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.

Featuring over 70 films from 20 countries, Vancouver’s second largest film festival invites audiences to participate at their 25th anniversary fest. Watch films that showcase queer stories over 11 days at six venues around Vancouver – from Hollywood to Bollywood, from drama to documentary, and from indie cinema to big-budget offerings. Join us for unforgettable parties, community discussions, and a PechaKucha powered discussion called “Who Are We, Cinema?”

Fall Briefing: SCA's 2013/14 Orientation

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

The 11th annual Vancouver Latin American Film Festival runs from August 30th until September 8th, 2013. What started as a single-venue, three-day event has blossomed into a vibrant, multiple-venue, ten-day  celebration of Latin American culture. This year's festival will feature over forty of the best feature-length and short films (both fiction and documentary) to come out of Latin America over the past year. Highlights of VLAFF's 11th festival include:  a Spotlight on Colombian Cinema; Canada Looks South, a program of films by Latin-Canadian filmmakers; Asian Perspectives from Latin America, a series of four feature-length films that address themes of Asian identity within a Latin American context; and, a series of talkbacks with guest directors following selected screenings.

The Vancouver Latin American FIlm Festival welcomes SFU students back to school with a free screening:

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Chile, 2012.
Spanish with English subtitles/ 110 minutes.

In September 11th, 1973, General Pinochet seized power in a bloody military coup that toppled the government of democratically elected President Salvador Allende. During his rule, more than 3,200 people were executed or disappeared. 30 years after this event that changed the history of Chile, we present this film in Vancouver to remember the end of the Pinochet's dictatorship.

Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, educator and speaker. From a piece about her days as a go-go dancer in 1974 to a recent investigation of origins that included putting dancers in the tunnels of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, she has spent the past four decades making her artistic research personal, funny, intellectually vivid, and up to the minute. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to various publics from shipbuilders to physicists, construction workers to ballerinas, resulting in both research and outcomes that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others.

She founded Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976 and cultivated the company's unique multi-generational ensemble into a leading force in contemporary dance until 2011, when she handed the artistic leadership of the company over to the next generation of Dance Exchange artists. Now she is pursuing new projects with fresh partnerships, including a recent semester at Harvard University as an artist-in-residence, and projects including Healing Wars, an investigation of the impact of war on medicine, to premiere at Arena Stage (DC) in 2014; the genre-twisting work Blood, Muscle, Bone with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Urban Bush Women; work in London with Sadler’s Wells Theatre and the London Sinfonietta; comic book structures as applied to narration in performance; and an online project called “The Treadmill Tapes: Ideas on the Move.” In 2013 she curated Wesleyan University's symposium "Innovations: Intersection of Art and Science,” bringing together teams of artists and scientists from North America to present their methods and findings.

Acclaimed BC poets, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Marita Dachsel, Amber Dawn, and Jennica Harper will read from their most recent books and engage in a discussion about the nature of truth in poetry, mining biography and autobiography in their works, and whether or not it is possible to be too true.

Elizabeth Bachinsky is the author of five collections of poetry: Curio, Home of Sudden Service, God of Missed Connections, I Don’t Feel so Good, and The Hottest Summer in Recorded History. Her poetry has been nominated for awards including the Pat Lowther Award, The Kobzar Literary Award, The George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature, the Governor General's Award for Poetry and the Bronwen Wallace Award, and has appeared in literary journals, anthologies and on film around the world. She was born in Regina, raised in Prince George and Maple Ridge B.C., and now lives in Vancouver where she is an instructor of creative writing and the Editor of EVENT magazine.

Marita Dachsel is the author of Glossolalia , Eliza Roxcy Snow, and All Things Said & Done. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and the ReLit Prize and has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2011. Her play Initiation Trilogy was produced by Electric Company Theatre, was featured at the 2012 Vancouver International Writers Fest, and was nominated for the Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding New Script. She is the Artist in Residence at  UVic’s Centre for Studies in Religion and Society. After many years in Vancouver and Edmonton, she and her family now live in Victoria.