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SFU’s artistic history comes to life in A Magical Time

Peak Web May 22, 2025

By: Kyla Wane, SFU Student One step onto SFU’s Burnaby campus, and the word “prison” comes to mind. However, the campus’ grey walls and bleak buildings hold a rich cultural history. A Magical Time: The Early Days of the Arts at Simon Fraser University is a publication multi-authored by writers affiliated with the university. Filled with information and illustrations to show the dawn of SFU’s artistic period, it explores the decade following the university’s establishment in 1965. As SFU celebrates its 60th anniversary in September, A Magical Time pays tribute to and captures the early years of its vibrant campus…

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SFU writer in residence Anosh Irani launches his latest novel

EIC September 19, 2016

September 13 was SFU world literature’s writer in residence Anosh Irani’s book launch for The Parcel, hosted at the Vancouver Film School Café. It was a big turnout, with every seat in the café filled with close friends and family…

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Nightwood Editions launches four new poetry collections

EIC November 9, 2015

At the Lost + Found cafe on Hastings street on November 1, Canadian publisher Nightwood Editions launched four poetry collections by emerging Canadian writers. Copies of the four titles were sold by Pulpfiction Books. Silas White, publisher of Nightwood Editions,…

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