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SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs ends amid budget cuts
June 29, 2024By: Hannah Fraser, News Writer SFU’s recent ongoing layoffs have impacted “nearly 100 employees, including instructors, administrative support staff, and custodial workers across all three campuses,” according to the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS). Following the layoffs, the Woodward’s Cultural Programs were cut after 15 years of running. The program’s website was taken down on June 19. Since 2010, the programs have been “involved with over 200 events each year, focusing on contemporary arts, dance, theatre, cinema, and music.” They were once described as “a catalyst for the creation of new work,” where the Woodward’s team would commission and facilitate the…
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Skoden Indigenous Film Festival launches fourth year at SFU
March 28, 2022By: Karissa Ketter, News Writer SFU School for Contemporary Arts (SCA) is hosting the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival (SIFF) this April 1–2, 2022. Entering its fourth consecutive year, SIFF was created in 2019 by students Grace Mathisen and Carr Sappier. In…
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Skoden Festival directors talk reconciliation, community engagement, and the festival’s first year
May 27, 2019By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor Skoden is a one day Indigenous Film Festival happening Saturday, June 1 at SFU Woodwards. Skoden, an Indigenous slang term for “let’s go then”, promises to showcase Indigenous filmmaking in BC and to foster conversations…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: May 20–24
May 17, 2019By: Winona Young, Head Staff Writer Judy Radul’s This is Television book launch SFU School of Contemporary Arts’ visual arts professor, Judy Radul, is launching her new work, This is Television. The book is based on her art exhibition of…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: May 6-12
May 4, 2019By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor seams — SCA MFA Spring Festival seams is a 10-day spring festival at SFU Woodward, put on by the School of Contemporary Arts’ Master of Fine Arts students. Centred around the gallery exhibition at SFU’s…
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SFU students collaborate on miniature library project
May 28, 2018By: Amal Abdullah, Staff Writer The SFU School of Contemporary Arts (SCA), in collaboration with the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA), launched 11 Free Little Libraries — repurposed old newsprint boxes where people can take, borrow, or donate…
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