SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement

02/20/2025

On behalf of SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, we wanted to take the time to say that we have been overwhelmed and deeply touched by the voices of love, solidarity and support that have been shared since the announcement of the closure of our office on January 22, 2025 by SFU.

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On behalf of SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, we wanted to take the time to say that we have been overwhelmed and deeply touched by the voices of love, solidarity and support that have been shared since the announcement of the closure of our office on January 22, 2025 by SFU.

02/19/2025

Couldn't make it to our last event with filmmaker Lizzie Borden? Our event recording features opening remarks and a Q&A between Borden and Am Johal.

Watch at: https://youtu.be/9ASsSyK5fAE

02/18/2025

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Kate Hennessy, Associate Professor at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts & Technology and member of anti-patriarchal, anti-colonial folk inspired punk band, The Saltlicks.

Together, they chat about Kate’s practice in anthropology and contemporary art, the experience of working collaboratively and across disciplines, and her recent exhibitions Becoming Anarchival at Gallery 881 and The Water We Call Home on Galiano Island. Featuring music by The Saltlicks (“Eyeliner,” “Waxing and Waning”).

https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/263-kate-hennessy.html

02/11/2025

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Michael Turner, a Vancouver-based writer and musician.

Am and Michael discuss the release of his latest book Playlist: A Profligacy of Your Least-Expected Poems. They also talk about the Hard Rock Miners, as well as programming work at the Malcolm Lowry Room, the Railway Club, and the Candahar Bar during the 2010 Olympics.

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On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Michael Turner, a Vancouver-based writer and musician. Am and Michael discuss his release of his latest book Playlist: A Profligacy of Your Least-Expected Poems.

02/06/2025

We invite you to attend SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement’s final event, a screening of Lizzie Borden’s punk-feminist masterpiece, Born in Flames.

FEB 6 | 149 W. HASTINGS | 6:00 PM | $10

🔥 PuSh20 Presents: Born in Flames 🔥
Feminism. Uprising. Science-fiction.

Shot in 1983 with low-fi guerrilla filmmaking aesthetics, Born in Flames is a pioneering work of feminist sci-fi cinema that unfolds in an alternate United States where groups of militant women rise against injustice in a genre-defying indictment of real-world patriarchy. Co-presented with SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, the screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with filmmaker Lizzie Borden, offering audiences a rare opportunity to engage with the visionary filmmaker of this incisive critique of institutional power and systemic inequality.

Co-presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement and the 2025 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Shot in 1983 with low-fi guerrilla filmmaking aesthetics, this pioneering work of feminist sci-fi cinema follows groups of militant women as they r...

02/04/2025

https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/261-lisa-jackson.html

🌌 Episode 261: Star Stories — with Lisa Jackson

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Lisa Jackson, an award-winning filmmaker, whose work spans hybrid documentary, installation, VR, and more.

Am and Lisa discuss her latest work, Wilfred Buck, a portrait of Cree Elder Wilfred Buck, an Indigenous star lore expert. They also talk about her time as an undergraduate student at SFU and her journey as a filmmaker.

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Lisa Jackson, an award-winning filmmaker, whose work spans hybrid documentary, installation, VR, and more.

01/31/2025

Join us for our office's final event on Thursday, February 6th ❤️

Born in Flames
February 6th, 6PM
149 W. Hastings Street | $10

Shot in 1983 with low-fi guerrilla filmmaking aesthetics, this pioneering work of feminist sci-fi cinema follows groups of militant women as they rise against patriarchal injustice in a punk-rock manifesto that delivers an incisive critique of systemic inequality.

The film screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with director Lizzie Borden and a reception.

Co-presented with PuSh International Performing Arts Festival 🔥

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/born-in-flames-film-screening-and-qa-with-lizzie-borden-tickets-1083467794339?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1*e95x8c*_gcl_au*MTY1MTk3NTQyMy4xNzM0NTYzNDUz*_ga*MTg5NDc2NDYwNi4xNjYzNzExNzA1*_ga_R4BCVYL1QF*MTczODM0NTE3MS40NTIuMS4xNzM4MzQ1MTc1LjU2LjAuMA..

01/28/2025

🪦 On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Beatrice Marovich, Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Hanover College and author of Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying.

Together, they chat about the process of writing the book, and the theoretical and philosophical concepts of death as a relationship of enmity and sisterhood.

On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Beatrice Marovich, Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Hanover College and author of Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying.

01/16/2025

Can podcasting act as a new kind of scholarly form? What are the characteristics that make a podcast scholarly, and what is the potential of scholarly podcasting beyond knowledge mobilization and public scholarship? These are the questions that the Below the Radar Academic Advisory Board approached at the scholarly podcasting teach-in this past October—the first public convention of the advisory board since their inception.

Read all about it and watch the event video in in our latest blog post!

Can podcasting act as a new kind of scholarly form? What are the characteristics that make a podcast scholarly, and what is the potential of scholarly podcasting beyond knowledge mobilization and public scholarship?

01/14/2025

It's our first episode of Below the Radar for 2025!

In this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Véronique Sioufi, the Researcher for Racial & Socio-economic Equity at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office, and a doctoral candidate in geography at Simon Fraser University.

Am and Véronique discuss what brought her to her doctoral work and her interest in issues of labour inequality, as well as how her position at the CCPA was created in order to look at structural racism in BC and fill in major data gaps. They also talk about how she and her colleagues in the CCPA approach questions of decolonisation in their work.

On this episode of Below the Radar, we're joined by Véronique Sioufi, the Researcher for Racial & Socio-economic Equity at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office, and a doctoral candidate in geography at Simon Fraser University.

01/13/2025

🌿 PuSh20 Presents: All That Remains 🌿
Hybridization. Threshold. Entanglement.

This choreographic work unfolds across a stage scattered with industrial debris and organic matter, where performers engage with their sculptural surroundings in a corporeal topography that collapses the boundary between inner landscapes and external realities. A richly textured work at the crossroads of dance, installation and sound performance, this piece asks how we, as a species fallen out of sync with our environment, can open up new potentialities of relation and becoming.

JAN 23/24 | 7:30 PM | 149 W.Hastings

All That Remains
Mirko Guido (Denmark/Italy)

Presented by Simon Fraser University with support from SFU School for the Contemporary Arts and SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement