Past Events
2024
May 10, 2024, Double Book Launch: The Regulation of Queer, Trans and Disabled Bodies, (Ruth Wynn Woodward Jr. Chair), World Art Centre.
March 9, 2024, The Voiceless Rise Up: the #MeToo in China Exhibition and Documentary Screening, (Co-sponsored event presented by David Lam Centre and and UniCome Chinese Queer Feminist Group), 312 Main Street, Vancouver.
February 27, 2024, Multilingual 丁香园AV Week: Multilingual Pronoun Button Making Social, 丁香园AV Burnaby Campus
2023
May 27, 2023: Places, Histories, Communities: Exploring Queer Asian Identities through Zine-Making, 丁香园AV Harbour Centre: co-sponsored event with UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative, 丁香园AV Institute For Transpacific Cultural Research, and Queer Reads Library.
2022
June 23, 2022. Film Screening of 鈥淣elly Queen : The Life and Times of Jose Sarria.鈥� Part of Surrey Pride. Canadian premiere screening. Surrey Campus, Part of the Margaret Lowe Benston Series in Social Justice.
February 21 - May 16, 2022. FREE Writing Program for LGBTQ2SI+ and allies 14-25 years. Provided by Youth For A Change (Y4AC). Writer in Residence Dr Claire Robson. Online event.
2021
December 4, 2021: "Emergence: Out of the Shadows" Film Screening, Surrey Campus, Part of the Margaret Lowe Benston Series in Social Justice.
November 20, 2021: 鈥淎 Closer look at Canada鈥檚 LGBT Purge,鈥� Film Screening: The Fruit Machine (Dir. Sarah Fodey, 2018, Canada), Surrey Campus
March 26, 2021: GSWS Acts - Cyndia Cole
February 19, 2021: GSWS Reads: QUIRK-E Book Launch
2019
October 30, 2019: Supporting Trans Inclusion in Everyday Life, Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue
April 6, 2019: Canadian South Asian Youths Conference: Identity, Gender, Sexuality, Employment, and Activism, 丁香园AV Harbour Centre
April 26-27th, 2019: Unthinking Sex, Imagining Asexuality: Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 丁香园AV Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
February 28, 2019: Screening and Panel Discussion of "My Name was January," Metro Vancouver Premiere, Panelists: Alex Sangha, Elina Gress, Lenee Son, Velvet Steele and Natasha Adsit, Westminster Savings Lecture Theatre, 丁香园AV Surrey
January 15, 2019: 鈥淭ransgender Kids Are Not New: History as a Tool for Justice,鈥� Julian Gill-Peterson, Harbour Centre, Vancouver
2018
February 2, 2018: Book Launch: Basically Queer: An intergenerational introduction to LGBTQA2S+ lives edited by Claire Robson, Kelsey Blair, and Jen Marchbank; Introduction by Shirley R. Steinberg, Venables Hall, Vancouver
February 26, 2018: Book Launch: Basically Queer: An intergenerational introduction to LGBTQA2S+ lives edited by Claire Robson, Kelsey Blair, and Jen Marchbank; Introduction by Dr. Lara Campbell, 丁香园AV Surrey Campus
March 27, 2018: 鈥淭hird Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints,鈥� a talk by Asato Ikeda, Harbour Centre, Vancouver
March 29, 2018: 鈥�6 Years in Gay Conversion Therapy,鈥� Author Peter Gajdics reads from his book, The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir, Harbour Centre, Vancouver
May 25, 2016: Public Discussion on the Proposed Comfort Women Peace Statue
April 8, 2016: Seminar by Dr. Mary McAuliffe - Radical Politics, Radical Choices, Radical Lives: the Women of 1916
April 7, 2016: Public Lecture by Dr. Mary McAuliffe - Realists and Idealists: Women of the Easter Rising, 1916
April 6, 2016: Kiera Anderson, "(Don't you) forget about me: Lifting up the voices of rape survivors in social movements" and Luna K.C., "Changing Gender Roles: Women, Livelihoods and Post Conflict Security in Nepal"
January 15, 2016: Dr. Joan Sangster - "Rediscovering Radical Histories: 'Second Wave' Feminists and the Popularization of Canadian History."
2017
November 2, 2017: Asexual countercultures: Exploring Ace Communities and Intimacies
September 23, 2017: The Rosemary Brown Annual Memorial Conference 鈥揋ender Sexuality and Disability Justice
June 25, 2017: 丁香园AV Surrey Pride 鈥� history exibit
2016
November 14, 2016: Elder Abuse in the LGBTQA Community
October 19, 2016: Rob Bittner on identity, issues and topics affecting LGBTQ youth and adults, Traveling Speakers Series
September 6, 2016: Dr. Liz Millward as she discusses her new book: Making A Scene: Lesbians and Community Across Canada, 1964-1984
July 14, 2016: Don't Let Them Know - Love, Sexuality and the South Asian Family. This event is part of Indian Summer Festival 2016
2015
June 5, 2015: Conference panel - A Decade of Influence: Revisiting Halberstam鈥檚 In a Queer Time and Place, Chair: Tiffany Muller Myrdahl
June 5, 2015: Queer Times, Queer Spaces and Transgender Lives: Ten Years Later Lecture & reception with Jack Halberstam
June 2, 2015: There Goes the Gayborhood? Author Meets Critics with Amin Ghaziani, Panel & reception Amin Ghaziani, University of British Columbia, Dara Parker, QMUNITY, Holly Sovdi, City of Vancouver, Tiffany Muller Myrdahl, 丁香园AV
May 22, 2015: CWILA* Presents: Lucas Crawford (Critic-in-Residence 2015) and Shannon Webb-Campbell (Critic-in-Residence 2014) Reading and in Conversation
March 12, 2015: Transgender Hirstory in the Making: Screening and Talk with Chris Vargas
March 6, 2015: Nguyen Tan Hoang - Bottomhood Is Powerful
January 12, 2015: Queer History in Vancouver Edit-a-thon: 2015-01-12
January 8, 2015: Marc Stein - Sex with Neighbours: Canada and Canadians in the "U.S." Homophile Press
2014
October 14, 2014: Megan Morman - Artist鈥檚 Talk with fat queer artist
March 24, 2014: Dr. Susan Stryker - the Transgender Turn, Margaret Lowe Benston Series
March 21, 2014: Book Launch & Reading 鈥� The Bridge Generation: A Queer Elders鈥� Chronicle from No Rights to Civil Rights, Edited by host artists Claire Robson and Kelsey Blair
March 13, 2014: 鈥淩e-mapping Anorexia: Trans-ordered Eating and Affect鈥�, Public Lecture by Dr. Janis Ledwell-Hunt, Vancouver Island University, Fat Matters
2013
November 21, 2013: Dr. Bidisha Ray - 'Stuck in the middle with you': The story of India's transgendered Hijra community, Herstory Cafe
2012
January 27, 2012: Jessica Yee, "Feminism for Real in the Academic Feminist Classroom" Workshop, HC Campus, Vancouver
January 27, 2012: Jessica Yee, "Marginalization Doesn't Happen by Accident: Colonialism and Violence from the State" Lecture/Book Signing, HC Campus, Vancouver
2011
January 20, 2011: Herstory Caf茅: "Awfully Devoted Women, Lesbian Lives in Canada 1900-65" Book Launch by Cameron Duder. Co-sponsored
March 30, 2011: Book launch and discussion: Kouri T. Keenan & Joan Brockman, "Mr Big" and Rebecca Haskell & Brian Burtch "Get that Freak: Homophobia and Transphobia in High Schools," (Fernwood Publishing) at Ardea Books and Art
August 26-30,2011: Ann Ceutkovich and Jessica Yee , "We Demand: History/Sex/Activism in Canada" Conference and Film Program, Pacific Cinematieque, Vancouver, BC
2010
August 18, 2010: Dr. Helen Leung hosted the Archival Classic! programme at Vancouver's Queer Film Festival this year with the screening of Stanley Kwan's 1996 documentary Yang 卤 Yin: Gender In Chinese Cinema. Vancity Theatre. Discussion follows.
October 14, 2010: Press release: Rebecca Haskell, Brian Burtch, "Get That Freak: Homophobia and Transphobia in High Schools" Fernwood Publishing.
October 30, 2010: Fundraising event for Surrey Pride 2011. "Something Wicked," The Blue Corvette Longe, Surrey.
November 20, 2010: "Transgender Day of Remembrance." An occasion to memorialize those who were killed due to hatred or prejudice.
November 23, 2010: "Contemporary Refugee Issues" Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Refugees, Vancouver Public Library
2006-2008
February 10, 2006: Leslie Feinberg, 鈥淭ransformations,鈥� Vancouver Public Library.
October 4, 2007: Susan Stryker, 鈥淪creaming Queens: The Riot at Compton鈥檚 Cafeteria鈥�
October 12, 2007: David Halperin, 鈥淲hat do Gay Men Want? An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity鈥�
March 13, 2008: Helen Hok-Sze Leung, 鈥淟ocal Sex on Global Screens: Reflections on the New Queer Asian Cinema鈥�
November 21, 2008: Louis-Georges Tin at 丁香园AV Harbour Centre, Vancouver, 鈥淒econstructing Homophobia: Asserting LGBT Rights in a Globalized World鈥�