MASH UPMay 3, 2017 | 5:30pm - 8:30pm

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A special evening for C2UExpo participants, featuring some of SFU’s cultural and community partners. The night will feature creative forms of engagement, music, and art throughout the evening and a PechaKucha showcase on community engagement.

This event takes place on the traditional and unceded territory of the Coast Salish people — the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh.

Accessibilty

All venues are wheelchair accessible. Please notify a staff member or volunteer as soon as you arrive if you have any accessibility needs.

Gender neutral washrooms are available on Floor B2, Floor 2, and Floor 3.

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COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL MASH UP RECEPTION

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Venues

Floor B2Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre - B2290

Ground FloorLobbyAudain Gallery - G290

Floor 2Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre - 2255Studio D - 2270

Floor 3Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema - 3200

5:00 pm - 5:30 pmPre-show (Ground Floor Lobby)

Big Drum Performance

Presented by SFU Office for Aboriginal Peoples and Culture Saves Lives

5:30pm - 6:45pmFei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre (Floor B2)The evening begins with a series of performances and interactive engagement by SFU theatre faculty member Ker Wells, Gen Why Media, Tin Can Studio, Binners’ Project, and Megaphone Magazine. Doors to the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre open at 5:15pm.

Jim Byrnes and Tonye AganabaPerforming several blues songs, including Nine Inch Nails’ Hurt, as arranged for SFU Woodward’s Bah! Humbug!

Jim Byrnes is a multi award winning actor and musician. Well known for his role as “Lifeguard” on the Golden Globe and Emmy award winning CBS crime drama, Wiseguy and for his Leo Award winning role Joe Dawson on Highlander: The Series, Jim has hundreds of credits for his work in film, television, animation, narration and advertising. He also stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in SFU Woodward’s and Vancouver Moving Theatre’s annual co-production of Bah! Humbug!, a contemporary twist on Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” set in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

A professional musician for 50 years now, he has five Juno award nominations and three Juno award wins. His latest release, St. Louis Times, has recently been named one of the Top Ten Blues Albums of 2014 by About.Music.Com. He will be releasing a new album in the Fall of 2017.

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Tonye Aganaba, with a soulful and powerful voice, was the go-to singer for Vancouver’s EDM producers and DJs for years. After two solo R&B/soul self-releases (2013’s The Solar Twin and 2011’s White Wizard), she was signed to 604 Records and her new EP Villain is a fun, groovy, electronic-spiked R&B/soul recording. It declares the arrival of a powerful artist not to be messed with.

Tonye is outgoing and outspoken. She’s a big personality, who can just as quickly laugh at the error of her ways as she can fall in love. Her music is all about that: Love. She writes better in hindsight — “Oh, that guy! What was I thinking?” In fact, she can’t wait to call the guy out from the stage who inspired her song “Villain” and declare her worth (and every woman’s) in her anthem “Queen.” The lady speaks her mind.

Charles Demers (MC)Vancouver writer, comedian, political activist and SFU alumnus

Charles Demers is a comedian, author, performer, and playwright. One of the most frequently appearing stars of CBC Radio’s smash hit “The Debaters,” he also wrote the bestselling essay collections ‘Vancouver Special’ and ‘The Horrors,’ as well as the three inaugural scripts of the popular annual ‘East Van Panto.’

He is a lecturer in the prestigious Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. At the age of 19, he successfully led a bid to organize the video arcade where he worked into the Canadian Autoworkers Union, though the unit decertified before achieving a first contract. He lives in East Vancouver with his wife Cara and their daughter Joséphine.

Mitcholos [AKA] Łapḥsp̓at̓unakʔi Łim̓aqs†i Performance artist, spoken word poet and youth advocate

Mitcholos [AKA] Łapḥsp̓at̓unakʔi Łim̓aqs†i is an indigenous artist from Yuułuʔiłʔa†ḥ (CKA Ucluelet First Nations) x Nuučaan̓uɫ (CKA Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations).

Previously a community leader and Youth Councillor in the tiny village of Hitacu, Mitcholos moved to the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm x Sḵwx̱wú7mesh x Stó:lõ x səl̓ilwətaɁɬ territories (CKA Vancouver), where he found Poetry Slam; and thus begun his performance art career. A workshop facilitator, and perennial Poetry Slam contender, Mitcholos’ work has also been published in Montreal’s Dominion mag, and Victoria’s Oratorealis Lit Mag. He publishes live performance work of him and his friends on the free podcast: The Mixolos Mitchtape.

Hard Rubber Orchestra Disbelief. Rage. Excitement.

On June 15, 2011, lawlessness, violence, and destruction quickly consumed downtown Vancouver following its home team’s loss in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. A riot that lasted five hours defied rationale, flying in the face of who we think we are as Canadians.

Today’s performance will be an excerpt from RIOT, a work-in-progress that merges video footage of the 2011 melee with high energy music inspired by the chaos of that night. Driven by an investigation into mob mentality, privilege, culpability, and sports riots in North America, RIOT seeks to immerse one in the incomprehensible.

Influenced by electronica and classical avant-garde art, John Korsrud conceived the project, composing music performed by members of his genre shattering Hard Rubber Orchestra. Video and stills from the riot were edited by filmmaker Brian Johnson and synced with the music with help from Aram Coen and Sammy Chien. RIOT is a work in progress to be presented as a full 60-minute production in 2019.

The award-winning Hard Rubber Orchestra, formed in 1990, has released 3 CDs, toured across internationally and produced large scale productions including Cantata for a King, a critique of the impact of the American music industry; and The Ice Age, a new music ice show inspired by man’s obsession with sports.

Binners’ ProjectAn innovative social and economic initiative dedicated to working with and for binners

At its core, the Binners’ Project fosters social and economic inclusion, builds community resilience and stronger networks, and engages on sustainability issues.

Through our programs, we empower binners as part of the circular economy cleaning alleys and building a community from the bottom up.

John Korsrud, Artistic Director, HRO

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MegaphoneInteractive photo booth and social media contest. Post your photos with #changethatworks @megaphonemag.

Megaphone is a magazine sold on the streets of Vancouver and Victoria by homeless and low-income vendors. Published monthly by the not-for-profit Street Corner Media Foundation, vendors buy the paper for 75 cents and sell the magazine for $2. All money from the transaction goes into the pocket of the vendor.

Ker WellsSFU Theatre professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts

A graduate of The National Theatre School of Canada, Ker Wells has performed, taught, and directed across Canada and in the U.S, Mexico, and Europe. In 2014 he joined the theatre faculty at the School of Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. Recent projects include: directing Macbeth and The Flood Thereafter for Canadian Stage Theatre in Toronto, and Struck, created with New York’s NACL Theatre, This Is Not a Conversation, a performance about the Occupied Territories created with former Israeli soldier Itai Erdal and Palestinian Dima Alansari, which premiered in NY in May 2016, and The River Clyde Pageant, a large scale community and artist collaboration about waterways created in New Glasgow, PEI in summer 2016.

Hello Neighbour — Participatory Art InstallationInteractive art-making with Tin Can Studio and Gen Why Media

How do you change the world? Start where you live. Facilitated by Gen Why Media and Tin Can Studio, Hello Neighbour is a participatory art project that aims to strengthen community resilience by inviting participants to offer small gestures of kindness and solidarity to their neighbours through hand-made postcards sent in the mail.

Tin Can Studio is a creative studio and mobile project space run by multidisciplinary artists Caroline Ballhorn and Jenny Lee Craig. Together they design and facilitate interactive projects that hope to spark public imagination and create opportunities for meaningful collaboration while making art. They have worked with a variety of institutions, communities and

organizations all over the Lower Mainland to create unique projects, activations and programs that centre on creative community building.

Gen Why Media is a non-profit agency focused producing public art, media and events for socio-political issues. Tara Mahoney is the creative director of Gen Why Media and a PhD candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada where she studies media and participatory politics. She is also the project lead and principal investigator of Creative Publics Lab - an action research project on unconventional forms of political participation.

7:00 pm -8:30 pmFollowing the reception in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, food and a cash bar will be available on the Ground Floor Lobby as part of the opening for the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts’ MFA Spring Exhibition at the Audain Gallery. Head up to the second floor for more refreshments, live performances by community groups, a presentation from an graduate student, and a PechaKucha showcase by C2UExpo participants.

Ground Floor Lobby

PhotoboothCreate conference memories at the photobooth and add your voice to the online conversation by tagging your posts with #C2UExpo.

Audain Gallery (Ground Floor)

| Stick in the Mud | MFA Spring Exhibition, OpeningFeaturing work from first and second-year candidates in SFU’s School for Contemporary Arts MFA program.

This exhibition presents the work of first-year students in the School for the Contemporary Arts. The exhibition is paralleled by performances and enactments in the studios and theaters. Students exhibiting in the Audain Gallery include Roxanne Charles, Krystle Coughlin, Stephanie Gagne, Irina Lord and Julia Schnitman.

Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre (Floor 2)

Sawagi Taiko and Tzokam! All-women Japanese drum group Sawagi Taiko and the First Nations performance group Tzo’Kam with Russell Wallace

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Sawagi Taiko formed in 1990 and was the first all Asian women taiko group in Canada. The group has performed in a variety of music festivals and other cultural and community events across Canada and the US.

Most of the pieces performed by Sawagi Taiko are composed or arranged by its

members who, in addition to their taiko experience, bring other artistic skills to the group, such as movement and voice. These different skills give a distinctive interdisciplinary feel to Sawagi’s repertoire. With diverse experiences as Asians, the members of Sawagi Taiko explore their cultural roots through taiko. The group operates as a collective and nurtures the creative contributions of each member. In performance, Sawagi Taiko presents an image of Asian women as strong and powerful.

Tzo’Kam is a Lilwat family group who offer traditional and contemporary songs including drumming and dancing, led by composer, producer and traditional singer Russell Wallace.

Woodward’s Community Singers Led by interdisciplinary artist and facilitator Vanessa Richards

The Woodward’s Community Singers are a free, drop-in, non-auditioned weekly community choir. Together they sing music from gospel, folk, popular, and contemporary traditions. It’s informal, fun, playful and profound. They are a friendly gang of welcoming people who live or work in the area, go to school at SFU or come from around the city to gather here and enjoy the community we build through music.

Vanessa Richards is an interdisciplinary artist and facilitator with a foundation in music, writing, performance, and collaboration. Concurrently she continues to be engaged in community-based arts and urban regeneration as an aspect of civic engagement, transformation, backbone and beauty. As Artist-in-Residence at Public Dreams Society 2005/2006, she conceptualised and developed Mountain Mardi Gras, the first intercultural winter carnival project on the North Shore. For Public Dreams, she also acted as Community Liaison and Performance Programmer for their two signature events, Illuminares and The Parade Of The Lost Souls. Additionally Richards has worked with and for: Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Surrey Urban Youth Project, Hollyhock Leadership Institute, and CBC-ZeD TV.

Studio D (Floor 2)

*Un/Seen*, Lief HallSFU School for Contemporary Arts MFA candidate Lief Hall will be presenting documentation of *Un/Seen* during the research and creation stages.

In anticipation of her upcoming interdisciplinary performance *Un/Seen*, Lief Hall will be presenting documentation of the piece during the research and creation stages. The performance was developed through specific techniques of embodied research, incorporating improvisations in movement, sound and technology as well as experimental processes of dance and music co-composition using non-traditional forms of notation.

Lief Hall is a composer, singer-songwriter, director/choreographer and creator of opera, musical theatre, video and installation. As an interdisciplinary installation and performance artist Hall’s works explore themes of nature, technology and the body as they relate to mythology, identity politics and the production of cultural ideology.

Since completing her Bachelor in Media Arts at the Emily Carr University, Hall has shown her work both locally and internationally and is currently doing her MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Simon Fraser University.

Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema (Floor 3)

PechaKucha for the Common GoodLearn more about innovative community research and collaborations.

Borrowing from the PechaKucha format, this event will feature C2UExpo conference delegates sharing their impact stories using a concise, fast-paced and impactful slide-driven presentation.

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AcknowledgementsThe Community and Cultural Mash Up Reception was produced by the SFU Woodward’s Cultural Unit. Special thanks go out to all the people working behind the scenes to make this event happen.

C2UEXPOPatricia Maedel, C2UExpo Project ManagerAndrea Stuart, C2UExpo Project AssistantSue Porter, Associate Director, Ceremonies and Events

PRODUCTIONPaula Viitanen, Stage Manager, Community and Cultural Mash Up ReceptionMalena Meneses-Skoda, Assistant Stage Manager, Community and Cultural Mash Up ReceptionHeather Lamb, Manager, Production and Technical Services, SFU Woodward’s Cultural Unit

PROGRAMMINGAm Johal, Director, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community EngagementJanet Webber, Executive Director, SFU Public SquareJoanna Ashworth, Associate Director, SFU’s Centre for Sustainable Community DevelopmentRosie Dhaliwal, Health Promotion Specialist, SFU’s Healthy Campus CommunityHoward Jang, Director, SFU Woodward’s Cultural UnitMichael Boucher, Director, SFU Woodward’s Cultural and Community ProgramsJanice Beley, Development Project Coordinator, SFU Woodward’s Cultural ProgramsFiorella Pinillos, Program Coordinator, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community EngagementSamaah Jaffer, Program Assistant, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement

EVENT MANAGEMENTJustine Crawford, Manager, Audience & Event Services, SFU Woodward’s Cultural UnitSheila Pineau, Coordinator, Audience & Events Services, SFU Woodward’s Cultural Unit

COMMUNICATIONS Leanne Prain, Coordinator, Marketing and Promotions, SFU Woodward’s Cultural ProgramsMelissa Roach, Communications Assistant, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement

About SFU Woodward’s

Simon Fraser University’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts is located in the historic Woodward’s mixed-use redevelopment. It is home to the School for the Contemporary Arts, the SFU Woodward’s Cultural Unit, and the Audain Gallery.

The campus plays host to a broad range of public programming, including arts, culture and community events with community partners, produced by SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs and SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement.

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