March 2010

Saturday March 20, 2010
SOREL ETROG: the Link Paintings

Opening Reception: Saturday March 20, 2 –5pm

Lunchtime talks on the exhibition with Bill Jeffries:
Tuesday and Wednesday, March 23 and 24, 12:05. Thursday and Friday, March 25 and 26, 12:35.

January 2010

Saturday January 9, 2010
to show, to give, to make it be there. Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver: 1954-1969

Opening Reception: Saturday January 9, 2 –5pm Walking Tour with Michael Turner, 3pm.

Lunchtime talks on the exhibition with Bill Jeffries: January 12 and 13 at 12:05 and January 14 at 12:35

Guided Tour with Michael Turner January 13th at 2pm. Join us for a chance to view the show and discuss collagist
cultural practices from Vancouver ’s interdisciplinary past.

November 2009

Taking a Deep Breath: A panel discussion with four of the artists in the Take Your Time exhibition.
Tuesday November 17, 7pm. Room 1600, SFU Vancouver. 515 west Hastings.

October 2009

Take Your Time
Opening Reception: Friday October 30, 7-9pm, SFU Burnaby.
Artists: Rebecca Brewer, Ron den Daas, Colleen Heslin, Damian Moppett, Heather Passmore, Gary Pearson, Ben Reeves, Neil Wedman.

Film Screenings:
In Smog and Thunder: The Great War of the Californias. A film by Sandow Birk
Friday October 2nd, 7PM. SFU Vancouver Campus, 515 W. Hastings, Room 1600.
Wednesday October 14, 7PM. SFU Vancouver Campus, 515 W. Hastings, Room 1600.

The film is constructed from pans of the 100+ ‘history paintings’ that Birk created ‘documenting’ the ‘recent’ war between San Francisco and Los Angeles; it is in the style of the documentaries that Ken Burns has done for PBS, with the serious narration that one expects from a documentary reporting on such an important event. 45 minutes.

September 2009

Artist talk & film screening:
Saturday September 12, 2pm. SFU Burnaby Campus.
Followed by an opening reception from 3 to 5pm.
Screening Birk’s legendary film In Smog and Thunder: The Great War of the Californias.

A Talk with Dr. Richard T. Gray
The Fourth Wall: Illusion and the Theater of Narrative in Franz Kafka’s 'A Report to an Academy'
Thursday September 17, 7PM. SFU Vancouver campus, 515 W. Hastings, Room 7000.
This event is free and open to the public. This is the final event associated with the SFU Gallery’s recent exhibition
The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony.
The talk is co-sponsored by the SFU Gallery and the SFU Institute of the Humanities.
Richard T. Gray is the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington, Seattle.

August 2009

Slide Show at McLean Park, Strathcona (Corner of Keefer & Hawks)
Friday August 28, Dusk
To mark the end of David Wisdom's Teck Gallery exhibition Vancouver 1970-1975, the SFU Gallery presents a slide projection event that captures the spirit of the legendary 1970s Point Grey slide festivals, with slide show by some of our best photographers/artists.
David Wisdom, Ian Wallace, James O'Mara, Carol Sawyer, Michael O'Connel, Robert Kleyn, Michael Turner, Stuart McCall,
Neil Wedman and Fred Herzog.

June 2009

Slide Show/Talks with David Wisdom
David Wisdom: Vancouver 1970 -1975
Friday June 5, 7pm. Room 1600, followed by an Opening Reception in the Teck Gallery Space, Vancouver Campus
Friday June 12, 7pm. Room 1900. Vancouver Campus

Lunchtime Talks - Burnaby Campus
The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony
Saturday June 13, 1:00, with Jerry Zaslove
Thursday, June 25, 12:35, with Jerry Zaslove
(Talks for classes/groups at other times by arrangement.)

June 22- 25, 2009- Kafka Film Festival
KAFKA IN THE DARK: The strange and sinister cinema of Franz K.

Monday June 22
CLASS RELATIONS. 6.30pm. FREE SCREENING
Directors: Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet // France-West Germany // 1984 // 126 min // DVD
Professor Jerry Zaslove introduces our Kafka in the Dark program, followed by Straub-Huillet’s acclaimed film of the first, unfinished novel, Amerika. Preceded by the short film: The Metamorphosis of Mr Samsa Directed by Caroline Leaf // Canada // 1977 // 10 min.

Tuesday June 23
THE CASTLE (DAS SCHLOSS) 6.30pm Director Michael Haneke // Austria // 1997 // 123 mins
Preceded by THE MAN WHO WAITED Director: Theodore Ushev // Canada // 2006 // 8 min
K 8.45pm Director: Shoja Azari // US/Morocco // 2002 // 85 min // 35mm

Wednesday June 24
KAFKA 6.30pm Director: Steven Soderbergh // USA // 1991 // 98 mins // DVD
THE TRIAL 8.15pm Director: Orson Welles // Fr- Italy-West Germany // 1962 // 118 min // 35mm

Thursday June 25
THE CASTLE (DAS SCHLOSS) 8:45 Director Michael Haneke // Austria // 1997 // 123 mins
THE TRIAL 6.30 pm Director: Orson Welles // Fr- Italy-West Germany // 1962 // 118 min // 35mm

May 2009

Wednesday May 6, 7pm
Public talk: The Search for Kafka’s Literary Legacy by renowned Kafka scholar Kathi Diamant. Room 7000 SFU Vancouver Campus.

Lunchtime Talks - Burnaby Campus
The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony
Tuesday May 26, 12:05, with Bill Jeffries
Wednesday May 27, 12:35, with Bill Jeffries
Thursday, May 28, 12:35, with Jerry Zaslove
(Talks for classes/groups at other times by arrangement.)

April 2009

Saturday April 25
The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony
Curators’ talk: 2pm, on the origins and implications of the exhibition, in AQ 3003, the lecture hall adjacent to the SFU Gallery.
Opening reception in the Gallery, from 3pm to 5pm.

Lunchtime talks with Bill Jeffries - Burnaby Campus
The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, April 28, 29, 30 at 12:05pm and 12:35pm


December 2008

Saturday December 12 from 3pm to 5pm
Last day of Less is More: The Poetics of Erasure
SFU Gallery, Burnaby Campus

The SFU Gallery will be closed to the public from December 13, 2008 to January 9, 2009 for the Christmas break.
We will reopen with an exhibition by Liz Magor on Saturday, January 10, 2009.

November 2008

Saturday November 1 from 2pm to 5pm
Panel discussion, exhibition opening, and book launch of Less is More: The Poetics of Erasure
SFU Gallery, Burnaby Campus
Please join us for a panel discussion on "The Poetics and Politics of Erasure" with Derek Beaulieu, Clint Burnham, Kristina Lee Podesva,
and Nick Thurston. The discussion will take place in room AQ3003, just west of the SFU Gallery. Starting at 2pm, followed by reception.
*Please note that the panel was originally advertised as starting at 1pm, but has been moved to 2pm.

Thursday November 27 from 7pm to 9pm
Artist talk by Nick Danziger SFU Vancouver Campus, room 7000
Please join us for a talk by Monaco-based photojournalist Nick Danziger about his recent photographic assignment in Afghanistan. This talk is co-produced with the SFU Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures.

Saturday November 29 at 3pm
Artist tour and opening of Nick Danziger: Blair at War
Teck Gallery, SFU Vancouver Campus