A Child's View From Gaza Exhibition - Tues., Nov. 6 - Tues., Dec. 4, 2012, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. (details below)

Public Reception for A Child's View From Gaza - Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, 7:00 p.m. (details below)

Exhibition:
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), Victoria Chapter, is delighted to announce the presentation in Victoria of a fascinating and heart-wrenchingly beautiful collection of drawings by children and youth from Gaza. The exhibition, A Child's View from Gaza, features 20 drawings by children in Gaza from 5 to 14 years of age, created during the course of art therapy. The exhibition reflects the children's perceptions of the Israeli offensive against Gaza, which took place from December 27, 2008 to January 17, 2009. Each drawing is unique in its perspective and details.

Public Reception:
CJPME cordially invites you to attend a public reception and viewing of A Child's View From Gaza exhibit, at the A. Wilfrid Johns Gallery, Faculty of Education, MacLaurin Building-A Wing, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. 

There will be a presentation by Dr. Robert Dalton, Art Education Professor, at the University of Victoria. Dr. Dalton's Ph.D. dissertation was focused on the theme of children's war drawings, and since then he has studied collections of drawings from Iraq, Afghanistan and other regions of the world, where the lives of children and youth have been affected by conflict. As well, he has studied art collections where peace, a much more hopeful and uplifting topic, was the theme.

Refreshments will be served. Live Arabic music will be performed. Short film clips (The Future for Gaza's Children-An Interview with Dr. Eyad al-Sarraj, Psychiatrist; Samouni Street; and Gaza: Did You Know?) will be shown.  Guests will be invited to participate in an art activity. A Gazan/Palestinian cultural display will be on hand.

CJPME gratefully acknowledges the A. Wilfrid Johns Gallery for providing this venue.

Free; donations to defray costs of exhibit gratefully accepted.

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Bub, Dept. of Psychology, University of Victoria

Free

You are welcome to attend the following Master’s Project Defence:

Molly Burns

Friday, November 23, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in the Tom Shoyama Room, A373, of the School of Public Administration

“An Evaluation of the EASS Wharf/Marine Assets Disposal Program”

Committee:
Dr. James McDavid – School of Public Administration
Dr. John Langford – School of Public Administration
Dr. Kimberly Speers – School of Public Administration
Mr. John Lorenz – Public Works and Government Services Canada
 

Free

On friday Nov. 23 from 2-5 in the Michele Pujol Room in the Sub my geography group with support from SOGS is planning a Stuff Swap. A stuff swap event where people can bring old items to leave, sell or swap with some one else. Any leftover items will be donated. This way people can get rid of some clutter. Hopefully someone else will use it rather than buying new or throwing out a perfectly functional product. 

*Note if someone tries to leave something that is beyond donating we will not take it. We will use our discretion towards the quality of the product. Books, movies, clothes, electronics, and even furniture are all acceptable. What ever you don't want, we do.

Free to attend

Understanding Place in Culture: Serigraphs and the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge focuses on how Indigenous perspectives of place shape expressions of important cultural knowledge. All of the serigraphs selected from this collection represent or convey a sense of place in some way, either through a direct representation of a physical location; an image that translates a story about a place; or images that connect (through memory, dreams, etc.) to a specific place.

Museums and other educational institutions are often seen as sites of privileged knowledge production, spaces that have often excluded minority perspectives and realities. These artists challenge the hegemonic practices of institutions, by positioning the artist as the ethnographic authority on their cultural expressions and knowledge.

Admission is Free

This exhibition showcases serigraphs by Indigenous artists from the coastal areas of British Columbia, and are part of the Smyth and Rickard Collections of Northwest Coast serigraphs. Seven artists from different Indigenous communities are represented in the exhibition: Francis Dick, Maynard Johnny Jr., Edward Joe, Stan Greene, Floyd Joseph, Tim Paul, and Joe David. Selections of audio ‘soundscapes,’ from interviews with Francis Dick and Maynard Johnny Jr., are accessible to visitors via smart phone; the interviews frame the works within the experience of a specific place.

Admission is Free

Good Person of Setzuan
by Bertolt Brecht

Three gods arrive in a large manufacturing-based city in search of one good person. A young prostitute, Shen Teh, is granted a new life and the ownership of her own tobacco shop for an act of kindness to the gods. She strives to be a ”good person” in a world based on theft, deceit and corruption, where everyone takes advantage of her generosity. To avoid financial ruin, she invents Shui Ta –  a shrewd, no-nonsense male cousin to protect her business interests. Set in modern-day, industrial China, Brecht’s famous play maintains its relevance as a parable on how to be a good person in an imperfect, money-centric, class-divided society.

Adult: $22
Senior: $18
Student: $13
Weekend evenings: $24
Alumni: Student pricing on matinees

Director: David Koepp   USA, 2012, 91 min; 14A

Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, Jamie Chung

Pushing pedal to the mettle and its breezily thin, goofy story to the breaking point, Premium Rush is buoyant dumb-fun, a ticking-clock thriller about a New York bicycle messenger who has to get from here to there without being taken out. Stuffed with zingers and zippy stunts, it comes with pretty young things of all hues and hair types — few prettier than its lead, Joseph Gordon-Levitt — and start-to-finish clever special effects, none more clever or special than Michael Shannon. Mr. Shannon, having grabbed the Crazy Man baton from Christopher Walken, enters, teeth gnashing, eyes bulging, to play a bad, bad New York detective. –The New York Times

UVSS Students: $5.75

SPECIAL FOR UVSS STUDENTS - 9pm shows (or later): $3.75

Seniors (65 & over), Children (12 & under): $5.75

Other Students: $6.75

Cinemagic Members: $6.75

Uvic Alumni, Faculty, Staff & their guests (1 only): $6.75

Non-members: $7.75

 

Maneesha Deckha, LL.M., Faculty of Law, UVic, provides an overview of recent cases and legislation that challenge the traditional view of nonhuman animals as property under the common law. International and domestic initiatives will be discussed.

Visit the Deans' Lecture Series for further details and registration information.

Registration required (free)

The University of Victoria Art Collections, in conjunction with the University of Victoria 50th anniversary celebrations, presents an exhibit of works from the permanent collections spanning the past five decades.

This exhibition, guest curated by former director Martin Segger, celebrates more than five decades of art at the University of Victoria. Segger lead the collection for nearly four decades, and the University of Victoria Art Collections are pleased to have his input and insight for this broad overview of the collections.   

The Collections at 50 demonstrates the breadth of the current collection and its continuous growing nature. Segger’s outlook is a reminder that the collection evolves, both in size and influence, through vision, perseverance, collaboration and professionalism. The educational setting of the university has aided considerably in shaping the collections into something very unique.. The collection has a semiotic relationship with the university: all departments are able to provide further, experiential learning to students, which in turn becomes a catalyst for further growth within the collection.

Admission is free.