information Session: SFU’s Certificate in Dialogue and Civic Engagement
Time: 6:30-9pm
Place: Rm. 1500, Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings St.
Cost: Free, register online
Are you currently involved in community or civic engagement activities?
Do you want to increase your repertoire of effective public participatory methods?
Join us to learn more about this program and how dialogue — as a process and a tool — can make civic engagement more effective, leading to positive change in our communities.
Thursday, June 20
City Conversations: Special City Edition!
Time: 12:30-1:30pm
Place: Lot 19 Parkette, 900 West Cordova St. (the park at the north end of Hornby St., between Hastings and Cordova St.)
Cost: Free, co-sponsored with the support of the DVBIA
City to Citizens: We want a better connection with you.
‘The city doesn’t listen to us’ has been a perennial complaint in Vancouver. The city is taking it seriously. On Thursday, June 20 at a special outdoors SFU City Conversations, public members of the Mayor’s Engaged City Task Force will describe their initial recommendations to improve the conversations between the city and its citizens—and then will engage the public in an extended conversation on the topic.
Our presenters are task force members Lizzy Karp, creator of Rain City Chronicles; Sam Chan, an SFU PhD candidate studying transformational change; and Lyndsay Poaps, former Vancouver Parks Commissioner. Then it will be your turn. City Conversations will be held at the Lot 19 Parkette (at the north end of Hornby St., between Hastings and Cordova St). You’re welcome to bring your lunch, and food will be available nearby.
Time: 2:30-4:30pm
Place: Harbour Centre Foyer, Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings St.
Cost: Free
Vancouver Student Life will be located in the main floor atrium of Harbour Centre from 2:30-4:30pm helping you "de-stress" your life during midterm exam time. All students are welcome to drop by to "de-stress!" To help you relax, the SFU Vancouver Counsellor will be on site to discuss stress management techniques. Stop by to chat and receive free goodies during the event. PADS will also be bringing puppies for canine cuddles.
Friday, June 21
Festival LAUNCH! Emerging artist showcase – hosted by Veda Hille
Time: 7:30pm
Place: Studio D & Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings St.
Cost: $10-15
Festival LAUNCH! Showcase
A evening of performances by emerging Vancouver Artists, hosted by award-winning musician Veda Hille. See a variety of acts in different mediums by up-and-coming artists.
June 17-19
Spur Vancouver: Global Power Shift
Time: Various times
Place: Various spaces, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings St.
Cost: $10-12 per event, ticket information available online
Spur is Canada’s first national festival of politics, art and ideas. Spur is produced by Diaspora Dialogues and the Literary Review of Canada. Designed to engage Canadians in a feisty, nation-wide search for ways forward on the most current of issues, Spur is multi-partisan, forward-looking and solutions-oriented—spurring ideas into action.
With editions in Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver in 2013, and an eventual roll-out from coast-to-coast-to-coast, Spur is a modern-day railroad, linking communities across Canada in conversation that is both national in scope and local in nuance. Much like the CP historically connected Canadians to one another, and provided the means of transporting people, goods and ideas across our country, Spur lays tracks between Canadians of all backgrounds, building a broad public forum accessible to all.
June 14-July 6
Time: 3-8pm, Tuesday through Sunday
Place: Rm. 4350 (follow signs from the lobby), Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings St.
Cost: Free
An interactive art installation related to The Secret Doctrine. Created by Martin Gotfrit, Gruben, and Toronto designer, Marian Wilhak, this installation which will provide a variety of experiences for the viewer will be open June 14-July 6.
May 8 – August 17
The Biography of Images: Parallel Biographies
Time: 12-6pm daily
Place: Audain Gallery, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings St.
Cost: Free
The Biography of Images: Parallel Biographies is the third in a series of group exhibitions from the Austrian Federal Photography Collection, in this case bringing together artists from Vienna and Vancouver. Every photograph has a background story linking its creator and the circumstances of its production: what decisions were made, what steps were rejected, what traces of production are still visible? Once such questions are asked, a biography of the image can be written.
