Calendar of Potential Events and Topics 

SCA Events and Possible Topics

Theatre Directing Projects FPA 450 (prof Steven Hill) : There will be 8 to 10 one act plays presented late October through to the end of the semester. 9:30 to 12:20 Monday and Wednesday but there will be a flurry of rehearsals all semester, evenings and weekends and evening performances.

Pegah Tabassinejad’s Directing Project, Nov 10 and 11, 2011

Also a devising/collaboration course in tandem with one of Rob Kitsos’ course. That’s FPA 253/352 Monday and Wednesday 2:30-5:20.

Dance FPA 327 – (Repertory Class) (prof Judith Gary) will be doing in class studio showings the last week of semester.

FPA 247 Electroacoustic Music, Performance 240/340 (Prof Martin Gotfrit)

Dance Technique (Marla Eist) If you do have a student interested in recording dance tech. they would also have to get permission from the accompanist as well.

Installation Class with Allyson Clay may have some off site projects

Music Area: Reading Sessions and the semester-end concert that is born from the Reading Sessions.

Each semester, we create an ensemble of professional musicians for whom the students then write music. All of the music written is played by the musicians in three Reading Sessions – where the strengths and weaknesses of their composition become evident. Then, the students have two/three weeks to re-write what doesn’t work and then they submit their piece for consideration for the concert. If their piece is chosen, it is rehearsed and performed by the ensemble in the concert. Your student(s) could follow 2 or 3 of the composers and, with luck, they may have chosen one who’s piece gets picked for the concert. Either way, there’s a drama that unfolds as the student prepares for the Reading Session, goes through it, prepares for the concert presentation, submits it and – if it gets picked – then their piece goes through a full series of rehearsals resulting in an evening performance in the World Art Studio by professional musicians.

The Reading Sessions this semester are all Thursday mornings – from 9:30-12:20 – and each piece gets approximately 20 minutes of reading time. The Reading Session dates are November 3, 10 and 17. The concert is December 1 at 8:00 PM in world art. All the rehearsals haven’t been set yet, but one will be 9:30-12:20 on December 1 in the morning. We can choose, in advance, which day of the three days these pieces will be read on. (They get only one reading for each student.) So, there’s enough time to really plan this but there’s nothing assured in the outcome, so there’s lots of drama still to come!

The ensemble this semester is: flute, alto saxophone, trombone and double bass.

Reading Sessions have been part of our music program since 1982. They are such a successful pedagogical approach that other schools are now doing them, too.

Art and Culture First encounter with interdisciplinary studies in the arts (FPA 111, Mondays 6:30-8:20) taught by Laura Marks

Grappling with concepts and methods for Interdisciplinary Research (FPA 310/811, Wednesdays 5:30-8:20) taught by Laura Marks

Mainstage Theatre: Angela Ferriera: The Last Seven Words of Fernando Pesoa

Oct 26 to 29, Nov. 1 to 5th.

Special Events:

-Festival of Site-Specific Interventions sfusitespecificfestival@gmail.com 

-Book launch Please join us for a reception to celebrate the publication of Dr. Denise Oleksijczuk’s The First Panoramas: Visions of British Imperialism.

Oct 27, 5 – 7pm Audain Gallery: Book launch

The First Panoramas is a cultural history of the first three decades of a new 360-degree visual medium patented by the artist Robert Barker in Britain in 1787. Barker’s new technology consisted of a huge rotunda inside which spectators gazed from a central platform at a 10,000-square-foot painting. With the mechanisms used for producing the optical illusion concealed from sight, the panorama was designed to make observers feel as if they were standing in the middle of a vast landscape that extended for miles in all directions. A tremendously popular entertainment that spread quickly throughout Europe and the United States, the panorama was a form of embodied, immersive, vicarious travel. Oleksijczuk demonstrates the complexity of the panorama’s history and cultural impact, exploring specific exhibits and reconstructing the relationships between the paintings, their printed guidebooks, and the experiences of different audiences.

Community Engagement Events: 

A number of cultural events will be up on the SFU Woodward’s website, but a few related to community engagement include:

-September 22nd – 7-9pm – Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema – Kai Nagata – Is TV News Journalism Salvageable?

-October 26th – 6:30-9:00pm – Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema – Solutions to Homelessness in Metro Vancouver

-(recommended by Am) Glen Coulthard’s talk ‘Recognition, Reconciliation and Resentment in Indigenous Politics’ on November 16th – prior to the Audain Gallery opening later that night:

http://sfuwoodwards.ca/index.php/events/details/recognition-reconciliation-and-resentment-in-indigenous-politics

-(recommended by Am)Veda Hill and Annabel Vaughan – Songs of the False Creek Flats – on November 23rd in the World Art Centre:

http://sfuwoodwards.ca/index.php/events/details/songs-of-the-false-creek-flats

for more info: Am Johal, Community Engagement Coordinator

Vancity Office of Community Engagement

SFU Woodwards Cultural Unit

778-782-8830

Cultural Unit Events

Audain Gallery: http://sfuwoodwards.ca/index.php/audain/

-next Audain Resident Elke Krasny: 

Mapping the Everyday: Neighbourhood Claims for the Future

November 17, 2011 – February 25, 2012

Opening: Wednesday, November 16, 7:00 pm

This process-oriented exhibition is a collaborative project between the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC), the art collective desmedia, the visiting artist Elke Krasny, and the Audain Gallery. Presented as a text-based “horizon line” across the walls of the gallery, the exhibition is a visual mapping of the demands and aspirations of the DEWC community. These demands, both current and historical, address issues of poverty, violence and insecurity, social exclusion, the deferral of rights, and the legacy of colonialism.

During the exhibition, the gallery will function as a platform and meeting ground for the production and exchange of different forms of knowledge. The “horizon line” will be a framing device and backdrop for a series of events, including a workshop on the making of button-blankets, a theoretically informed seminar, a discussion on the negotiation of an archive, and the building of a library for the DEWC.

With important participation from the community, Mapping the Everyday examines the possibilities for and consequences of community-based political activity as articulated within artistic and institutional practices.

Audain Gallery SFU Woodward’s

-Late November – Ghosts of Violence Ballet, Dec. 1, 2, 3. 7:30 pm 

-December – Bah Humbug