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The Stories Were Not Told: Canada’s First World War Internment Camps

The Stories Were Not Told
Monday, February 25, 2019 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Through memory work and photography, Semchuk creates a space for the internees and their descendants to tell their stories.

SANDRA SEMCHUK  
JEN BUDNEY, FOREWORD

From 1914 to 1920, thousands of men who had immigrated to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire were unjustly imprisoned as “enemy aliens,” some with their families. Many communities in Canada where internees originated do not know these stories of Ukrainians, Germans, Bulgarians, Croatians, Czechs, Hungarians, Italians, Jews, Alevi Kurds, Armenians, Ottoman Turks, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Serbians, Slovaks, and Slovenes, amongst others. While most internees were Ukrainians, almost all were civilians.
The Stories Were Not Told presents this largely unrecognized event through photography, cultural theory, and personal testimony, including stories told at last by internees and their descendants. Semchuk describes how lives
and society have been shaped by acts of legislated discrimination and how
to move toward greater reconciliation, remembrance, and healing. This
is necessary reading for anyone seeking to understand the cross-cultural and intergenerational consequences of Canada’s first national internment operations.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sandra Semchuk is a photographic, text, and video artist, and the winner of a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2018). She taught at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

Presentation, book sales & signing
Free event | Everybody welcome!

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Cathie Crooks
Associate Director
The University of Alberta Press
ccrooks@ualberta.ca
uap.ualberta.ca
1 780 492 5820

Venue & Address: 
Grad Gallery 205 Richmond St. W. Level G
Email: 
reshaping.stories@gmail.com
Cost: 
Free
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Research Ethics Board Info Session for Graduate Students

Tuesday, February 5, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Are you an OCAD U graduate student who will be writing a thesis or MRP? Ask yourself:

  • Does my proposed research involve humans as research participants?
  • Does my proposed research involve animals?

If the answer is yes, you need to attend this session!

This session will provide an introduction to the Research Ethics Board (REB) and ROMEO for graduate students at various stages of their thesis/MRP research. Learn about what the REB does, whether your research will need REB approval, and how to prepare your research ethics application through the ROMEO portal.

For further details regarding the REB, please see their website: http://www.ocadu.ca/research/research-ethics-board.htm

If you would like to attend this session remotely, please email gradstudies@ocadu.ca

Venue & Address: 
Room 322, 230 Richmond St. W.
Email: 
gradstudies@ocadu.ca

Digital Futures Open Show 2019

DF Open Show
Friday, February 1, 2019 - 5:00pm to 8:00pm

Opening Night: February 1st, 5-8PM (RSVP here: https://dfopenshow2019.eventbrite.ca)
Additional Open Hours: Saturday, February 2nd, 1-5PM

The collection of work presented is intended to represent a survey of current ideas, concepts, themes, theories, tools, techniques, and trends being explored by the Digital Futures community. We're excited to continue with the exhibition.

OPEN comes from the fact that this call is open to our whole community. The show will include works from current Digital Futures undergraduate students, graduate students AND faculty. Works include physical computing prototypes, data visualizations, digital entertainment, games, wearable technology, and interactive installations. For anyone who has asked the question “What IS Digital Futures anyway?” - we’re hoping this exhibition will continue to provide some answers.

This event is free and open to the public, We look forward to seeing you there!

Venue & Address: 
Graduate Gallery, Ground floor, 205 Richmond St W, Toronto, M5V 1V3
Website: 
https://dfopenshow2019.eventbrite.ca
Cost: 
Free! RSVP at Eventbrite link below

Artist Talk: Michael Turner - thoughts on practice -

Sunday, January 21, 2018 - 10:00am

Michael's talk begins at a fall dinner held at the “recreational residence” of a middle-aged couple who patronize the arts not as venture philanthropists but as quiet no-strings-attached art collecting board members who give generously of their time and, when asked, their expertise (but also their money). On this occasion the couple had placed a number of high circular café tables in what might be called their ballroom. After filling our plates at the buffet table, we gathered at these smaller tables and ate, drank and chatted. The table Michael joined included a private collector, a senior manager at a public gallery and an independent curator -- all of whom Michael is acquainted with, all of whom know him as a writer. The topic of conversation he walked into was the Vancouver Art Gallery’s recently opened Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube exhibition.

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Michael Turner is a writer of fiction, criticism and song based in the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. His books include Hard Core Logo (1993), The Pornographer's Poem (1999), Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs (with Grant Arnold) (2007), 8x10 (2009) and, most recently, 9x11 and other poems like Bird, Nine, x and Eleven (2018), while reviews and features have appeared in magazines and journals such as Art 21, Canadian Art, Mousse and Modern Painters. He has contributed essays to anthologies Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists (Belkin Gallery/MuHKA, 2006), Vancouver Art & Economies (Artspeak, 2007), Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties (Belkin, 2009), and to exhibition catalogues on the work of artists such as Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Brian Jungen and Ken Lum. Curatorial projects include "to show, to give, to make it be there": Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver, 1954-1969 (SFU Galleries, 2010); Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (Belkin, 2012), with Scott Watson; A Postcard from Victoria (AGGV, 2013); and Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage, 1972-1982 (PHG/Satellite, 2015), with Allison Collins. A frequent collaborator, Turner has written scripts with Stan Douglas (Journey into Fear, 2001; Suspiria, 2002), poems with Geoffrey Farmer (Broadsiding, VPL, 2010) and songs with recording artists such as cub, Dream Warriors, Fishbone and Kinnie Starr.

Venue & Address: 
RM 511 at 205 Richmond St. W.
Cost: 
Free
am I thinking what you think I a t in ing?
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OCAD community sends love to the land: Tahltan Nation Relief Fund. Thank you!

Tahltan Fundrasier
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 - 4:00pm

On December 6th the OCAD University community gathered to raise just under $5000 to assist in the rebuilding of the Tahltan Nation Community through the sale of photo-documentation. The event was also a celebration of the end of the calendar year in Graduate Studies.

A thank you from Peter Morin:

I don’t think I can add anything. Except for gratitude. It means so much that we can send love, and money, to folks back home. So much was lost. homes. structures. memories. Fire can takes away everything that we imagined as home. Its important that we can help out those in need. Its also important to recognize and prioritize decolonization methodologies and send back resources to Indigenous territories and communities. Meduh to everyone who could donate, Meduh to everyone who sang. Meduh to everyone who shared their good energy and joy during our event. We did good. The Tahltan Nation, and communities across the country, have been working tirelessly to help our community members return home by the end of December. There is still a lot of work to do but we make it easier when we work together. 

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See photos of the event by Arash Safavi

 

 

 

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current & flow: a Digital Futures exhibition

Friday, December 7, 2018 - 5:00pm

Featuring work from multidisciplinary creators exploring connectivity, communication, emotion, and art in the networked world.

Works exhibited by students in the Creation & Computation, Experiences & Interfaces, and Possible Futures courses.

Friday, December 7, 2018

5:00 - 8:00pm

OCADU Graduate Gallery

205 Richmond St. W

Free

Venue & Address: 
OCADU Graduate Gallery 205 Richmond St. W
Website: 
www.dfthesis.com
Email: 
3173694@student.ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Free
 current & flow: a Digital Futures exhibition

Sending Love to the Land: a Tahltan fundraiser & end of year gathering in Grad Studies

Sending Love to the Land: a Tahltan fundraiser and end of year gathering in Graduate Studies
Thursday, December 6, 2018 - 5:00pm to 9:00pm

In the summer of 2017, Peter Morin presented a series of performances on Tahltan territory, northern B.C. This was a performance on the land for ancestors and animals. Cathleen Morin and Curtis Rattray helped out and photos were taken by Ashok Mathur.

The place where we performed was devastated by the fires of the summer of 2018; so much of the territory burned. Homes were lost. In recognition, we will be raising funds for the Tahltan community through the sale of photo-documentation from that performance.

We will also have karaoke by donation.

Food and drink also by donation.

Peter will sing some Tahltan songs, and food will be prepared by him, Ayumi Goto, Immony Men, and others.

And in the spirit of regeneration, we will also treat this as a celebration of the end of the calendar year in Graduate Studies.

Please join us in this act of remembering and rejoicing.

Venue & Address: 
Grad Gallery 205 Richmond St. W.
Email: 
gradstudies@ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Karaoke, food & drink by donation

SFI Students at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium 7 (RSD7) Turin, Italy

SFI students Ariana Lutterman and Tara Campbell with their poster Designing Designers: A critical look at design education
SFI student Adam Oliveira presenting his poster Interstellar: “To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before” which he prepared with
SFI students Nadia Abuseif, Nicole Norris, and Jen Wilson-Lee presenting their poster Flourishing Cybernetics: A Biomimetics Pos
Thursday, November 22, 2018

By Ariana Lutterman and Tara Campbell

The Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium (RSD) is an annual international gathering of academics, researchers, and practitioners engaged in systemic design, a discipline that brings together systems thinking and systems-oriented design. This year, the seventh RSD took place in Turin, Italy from October 24-26th to explore the theme of “Challenging Complexity by Systemic Design Towards Sustainability”.

RSD is convened by the Systemic Design Association, co-founded by Dr. Peter Jones, an associate professor in the Faculty of Design here at OCAD, where he teaches in two graduate programs: Strategic Foresight and Innovation, and Design for Health. Both of these programs have courses in systemic design. As part of these courses, students create maps that visually illustrate complex topics, unpacking relationships, histories, and layers of a system in a way that can be more easily understood and digested. The symposium included a track for these visual maps specifically, and several OCAD student groups submitted and had their maps accepted to be presented in the RSD7 gallery.

The conference itself began with a day of workshops covering topics ranging from the idea of place in systemic design to connected products and the circular economy. The following days were broken down into parallel presentation sessions for participants to choose from based on different themes within systemic design. These were punctuated by keynote presentations from systems thinkers whose backgrounds spanned public policy, ecology, economics, farming, and architecture - a representation of the diverse voices needed across disciplines to truly think systemically. A number of OCAD faculty, Peter Jones, Greg Van Alstyne, and Michele Mastroeni, presented their work relating to systemic design. Students and alumni from Strategic Foresight and Innovation and Design for Health also presented work, including the aforementioned posters in the Visualization of Complex Systems exhibit, as well as paper presentations.

After the conference, participants were given the opportunity to attend a “de-conference” in the nearby alpine village of Ostana. Here, RSD members who founded the MonViso Institute brought attendees to visit their mountain laboratory, a community they are constructing using systemic design principles. Participants visited the buildings being constructed through net-positive, sustainable, cradle-to-cradle construction and shared meals sourced from local, seasonal ingredients produced with an emphasis on permaculture.

Overall, OCAD had a large presence at this year’s symposium, a tradition that will hopefully be continued at RSD8 next year in Chicago.

ELIA Life Technology talk at the IDRC

Two hands with finger tips running along red symbols printed onto a page.
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 - 2:30pm

Join this presentation as part of the weekly community meetings hosted by the IDRC.

Location: Room 220, 205 Richmond St. West
Remote attendance can be accessed via this link.

ELIA Life Technology (ELT) is a public benefit corporation that develops assistive technology for people who have a visual impairment. The company’s flagship product is the ELIA Frames™ font: an intuitive tactile font for people who are previously sighted. Designed with independence in mind, the ELIA Frames™ font has been developed with funding from the National Institutes of Health. Are you interested in learning more about ELIA and talking with the team? Sign up to participate in the web workshop.

ELIA Frames™ were formally introduced to the world with a successful Kickstarter Campaign and debuted at the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Design Museum. The company is a member of the NEW INC. cultural incubator, affiliated with the New Museum.

Andrew Chepaitis is the president and CEO. Byron Johnson is the Research and Operations Manager. ELT is based in Brooklyn, NY.

Website: www.theeliaidea.com

Venue & Address: 
Room 220, 205 Richmond St. W.
Website: 
http://blog.ocad.ca/wordpress/gradstudies/2018/11/elia-workshop-december-12th-230pm/
Email: 
gradstudies@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000 x. 423
Cost: 
Free!
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HULT Prize Competition 2018 @ OCAD U

Hult Prize at OCADU
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 12:00pm to Saturday, December 15, 2018 - 2:00pm

HULT aims to identify and launch the world’s next wave of social entrepreneurs by encouraging students from around the world to compete in teams to solve the planet’s biggest challenges with innovative ideas for sustainable start-up enterprises. Annual Hult Prize winners can make their ideas reality with the help of USD $1 million in seed funding, as well as mentorship from a network of global leaders and changemakers.

This year’s challenge: For us, by us youth unemployment: Build the foundations of a venture that will provide meaningful work for 10,000 youth within the next decade.

Award: $1 million dollars to implement your idea, mentorship and business support for your start-up.

Addressing the global youth challenge means starting anew. New ideas. New business models. New technologies. New mindsets. For the Hult Prize 2019, we’re not just looking for companies. We’re looking for new ways to organize society that will create large-scale opportunities for youth to engage in meaningful work Your venture can be of any type, in any industry. As in previous years, you will need to envision and launch a business that can scale up—specifically, by growing to have a large-scale positive impact on society. Unlike previous years, however, your venture will also need to scale out to provide meaningful work for 10,000 youth. Your impact will be greatest if you have a plausible strategy to reach disconnected youth—that is, those currently not in the workforce, in formal educational programs, or receiving training. To succeed in this challenge, you need first to understand the barriers youth face in connecting to meaningful work and then, most importantly, to come up with strategies to overcome those barriers—thereby enabling youth to create value for themselves and others. In this section, we describe some strategies for overcoming barriers that

include an array of potential businesses.

For more info, see http://www.hultprize.org/

Important Dates:

Kick - Off Info Session

Thursday, November 1st | 6:15PM-7PM @ 205 Richmond St. Room 301

Expert Panel Discussion:

Thursday, November 15th | 6:15PM-8:30 PM @ 205 Richmond St.W. Rm 301 (Guest speakers from City of Toronto, MaRS, United Way Greater Toronto

Devil's Den:

Thursday, November 22nd | 6:30PM-8PM @ 205 Richmond St. W. Room 301 (Young business professionals advise on your ideas

Pitching Your Ideas Workshop:

Thursday, November 29th | 6:30PM - 8PM @ Jackman Reinvents 345 Adelaide St. W. Unit 100

OCAD U Hult Competition Event: Saturday, December 15th  | 10AM - 2PM @ Jackman Reinvents 345 Adelaide St. W. #100

Venue & Address: 
Jackman Reinvents 345 Adelaide St. W. #100
Website: 
https://www.facebook.com/pg/HultPrizeatOCADU
Email: 
1875260@student.ocadu.ca
Cost: 
Free!
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