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Rough cut screening of Dima Yassine’s Once Upon a Day in Tahir held at SFU
March 15, 2020by Ben McGuinness, Peak Associate Iraqi writer, filmmaker, and researcher Dima Yassine shared a rough cut of her short documentary Once Upon a Day in Tahir to a crowd at SFU Harbour Centre. The screening was hosted by professor Adel Iskandar (School of Communication) and followed by an open discussion. Before the film, she shared photos of her childhood in Mosul. She hadn’t been home to Iraq in decades, but she decided to book a flight home for September 2019. Just then, a revolution had broken out. She began to tear up, and paused. She explained that the Iraqi people were…
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Coup easily becomes a game night favourite — especially for my dark side
February 22, 2020by Ben McGuinness, Peak Associate The addictive game Coup is part of the growing catalog of inventive, and sometimes conniving, games available. It joins the ranks of other modern classics like The Resistance and Secret Hitler due to how quickly it…
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Inspiring SFU student film Saloon Doors featured at Vancouver Short Film Festival
February 15, 2020by Ben McGuinness, Peak Associate Each year, the Vancouver Short Film Festival shows off the power of short films and Vancouver’s up-and-coming filmmakers at the Vancity Theatre. Amongst this year’s films was Saloon Doors, an exciting short by second year…
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A City Without Artists? talks art space amid the condo race
January 26, 2020by Ben McGuinness, Peak Associate On January 16, SFU Public Square held a meeting in its City Conversations series called “A City Without Artists?” to discuss the challenge of maintaining space for artists in Vancouver. The room was packed with a…
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Coming Up at SFU: January 14–23
January 13, 2020By: Ben McGuinness, Peak Associate Every week there are diverse events, workshops, and lectures available to students across the SFU campuses. We’ve rounded up four upcoming free events that you should definitely check out! Map the System Challenge Mixer Map…
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Celebrating Vancouver Biennale’s most iconic art around Vancouver
January 13, 2020by Ben McGuinness, Peak Associate The Vancouver Biennale is a non-profit whose sometimes beautiful, sometimes absurd artworks have popped up all around Greater Vancouver since its founding in 2004. By collecting donations they are able to hire artists to create…
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SFU PARODY POEMS: “Shall I Compare Thee to a Cloudy Day?”
January 7, 2020Written by Ben McGuinness, Peak Associate Shall I compare thee to a cloudy day? Thou art more dreary and more concrete: Rough weather does slow the bus to the bay, And its capacity is short of seats; Sometime too long…
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The Peak Artist Rewind 2019: The best artists of the year
January 4, 2020By Kitty Cheung, Ben McGuinness, Madeleine Chan, Zach Siddiqui, Juztin Bello, Kim Regala, Nicole Magas, Kelly Chia, Lubaba Mahmud cehryl by Kitty Cheung [caption id="attachment_112556" align="alignnone" width="300"] Screenshot via Instagram[/caption] cehryl is a Hong Kong-born artist whose work is full…
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Along the 95 B-Line: Great hangouts and eateries for students
October 18, 2019By: Ben McGuinness, Peak Associate On the cold plateau of SFU Burnaby, where you can literally see snowy mountain ranges far into the distance, one can feel disconnected from the world by the end of the school day. But for…
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Mx directly confronts racism, diaspora, and the audience at Vancouver Fringe
September 28, 2019By: Ben McGuinness, Peak Associate Winner of the 2019 Fringe New Play Prize, Mx is an intense and intimate play written and featuring Studio 58 graduate Lili Robinson. Having no qualms with confrontation or opaque autobiographical findings, it personifies the…
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