Day: March 26, 2014

GSS Weekly Newsletter‏

Dear Graduate Students,

Your GSS needs YOU! We’re working on a new GSS website and updating our communications materials in general (you know and we know we need to!) To that end we’d like to create a bank of images we can use in our print and online materials. We’re looking for people to photograph who look like graduate students. You Would Be Perfect For This Job!

We ask 90 minutes of your time this Friday, March 28th. There will be two sessions: Session 1: 1:30 – 3:30pm or Session 2: 3:30 – 5:30pm. Please sign up. Please. Email: execassistant@gss.ubc.ca.

NB: You will be required to sign a disclaimer allowing the GSS to use these images.

GSS Social & Recreational:
– 2014 GSS Summer Sports League is back! Create your team and come out and play either Soccer or Softball! Game day will be Fridays over the months of May-July. Click the link for details, then create your team and Register by May 1st!

– The GSS is looking to initiate a Persian Choral Music ensemble and introduce the fundamentals of Persian Music in theory and practice (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Base choir). The GSS will offer 7 workshops on Mondays starting March 31st. This is your last chance to sign up before the March 27th registration deadline! The class will only proceed if it generates sufficient interest. This opportunity is available to Graduate Students at: $35 and non-Grads at $50

– Try out our Belly Dance Fitness class these next two weeks. The GSS is offering a drop-in rate of $7 a class! Secure your spot online, or in cash at our office during business hours! The class takes place on Mondays between 5.30-6.30pm at the GSS Ballroom.

GSS Sponsored Events:
– The GSS is proud to sponsor the UBC Creative Writing 50th Anniversary Prom! The Prom is a student event to celebrate Canada’s oldest writing program. It will take place April 11th, 8PM, at Lost and Found Cafe (33 W Hastings). There will be a pay-what-you-can door cover. Cash bar. In the spirit of the program’s inauguration in 1963, formal wear from that decade is encouraged.

Thanks for reading! When in need of a break, you might appreciate this comic. 🙂

Ngwatilo

Courses

UVic Cultural Heritage Studies grad courses – Western Dean’s Agreement‏

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Post date March 26, 2014
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UVic is offering an online graduate summer course that may be of interest to some of the students in your program. Your grad students could complete a course (as an elective, for example) at UVic at no extra cost to them through the Western Dean’s Agreement (http://www.uvic.ca/graduatestudies/assets/docs/forms/Western-Deans-Agreement-Form.pdf. We have capacity in the course so I thought it would be worthwhile to pass this around. Please let your students know, if you feel it is appropriate. If I should contact someone else in your program – please let me know.

CH 562: Heritage Conservation Planning (May 5-Aug 10 2014) – This course considers how traditional concepts of curatorship have shifted significantly in the face of more democratic relations with community, more subjective perspectives of knowledge, and increasing emphasis on the museum’s social and educative roles. Explores the nature and scope of contemporary critical curatorial theory and practice and focuses on the ways in which curators engage with cultural heritage resources, develop sustainable collections, and generate and share associated knowledge to meet the needs of diverse communities.

You can learn more about the Cultural Heritage Studies Graduate Professional Certificate at www.uvcs.uvic.ca/cultural/graduate/programs/certificate/.

If you are interested in taking one of these courses, please speak to your Grad Advisor and submit the Western Deans Agreement Form.

For more information about the program or the courses, please contact me.

All the best,

Tusa Shea, PhD

Program Coordinator

Heritage, Culture & Museum Programs

Announcements

Crane installation – Ponderosa Commons Phase 2 – Monday March 31

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Post date March 26, 2014
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Please plan ahead for your trip to campus on Monday, March 31. Installation of the first crane for construction of Ponderosa Commons Phase 2 is confirmed. All crane-related traffic will be coming from Southwest Marine Drive and directed east on University Blvd and north on Lower Mall.

Traffic Coordinators are reviewing a traffic management and site safety plan prior to Monday’s installation.

Speakers

Whispers of Light Invitation, GRSJ Institute PhD candidate Joshua M. Ferguson

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Post date March 26, 2014
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Please join students and faculty in supporting GRSJ PhD candidate Joshua M. Ferguson by attending the Vancouver film festival
premiere of their short film Whispers of Life at the Reel 2 Real Film Festival.

This is the most recent in a series of film festival showings of the film, and a terrific series of awards including the Best
Short Film Audience Award at the 15th Reelout Queer Film + Video Festival in Kingston, Ontario, both Audience and Jury Choice
Awards at the 26th Reel Pride Winnipeg Film Festival, and Festival Favorite at the Cinema Diverse Palm Springs Gay & Lesbian
Film Festival.

The Reel 2 Real Film Festival - Not Just For Kids <http://www.r2rfestival.org screens "Whispers of Life" twice at the Vancity
Theatre, Vancouver International Film Centre (location<http://www.viff.org/theatre/location>):

Sunday, April 6th at 3:00pm in the "Made in BC" program ** Florian and Joshua will be in attendance on this date to participate
in a Q&A after the screening!

Thursday, April 10th at 9:30am in the "High School Shorts" program

About the film:
In this magical story about the interdependence of imagination and surviva= l, Tom, a gay teenager, is threatened by a bully=92s homophobic words. As T= om sits with angst on his park bench, a stranger named Charles suddenly app= ears next to him. Charles strikes up a conversation with Tom that forever a= lters the course of his future and life.

About the filmmakers:
Born and raised in Switzerland, Florian Halbedl received his BA in Film Stu= dies at Western University and began his professional career in Vancouver, = Canada, as part of the assistant director teams on Supernatural, Percy Jack= son, Once Upon a Time and Gareth Edward=92s Godzilla. Florian is the Writer= & Director of the award-winning short film Whispers of Life. He is current= ly developing a science-fiction film called Mosaics; a short film about ani= mal-human hybrids and their marginalized state in a near-future society. Wh= ile working on other scripts, Florian will produce and direct Mosaics in th= e summer of 2014.

Joshua M. Ferguson grew up in the small town of Napanee, Ontario. Joshua re= ceived a B.A. Hons in Film Studies at Western University in 2009 and an M.A= . in Film Studies from the University of British Columbia in 2010. Joshua i= s a current Ph.D student in the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and So= cial Justice at the University of British Columbia and a recipient of two C= anada Graduate Scholarships from SSHRC for their Doctoral and MA research. = Joshua's transgender subjectivity is informing their critical cinematic int= ervention by producing a documentary for their doctoral dissertation that f= ocuses on non-binary transgender subjects. Joshua is also currently develop= ing a science-fiction film, Mosaics, about animal-human hybrids and their m= arginalized state in a near-future society while their award-winning produc= ed short film Whispers of Life is exhibited at festivals internationally. J= oshua will produce and direct Mosaics in the summer of 2014.