[van-announce] Two anti-Goldcorp events this week (Nov 22 and 24th)

[Ivan D. Drury]

Two Anti-Goldcorp Events this week: November 22nd and 24th
(info on each below)

1)
THE BUSINESS OF GOLD IN GUATEMALA
Film Screening

W2 Storeyeum, 151 W. Cordova St.
Monday November 22nd
Doors at 8pm.
Speaker and discussion to follow
http://www.creativetechnology.org/events/film-screening-the-business-of

2)
The SFU Visual Art Student Union presents a panel discussion:
FRAMING CULTURAL CAPITAL
An informative dialogue on the corporate university and the ethics of
community engagement

Wednesday November 24, 7pm
World Art Studio, Room 2555, SFU Woodward's
149 W Hastings St, Vancouver
www.611forum.com

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THE BUSINESS OF GOLD IN GUATEMALA
Film Screening

W2 Storeyeum, 151 W. Cordova St.
Monday November 22nd
Doors at 8pm.
Speaker and discussion to follow

'The Business of Gold in Guatemala' follows the introduction and
development of Goldcorp mining in San Miguel, Guatemala. It documents
the harm inflicted on the region’s population and the environment, the
development of disease, infraction of human rights, and overall poor
social welfare resulting from corporate mining. The film examines the
rise of collective resistance by indigenous communities against the
mines, and the state initiated military violence intended to silence
the uprisings.

From the film:
“We are witness to what has happened. Our wells and our water sources
have dried up because of the drilling, and because they use water to
wash the gold. They have a well that goes directly into the mine.
That’s why we no longer have water springs. We’re worried and we cry
sometimes, because what are we going to drink? The company drinks
bottled water, but we drink from the springs and it's worrisome that
the company doesn’t respect our rights. We have appealed to them but
they have never responded.”

From the jacket:
“Since the signing of the 1996 Peace Accords, the Guatemalan
Government has pushed forward a policy to attract transnational
extractive companies to indigenous territories in the country. This
policy violates the rights of [Guatemala’s indigenous people], who are
organizing to defend their lands. This documentary examines the
resistance against the transnational companies and Guatemala’s
neoliberal policies. Specifically, it focuses on the people of San
Miguel Ixtahuacán, and their resistance against the Canadian
multinational, Goldcorp Inc.”

Film in Spanish with English subtitles.

Film Length 54min.

A Collectif Guatemala Production
Directors: Grégory Lassalle, Marcos Pérez

More info: 
http://www.creativetechnology.org/events/film-screening-the-business-of
And: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=161469053889683

Courtesy of RightsAction Toronto: http://www.rightsaction.org/
Organized by: cris costa & ray hsu

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The SFU Visual Art Student Union presents a panel discussion:

FRAMING CULTURAL CAPITAL
An informative dialogue on the corporate university and the ethics of
community engagement

Wednesday November 24, 7pm
World Art Studio, Room 2555, SFU Woodward's
149 W Hastings St, Vancouver

The Canadian mining corporation Goldcorp recently announced a donation
of $10 million to SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts at its new
Woodward’s location. According to the university’s press release, $5
million will go towards the capital costs of the facilities, while the
other $5 million will be placed in an endowment to support programs
aimed at community engagement in the Downtown Eastside. Furthermore,
in acknowledgment of the gift, the university’s new arts complex at
Woodward’s has been renamed the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

Given Goldcorp’s controversial mining operations in several Latin
American countries, the donation has triggered significant concern
among students and the Downtown Eastside community. Acknowledging our
responsibilities as cultural producers and our dialectical
relationship with the physical and social contexts in which we work
and study, the SFU Visual Art Student Union has organized a panel
discussion addressing the corporatization of universities, the ongoing
gentrification pressures in the Downtown Eastside, and the ethics of
artistic practices involving community engagement.

Participants: Ian Angus (SFU Department of Humanities), Jeff Derksen
(SFU Department of English), Alexandra Henao (SFU Against Goldcorp and
Gentrification), Cecily Nicholson (Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre),
Irwin Oostindie (W2 Community Media Arts Society) and Jayce Salloum
(Vancouver-based visual artist).

Ian Angus is a writer and scholar, currently teaching in the
Department of Humanities at Simon Fraser University.  His writing on
philosophy, politics and activism has looked at issues of instrumental
reason and the advance of technology, social movements and solidarity,
and cultural identity in the history of Canadian social and political
thought.  His recent book Love the Questions: University Education and
Enlightenment (Arbeiter Ring, 2009) looks at the changing role of the
university – in the increasingly ‘corporate’ university setting, the
heightened importance of interdisciplinary study, and the role of
technology – in order to address the implications of these trends on
the university’s critical social function.

Jeff Derksen is a poet and cultural critic, whose work takes an
interdisciplinary view of the relationship between cultural production
and globalization.  His writing addresses issues of cultural geography
and gentrification, cultural imperialism, and the poetics of urban
space.  He is the author of Annihilated Time: Poetry and Other
Politics (Talonbooks, 2009) and After Euphoria (ECU Press and JRP
Ringier, forthcoming), and his writing and poetry has appeared in
numerous publications including C Magazine and Open Letter.  He is
part of the research collective Urban Subjects, and is a founding
member of the Kootenay School of Writing. He currently teaches in the
Department of English at Simon Fraser University.

Alexandra Henao is a graduate student at SFU in the Department of
Education and a member of the SFU Against Goldcorp and Gentrification
group. Formed in response to SFU’s acceptance of the $10 million
donation from the mining corporation Goldcorp to the new School for
the Contemporary Arts in the Woodward’s complex, the group has
mobilized through a variety of actions and discussions to raise
awareness on this issue.

Cecily Nicholson is a Vancouver and Surrey-based organizer who has
worked with women of the downtown eastside community for the past ten
years. She is a former consultant with the Canadian Research Institute
for the Advancement of Women. As Coordinator of funds and
administration of the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre in Vancouver,
Cecily has participated in various community-based arts initiatives
including the Women Engaged in the Arts Vision & Empowerment (WEAVE)
program and exhibition, 2008. As a member of the VIVO Media Arts
collective she has collaborated most recently on the VIVO Media Arts
Safe Assembly Project, 2010. She is the author of the forthcoming book
of poetry: Triage (Talonbooks, spring 2011).

Irwin Oostindie is the executive director of the W2 Community Media
Arts Society currently located in the W2 Storyeum building. Through
the use of their media lab, performance space and gallery for various
community projects and events, W2 has become a cultural hub in the
Downtown Eastside community, and works to provide a platform for
artists, community groups and residents to come together to engage
with new art forms and technology. He also has 25 years experience
leading social justice art projects, festivals, spaces and
publications.

Jayce Salloum is a Vancouver-based visual artist.  His videotapes,
photographs, installations, and other cultural projects initiate an
engagement between the private and the public, and the political and
the social, affecting notions of identity, community, history,
boundaries, exile, (trans)nationalism and resistance. His work has
been exhibited pervasively at the widest range of local and
international venues possible, from the smallest unnamed storefronts &
community centres in the downtown eastside to institutions such as the
Musée du Louvre, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National
Gallery of Canada; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Centre Pompidou,
Paris; 8th Havana Biennial; 7th Sharjah Biennial; 15th Biennale Of
Sydney; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; and the Rotterdam International
Film Festival.

For more information visit www.611forum.com or contact the SFU Visual
Art Student Union at vasu.sfu at gmail.com .