General Lectures & Workshops

Join us for a talk by LA based writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus.

Kraus is an important figure in contemporary literature and art criticism, whose works range from experimental prose to close readings of contemporary art and its contexts. She is the author of the novels Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick, and Torpor, as well as Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness and Where Art Belongs, all published by Semiotext(e). A Professor of Writing at European Graduate School, she writes for various magazines and lives in Los Angeles.

Emily Carr is pleased to present Vince Aletti and Frank Horvat in conversation.

Michael Fukushima, Producer at the Animation Centre, NFB Headquarters in Montreal, will give a presentation on Hothouse, the twelve-week paid apprenticeship in full-on professional animation filmmaking as part of Get Animated!

Michael will give a talk about Hothouse, the annual national competition for a "twelve-week paid apprenticeship in full-on professional animation filmmaking" at the Animation Studio in Montreal. Also in attendance will be Carrie Mombourquette (’11), Paula Gillgannon (’99), and Jody Kramer (’06), previous participants of Hothouse and Emily Carr alumni. They will give their perspectives and share experiences about their apprenticeships in Montreal.

Please join us for the second public talk in the Crepuscular CRCP Speaker Series.

Pelan Tan is an academic, writer and curator based in Istanbul involved in research-based artistic and architectural projects that focus on urban conflict and territorial politics, gift economy, the condition of labour and mixed methods in research. She was a research/curatorial resident at IASPIS (Stockholm) and GeoAir (Tbilisi) and has worked as a guest curator at Witte de With (Rotterdam).

Tan has curated Knut Asdam and Radical Aesthetics at DEPO (Istanbul), Energy Room – an archive of public art at santralistanbul as well as Innocent Act, StudyoKAHEM, an architectural research project at the 10th Istanbul Biennial.

A talk by cultural critic, author and performance artist Jeanne Randolph will take place as part of the Crepuscular - CRCP Lecture Series.

Crepuscular is a small series of talks by artists and curators who engage with various genres of writing including art criticism, scholarly forms, fiction, creative non-fiction etc.

The Critical + Cultural Practice Major at Emily Carr University of Art + Design allows students engaged in writing and other textual productions to develop their studio practice while exploring the importance of art history, theory, and criticism to their creative practices.

The Faculty of Graduate Studies hosts their annual Graduate Studies Information Day, Saturday, September 29.

The session will begin promptly at 9:30am in Room 281, North Building, (please arrive 5-10 minutes in advance to allow time to locate the room). Attendees are welcome to remain for a tour with a current MAA student after the information session has concluded. Prospective students who would also like to have their portfolio reviewed by Faculty from the program are welcome to return after lunch for a scheduled interview. Please RSVP to gradoffice@ecuad.ca to schedule an interview.

 9:30-10:30am | Information Session

10:30-11:30am | Tour

Emily Carr Lecture Theatre - Room 301
Free and open to the public

In this talk Jonathan Taggart shares images and experiences from his long-term project documenting lives and livelihoods in remote Indigenous spaces in Canada, from the reserves of British Columbia's In-SHUCK-ch Nation to the network of frozen riverways of the Northwest Territories' Inuvialuit.

Jonathan Taggart is an award-winning photojournalist based in Vancouver. His work is a blend of visual narrative and social inquiry, focused on the movement of people in neocolonial space, towards isolated communities and under remote economies.

Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur? The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success? Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures.

Startup Weekend provides an unprecedented level of networking, team building, learning, and life changes for its attendees and their communities. Sometimes a company emerges, sometimes one doesn’t, but every time people leave with more experience, insight, knowledge, friends, and resources than they came with.

Why should you get involved?

Join Emily Carr instructor and artist Elizabeth MacKenzie at Mountain View Cemetery's beautiful Celebration Hall on Saturday, June 9, 2012, from 11am to 1pm for a free come-and-go workshop, Tracing Memory: Memorial Pinprick Drawings. Bring along a photocopy of a face you would like to memorialize (no smaller than 2", no larger than 4" wide) or draw from images available on site.

Mountain View Cemetery
Celebration Hall
5445 Fraser Street, Vancouver BC

The cemetery is located between 31st and 43rd Avenue and Fraser, entrance is at 39th Avenue.