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x close Heba Y. Amin, The Master’s Tools I (restaging of Herman Soergel’s portrait), 2018, Archival b/w print, edition of 5 + 1AP, 86 x 110 cm. Spring 2021 AVAIR Talk: Heba Y. Amin January 19, 2021 | 9:30 AM PST | Zoom | FREE The SFU School for the Contemporary Arts is pleased to welcome Heba Y. Amin as the SCA’s 2021 Spring Audain Visual Artist in Residence. Heba Y. Amin’s practice is based on extensive artistic research which integrates film, photography, archival history and digital technology as well as performance and spatial installations. Challenging colonial narratives of conq...

Punks at the Georgetown Roy Rogers fast-food restaurant in Washington, D.C., 1985. (Photo by Bettmann / Getty Images) There are some people—those of a certain age and a certain disposition, mostly middle class and white, often male—who will always remember just where they were when they heard the news. I was working as a bike messenger in San Francisco that spring day in 1994, and I can still recall locking up outside City Hall, getting ready to make a court filing, when the boss came on the two-way radio and blurted it out. “It’s all over,” he said, delivering the grim news with ...

Here is our extended interview with cannabis icon Tommy Chong, of the 'Cheech & Chong' franchise. Tommy Chong is a central figure in the broader cannabis space, who carved his path in the industry in 1978 through his iconic film, ' Up in Smoke,' which launched the Cheech & Chong franchise alongside Marin Cheech. Born in Alberta, Canada, Tommy made his foray into the artistic realm in the '60s by playing guitar for a soul group called the Shades. During this period, Tommy met Cheech Marin, who was dodging the draft for the Vietnam War at the time, and shortly after the pair formed a comedic du...

Little Angel Theatre's performance is designed for young patients to enjoy from their hospital beds.

Sr. Terry Gauvin, a finalist for the 2020 Lumen Christi Award (Courtesy of Sr. Terry Gauvin) When a man from the bishop's council of the Diocese of Portland, Maine, approached Sr. Terry Gauvin about nominating her for a Lumen Christi Award, she told him, "You know, I'm really not qualified for this." But he was persistent, and Gauvin thought it might bring attention to the anti-trafficking work of CourageLIVES, the program she has helped shepherd since its founding five years ago. "Dear Lord, I never imagined I would get an award," Gauvin said. The award from Catholic Extens...