General Lectures & Workshops

Looking to get away? Presented at the Shatford Centre (Penticton, BC) in partnership with the Okanagan School of the Arts, this program is ideal for students to explore fundamental aspects of drawing, with a particular focus on life drawing. Students will explore drawing media, technique, observational recording, and compositional organization, as well as develop skills in drawing the human figure. This program culminates in an all-day instructor-led Open Studio, allowing students to focus on specific projects or techniques, while receiving individual feedback and support.

This intensive workshop is ideal for beginner and intermediate artists - those looking to immerse themselves in a creative learning environment at the Shatford Centre, in Penticton, BC.

The Best of Ottawa programme showcases many audience favorites and award winners from the OIAF Official Competition. This year's highlights include Carlo Vogele's tragicomic Una Furtiva Lagrima, Hisko Hulsing's stunning grand-prize winner Junkyard, and the hilarious crowd-favourite, I Am Tom Moody.

Proceeds from the screening will go towards a scholarship to fund an Emily Carr animation student to attend the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 2013.

Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2012
Saturday, March 16, 7:30-9:30pm | Doors open at 7pm
Lecture Theatre, Room 301 | South Building

Please join us for a screening of Coast Modern, an independent documentary by directors Mike Bernard and Gavin Froome. Travelling along the Pacific North West coastline from LA to Vancouver, the film showcases the pioneers of West Coast Modernist Architecture, and the homes that have become their legacies.

Raymond Boisjoly is an aboriginal artist of Haida and Québécois descent based in Vancouver, BC. His practice engages the representation of Aboriginality through vernacular materials, photography and especially text-based work combining contemporary craft, pop references and street art with various cultural signifiers of traditional Northwest Coast imagery. His talk will consider the varied intersections of history, technology, and cultural practice as the central concern of his current work at the beginning of his residency at the Burrard Marina Fieldhouse and in conjunction with the presentation of two new commissions at the Contemporary Art Gallery.

**Please note: This event is Sold Out.

Spurred by concerns of sustainability, designers have been redefining design. New theories and ways of working have been emerging internationally over the past few years. Professor Anne Chick will discuss these important emerging territories of design and how they address larger societal challenges.

Chick, after 10 years in design practice, became an academic to focus upon in the 'Design for Sustainability' agenda. She is author of numerous journal papers, book chapters and two books; The Graphic Designer's Greenbook (1992), and Design for Sustainable Change (2011). She was also an expert advisor to the Design Museum for their Sustainable Futures travelling exhibition (2010).

DOC BC, British Columbia Film + Media and Emily Carr are co-sponsoring internationally renowned author, speaker and story consultant Fernanda Rossi to host a full day workshop for filmmakers to help make their fundraising film trailer all that it can be.

Please join us on November 15 (previously scheduled for November 22) for the final presentation of the AHIS 333 Interdisciplinary Forums course on the theme of mashup. Artist Kyla Mallett and Librarian Larissa Beringer will discuss their thoughts and observations on the archive as a core resource for generating mashup type projects and events.

The World is My Archive Panel
Lecture Theatre, Room 301 | North Building

This event is free and open to the public.

The TD Speaker Series presents Nora Bateson lecture and film screening An Ecology of Mind: A Daughter’s Portrait of Gregory Bateson.

Nora Bateson is a media producer and educator based in Vancouver. Her work includes documentaries, multimedia productions, magazine columns, and developing curriculum for elementary and high school students. Central to all her pursuits is the idea of utilizing media and storytelling to encourage cultural understanding, social justice, and environmental awareness.

Los Angeles-based artist Allan Sekula is a renowned photographer, theoretician, and critic. Using film, photography and text Sekula focuses on economic systems and the conditions of workers in the global maritime market.

Allan Sekula was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1951. He studied at the University of California in San Diego from 1968 to 1972 with Herbert Marcuse, among others. He lives and works as an artist and photo theoretician in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.