Emily Carr Speaker Series

A Talk That Will Possibly Make You Laugh and Make You Cry, Hopefully Both At the Same Time

Presented in conjunction with Comedown, a show of new work by Jon Sasaki at  Access Artist Run Centre from September 11 - October 30, 2010.

Emily Carr Lecture Theatre (SB, Room 301)

Paul Chaat Smith is a Comanche author, essayist, and curator. His books and exhibitions focus on the contemporary landscape of American Indian politics and culture.

Smith joined the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in 2001, where he currently serves as Associate Curator. His projects include the NMAI’s history gallery, performance artist James Luna’s Emendatio at the 2005 Venice Biennial, Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian (2008), and Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort (2009).

Alex Steffen has been the Executive Editor of Worldchanging since he co-founded the organization in 2003, as the next phase in a lifetime of work exploring ways of building a better future. 

Emily Carr University, in partnership with Yishu Journal of Contemporary Art is pleased to invite you to the screening of a documentary "From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Contemporary Chinese art in the 1980s."

Emily Carr caps off a this year’s Speaker Series with a presentation by Calgary-based animator and filmmaker, Cam Christiansen. Cam's presentation entitled, "Adventures in Indie Digital Film Making," will trace the evolution and making of anlanda digital studio. He will look at past work and show the "behind the scenes" of his latest projects in development and share the challenges and technological benefits of being an director/animator in 2010.

Ryan Trecartin | April 1, 2010 at 6pm
South Building Lecture Hall, Room 301

Introductory performance by Frederick Cummings, accompanied by James Diamond

South Building Lecture Hall, Room 301

Emily Carr continues its Speaker Series with Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Director of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, in an exciting conversation with Sadira Rodrigues, an independent curator and Director of Emily Carr Continuing Studies.

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.

South Building Lecture Hall - Room 301

Edgar Heap of Birds is known internationally for his interventions in public spaces that bear witness to the invisible histories that are indelibly linked to a place, particularly histories concerning indigenous peoples. Free and open to the public. Co-presentation with Malaspina Printmakers.