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October 5th, 2025: Structure and its Malleability

Structure and its MalleabilityHow important is a predetermined structure in your work? What is the dialogue (if any) between this structure and the intuition? Does the structure leave room for sentiment, play, improvisation? What would you think if your final work bears little or no resemblance to the structure which conceived it? We discussed these questions …

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March 9th, 2025: Urban Ruptures

Glitch artist Dizz McGruber presents his collaboration with PJ Patton, Urban Ruptures: Glitched Realities, featured at the Anvil Centre in New Westminster.  “Our goal is to explore and push the degradation and rebuilding of images and motion” — Dizz McGruber

January 5th, 2025: The Vows of Beasts

This month Sydney Green presented the final version of her comic book The Vows of Beasts. She shared insights into her process, influences, and inspiration. “Paloma is a young woman on the eve of her wedding, but she has a secret: she is forever stalked by a terrible and ravenous beast.” — Sydney Green

July 14th, 2024: Aura Soave…

Join contemporary composer Brandon Chow as he presents a recording of his recent work, Aura soave…, which was performed at the Academie Domaine Forget in Charlevoix, Québec, as well as a discussion on music and meaning. Image: “O Concerto” Nicolò dell’Abbate  (~1500)

Close up of an illustration of a woman's eye with purple skin, drawn by Emil Ferris.

June 9th, 2024: Between Panels

Join comic artist Sydney Green in a discussion about how author Emil Ferris utilizes the gaps between panels to tell stories. How do comic artists pass time between panels? How is motion conveyed? What techniques can be used to bend and break comics into something unrecognizable? Image: “My Favorite Thing is Monsters” Emil Ferris (2017)

Olivier as an old man with a jacket photoshopped in front of bryce canyon

March 10th, 2024: Olivier Messiaen

Join contemporary music composer and WCCS Board President Brandon Chow for a multidisciplinary discussion on the maverick 20th-century French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992). Throughout the discussion, Chow will highlight the influence of Messiaen’s music and musical thinking on his own compositional practice, referring to Messiaen’s groundbreaking 1974 orchestra piece Des Canyons Aux Étoiles as an …

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