Events

This is a calendar of events open to the general public, as well as selected events open only to the Emily Carr community. Please note: the event submission form is currently offline while we stabilize the new site. It will be up very shortly !

  • Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 11:29am - 12:20pm

    The Presidents' Lecture Series is proud to feature Dylan Brown, Creative Director, Pixar Canada.

    11:30am | Thursday, March 18, 2009
    Lecture Theatre, Room 301 Sout Building

  • Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 6:00pm

    South Building Lecture Hall - Room 301

    Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker is a specialist in the history of the Modern and was exhibition director of the international research and exhibition projects The Short Century (curator Okwui Enwezor), as well as Shanghai Modern and Art of Tomorrow: Hilla von Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenheim which she also co-curated. She is currently the Director of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle. Birnie Danzker will engage in a dialogue with Sadira Rodrigues, Director of Continuing Studies at Emily Carr. Free and open to the public.

  • Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm

    Current Emily Carr students Tiffan Breen, Mark Butler, Ian Edmonds, Liz Jackson, Brian Kokoska, Rupert Nuttle, Mitch Speed and Angela Teng exhibit No Plateau: A New Decade in Painting.

  • Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

    Emily Carr University of Art + Design will host a roundtable discussion on the presence in Vancouver of the Farnesina Design Collection. Emily Carr will participate with the curators of the exhibition along with designers, industrialists and academicians from both Italy and Canada. The theme of the event will be the cultural value of design, with particular focus on the issue of sustainability.

  • Saturday, February 6, 2010 - 10:00am - 7:00pm

    To coincide with the opening of CODE Live at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, the Cultural Olympiad 2010 and Emily Carr are pleased to present a one-day forum that brings together some of the most renowned national and international artists, curators and thinkers for a series of dialogues on the relationships between digital technologies and creative practices today.

  • Friday, February 5, 2010 - 9:00am - Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 5:00pm

    In the Fall of 2009, while Emily Carr prepared to host CODE Live, students in a directed studies course with Emily Carr’s artists-in-residence Jer Thorpe and M Simon Levin considered the implications and opportunities of observing, and being observed, in one of the most photographed locations in the city. During the 2010 Games, Granville Island, already a photo-saturated environment, will be shot from every angle: images from tourists’ cameras and cell-phones mix with surveillance and media images to document every moment from every conceivable perspective.

  • Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 3:50pm - 5:00pm

    The AHIS 333 Interdisciplinary Forums Speakers Series presents:

    Natalie Purschwitz  | Going All The Way: Making a Shift to See the Light            

  • Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 9:00am - Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 5:00pm

    The CODE Live festival is an 18-day landmark event with visual art exhibitions, music and performances, all informed by digital technology and audience involvement.

  • Friday, January 29, 2010 - 9:00am - 7:00pm

    Emily Carr University of Art + Design hosts an all-day symposium On the Edge of Chaos: Contemporary Neuroscience, Creative Patterns and Material Production to explore how the study of the brain and neuroscience can shed light on art-making and creative processes.

  • Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm

    Emily Carr University of Art + Design announces our second speakers in our Spring 2010 Speaker Series, Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt, an internationally respected duo known as Dexter Sinister.