Valley Fest

Date(s): Tuesday, March 12
Time: 8:30 am - 8:30 pm
Location: : Abbotsford Campus

Bring your friends and family to share in the festivities, including open classrooms, UFV’s Got Talent, Riverdale Conference, Bhangra Night, and Valley Fest dinner and finale!

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Tuesday, March 12

Open Classroom, VA 101 Figure Drawing, S. Stefan
- 8:30am-12pm, C1043
- This is an introductory drawing course focused on the human figure. Students will learn how to draw from a live model, utilizing a variety of techniques and materials in both draped and undraped settings. This class will feature a draped model. Visitors are invited to observe the students in action.
- Contact: Shelley Stefan shelley.stefan@ufv.ca
Paradise Lost Marathon Reading
- 8:30am-8pm, A203b
- In his epic Paradise Lost, John Milton uses his poetic imagination to flesh out the details of Genesis 1-3 and “justify the ways of God to man.” The epic addresses free will and individual responsibility, parliamentary vs. monarchical systems of government, gender relations in a patriarchal society, the Creation of the world, the best of seventeenth-century science, and more. As well as providing fodder for discussion and critical thought, the verse is a joy to read aloud. (It should be, as Milton was blind when he composed it and dictated it to helpers who wrote it down.) Yet the poem is rarely heard as a whole. UFV’s Paradise Lost Marathon Reading, 2019, will be a dramatic reading with different readers for different characters, and different readers for different sections of the poem (called books). Some parts are very short, just a few lines, and some are longer. Each book should take under an hour to read, and all are welcome to stay for as much of the day as they can. All are welcome to drop by to listen. If you would like to join us as a reader, please contact Athan.chaudhary@student.ufv.ca to sign up. We welcome sign-ups from individuals, groups, and families!
- Contact: Athan Chaudhary athan.chaudhary@student.ufv.ca
Udhaari Exhibit at the South Asian Studies Institute (SASI)
- 9am-5pm, Uhouse, F125
- The SASI presents a rich archival exhibit highlighting some of the earliest South Asian settlers in the Valley and their contribution to the Valley’s growth and vibrancy. Drop in anytime to take a look at the exhibit and learn about the history of the South Asian community in BC and the Valley.
Open Classroom, THEA 312 Advanced Scene Study and Auditioning
- 10am-12:50pm, D104
- Students will learn to create complex characterizations, apply auditioning and career-building skills, and undertake the challenges of an extended or demanding role.
- Contact: Leigh Kerr leigh.kerr@ufv.ca
Visual Arts Student Film Screenings
- 10am-5pm, C1001
- Selected works from VA 160 and 261 students (2017-present), including narrative films, music videos, and animation, will be screened on rotation.
- Contact: Melanie Jones melanie.jones@ufv.ca
Art Installation: Scared Space by Elisabeth Langton
- 10am-5pm, C1134
- C1134 aka “The Construct” will be home to Part I of a large-scale installation called Scared Space by Elisabeth Langton, a student VA 332 Sculpture & Extended Media IV.
- Contact: Melanie Jones melanie.jones@ufv.ca
Mennonite Quilters
- 10am-3pm, UHouse
- Contact: Miriam Nichols miriam.nichols@ufv.ca
Photo Studio Dark Room Tour, G. Tsurumaru
- 11:30am-12:15pm, C1113
- The Photography area at UFV consists of the main studio, an adjoining dark room, mural room, and a separate film processing room. Join faculty member Grace Tsurumaru in a tour for anyone who enjoys photography and has a curiosity for traditional black-and-white darkroom photography.
- Contact: Grace Tsurumaru grace.tsurumaru@ufv.ca
Open classroom – SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish
- 11:30am-1pm, C1015
- This course will expand, review and actively practice the fundamentals of the Spanish base acquired in first year Spanish, to develop specific, culturally dependent communicative skills in different areas. As well it will expand students reading and understanding skills while introducing them to contemporary literary work by important figures in Hispanic literature.
- Contact: Jaime Bermal-Boyzo Jaime.Bernal-Boyzo@ufv.ca
Poetry Reading, Andrea MacPherson
- 12-12:45pm, Library Flex Room
- Join English faculty member Andrea MacPherson as she hosts a fiction reading with Alex Leslie and Luke Kokoszka. Poet and fiction writer Alex Leslie is the author of We All Need to Eat, The things I heard about you, and People Who Disappear. Alex won the 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Award for LGBTQ writers from the Writers Trust of Canada. Luke Kokoszka is a writer and musician whose fiction has appeared in The Fanzine, carte blanche, Cheap Pop, Queen Mob’s, and elsewhere.
- Email: Andrea MacPherson andrea.macpherson@ufv.ca
Student Artists Host in S’eliyemetaxwtexw Art Gallery (SAG) Exhibition
- 12-3pm, B136
- All Things in Sight: This photographic exhibition explores the ways in which imagery and ideas are expressed through pinhole photography, alternative processes, and large format photography. The exhibition will be on view from March 11 –13, 10am–6pm.
- Contact: Grace Tsurumaru grace.tsurumaru@ufv.ca
Tim Cooper, “Global Warming and Climate Change: An Update”
- 2:30-3:30pm, Library Flex Room
- Tim Cooper completed a PhD and 50 papers in nuclear physics. In 2003, he switched to climate physics outreach. Tim has given over 150 presentations on the science, economics, politics, and engineering of man-made climate change, and the great danger it presents in an attempt to sway the public to listen to the scientists and the science.
- Contact: Janice Nagtegaal or Caroline Majeau, Janice.nagtegaal@ufv.ca
Photo Studio Dark Room Tour, G. Tsurumaru
- 3:30-4:30pm, C1113
- The Photography area at UFV consists of the main studio, an adjoining dark room, mural room, and a separate film processing room. Join faculty member Grace Tsurumaru in a tour for anyone who enjoys photography and has a curiosity for traditional black-and-white darkroom photography.
- Contact: Grace Tsurumaru grace.tsurumaru@ufv.ca
Closing Reception in S’eliyemetaxwtexw Art Gallery (SAG) Exhibition: All Things in Sight
- 5PM, B136
- Visitors can meet the artists.
Theatre – “Attempt on her life” M. Crimpt
- 5-7pm, D105
- Who is Anne? Is she a terrorist? A good daughter? Is she a car? A tree? Do we remember her or are we inventing her? This UFV Theatre production is directed by Alex Lazaridis Ferguson, an award-winning director and actor, and Co-Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed performance group Fight With a Stick.
- Contact: Leigh Kerr leigh.kerr@ufv.ca
Movie showing: Fatima
- 5-8:30pm, B121
- Fatima is a North African immigrant single mother raising her two teenage daughters in Lyon, France. She works as a housekeeper and struggles with French, both traits that annoy her daughters. Treated poorly by her employees, she turns to writing as therapy, declaring to “be proud of all the Fatimas who clean working women’s houses.” The film captures both the hard work to just get by many new immigrants face and the challenges her daughters have in balancing their differing expectations at home and at school.
- Contact: Brett Pardy, Doctoral Candidate McGill University brett.pardy@mail.mgill.ca