Everyone from new to nearly graduating students are invited to this year's Fall Connection. Talks from successful alumni and student unions as well as info about services to students. It will start at 1:30 and there will be a chance for mingling from 3:00-4:00pm.
RSVP to ca@sfu.ca
Everyone from new to nearly graduating students are invited to this year's Fall Connection. Talks from successful alumni and student unions as well as info about services to students. It will start at 1:30 and there will be a chance for mingling from 3:00-4:00pm.
RSVP to ca@sfu.ca
Monday August 26th, 2013, 1:30-3:00pm - there will be a chance to chat and mingle after from 3:00-4:00pm. RSVP 778-782-3363 or ca@sfu.ca
Learn the must-knows about the School and the Vancouver Campus, meet other students, faculty and staff. Find out what to bring on your first day and where to go.
Visual Art Student Andrea Creamer
Raised in Ladysmith, Andrea Creamer, a visual arts graduand in Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA), hails from small town British Columbia.
But her boundless passion for making art accessible to disadvantaged communities and creating art that incites public discussion is leading her to create a big footprint in community engagement in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Creamer’s initially small-town view that visual arts has limited career options led her to pursue a diploma in community recreation programming at Langara College.
But then a stint working on literacy programs for new immigrants and Aboriginal people through 2010 Legacies Now exposed her to discussions about art and public spaces, hosted by SFU’s School of Communication.
That ignited Creamer’s five-year pursuit of relational aesthetics, also called socially engaged art practice, at SFU’s SCA. The field marries the study of art history and the creation of art with meaningful social engagement to spark social and economic improvement at a community grassroots level.
Following some mentoring by Am Johal, community engagement coordinator, Vancity Office of Community Engagement, SFU Woodwards Cultural Unit, Creamer started coordinating SFU’s involvement in community projects such as Contemporary Arts 101 and Community Journalism 101.
Offered in conjunction with community partners, the courses, respectively, help downtown eastside residents engage directly with artists through a speaker series and gain journalistic writing and reporting skills, which they parlay into published work.
“Andrea has been instrumental in building relationships between Downtown Eastside residents and the SFU community,” says Johal. “Her support of community projects has been exemplary and her artistic practice brings a social aesthetic that comes from a rooted understanding of what it means to produce art in such a complex neighbourhood context.”
Creamer’s relentless questioning of people’s socio-political experience of public places and what she views as governments’ colonial-based regulation of public and private property inspired her to pepper several Vancouver parks with her trademark art.
Her strategically placed vinyl-text installations, posters and other graphic work seek to engage passersby to contemplate the ironies and paradoxes that underlie many municipal park regulations.
“I often find myself exploring political and social justice conversations of space, land, language and commodity culture,” says Creamer.
“For example, why are there physical barriers in parks that often prevent people from comfortably sitting on a park bench to enjoy their scenic surrounding?”
Like Johal, Sabine Bitter, one of Creamer’s SFU visual arts professors, credits the graduand with exemplifying student engagement at its best and making a significant mark in the relational aesthetics art field.
“I am convinced that Andrea will continue to work on the forefront of this artistic field and drive its limits further. Likewise I am sure that we will hear of Andrea's work for many years and that she will make a place for herself within Canadian art.”
Simon Fraser University is Canada's top-ranked comprehensive university and one of the top 50 universities in the world under 50 years old. With campuses in Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey, B.C., SFU engages actively with the community in its research and teaching, delivers almost 150 programs to more than 30,000 students, and has more than 120,000 alumni in 130 countries.
Photo: Owen Underhill (Director, SCA), Cheryl Geisler (Dean, FCAT), Matthew Thomson (Professional Markets Representative, Canon Canada), Gabrielle Hill (Student, Visual Arts), Sabine Bitter (Professor, SCA), Elspeth Pratt (Associate Director, SCA).
Canon Canada’s Professional Markets Representative Matthew Thomson presented the Canon Canada Photography Award, consisting of a 5D MK III and 24-105 lens, to Visual Arts student Gabrielle Hill.
Gabrielle Hill finished the course SPA 265/365: Methods and Concepts: Photo-based practices. Gabrielle’s portfolio was selected as the winner by the Selection Committee, for the past academic year.
The next Canon Canada Photography Award will be presented at the end of the Spring 2014 term. Please connect with Prof. Sabine Bitter for more details.
Full-time undergraduate students majoring in Photography who have completed a minimum of 75 credits at time of application may apply. The student must be completing their degree program in the year of competition.
Update: "The Worst Day Ever" is now also being included on the Telefilm Canada DVD to be distributed at Not Short on Talent at Clermont-Ferrand, France! So she's off to France in February after Berlin. Nicely done!
Recent Film Grad Sophie Jarvis invited to the 11th Annual Berlinale Talent Campus 2013
Congratulations Sophie! The 2012 graduate of SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts Film program, Sophie Jarvis's has been invited to participate in the 11th Annual Berlinale Talent Campus at the Berlin International Film Festival in February! The Berlinale Talent Campus is a creative academy and networking platform up-and-coming filmmakers from all over the world. The Berlinale Talent Campus lasts for six days and offers a huge variety of different programme elements.
In addition to this, Sophie's short film, 'The Worst Day Ever' has gotten amazing accolades including being selected for the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, the 2012 Vancouver International Film Festival, the 2012 Connecticut Film Festival, the 2012 Whistler Film Festival, and the 43rd Canadian Student Film Festival - Montréal. Her films demonstrate a keen eye for design and bizarre situations.
We're delighted and proud as can be.
Ms. Wood, an SCA Theatre & Film (BA 1992) Alumni has just won the prestigious Knight of Illumination Award (http://www.knight-of-illumination.com/ ) for her lighting design of Puccini’s Suor Angelica at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden earlier this Spring.
No surprise, D.M.'s design portfolio is stellar!
D.M. designed lighting for two of the three short operas that comprise Puccini’s triptych Il Trittico. All 3 operas were televised on the BBC in June of this year.
D.M.’s impressive international career (and images of her work) can be traced via her website: http://www.dmwooddesign.com/
Professor David MacIntyre and Playwright Hiro Kanagawa (MFA 1994) have recent collaboration to create a new work, Tom Pinkerton: The Ballad of Butterfly's Son, a musical drama, which has just been shortlisted by the Playwrights Guild of Canada for Best New Canadian Musical in 2012!
Tom Pinkerton is the narrative sequel to Puccini's Madama Butterfly. At the end of Butterfly, the son born to Cio-Cio and B.F. Pinkerton is whisked away by Pinkerton and his wife Kate for a new life in America, even as the heartbroken Cio-Cio lies dying. Set 20 years after these events, Tom Pinkerton follows the adventures of the boy as he returns to Japan to find the mother he never knew.
These creative collaborators met when Hiro was a graduate student, and as a testament to the enduring connections of imagination and art, 15 years later, they we're able to collaborate on this opera/musical theatre hybrid.
The winners will be announced at PGC’s Inaugural Awards Event on October 22nd at Stage West in Mississauga.
To view the synopses of the shortlisted plays go to: http://playwrightsguild.ca/news/pgc-announces- short-list-its-2012-awards
imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival runs from October 17-21st in Toronto at http://www.imaginenative.org/festival2012/node/1895
10 to Watch in 2012 by Playback Magazine http://playbackonline.ca/2012/09/01/the-2012-10-to-watch-lisa-jackson/
SFU Film Alumn Lisa Jackson is a mid-career success, with a documentary background, she has been branching into fiction with a flare for theatrical and artistic spectacle. Lisa has made Aboriginal-experience-based films and docs that transcend cultural boundaries. Her credits include winning a 2011 Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Savage, which screened at Berlinale and SXSW in 2010.
imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival runs from October 17-21st in Toronto at http://www.imaginenative.org/festival2012/node/1895
Vancouver based Jackson's current short film SNARE, which is part of the Stolen Sisters Digital Initiative, premiers at imagineNATIVE Film Festival on October 20th. It will also be screened in english language malls across the country and shown on the Toronto subway system, and Calgary Airport along with 3 other shorts raising awareness about violence against aboriginal women.
Lisa was also just named one of 10 to Watch in 2012 by Playback Magazine - a pretty prestigious honour! http://playbackonline.ca/2012/09/01/the-2012-10-to-watch-lisa-jackson/
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