What's On This Week @SFUVAN
For the full calendar of events, please visit our Events Calendar.
The following is a look ahead at select upcoming events held at SFU Vancouver, for the week of May 11-18.
On a special note, Janet Moore, an assistant professor with SFU’s Centre for Dialogue and the co-founder of the CityStudio program, is nominated for a YWCA Women of Distinction award, as well as the YWCA Connecting the Community Award. You can vote online for Janet online for the Connecting the Community Award here: http://www.ywcavan.org/content/Connecting_the_Community_Award/1147
Time is also running out to register for the BCreative 2012 conference, on May 10-12, 2012, at SFU Vancouver. Designed to bring together government, business, the creative sector, and researchers to stimulate thinking, policy, and action directed at developing a strategy and levering resources to further build the creative economy and to help British Columbia become a leader in the creative sector in the twenty-first century. More info here.
Coming up next week at SFU Vancouver:
May 5-19
Apparitions: an MFA Spring Informal
Time: Noon-6 pm; 6-10 pm (time-based performances)
Place: Audain Gallery & Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings
Cost: Free
The SFU School for the Contemporary Arts presents Apparitions.
Apparitions is an informal exhibition of works being developed by Simon Fraser University's School of Contemporary Arts MFA program and features the work of two dozen interdisciplinary artists working in a wide range of practices. It comprises an exhibition in the Audain Gallery and an evening program of time based performances and installations held at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. In most respects these works directly or indirectly consider the relationship between the capacity of vision and the socio-political considerations of visibility.
Friday, May 11
The Right to Know: Protecting Children and Youth from Enviro-Toxins
Time: 7-9:30 pm
Place: SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings
Cost: Free with registration – register at: therighttoknow.envirotoxins@gmail.com
With guest speakers: Dr. Bruce Lanphear, Faculty of Health Sciences at SFU: "The Neglected Legacy of Rachel Carson" Windermere Secondary Youth: “Enviro-Toxins and You; Why it Matters.”
May 12-13
SHAMISEN & ODORI: The Music and Dance of Kabuki
Time: May 12 8pm, May 13, 2:00pm
Place: Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings
Cost: $32 (standing or limited vision tickets $15 at the door) here
A TomoeArts presentation in partnership with SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs features master artists from Japan Tokiwazu Mozibei V (shamisen and voice) and Fujima Shôgo (dance) with local artist Fujima Sayû (dance). TomoeArts is bringing two artists from Japan to share their mastery in the art of kabuki music and dance in an intimate 120-seat studio. This is a remarkable chance to see and hear live kabuki music and dance in its purist form - in an intimate setting with simple set and kimono.
Tuesday, May 15
Islamophobia and Interfaith Dialogue: Challenges and Opportunities
Time: 7pm, Followed by an interfaith dialogue with local participants
Place: Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings
Cost: Free with registration
SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement and the Iona-Pacific Inter-Religious Centre present Islamophobia and Interfaith Dialogue: Challenges and Opportunities, A Public Talk with Daniel Tutt.
Islamophobia is worse now than it was immediately following the September 11th, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. Since the election of Barack Obama to President, hate groups have expanded, and American Muslims report higher levels of employment discrimination, hate crimes, and attitudes are generally unfavorable towards Muslims in the United States. Daniel Tutt's work focuses on creating dialogue and action around persisting problems between Muslims and American mainstream culture. He has directed “20,000 Dialogues,” a project of Unity Productions Foundation that uses film and dialogue to bring different affinity groups together for transformative dialogue on Islam in America. Moderated by Peter Elliot, Christ Church Cathedral.
May 16-17
Innovations in Home Care: A Public Policy Perspective
Time: May 16 8am – May 17 1pm
Place: 1410-1430 Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings
Cost: Free with registration
Part of the 21st John K Friesen Conference.
John K. Friesen has contributed vision and leadership wherever he has lived and worked. He established the John K. Friesen Conference in Gerontology to provide an important source of professional development to those working with seniors and to act as a catalyst for new research
Wednesday, May 16
Lunch Poems @ SFU: Sandy Shreve & Rob Taylor
Time: Noon-1 p.m.
Place: SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre, Teck Gallery, 515 West Hastings
Cost: Free
This month lunch poems @sfu presents: Sandy Shreve and guest poet Rob Taylor.
Sandy Shreve has published four poetry collections, most recently Suddenly, So Much (Exile Editions, 2005). Recent work has appeared in her chapbook, Cedar Cottage Suite (Leaf Press, 2010), the Literary Review of Canada, Exile, The Windsor Review, and Villanelles (ed. Annie Finch and Marie Elizabeth Mali, Knopf: 2012). A new chapbook, Level Crossing, is forthcoming from The Alfred Gustav Press in fall 2012. Her work is widely anthologized and has won or been short listed for a number of awards, including the Earle Birney Prize for Poetry and the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Award.
Rob Taylor lives in East Vancouver with his wife, Marta. He is the author of the poetry collection The Other Side of Ourselves (Cormorant Books, 2011), the manuscript for which won the 2010 Alfred G. Bailey Prize, and his poems have been published in over forty journals, magazines and anthologies.
Thursday, May 17
City Conversations: Viaducts or Viadon’ts
Time: 12:30-1:30 pm
Place: SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre, Room 1425, 515 West Hastings
Cost: Free
For 25 years, the top end of False Creek, potentially one of the most beautiful and accessible parts of Vancouver, instead has been bare land traversed by two elevated roads. Is there an alternative to the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts that keeps traffic flowing? What is their impact on adjacent neighbourhoods? What might replace acres of asphalt parking lots and chain-link fences? Why haven't existing plans been implemented for two decades? Is now the time for better solutions that include more public amenities?
Starting the conversation are Vancouver City Councillor Geoff Meggs; Urban Designer and Crosstown resident Frank Ducote, and Shirley Chan, whose family led the 1960s fight to stop freeways from decimating Chinatown, Gastown and Strathcona. Then it's your turn to ask questions, and share opinions and ideas. Spread the words!
Illusions of Memory with Professor Elizabeth Loftus
Time: 3:30-6pm
Place: 1900 Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings
Cost: Free
This talk will focus on the research Dr. Loftus has completed on memory distortions and their applications to legal cases involving repressed memories of memories of child abuse, eyewitness testimony, and wrongful convictions.
The reconstructive nature of memory has important implications for matters of public interest.
Dr. Loftus has achieved remarkable stature and recognition as a scientific psychologist who has investigated the strengths and vagaries of human memory.
Information Session: SFU’s Urban Design and Sustainable Community Development Certificates
Time: 6-7:30pm
Place: 1520 Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings
Cost: Free
Presented by the City Program, Continuing Studies, www.sfu.ca/city.
Join us to learn more about these two excellent certificate program, which start September 2012. Programs are ideal for those who are committed to creative positive change. Taught by renowned practitioners and industry leaders, these certificate programs with equip you with the skills to impact your communities for the better.
Photographic Expressions of Asia
Time: 6:30-9pm, reception to follow
Place: 1900 Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings
Cost: Free
Dr Neville Poy and Senator Vivienne Poy brings Asia to Simon Fraser University through captivating images and compelling stories.
Come and share in artistically rendered photographs of urban and rural life in China, Hong Kong, Laos, Vietnam, Bhutan, Thailand, and Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo) that reflect the character of nations rapidly changing in response to globalization. For more information, visit www.sfu.ca/davidlamcentre.
How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Time: 7:00pm
Place: Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings Street
Cost: Free with registration
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents the Bard Explored: Lecture Series.
How did a middle-class boy, born in the middle of the 16th century in a provincial backwater, become the most famous writer in history? How did the plays of an obscure Englishman travel from London’s Globe Playhouse to every theatre on the globe? The story of how Shakespeare became Shakespeare is one of near misses, extraordinary circumstances, and unparalleled genius. SFU’s Dr. Paul Budra presents this fascinating story.
May 18-19
Time: 7:00pm
Place: Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings Street
Cost: $15 advance/ $20 at the door/ $30 Family Pack at www.brownpapertickets.com
Part of the 2nd Annual GONG! The Gamelan Festival
Spectacular Balinese Music and Dance with GAMELAN GITA ASMARA
Pre-show talk 7:15pm; Indonesian Food Sale 6:30pm
Gamelan Gita Asmara’s 2012 concert features an ambitious mix of classical, modern, rockin', and sweet music, highlighting the growing virtuosity of ensemble. This year, as they begin to ramp up for a 2013 tour to Bali—their first—they have notched up the intensity of the show even higher than in the past, and completely tuned and renovated the gamelan instruments, doubling the power and vibrancy of the sound. Presented by Caravan World Rhythms.
