Katie Walkley

This is a photo taken at the Report on the Thing exhibition
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SFU artists bend reality in Report on the Thing exhibit

Peak Web July 24, 2025

By: Katie Walkley, Peak Associate From July 3–26, the Audain Gallery is displaying six SFU artists’ works inspired by Clarice Lispector’s short postmodern text, Report on the Thing (1974). Her story questions the way we define categories and split things that are part of a larger whole. To illustrate her point, she discusses how her digital clock divides time, which, in reality, is “immutable.” Her topic of refuting labels is extremely difficult to write about since words themselves are inherently labels. So, through visual art, SFU students Constance Arden, Caroline Chernega, Chelsea MacKay, Carlo Marchet, Taha Saraei, and Kaleb Thiessen…

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This is an illustration of the Eastside Arts Festival, with rows of tents of vendors selling crafts and artistic goods while some festival-goers paint on a canvas
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The return of the Eastside Arts Festival

Peak Web July 14, 2025

By: Katie Walkley, Peak Associate Sometimes, walking along downtown Vancouver makes me feel like a tourist in my own city, especially as I pass by the many interesting shops, artistic expressions, and the general beauty of the city all around.…

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Two boxers representing SFU and UBC beefing it out on an sfu rooftop
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SFU vs. UBC: The renewed rivalry

Peak Web July 14, 2025

By: Katie Walkley, Peak Associate It was still light out at 8:32 p.m., and I felt unstoppable. I’m not proud of what I did, but it had to be done.  I revived the rivalry between SFU and UBC.  I’d been…

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Joy Johnson and a raccoon thoroughly enjoying SFU’s newest installation of moving sidewalks inside of blusson hall. There are signs pointing to the upper bus loop and to Renaissance.
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A call for revolution (and moving sidewalks) at blusson hall

Peak Web July 7, 2025

By: Katie Walkley, Peak Associate HEAR YE, HEAR YE! SFU storm bringers, we have gone on too long walking immeasurable distances from class to class. We are made to feel like hobbits trekking to Mount Doom when we should be…

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It is an illustration of a girl sitting on a patch of grass staring into the night sky full of stars and other astronomical objects
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Monday Music: Songs to aid your astral journey

Peak Web July 3, 2025

By: Katie Walkley, SFU Student Doing nothing should be considered as a human need just as important as eating or sleeping. To ease you into a camaraderie with your mind through the art of staring off into space, I have…

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A WWE ring put on a grassy field/farm. The WrestleMania Pitt Meadows illustration should be hanging from the top of the image, over the ring. Inside should be John Cena and a hillbilly looking farmer getting ready to square up.
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Pitt Meadows saves WrestleMania 42

Peak Web July 1, 2025

By: Katie Walkley, SFU student This week, WWE fans of British Columbia are celebrating with more fervour than Hulk Hogan flexing his win against Andre the Giant at WrestleMania 3. I know there are lots of peace-loving pumpkins out there…

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A girl with her face painted blue crouching down in her washroom. Next to her is a speaker.
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Facebook Dating solves the issues with modern romance

Peak Web June 27, 2025

By: Katie Walkley, SFU Student In our modern era, staying single has become an appealing option. I count my blessings every day I don’t have to be married by age 14 like my foremothers. My romantic interactions are limited to…

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Cher and Future perched upon a white set of stairs in a white abyss. Both have their mouths open, indicating they are singing.
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Don’t get too curious, but Cher and Future may have saved the world

Peak Web June 16, 2025

By: Katie Walkley, SFU student Equality. Empathy. Fairness. Before 2017, a society based on these ideals seemed like a far-off dream. Luckily, we were saved by our feminist icon Cher and the revolutionary rap star Future. This iconic duo came…

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