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April 4, 2018By: Alex Bloom Taking place on April 7, the SFU Concert Orchestra will be performing X Part II: Through Space and Time. This comes as the second and final instalment in a series of performances held by the orchestra to celebrate their 10-year anniversary. Held at the Leslie and Gordon Diamond Family Auditorium, doors open at 6:45 p.m. and music will be played from 7–9 p.m. There will be a short intermission, during which light refreshments will be offered. In addition to Mozart and Tchaikovsky, the programme for the night includes music from Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky, as…
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February 17, 2018By: Alex Bloom Black History in a Canadian Context: Panel Discussion SFU Students of Caribbean and African Ancestry and the SFU African Students’ Association will be hosting a truly educational event on February 24. There will be a documentary screening…
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Must-see event: African Descent Evening
October 12, 2017By: Alex Bloom The African Students Association is hosting an African Descent Evening on Friday, October 13 from 6–9 p.m in the Saywell Atrium on Burnaby Campus. The event is centred around the celebration of various African cultures, and everyone…
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Must-see event: Indigenous Day 2K17 Burn the Borders
September 25, 2017By: Alex Bloom This event, put on by the First Nations Student Association, will be taking place on September 28 at SFU’s Convocation Mall. As stated on their Facebook page, the event will be held “on the Unceded Territories of…
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Must-see event: World Naked Bike Ride – Vancouver
July 20, 2017By: Alex Bloom It’s that time of year again: the Vancouver naked bike ride will be held on July 22 at Sunset Beach. There will be activities such as body painting as well as some performances starting at 12 p.m.…
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Must-see event: African Descent Festival
July 16, 2017By: Edna Batengas The African Descent Society British Columbia (ADSBC) is organizing the African Descent Festival. Their mission is to promote the arts and cultures of peoples of African descent living in Vancouver. The festival will run for two days…
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Must-see event: Indian Summer Festival
July 8, 2017By: Alex Bloom Taking place from July 6–15, this year’s festival is themed as “Tales of War and Peace.” It is a celebration of the good that artists of various kinds do in society, as well as of Indian culture…
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Must-see event: Cinema Paradiso at the Rio Theatre
June 15, 2017By: Ana Maria Mejia Morales The Rio is celebrating Italian Heritage Month in Vancouver by bringing the absolutely fantastic Italian film, Cinema Paradiso, to its theatre. In a few words, the film is an ode to film itself and life.…
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Three must-see events this month
May 5, 2017May 19 — Existence as Resistance: Two Spirit Cultural Placeholders in Art, Activism, and Kinship: Artists and activists Jamie Lee Hamilton, Raven John, Tyler Alan Jacobs, and Trevor Blackman-Wulff will be discussing what it means to be Indigenous and queer.…
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