Academic Events

Events this Week

Monday, August 30th - Saturday, September 18th

Transformation and Memory – Endangered Spaces Exhibition
Doris Auxier, Associate Professor of Art, TWU; Jeff R. Warren, Assistant Professor of Music, TWU; Suzanne Northcott

Time: Monday - Saturday 12:00 - 5:00 pm
Location: Evergreen Cultural Centre, 1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam

Doris Hutton Auxier's two groups of work include a series of paintings of small pieces of sphagnum and other organic material isolated and expanded to fill entire canvases, and a mixed media series called Insertions and Intrusions that address the uneasy sociopolitical issues that surround the protected areas of Colony Farm and the Langley Bog.
The photography and paintings of Suzanne Northcott investigate how things are reflected in each other to expose or transform memory and nature. For example, she photographs original furnishings from Riverview (hospital gurney, stool) in select areas at Colony Farm. By doing so, Northcott links these histories and allows the viewer to contemplate their relationship and the often “inarticulatible” space in between.
Addressing concerns surrounding acoustic ecology, Jeff R. Warren’s site-specific sound installation examines the effects of music and sound on ecosystems. A live interactive soundscape created using drops of water allows viewers to alter the sounds by interacting with the piece.

To read the story in TWU News click here.  For more information on the exhibit and the artist statements click here to go to the Evergreen Cultural Centre webpage.

Coming Academic Events

Thursday, September 16th

Faculty Pro-D Workshop
Brander (Bear) McDonald, Connections First Nations Consulting - "Understanding First Nations Culture & Students"

Time: 1:10 - 2:20 pm
Location: Alumni Hall, 2nd floor, Reimer Student Centre

Brander (Bear) McDonald is a Cree First Nation TWU graduate who manages Connections First Nations Consulting based in Chilliwack, BC.  His goal is to "assist individuals, agencies, businesses, corporations and service providers; with a working understanding of First Nations worldviews, values and belief systems."

Brander will discuss basic cross cultural aspects of First Nations culture, consider groupings of first nation peoples (traditionalist, new traditionalist, lost, assimilated, churched), the role the church has played--for good or bad--among First Nations people, and the basics of building non-exploitive relationships and community among native peoples.  Brander is being invited in recognition of this year's initiative, out of the Provost office, to consider TWU's current and future potential as a global community.

Refreshments will be provided.

Thursday, September 30th - Friday, October 1st

SAMC Conference - Arts and Genesis
Keynote Speaker - Bruce Ellis Benson, Wheaton College

Time: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Location: TBA

Debate over the nature of artistic creation has, at times, rivalled and paralleled debates about the creation of the world. This conference seeks to explore the web of topics surrounding the term genesis, including: the generation of artistic theory and praxis; the origin of art as a concept; the nativity of individual art works; and the creative process.

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