Woodward’s
Over the weekend of Feb. 20, the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival was held at the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema. The event presented highlighted films from HRW’s annual festivals in London and New York.
Through storytelling, the featured films illustrate the reality of human rights abuse in order to evoke empathy and challenge each viewer to demand universal justice.
Surrey
Leader of SFU Surrey’s Digital Health Hub Maryam Sadeghi’s venture, Molescope, won first in the annual Coast Capital Savings Venture Prize competition; the prize for first place is $3,000.
Molescope is an app that helps patients keep track of suspicious moles that could potentially prove to be cancerous. Sadeghi and Molescope also gained recognition this past fall when she was named Student Entrepreneur of the Year 2013.
Vancouver
On Wednesday, Feb. 19, SFU Public Square hosted their monthly “Lunch Poems at SFU.” The noon-hour event featured readings by two noteworthy Canadian poets, Ray Hsu and Joanne Arnott.
Hsu has published over 150 poems and two award-winning books of poetry. He has taught creative writing at the SFU Writer’s studio, as well as in a US prison. Arnott, a Métis writer and activist, published her first, award-winning book of poetry in 1991. She often assesses and judges poetry for prestigious Canadian literary awards.
