LOCUS/FOCUS: Language and Landscape in Classical Chinese Garden Culture1 min read

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Screen shot 2013-11-17 at 1.14.13 PMLOCUS/FOCUS: Language and Landscape in Classical Chinese Garden Culture is a Collective for the Advanced and United Studies in the Visual Arts (CAUSA) Research Symposium. It is being held tomorrow, 17 November 2013, in partnership with the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver.

Programme:
Morning Session: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Afternoon Session: 1:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Location:
Chinese Cultural Centre Museum, 555 Columbia Street, Vancouver, BC
FREE and open to the public.

Keynote Speaker:

·Dr. Jan Walls, Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University
“The Contemporary Therapeutic Function of a Classical Chinese Garden”

Contributing Speakers:

·David Bellman, Research Curator (formerly Director-Chief Curator, McCord Museum, McGill University)
·M. Cynog Evans, Research Curator (co-founder, CAUSA/Collective for Advanced and Unified Studies in the Visual Arts)
“The ‘Contemporaneity’ of ‘Classical’ Chinese Garden Culture”

·Professor Terry Russell, Asian Studies Centre, University of Manitoba
”Inscription and Landscape: Reading the Dr.Sun Yat-Sen Garden”

For more information, contact:
604.658.8880, museum2@cccvan.com.

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