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SALON SERIES

A Long Table Dialogue Intersecting Knowledges: Art, Research and Community

Who?

You are an established or emerging practitioner-artist, researcher or community leader with a passion for connection, collaboration and inquiry. Students from the School for the Contemporary Arts and other disciplines are also invited to participate.

What?

The Salon is inspired by the work of artist and convenor Lois Weaver who advocates for a Long Table format that offers a place where all can gather to share their experiences and engage with the experiences of others. This format is a response to the potential tedium of panel sessions and emerges as a public conversation in an informal format. The table is set with 12 chairs, the conversation is self-moderated although organized around a theme and questions to launch the dialogue. Participants sit at or around the outside of the table, and any individual present can take a seat and join the emerging discussion. The conversation lasts approximately 1.5 hours.

Why?

Because we are curious and open to learning from artists and researchers who are known for their collaborative work with communities on issues of mutual concern. We want to understand the community experience and what we can learn from conversations among these orientations that would benefit all.

Building a Foundation for Future Work

We envision this initial offering to be an informal and convivial gathering and a place where community leaders, artists and researchers meet to exchange stories and theories about their work, their issues of concern and how insights and solutions might be enhanced, enlarged or invigorated by these interactions.

Your Hosts:

Faculty and Students from SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts - SCA faculty are internationally recognized for research excellence. Most of the faculty are established working artists, artist-scholars, and scholars. In general, the artists are creators — choreographers, composers, filmmakers, lighting designers, visual artists — as well as performers, directors, and dramaturges. Scholarly research centres on cinema and media theory, performance, art history, and visual culture.

Researchers from Simon Fraser University’s Community Engaged Research initiative (CERi). CERi is an infrastructure that advocates for community-engaged research rooted in values of reciprocity, collaboration, equity, justice and social transformation. We do this by strengthening the capacity of SFU’s researchers and students to develop meaningful, productive and reciprocal research partnerships that can make a positive difference in communities throughout British Columbia and beyond.

Both CERI and SCA are based in the Downtown Eastside, an area that faces social and economic uncertainty, where research and the arts play an important role in the community.

Please RSVP by March 21st

Thank you for considering this invitation to join us at the Salon.

James Long, Sabine Bitter and Sandy Kaltenborn, SCA

Stuart Poyntz and Joanna Ashworth, CERi