Friday, December 2, 2011 – 7:00pm – 10:00 pm Please join READ Books at the Charles H. Scott Gallery for the launch of A Thousand Eyes: Media Technology, Law, and Aesthetics edited by Judy Radul and Marit Paasche and published by Sternberg Press (Berlin) and Henie Onstad Art Centre (Norway). Contributing editor and artist Judy Radul will be in attendance and will present a talk. Read more…
2009 alumna Brianne Nord-Stewart is one of five candidates shortlisted for the The Motion Picture Production Industry Association of British Columbia (MPPIA) Short Film Award. The successful candidate will receive a $10,000 cash award from MPPIA, a $5,000 cash award from British Columbia Film + Media, plus in-kind production services up to $100,000 for a short film project to be completed within 18 months after receiving the Award. Finalists will compete for the award in a special ‘pitch session’ December … Continued
The prospect of wolf eels as a commercially viable food source and the role of shellfish in signalling the health of coastal environments are among the topics up for discussion at a symposium on Opportunities in BC’s Seafood Economy. “We have a tremendous… Wednesday, November 09, 2011 | full story …
Thursday, December 1, 2011 (All day) – Saturday, December 10, 2011 (All day) QR_U (an open school) Questions, Responses and Unofficial Conversations is presented by sessional faculty member Heidi May, MAA candidates Elisa Yon and Adam Stenhouse, along with Lois Klassen (11 MAA). QR_U (an open school) aims to create an occasion, and a setting to discuss the broad questions surrounding arts and pedagogy, and the future of the art school. Read more.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 – 12:00pm – Sunday, December 18, 2011 – 5:00pm The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Toronto artist Michelle Gay. Gay investigates relationships of language, the body and memory and the way in which they are mediated through machine technologies via a multi-disciplinary practice that includes computer projections, animations and drawing. Poemitron is a software program Gay developed in collaboration with her brother and particle physicist Colin Gay. The program … Continued
Sunday, October 30, 2011 – 4:00pm – 6:00pm The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present a shipwreck themed walking tour at Mountain View Cemetery. We will tell the story of the SS Princess Sophia disaster, which took place on October 25, 1918 while sailing from Skagway to Vancouver. In this tragedy all were lost except an oil-soaked dog that managed to swim to shore despite the frigid water. The walking tour will visit the graves of the shipwreck’s … Continued
Sonny Assu, Kwakwa’wakw, (02) was one of five recipients of the Annual BC Creative Achievement Award for First Nations’ Art, a juried competition celebrating artistic excellence in traditional, contemporary or media art. The five juried award recipients will receive $5,000 and the seal of the British Columbia Creative Achievement Award for First Nations’ Art. A special presentation ceremony will be held on November 25, 2011 in Vancouver to honour all the 2011 award recipients. Read More…
The text of all briefs submitted to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance for the pre-budget consultation process will be published on the Committee’s web site. This measure is meant to enhance the transparency and openness of the consultation process. Furthermore, it allows all pre-budget ideas presented to the Committee to be easily accessible to all Canadians. Should you wish to follow the work of the Committee throughout the pre-budget consultation process, information can be followed on … Continued
News Release Ottawa, September 28, 2011 Today, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance is pleased to announce that, for the first time in the history of the Committee’s pre-budget consultation process, the text of all briefs submitted to the Committee as part of this process will be published on the Committee’s web site . “This measure will enhance the transparency and openness of the pre-budget consultation process,” said Mr. James Rajotte, M.P., Chair of the House Finance Committee. “Certainly, the Committee … Continued
Saturday, October 22, 2011 – 7:30pm – 9:30pm Get Animated! is the National Film Board’s annual cross-Canada animation celebration, bringing some of Canada’s finest (and funniest!) animated films. Get Animated! marks International Animation Day with an amazing selection of films: from boldly experimental to flat-out funny, there’s something for everyone. Add workshops that show you how to make your own animated films and meet-the-director sessions, and you’ve got a truly irresistible series of events—all absolutely free. So come join us and get … Continued
