Emily Carr University Foundation

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01/24/2025

🌿Be Part of Something Transformative🌷

📣The deadline for 2024 charitable donations has been extended to Feb. 28th, 2025. Please click https://loom.ly/95T1oqU for more information.

We invite you to join us in empowering the next generation of creative thinkers. By supporting our students as a donor, you help shape the future of Canada’s creative economy. Your contribution will enable students to flourish, driving innovation, artistic expression, and community growth.

To learn more about our funding priorities and explore the many ways you can contribute, please visit https://loom.ly/4S9zL0M.

Together, we can make a lasting impact. 💗

Photo by: Martin Dee

ID: Photo of three students smiling gathered on campus in a classroom around a three dimensional project. One person is wearing light colours the two people are wearing dark colours.Text below image reads,'Thank you! To our exceptional donors'

01/17/2025

The Emily Carr Community invites you and your friends to join us for events + exhibitions that are open to the public!

The On Edge Reading Series welcomes Alicia Elliott.
Alicia is a Mohawk writer and editor living in Brantford, Ontario. She has written for The Globe and Mail, CBC, Hazlitt, and many others. She’s had numerous essays nominated for National Magazine Awards.

Thursday, January 23, 2025 at 5:30PM PT in the Aboriginal Gathering Place.

Information + registration: https://loom.ly/crmxvRw

Photo by: Alex Jacobs-Blum

ID: Headshot of the author, long dark hair with trees in the background, red lipstick and nose ring. Text at the bottom of the image providing event details.

01/14/2025

Student debt is often a bigger problem than most university students in Vancouver anticipate. Rising tuition fees and expenses of going to university have become increasingly huge burdens to bear for students—many of whom are already dealing with pressures from the cost of living on their own for the first time.⁠
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The good news is that the Emily Cares Student Emergency Fund is available to help shoulder the financial burden. You can make a one-time gift or join our Monthly Giving Program here: https://loom.ly/y9XCZoM
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ID: Photo of a person looking down at a an installation exhibit of a large ball of textile strips wound together in the corner of a white gallery space.
Photographer Perrin Grauer

01/07/2025

🎉 Great news for our Donors and Alumni! 🎉

The Government of Canada has extended the deadline for donations eligible for a 2024 charitable tax receipt! You now have until February 28, 2025 to make your impact and receive your tax receipt. 🙌
This is a fantastic opportunity to support the ECU community.

Want to learn more? Click https://loom.ly/aNxisPo

Photographer: Perrin Grauer

ID: A student views 2024 BFA grad Randall Bear Barnetson's 'Trancestor' at the opening reception for the 2024 edition of The Show at Emily Carr University.

12/19/2024

This holiday season, please join us with a meaningful donation to support the teaching and learning initiatives in the Aboriginal Gathering Place. 💛

To find out more, visit: https://loom.ly/GPxy3NA

Photo credit: Kajola Morewood

[Image description :Participants in the Urban Access program make elk hide drums with Zoe Laycock and Nicole Johnston. The Aboriginal Gathering Place partnered with the Circle of Eagles Lodge in presenting this program.]

12/03/2024

Please join us for Giving Tuesday to support the Aboriginal Gathering Place Teaching + Learning Initiative.

The Aboriginal Gathering Place (AGP) has thrived within Emily Carr University for 24 years, growing in both scope and influence.

Support for the AGP directly contributes to this important learning and enhances our Indigenous student experience. As a place for coming together, the AGP goes beyond its programming to function as a home away from home. Students are welcomed with warmth and acceptance, support for food security, financial aid and mentorship.

“As a student, first as an undergrad, then again through my graduate program, the Aboriginal Gathering Place was more than just a place. It was community, it was a space to be listened to, to learn and share, create and find opportunity. The AGP held an energy. It brought me together with amazing artists, designers and communities in ways that ripple beyond the walls of ECU, and that nourished an integral energy of connection.”

A quote from Zoe Laycock (MFA 2024)

Please join us with a meaningful donation to support the Aboriginal Gathering Place Teaching + Learning Initiative: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/124627

Photographer: Kajola Morewood

Caption: Participants in the Urban Access program make elk hide drums with Zoe Laycock and Nicole Johnston. The Aboriginal Gathering Place partnered with the Circle of Eagles Lodge in presenting this program.

11/25/2024

Gifts to ECU support the next generation of creative thinkers. They help provide financial support to students through bursaries, scholarships, fund programming and outreach on campus and beyond, provide investments in faculty and research, maintain, and improve facilities! So, donor impact here at ECU is undeniable!

There are options to designate a gift to a specific need or simply selecting the “area of greatest need,” which gives the university maximum flexibility to apply your gift, where you can choose to make a one-time donation or set up an automated monthly gift, via our link in bio. Or get in touch with us, today!



ID: Attendees chat in the outdoor plaza during the opening reception for the The Show 2024. Photo by Perrin Grauer.

11/22/2024

Come join us today for a 2-part performance, 'Broad: Say Less' and 'Documents' by Autumn Knight, the Audain Distinguished Artist in Residence at ECU!

When: Today! Friday Nov 22nd 7:00pm – 9:00pm!
Where: Libby Leshgold Gallery (520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5T 0H2)

Part 1: 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅: 𝑺𝒂𝒚 𝑳𝒆𝒔𝒔
𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅: 𝑺𝒂𝒚 𝑳𝒆𝒔𝒔 is an improvisational duo by sound and performance artists Lisa E. Harris and Autumn Knight. In this experimental sound performance, Knight and Harris minimize the use of words as language and maximize the ability of explorative sound to connect with each other and the audience.

Part 2: 𝑫𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔
Troubling the division of labour between the performer and the audience, 𝑫𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 involves a public reading of the documentation that serves to authenticate or legitimize one’s right to exist. Central to this work is a filing cabinet that both holds the props required for the performance, while also serving as a portrait or trace of the artist. The interactive reading of the documents in the files addresses the embodied specificities of race, class, gender, and sexuality to contest whether these categories accurately reflect the bodies they are meant to represent—while underlining how different audiences and relationships to power may influence this reading.



ID: Autumn Knight, Complain, Disappoint (2023). Photo courtesy of Autumn Knight.

11/20/2024

This week, the Aboriginal Gathering Place has partnered with the Student Art Sale for the first-ever Indigenous Winter Market!

The Student Art Sale is a unique opportunity to collect one-of-a-kind pieces from some of Vancouver's finest emerging artists and designers!

Expect to find a wide range of works, including original paintings, drawings, ceramics and sculpture, as well as printmaking, photography, illustration, housewares, wearables and jewelry. With over 260 participating students, this is our largest sale to date!

When:
• Thursday, Nov. 21 | 5 – 9pm
• Friday, Nov 22 | Noon – 8pm
• Saturday, Nov 23 | Noon – 6pm

On Campus: Michael O'Brian Exhibition Commons | ECU, Level 2
520 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5T 0H2

Bring your family and friends to shop local and support the arts! We’ll see you there!