Past Events

May 28, 2010 Cultural Research Salon

Negotiating Space: A Dialogue with Artists in the Community
Simon Fraser University
Room 1600 – Harbour Centre Campus

Presenters:
Laurynas Navidauskas and Jan Marontate (School of Communication, SFU), Elvy Del-Bianco (Arts Project, Vancity), Valerie Arntzen and Jeffrey Boone (Eastside Culture Crawl Society) and artists featured in a video about studio space (including Jane Wolsak, Maureen Sugrue, Richard Tetrault, and Elizabeth Barnes).

This salon presents research on creative workspaces in Vancouver undertaken in the past year by Laurynas Navidauskas, Jan Marontate and Elvy Del-Bianco with the collaboration of Valerie Arntzen (past executive director of the Eastside Crawl Society), Sandy Penn (former board member) and other participants in the Eastside Culture Crawl, including 10 artists featured in videotaped interviews in their studios.

The Eastside Culture Crawl is an annual event in which more than 300 artists open their studios to the public that celebrates the culture and creativity of communities in this neighbourhood. However, the landscape is changing as gentrification and increasing development in the downtown areas of Vancouver have impacted studio space availability and price. To maintain this cultural enclave in the heart of the city artists need to be able to work in studios that are functional and allow their creative process to unfold. The salon will focus on insights about how artists work to foster a creative community, and on their innovative strategies to maintain studio space and create art.

Following the Salon, there will be a screening of the entire video in the presence of the videographer, Laurynas Navidauskas in HC 1600. This project was made possible through support from Vancity and board member Bob Williams, the federal government of Canada’s MITACS Accelerate Internship Program and the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University.

March 22, 2010 Community Outreach

Cultural Mapping and Creative City Strategies: Address to the BC Creative City Workshop on Cultural Planning and Cultural Mapping, Surrey, BC

November 30, 2009 Community Outreach

Creative Regina: Realizing the Creative and Collaborative City. Notes for an Address at the University of Regina, Centre for Humanities’ Creative Conversations Roundtable

November 6, 9 and 10, 2009

Cultural Work Series:

Dawn Bennett, Surviving in the arts: Artists, success, and sustainable careers
Stuart Cunningham, Innovation and the Digital Creative Economy: why it may be strategic to link cultural and creative industries to national innovation systems policy
Ann Markusen, The Artistic Dividend: Urban Artistic Specialization and Economic Development In Recessionary Times

July 14, 2009 Cultural Research Salon

Australian NSW works committee: a study of cultural infrastructure in the Vancouver Region

May 20, 2009 Cultural Research Salon

Public Lecture

Annette Kuhn, Professor of Film Studies, Queen Mary, University of London

May 8, 2009 Cultural Research Salon

Doug Worts Salon: Culture in the Winds of Change

April 27, 2009 Community Outreach

Rhetoric and Reality about the Creative Economy: Prospects for Museums? Fellows Lecture for the Canadian Museum Association. Royal York Hotel, Toronto, ON

April 24, 2009 Cultural Research Salon

Arts, Health, Seniors Event

Co-Hosted with Vancouver Parks and Recreation

April 21, 2009 Community Outreach

Post-Post Nationalism: Identity Projects, Politics and the Creative Economy Turn Notes for a Luncheon Address to the Canadian Heritage and Canada Council for the Arts Policy Research Conference Identity, Culture, Belonging and Trans-nationalism Canadian War Museum. Toronto, ON

April 3, 2009 Cultural Research Salon

CMNS 433/855 Cultural Policy Salon: a research presentation by students

June 27, 2008 Cultural Research Salon

W2: Community Media Arts
2:00 to 4:00 PM (Room 7000)

Opening in September 2009, W2 will be a community arts centre unlike anything in Canada, offering quality arts opportunities for the Downtown Eastside (DTES) and Vancouver residents through a range of programs, resources and activities.

W2 is planned as a 12,500 square foot facility, providing a vibrant complementary focal point in the Woodwards’ redevelopment, and a flagship project in the City's revitalization of the DTES. Please join us to discuss this exciting new project!

Presenter(s):

Irwin Oostindie, Executive Director, Gallery Gachet
and other representatives from W2 Community Media Arts

W2 Presentation

May 30, 2008 Cultural Research Salon

Cultural Facilities for the Future
What will they look like? Who will they serve? How will they be built?
2:00 to 4:00 PM (Room 7000)

Presenter:

Jacquie Gijssen, Senior Cultural Planner, Office of Cultural Affairs, City of Vancouver

Visit the City of Vancouver's Office of Cultural Affairs website for more information on Cultural Facilities for the Future: The Cultural Facilities Priority Plan.

March 28, 2008 Cultural Research Salon

Our Creative Future: Rethinking the Cultural Landscape
1:00 to 4:00 PM (Room 1425)

In the next Cultural Research Salon, SFU Professor Alison Beale's Communication 433 – Cultural Policy class will discuss their research on issues related to urban cultural practices and cultural infrastructure, from hip hop venues to bookstores as cultural spaces.

February 29, 2008 Cultural Research Salon

Building Inclusive Creative Spaces
2:00 to 4:00 PM (Room 2510)

Moderator:

Terry Hunter, Executive Director, Vancouver Moving Theatre; Executive Artistic Producer, DTES Heart of the City Festival

Presenters:

Irwin Oostindie, Executive Director, Gallery Gachet (Vancouver)
Hazen J. Sise, Senior Architect, Walter Francl Architecture; Founder, plank vancouver (arts infrastructure development)

January 25, 2008 Cultural Research Salon

Creative Spaces for the Future
2:00 to 4:00 PM (Room 1315)

Presenters:

Mark Pickersgill, Planner, Corporation of Delta; Vancouver based music journalist
Jesse Scott, New media artist and curator (Vancouver)
Renee Crawford and Heather Stack, Co-founders/directors, The Whitehouse Night Gallery and Whitehouse Productions (Kelowna)

November 30, 2007 Cultural Research Salon

Waking Up the Neighbours: Cultural Venues and their Neighbours
2:00 to 4:00 PM (Room 2065 Diamond Alumni Lounge)

Presenters:

Mark Pickersgill, Planner, Corporation of Delta; Live Music Editor, Streethawk Magazine – Presentation
Margaret Watts, Supervisor of Recreation Services, Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre

November 2, 2007 Cultural Research Salon

Evolving Contexts for Provincial Cultural Policy
2:00 to 4:00 PM (Room 2065 Diamond Alumni Lounge)

Presenter:

Monica Gattinger (University of Ottawa)

September 28, 2007 Cultural Research Salon

Building Community Cultural Capacities
2:00 to 4:00 PM (Room 2065 Diamond Alumni Lounge)

Presenters:

Judith Marcuse (International Centre for Art and Social Change)
Kamala Todd, Diana Leung, and others (Storyscapes)

June 29, 2007 Cultural Research Salon

Arts, Artists and Aging
2:00 to 4:00 PM (Room 2065 Diamond Alumni Lounge)

Presenters:

Juan Solorzano (Vancouver Park Board) and Elaine Moody (UBC School of Nursing)
Arts, Health and Seniors Project – Presentation
Jane Heyman and David H.Y. Louie – Performing Arts Lodge (PAL) Vancouver

Related:
Margaret Lam produced a radio documentary on the Arts, Health and Seniors Project at Strathcona Community Centre which aired on the CBC program North by Northwest. To listen to the documentary, please follow this link: www.cbc.ca/nxnw/performance.html

April 27, 2007 Cultural Research Salon

Cultural facilities and spaces across Canada: Community impacts and changing needs
2:00 to 4:00 PM (Room 2065 Diamond Alumni Lounge)

Presenters:

Kelsey Johnson and Erin Schultz, Cultural facilities and spaces case study team (Centre of expertise on culture and communities) – handout | speaking notes
jil p. weaving (Arts and Culture Office, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation)

March 30, 2007 Cultural Research Salon

Enhancing cultural life / quality of life in the DTES
12:30 to 5:00 PM (Room 1700)

A Super Salon presented by the SFU School of Communication with the participation of the Creative City Network of Canada's Centre of expertise on culture and communities (CECC).

Schedule of speakers