Vancouver Institute

Vancouver Institute

HOW THE ARTS ARE CENTRAL TO A HEALTHY DEMOCRACY

When: Where: P.A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, UBC’s Point Grey Campus, 2194 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver.

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Mr. Max Wyman, OC
Author and arts policy consultant

Mr. Wyman is one of Canada’s foremost cultural commentators. For more than three decades he wrote arts criticism for The Vancouver Sun and CBC Radio. Mr. Wyman is the author of a number of books, among them Dance Canada: An Illustrated History (1989), The Defiant Imagination: Why Culture Matters (2009), and its sequel The Compassionate Imagination: How the Arts Are Central to a Functioning Democracy (2023), as well as several biographies. He is currently working on a memoir. Mr. Wyman is a former member of the board of the Canada Council for the Arts, and a former President of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. For his services to the arts he has received multiple awards, including the Queen’s 25th, 50th and 60th Jubilee Medals, and the 125th Anniversary of Canada Medal.

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THINKING AS POLITICS: THE MORAL DIMENSIONS OF POETRY

Dr. Jan Zwicky, C.M. is one of Canada’s most respected artists and intellectuals, known equally for her original work in philosophy and her poetry, and translated into a number of European languages. Her writing has covered issues in music, poetry, philosophy, and the environment.

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VALLEY OF THE BIRDTAIL: AN INDIAN RESERVE, A WHITE TOWN, AND THE ROAD TO RECONCILIATION

A conversation between Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Professor Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii), moderated by Dr. Tricia Logan. Mr. Sniderman is a writer, lawyer and Rhodes Scholar. Prof. Sanderson is Beaver Clan, from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation, and is deeply engaged in Aboriginal issues from a policy perspective. Mr. Sniderman and Prof. Sanderson wrote the award winning book Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation (2022).