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Bruce Emmett's (Low Residency MAA candidate) Mill Project re-imagines a site in West Vancouver which has held three unique histories: the Vedder River Shingle Mill, West Vancouver Secondary School and the Inglewood "Mill" Skatepark.

Constructed in 1977, the skateboard park was the first in Canada, only to be deliberately buried underneath six feet of soil and rock, little more than seven years after its creation. The community's reaction against youth skate subculture was marked in time by this physical act of erasure.

The subterranean artifact of the skatepark embodies the Mill Project: an evocative investigation of subcultural identity, dominant ideologies, mythologies, and local history.

Congratulations to 2012 Emily Carr graduates Kristen Campbell and Toan Nguyen who have had their work selected to screen at the TIFF's Student Film Showcase.

Established in 2004 and organized by the Toronto International Film Festival, it is presented in association with Film School Consortium, a national group of 17 colleges and universities. The programme recognizes the nation’s roster of emerging auteurs at one-night-only screenings of the year’s top student films.

The showcase returns to Vancouver for its second year on Saturday, May 26 at Vancity Theatre. Past showcase works have advanced to screen at major festivals around the world.

The 8th Annual Carter Wosk British Columbia Creative Awards for Applied Art and Design is accepting submissions until June 13, 2012.
 

Sessional faculty member Shinsuke Minegishi ('98) will showcase his prints in a solo exhibition, Memory of Existence, at Striped House Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, from June 16 to 30, 2012.