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A shared self in Simorgh: a self-portrait

Peak Web June 29, 2026

By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer The art exhibit Simorgh: a self-portrait is currently on display at the Audain Gallery at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts. This exhibit is a collaborative work done by SFU graduate students Wyldie Bracewell, Alex Calcagno, Carlo Marchet, Chris Outten, and Taha Saraei, as well as SFU faculty Andrew Curtis. Simorgh: a self-portrait is a modern reimagining of The Conference of the Birds, a poem written by 12th century Persian poet Farid ud-Din Attar (also spelt Farid Al-Din Attar). This poem sees all the world’s birds undertake a long and arduous journey in search of…

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Jenny Yu on immigration, labour, and the Canadian Dream

Peak Web May 10, 2026

By: Clara Xu, Peak Associate On April 15 at the SFU Audain Gallery, graduating visual arts students from the School for the Contemporary Arts opened their exhibition Kerplunk!, displaying the works of these students from CA 461, one of the…

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A composite image featuring four newspaper collaged paper figures, a colourful scribbly doodle, and an anatomical heart drawing with a human hand beside it to model the drawing’s scale
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Find multimedia works by visual arts students all over Burnaby campus

Peak Web March 28, 2022

By: Sara Wong, Arts & Culture Editor SFU Burnaby’s aesthetic leaves little to be desired. But thanks to this semester’s CA161 class, taught by Sabine Bitter, the campus will be revitalized with interactive art installations. From collages to conceptual sculptures, the…

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Exploring space and place with SCA MFA’s work-in-progress exhibit

Arts September 22, 2020

By: Devana Petrovic, Staff Writer For their fall exhibition this year, the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts’ (SCA) second-year Master of Fine Arts (MFA) cohort is presenting their works-in-progress show online. The exhibition, within & outside, is based on…

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Skoden Indigenous Film festival promises to showcase some of the best in cinema

Peak Web May 25, 2019

By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor Update: An earlier version of this article, including the printed version, included a mistake that the festival is on Friday, June 1. The correct date is Saturday, June 1. This has been changed in the…

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Bah Humbug! brings the holiday spirit to SFU Woodward’s

EIC November 27, 2017

By: Tessa Perkins Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a classic story with heart-warming holiday season themes of redemption and gratitude. SFU Woodward’s has teamed up with Vancouver Moving Theatre and Full Circle: First Nations Performance Society to present the…

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SFU School for the Contemporary Arts’ production of The Bald Soprano takes place in modern-day Vancouver

EIC November 1, 2017

By: Edna Batengas SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA) has an upcoming mainstage theatre production of The Bald Soprano. It was originally written in the ’50s by playwright Eugène Ionesco as a French, Absurdist farce. The SCA has adapted…

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