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February 28, 2012 / 5:30 PM
Community Food Resiliency: Who, What, How, and When?
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From Here to There: Food, Energy and Resilient Communities, Part Two

What is the future of food in Vancouver, especially as cheap energy sources peak and climate change intensifies?

In partnership with the Vancouver Food Policy Council and Village Vancouver Transition Society, the MOV is pleased to host an interactive public dialogue and presentations from local innovators, authors, and practitioners that encourages people to think about the local circumstances and possibilities for change here in Vancouver.

Outcomes and key learnings from the first community visioning event held at the MOV on December 7, 2011 will be presented. Following this, a panel discussion addressing some key elements that must be addressed in order to achieve Community Food Resiliency will be convened.

Join us as we convene this critical dialogue across disparate sectors, neighborhoods, and areas of practice. We will set out to collaboratively understand and articulate a vision for a “powered-down, resilient, re-localized future”, as well as outline practical steps and actions for getting there.

Key community organizations involved in ongoing community food projects and a cross-sector of interested individuals will come together to co-create this vision and share their knowledge, resources and inspiration to further initiatives and focus on the strategies of the FED-AP.

Targeted at change and policy makers, related organizations, students, and all individuals interested in food activism and community building. 

Speakers and Registration TBA.

The evening is by donation, with proceeds supporting MOV and future public dialogues.

Registration/Doors at 5:30PM
Presentations and Dialogue begins at 6:00PM
Refreshments and Reception to follow.

March 01, 2012 / 7:00 PM
Curator's Talk & Tour - Neon Vancouver/Ugly Vancouver

Did Vancouver’s flashing neon signs signal glamour, excitement and big city living?  Or was neon part of a tawdry display that disfigured Vancouver’s natural beauty?

Joan Seidl, Director of Collections and curator of Neon Vancouver, will delve into this question an more, in this in-depth talk and tour.  Learn more about the history of the signs in the exhibit, Vancouver’s evolving hate/love relationship with neon, and how MOV came to hold a significant neon collection.

Included with Admission | MOV Members free.

March 04, 2012 / 2:00 PM
SALA SPEAKS @MOV: Design Sundays, with Annalisa Meyboom & Oliver Neumann

SALA SPEAKS @MOV: Design Sundays
"Technology"

Register Online: http://movdesignsundays1.eventbrite.com/

Addressing the theme of "technology", Annalisa Meyboom's presentation will consider the emergence of revolutionary technologies and its impact on infrastructures of the future/city. Oliver Neumann will discuss computer-controlled fabrication as generators for new ways to think and build. 

ABOUT SALA SPEAKS @MOV
SALA SPEAKS @MOV is a 4-part series presented in partnership with the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) at the University of British Columbia, that invites their faculty to speak to the wider issues, inspirations, and challenges that configure their research, practice, and teaching here in Vancouver.

The series features thematic pairings that evolve from week to week including technology, constructing, parts to wholes, and city systems. Join us in this month-long series of “master classes” and engage in thoughtful dialogue on the cultural impact of architectural thinking and practice in Vancouver, as well as their civic implications and applications.

Talk included with regular MOV admission | UBC SALA students & MOV Members, free. *Please bring ID

Architecture Canada/RAIC members $10 *eligible for 2 Core Credits/LUs
 

March 08, 2012 / 6:30 PM
Networked Urban Flows: Maraya = Reflection

Networked Urban Flows: Maraya = Reflection

Join the researchers and artists of the Maraya Project for an in-depth discussion of the inspiration, challenges, and aspirations that gave rise to their innovative media art installation. Taking its name from the Arabic word m’raya, meaning mirror, reflection, or mirage, Maraya uses network technology to create visual and conceptual links between Vancouver’s False Creek and the Dubai Marina.

Maraya explores the nexus of an emerging global geography and new forms of urban living. Taking its cue from the glass and steel residential towers that line the upscale urban waterfronts of Emaar’s Dubai Marina and Concord Pacific Place in Vancouver, this project focuses on the urban innovations that have become the cornerstone of new and rising economies, and it invites participants to reflect on their involvement in the creation of a new 21st century city.

Led by M. Simon Levin, Glen Lowry and Henry Tsang, Maraya’s creative team draws on expertise from artists, educators, scientists, theorists, urban planners and architects to provide unique opportunities for urbanites to share experiences and develop meaningful dialogue and cultural exchange around questions of global development and mobility. This dialogue-based project sets out a model for how cutting-edge technology combined with cutting-edge public art might come together to promote international, intercultural exchange.

Support to date includes the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council, Emily Carr University, British Columbia Arts Council, Banff New Media Institute, and the City of Vancouver. Project partners include Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Centre A), Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre, Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canada Interactive Fund. The Maraya Project is on view in the MOV Studio from February 29 through May 20, 2012.

$12 includes admission to feature exhibitions Art Deco Chic & Neon/Ugly Vancouver

Members Free | *doors open 6:00pm, talk at 6:30pm. Reception to follow.

March 11, 2012 / 2:00 PM
SALA SPEAKS @MOV: Design Sundays, with Matthew Soules & Inge Roecker

SALA SPEAKS @MOV: Design Sundays
"Constructing"

Register Online: http://movdesignsundays2.eventbrite.com/

Tackling the notion of "constructing", Matthew Soules will talk about micro-Infrastructures and residences, and share thoughts on public protest. Inge Roecker's presentation will share creative notions around the theme, through a consideration of ‘urban acupuncture’ for Vancouver’s Chinatown.

ABOUT SALA SPEAKS @MOV
SALA SPEAKS @MOV is a 4-part series presented in partnership with the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) at the University of British Columbia, that invites their faculty to speak to the wider issues, inspirations, and challenges that configure their research, practice, and teaching here in Vancouver.

The series features thematic pairings that evolve from week to week including technology, constructing, parts to wholes, and city systems. Join us in this month-long series of “master classes” and engage in thoughtful dialogue on the cultural impact of architectural thinking and practice in Vancouver, as well as their civic implications and applications.

Talk included with regular MOV admission | UBC SALA students & MOV Members, free. *Please bring ID

Architecture Canada/RAIC members $10 *eligible for 2 Core Credits

March 18, 2012 / 2:00 PM
SALA SPEAKS @MOV: Design Sundays, with Blair Satterfield & Joe Dahmen

SALA SPEAKS @MOV: Architecture Sundays
"From Parts to Wholes"

Register Online: http://movdesignsundays3.eventbrite.com/

Blair Satterfield addresses the theme "From Parts to Wholes" in his talk "Upstream and Downstream". In it, he will share thoughts on expanding the boundaries of architectural practice and discourse. Joe Dahmen will follow with the his presentation:  "Low quality / High volume: structural operations in earth economy".

ABOUT SALA SPEAKS @MOV
SALA SPEAKS @MOV is a 4-part series presented in partnership with the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) at the University of British Columbia, that invites their faculty to speak to the wider issues, inspirations, and challenges that configure their research, practice, and teaching here in Vancouver.

The series features thematic pairings that evolve from week to week including technology, constructing, parts to wholes, and city systems. Join us in this month-long series of “master classes” and engage in thoughtful dialogue on the cultural impact of architectural thinking and practice in Vancouver, as well as their civic implications and applications.

Talk included with regular MOV admission | UBC SALA students & MOV Members, free. *Please bring ID

Architecture Canada/RAIC members $10 *eligible for 2 Core Credits

March 25, 2012 / 2:00 PM
SALA SPEAKS @MOV: Design Sundays, with Patrick Mooney & Patrick Condon

SALA SPEAKS @MOV: Design Sundays
"City Systems"

Register Online: http://movdesignsundays4.eventbrite.com/

Addressing the notion of "city systems", Patrick Mooney's talk will highlight the importance of natural capital in our urban region, while Patrick Condon shares his thinking about the future of a "streetcar city".

ABOUT SALA SPEAKS @MOV
SALA SPEAKS @MOV is a 4-part series presented in partnership with the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) at the University of British Columbia, that invites their faculty to speak to the wider issues, inspirations, and challenges that configure their research, practice, and teaching here in Vancouver.

The series features thematic pairings that evolve from week to week including technology, constructing, parts to wholes, and city systems. Join us in this month-long series of “master classes” and engage in thoughtful dialogue on the cultural impact of architectural thinking and practice in Vancouver, as well as their civic implications and applications.

Talk included with regular MOV admission | UBC SALA students & MOV Members, free. *Please bring ID

Architecture Canada/RAIC members $10 *eligible for 2 Core Credits

March 30, 2012 / 7:30 PM
Songs of the False Creek Flats: Reflections, with Veda Hille & Annabel Vaughan

Doors at 6:30PM
Performance at 7:30PM
*music and reception to follow

MOV Members $15 | General Admission $17 | Student rate $10 (*with valid ID)

Limited Advance Tickets available online: (coming soon)

Explore geographic areas included in the Maraya project in this intimate performance of an original song cycle by local folk musician and city singer Veda Hille, accompanied by a visual narrative by Annabel Vaughan (intern architect and city thinker). The work and performance animate a vast area of the city that currently lies dormant — The False Creek Flats.

Veda and Annabel have been looking into the history and mythology of False Creek with the aim of presenting a fresh look at the area in music, talk, and pictures. Audience members will also be given a hand-drawn artist map in order to take themselves on a local walk after the show, at their leisure.

Songs of the False Creek Flats offers a natural complement to the MOV Studio exhibition, Maraya, where visitors are invited to view the remarkable similarities between Vancouver's False Creek and Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Learn more about the Maraya Project., which opens Feb. 29 at the MOV.

 

April 19, 2012 / 7:00 PM
Behind the Mirror: Stanley Kwok in Conversation with Trevor Boddy

We are pleased to present a special public talk with architect/developer Stanley Kwok and architecture critic/curator Trevor Boddy that will shed light on what went on behind the surface in the development of False Creek North and the Dubai Marina, and situate Vancouver in the nexus of emerging global geographies and new forms of urban living

Stanley Kwok was President of BC Place Corporation from 1983-1987 where he oversaw the management of BC Place Stadium. Later, he was instrumental in developing two significant master plans: the 160 acre, $3 Billion Concord Pacific Place along False Creek on the former Expo '86 grounds, and the 1,000 acre waterfront development for Emaar Properties known as the Dubai Marina. 

Trevor Boddy has written on architecture and cities for the Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, Edmonton Journal, Ottawa Citizen, Seattle Times, Georgia Straight, Architectural Review, Architectural Record and global design magazines published in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and Arabic. Boddy lectures globally on contemporary design and city-building, and his art criticism has appeared in Canadian Art and Vanguard magazines plus numerous exhibition catalogues.

This presentation is part of the Maraya Project, which focuses on the urban innovations that have become the cornerstone of new and rising economies, as it invites participants to reflect on their involvement in the creation of a new 21st century city.  Maraya: The Seawalls of Vancouver and Dubai, is on view at the Museum of Vancouver  between February 29 - May 20, 2012.

Doors at 6:30PM
Talk begins 7:00PM
Reception to follow, with cash bar and light refreshments.

Tickets $15 | MOV Members, Students & RAIC* Members $10 *please bring ID
*eligible for 2 Core LUs
advance tickets online: *coming soon