community April 09, 2021
By Tessa Perkins Deneault
How is culture connected to language? How is language connected to our imagination, worldview and the land? In September 2019, coinciding with the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages, the premiere of Lisa Jackson’s
Transmissions at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts explored these questions with an immersive, Indigenous futurist multimedia installation that allowed participants to experience Indigenous languages and culture via projection, sculpture, sound, shadow and film.
Following the
Transmissions exhibition, SFU hosted a symposium on Indigenous languages and media in Canada: The Roots of Meaning: A Symposium on Lisa Jackson’s
The 240 sq ft piece, titled
un/settled, can be found on the windows of Belzberg Library, at the intersection of West Hastings and Richards Street.
un/settled by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek and Chantal Gibson (SFU)
un/settled features poetry by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek and portraiture by Chantal Gibson, in collaboration with Mily Mumford and Adrian Bisek. Okot Bitek is the 2020 Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer-in-Residence with SFU’s Department of English while Gibson is an award-winning writer and artist, as well as a lecturer at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology.
un/settled by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek and Chantal Gibson (SFU)
Inner-City Arts students work on a project in 2017.
The new partnerships are part of the multi-year, $100 million commitment Comcast made in June to combat institutional injustice and inequality.
NBCUniversal has identified 10 nonprofit organizations that are the latest beneficiaries of parent company Comcast’s multi-year, $100 million pledge to combat structural inequity and support education and training, particularly in the media industry, for the underserved.
“As one of the world’s largest media and entertainment companies, NBCUniversal has a responsibility to give back to our communities and help level the playing field so that underrepresented groups are afforded the access and skills needed to break into this industry and have opportunity for success,” NBCU executive vice president of corporate communications and social impact Hilary Smith said in a statement. “We are excited to partner with these nonprofits who share our commitment to promoting equity in the arts