Faculty of Culture + Community News

The Vancouver Podcast Festival is coming November 8-10, 2018.

There will be live podcasts and events featuring shows like You Must Remember This, This is That, In the Dark, and The Allusionist, as well as masterclasses on interviewing, sound editing, and writing for audio. Check out the line-up here.

For a limited time, ECU students can get discounts on tickets and passes. To get a $5 discount on evening shows at the Rio, apply this discount code at checkout: VPF2018STT

This can be used for tickets to see Uncover: Escaping NXIVM, You Must Remember This, In the Dark, The Allusionist, and more! Apart from the Allusionist show, all of the Rio shows will present at least two podcasts per show.

Join us as we delve into discussion with our guest panelists surrounding significant job action events across Vancouver’s labour history including: the 2001 Transit Strike, the 2004 HEU Strike, the 2007 Municipal Workers’ Strike (aka Sam’s Strike), and the 2014 BCTF Teacher’s Strike.

Panel discussion will be moderated by Irene Lanzinger, President of BC Federation of Labour, who will engage with panelists around stories, tactics, and historic narratives aimed at the negative framing of specific workers’ resistance movements in Vancouver.

Panelists include: Donisa Bernardo (HEU), Glen Hansman (BCTF), Joe Elworthy (UNIFOR Local 2200), and Aliza Navarie (CUPE 391).

Date: Thursday, January 18, 2018 Time: 7:00 – 9:00pm

Mobilizing the Arts for Community Connection and Change will explore art as a catalyst for sparking community imagination around belonging, trust, and social resiliency in urban centres.

The one day summit will be moderated by Emily Carr Assistant Professor, Justin Langlois, and features presentations from Emily Carr faculty, Zoe Kreye and Holly Schmidt, along with talks and workshops by artists from the wider Vancouver community including: Corey Bulpitt, Alex Grünenfelder, Carmen Papalia and Ayotzi 68. 

We have recently added a new offering, Creative Writing (ENGL 200), as a face-to-face course which is partnered with the On Edge Readings Series, bringing in Canadian writers to share their work. This year’s invited writers include Wayde Compton, Liz Howard (who just won the Griffin Prize this summer), Madeleine Thien, Sharanpal Ruprai, Kayla Czaga, Caroline Adderson, Julie Okot Bitek, Dina Del Bucchia, to name a few.

This is a workshop class that focuses on generating your own creative writing while making connections to your overall practice. Because it is a new addition, we wanted to bring it to your attention. Please help get the word out, so that we can fill the course by next week and make sure it runs.

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Emily Carr recently partnered with Ampri Group, the City of Richmond and Stantec to develop new ways of creating public spaces.

This innovative partnership resulted in a new course, The Social Practice of Public Art + Community Design, aimed at helping emerging artists transition from studio work to the field of public art, while providing them with the skills to interact with stakeholders from business, community and government. With thanks to Khare Communications​, the course has been fully documented, establishing a benchmark for public art/collaborative education that can be widely shared. Watch the trailer and stay tuned for announcements this Fall about screenings.

The Public Art Pollinator Project is a collaborative revitalization initiative to raise awareness of the plight of wild pollinators, empower communities to actively engage in solutions for habitat loss, and transform under-utilized urban sites into aesthetically pleasing and environmentally sustainable spaces that serve as pollinator pastures as well as public spaces. The project is sited in the cities of Richmond and Kelowna and managed through Emily Carr University and the City of Richmond; and UBC Okanagan and the City of Kelowna.

The Howe Sound region of British Columbia is experiencing a remarkable ecological rebirth.  Marine life is returning after decades of low numbers. This recovery is an incredible and all too rare good news story – not just for the residents of the Sound or the urban and tourist centres around it, but also for marine scientists worldwide who want to know more about the dynamics of marine recovery.

Back Gallery Project and Pattison Art in Transit are presenting the anticipated third and final iteration of their Strathcona Billboard Project with Annie Briard’s public art work Any Day Now as part of Capture Photography Festival.

Instructor and MAA alumna Annie Briard ('13) creates moving images and lens-focused work to confront visual perception and the interpretation of what we see. Her practice exploits elements that influence vision including embodiment, reverie, and ocular phenomena. By decontextualizing what the viewer expects of billboards, using the optical recursive void and offering a stereoscopic 3D viewing potential, Any Day Now underlines connections between visual attention, wonder, and possibility.

HELD OVER – Look for Emily Carr student-designed wrapped cars through May 16!

TED, car2go and Emily Carr University of Art + Design’s Faculty of Culture + Community have partnered together to showcase the next league of rising art and design stars with a collaborative vehicle wrap project.

In late February, the University issued and open call to students, resulting in over 40 outstanding submissions. The jury, comprised of  representatives from car2go, TED and Emily Carr, were then challenged with narrowing down the selection to just seven designs.