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The Arts, Culture and Heritage Advisory Committee for the City of Sechelt invite you to a new speaker series, showcasing Robin Mayor, past- president of Emily Carr, former interdisciplinary and painting faculty Geoff Rees, architect IanJohnston, public art curator Lori Phillips and internationally renowned curator, juror and lecturer Keith Wallace.

Seaside Centre
September 17 - October 29, 2011
Saturdays, | 2-4pm

This series is sponsored by the District of Sechelt.

Are you an artist, a revolutionary, an owner? Questions of ownership permeate our culture – sample a sound, claim the East Van sign, remix a logo… Whether you’re an artist playing with images or sound, a coder or an activist, at some point you’ve probably asked yourself whether what you are doing is legal.

The Artists’ Legal Outreach (ALO) in association with New Forms Festival 2011 and W2 Community Media Arts presents Art, Revolution and Ownership, a multidisciplinary exploration of the ideas that inform art and the law. The performances, exhibitions and conversations explore the idea of the public domain, copyright and cultural consumption.

The Fair at the PNE, in partnership with the Port Metro Vancouver, is excited to bring back Container Art for a third year. This year’s expanded Container Art Exhibit will be themed around the Port and our daily lives. Throughout history, ports around the world have been chronicled through works by local artists, so don’t miss this exciting urban, adaptive art exhibit from the most innovative talents of the local artscape. Experience several different and contemporary works displayed through this new internationally acclaimed medium.

Join Associate Professor Randy Lee Cutler at the Vancouver Art Gallery's Surrealism Salon 1 for a talk that explores the surrealist enterprise and its relation to the scientific culture, ideas and methods. The lecture will be followed by an open discussion led by UBC philosophy professor Dominic Lopes.

This is the first in a series of events that are part of the Vancouver Art Gallery's Surrealism study group.

Vancouver Art Gallery
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 |7-9pm

Western Canada's digital media sector will receive a major boost thanks to federal funding through Western Economic Diversification Canada. This investment will help Graphics Animation and New Media NCE Inc. (GRAND) improve technology transfer and research commercialization. The announcement took place at the first annual Design Thinking UnConference held at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, August 19, 2011.

A selection of works by sessional faculty members Howard Ursuliak and Stephen Waddell are included in the group exhibition Spaces of the City at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, running through September 5, 2011.

This exhibition was organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography from works in their collection and presents photographers who have approached the urban landscape through the colour photograph.

Ursuliak and Waddell are represented by the Monte Clark Gallery in Toronto and Vancouver.

Registration for Continuing Studies Fall term is now open.

The second annual issue of Emily Carr's CURRENT design research journal is now available. The issue contains featured sections on sustainability, well-being, interactivity and co-creation.

The journal is designed, edited, produced and marketed by undergraduates in communication design with article contributions from students in both the graduate and undergraduate programs, alumni and faculty. The first of its kind in Canada, CURRENT is available as an annual 48-page printed publication and an accompanying online version.

We welcome new readers and celebrate the beginnings of a communicative venture to challenge the way we imagine process, discern the validation of the designer and explore the ethos of creative intelligence.

Emily Carr University of Art + Design is pleased to announce Barry Patterson will join the organization as Executive Director, Communications, effective August 29, 2011. This newly created role will help to shape and define the University’s brand and build upon the global reputation of the school and the success of its students and alumni.

Patterson is a media veteran with more than 15 years experience working in senior level communications and marketing roles within the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

View the Media Release -Barry Patterson Appointment.

Applied Research projects may include the co-design of new product concepts or processes with local companies, as well as initiatives with public sector organizations that use art and design to foster social change.

Applied Research is conducted in various ways - a class of students will address a research question posed by a company partner. A small research team will be assembled to address the problem. And, sometimes the research question will be the foundation of a graduating student’s thesis project. 

Examples of the research question: