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Su(uuu)per Fragile, an exhibition examining the performative and transformative nature of the domestic space in transition, facilitated through the processes of moving from one living space to another.

Featuring the work of current students and alumni Alex Achtem ('11), Gabi Dao, Jules Francisco, Tobin Gibson, Heidi Kerr, Michaela Mitchell, Avery Nabata ('09), Emilio Rojas and Kathleen Taylor.

November 25 - 27, 2011
Opening Reception | Friday, November 25, 7-10pm
Hours | 7-10pm on Saturday | 4-7pm on Sunday
Unit One, 1545 West 14 Avenue, Vancouver

Emily Carr has partnered with the Vancouver School Board to offer new after-school programs that allow elementary school students to explore the power of dance, visual arts and storytelling with one creative curriculum.

Once a week, 10 Kindergarten and Grade 1 students are joined by five youth leader volunteers from Eric Hamber and an Emily Carr student in an hour long program. The lesson provides students with an extra helping of arts every week.

The programs run from October until early December and have 128 students in kindergarten to Grade 7 enrolled in the arts programs offered in this partnership.

Axis of Light is a joint undertaking by photography students and faculty from Emily Carr's Visual Art + Material Practice and UBC's Fine Arts. Our aim is to bring together works and ideas about what photography is today in the view of visual arts students from both institutions.

The title of the project alludes to the array of directions – pedagogical, technical and conceptual – through which photographers explore the possibilities of that elusive substance common to all our artistic concerns: light. This project is a first attempt to overcome barriers during this challenging and exciting moment in photography where analogue and digital processes intersect, dialogue and art in conflict.

Axis of Light
November 16 to December 3, 2011

“I think, therefore I am.” Is it right to privilege the mind over the body? Third year student Samantha Knopp and Walking Home Projects, invites you to experience the alternative and embrace embodied learning by going into the heart of Vancouver’s beginnings (Gastown, Chinatown and the Downtown East Side). Join Samantha as she highlights the tangible layers of history and the contestations that surround their physicality. Drawing upon her interests in three-dimensional representation, the walk will invite viewers to share their experiences as they interact with the marks of the past, present and future.

Opus Art Supplies is a long supporter of Emily Carr students by establishing a bursary endowment and providing fabulous door prizes during Emily Carr’s Foundation Orientation Day. In addition, Opus now offers digital printing services at their Granville Island store, with special pricing for Emily Carr students with a valid Emily Carr photo ID.

Current fourth year student Emilio Rojas was selected to perform in the 12th Annual Visualeyez, Canada’s annual performance art festival, running  from September 13 to 18, 2011. Curated by Todd Janes, the six-day festival takes place at Latitude 53 and around downtown Edmonton. This year, the festival’s curatorial theme is worship—exploring facets of devotion, adoration, ceremony, obsession and the performance ritual itself.

The U-Pass BC program is an integrated comprehensive transportation package that provides students in Metro Vancouver with universal, accessible and affordable access to public transit and other sustainable transportation programs. It is a mandatory program for all members of the Emily Carr University Student Union and costs $30.00 per month ($120 per semester). The program was approved via student referendum in October 2010.

The U-Pass BC fee for the fall semester is $120. Your tuition and U-Pass BC fee must be paid before a U Pass BC can be issued.

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The impetus for this exhibition was an undergraduate seminar held at Emily Carr in the spring of 2011. The aim of the class was to explore histories of cartography and theories of mapping in order to consider the diverse ways contemporary artists draw from these visual and spatial languages to imagine, inform, or incite. During the semester, it became strikingly clear that many of the issues discussed in class resonated with the students’ established artistic practices. To culminate the seminar, and in response to the ideas debated and shared, each participant undertook his or her own mapping project, which are exhibited together here.

4th year student Bracken Hanuse Corlett, co-founder of the Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival invites you to the VIMAF Kickstarter Party in celebration of National Aboriginal Day, (today, June 21) and in honour of Aboriginal History Month. Featuring:

The Quirky Elephant concept was born out of the joint partnership between Pacific Centre/Cadillac Fairview and Emily Carr University of Art + Design.