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Need to Know, Need to Go: January 18–24
January 16, 2021By: Sara Wong, Arts & Culture Editor Artist in Residence: Dory Xu | Our Town Cafe | 8 a.m.–8 p.m. everyday until mid-Feb. | Free Located in Mount Pleasant, Our Town Cafe is a coffee shop that’s also home to a vegetarian pop-up restaurant, Plant Me, as well as community arts programs. Their current resident artist is creator of #pantonechallenge2020, Dory Xu, also known as @bigbluetang on social media. In an Our Town Cafe Instagram post, Xu describes herself as “an artist with a love for gouache paint and an uncanny resemblance to Nemo’s friend.” Her work is free to…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: January 11–17
January 11, 2021By: Sara Wong, Arts & Culture Editor Universal University? On Space and Inclusion in Higher Education | January 12, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. | Zoom | Free with registration SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and Centre for Comparative…
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Need to Know, Need to Go – October 19 to 25
October 18, 2020By: Meera Eragoda, Arts & Culture Editor Simon Fraser Student Societies (SFSS) Events | October 19–23 | Free The SFSS is hosting a string of events this week. They’re starting off with a mental health workshop on Monday — perfectly…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: July 15-19
July 17, 2019Tess Liem and Guests at Massy Books July 18 Massy Books is a bookstore at East Georgia and Main St. that puts on (and supports) a lot of really unique and interesting literary events, from book launches to poetry readings,…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: July 8-12
July 8, 2019By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor Indian Summer Festival at Woodward’s, July 9 and 10 The Indian Summer Festival, of which SFU is a founding partner, runs annually at the beginning of July and features both local and international South Asian…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: July 1–5
July 1, 2019By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor FIC Art Exhibit on Mental Health, July 2-5 On Tuesday, July 2, the Fraser International College is hosting an opening reception for their art exhibition, Breaking the Silence: Reflecting on Mental Health. The event is…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: June 17-21
June 17, 2019By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor Final Summer SFU Lunch Poems at the Teck Gallery Once a month, the Teck Gallery at Harbour Centre is transformed into a poet’s cafe. Two local artists are brought in by SFU Vancouver on the third…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: June 10-14
June 10, 2019By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor We are by which we are moved in return by MACHiNENOiSY This dance performance explores what movement means in today’s geological age, where human activity dominates the global environment — otherwise known as the anthropocene.…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: June 3–7
June 1, 2019By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor Reel Causes: Because We Are Girls Update: Check out our review of the film and evening here. This week, Reel Causes — a film society dedicated to promoting and screening films for social justice and…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: May 27-31
May 26, 2019By: Marco Ovies, Peak Associate, Winona Young, Head Staff Writer, and Alison Wick, Arts Editor Trottier Observatory Starry Nights If you ever wanted to learn more about space, look no further than Starry Nights at the SFU Trottier Observatory on…
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