storytelling
Film and literature tell the story of The Nickel Boys from different angles
March 12, 2025By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer Content warning: this piece talks in-depth about slavery and racial segregation. Colson Whitehead’s novel The Nickel Boys tells the story of two boys doing time in a reform school. Elwood Curtis, who is falsely accused of a crime he didn’t commit, sees all his ambitions stripped from him when he is sent to Nickel Academy. He meets Turner, who has lost hope in any chance of freedom. They’re both victims of systemic racism, as the story unfolds during the Jim Crow era, when racial segregation was common. The two characters have different viewpoints of life,…
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Jane’s Walk Vancouver invites conversation and change
May 22, 2024By: Hannah Fraser, News Writer From May 2 to May 5, Vancouver’s Jane’s Walk Festival held citizen-led walking tours through Canadian neighbourhoods. Jane’s Walk honours late Canadian writer, urbanist, and activist Jane Jacobs by promoting her idea that “cities have…
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Meet Angela Sterritt: SFU Library’s 2023 non-fiction writer in residence
January 18, 2023By: Anna Kazi, SFU Student SFU recently welcomed Angela Sterritt, writer and “award-winning investigative journalist” as their 2023 writer in residence. Sterritt is part of the Gitanmaax community of the Gitxsan Nation and Bell Island Newfoundland. With over a decade…
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“Tea-Chings” uses cooking as a medium for ancestral storytelling
June 6, 2022By: Jocelyn Stevens, SFU Student This year’s rEvolver Festival by Upintheair Theatre presented Harvesting Ancestral “Tea-Chings,” by Siobhan Barker in a live screening Zoom event and Q&A on May 26. The event featured cooking and storytelling intertwined to share experiences about…
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Dr. Ken Seigneurie’s event How Stories Move Us highlighted the universality of storytelling
July 9, 2020By: Nathaniel Tok, Peak Associate My first non-academic Zoom lecture consisted of a professor reading us stories. I last had that in . . . I can’t even remember. As someone more used to policy, graphs, science, and numbers, this…
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Humans of SFU
February 1, 2016Shinelle and Melanie were performing as a part of SFU’s International Festival on Friday. Shinelle: A lot of people don’t know about Sri Lanka. A lot of people don’t know that Sri Lanka exists. That’s something we continuously run into.…
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