Growing Community and Building Futures

Join us for an evening of conversation with SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Science's 2025-26 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities about the exciting and innovative projects they have been working on during their residency.

The event is moderated by SFU English professor and poet Clint Burnham. It will be followed by a Q&A session and a catered reception. Doors open at 6:30pm, showcase begins at 7:00pm. This event is in-person only.

The Shadbolt Fellows are renowned writers, artists and scholars, bridging together the arts, community, and academia. Join us to learn how the 2025-26 Shadbolt Fellows are each carving new paths for the arts, humanities, and society at large. They don't stay in their lanes and neither should you.

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A traditionally trained Indigenous ethnobotanist and accomplished sculptural artist, Wyss' 36-year career as an artist has been very productive with 30+ presentations, residencies, and shows. Their projects have appeared in international and local art exhibitions, most recently at MIT’s ISO Incubator Program, the Swiss Institute in New York City, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, Semi-Public, 221A, Vancouver, and the Cabinet at SFU's School for Contemporary Arts.

During their fellowship, Wyss plans to bring settler students and the larger community to various sites within the Sto:lo region, the GVRD and the Howe Sound/Sunshine Coast region of the Salish Sea. These land-based conversations and walks will begin a dialogue about those places and their original context, and to compare this with the current land use and interpretations of the land – and engaging with ideas of remediation, restoration and cultural reciprocity.

An award-winning poet, translator, and accomplished literary programmer, they have published two poetry collections and two translations, which have collectively garnered accolades such as Winner of the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, Finalist for the Governor General Literary Award, and Finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Their latest translated work, Ring of Dust by Louise Marois, was published by Brick Books in spring 2025. During their fellowship, Bradford proposes to continue development of their hybrid-form manuscript Elsewhere, as well as grow an audio body of work based on these evolving texts. Through both this writing and recorded interviews with local literary artists, cultural workers, and SFU community members, their project seeks to investigate and open conversations about how people afford art and academic practices in unsustainably expensive cities.

is an actor, singer, creator and community organizer, who has produced two music albums and theatrical shows. Her albums have won the Western Canadian Music Award twice. She has also organized various educational programs about Black-Canadian history in Canada.

Continuing her passion to amplify and tell the many overlooked stories of Black Canadians, Dos Santos' project will put on a theatre show about the stories of the women who owned and ran the restaurant, Vie’s Chicken and Steaks in Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley. This performance will tell the larger story of the historical Hogan’s Alley community, starting with the migration of a group of Black Americans from San Francisco to Salt Spring Island where Vie was born, to the destruction of the beloved Hogan’s Alley neighbourhood in 1975.

An accomplished architecture professional and heritage scholar, Pan has served as Vice Director of Historic Architecture and Architectural Conservation Research Group (Soochow University) and Initiator and Organizer of the First China-Portugal Heritage Research Forum. Pan’s proposed project will fill the gap in research around the collective experiences of Chinese-Canadian architects within the city’s architectural and social history. Through documenting the professional journeys of three generations of Chinese-Canadian architects, she will capture oral histories of older architects for knowledge preservation. This will culminate in a publicly available creative map and digital guide of Chinese-Canadian architectural buildings in Metro Vancouver from 1900 to the present, along with published research.

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• We will do our best to accommodate dietary restrictions where possible.
• Washrooms are located on the lower level, second, third, and fourth floors. The venue has a gender-neutral washroom, available on the second floor (take the hallway to the right).
• All floors within the building are serviced by elevators. There are sidewalk let-downs (curb cuts) at the outdoor entrances as well.
• SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue is easily accessible by public transit or car. Enter via the Seymour Street courtyard entrance. The venue is a brief walk from Waterfront station and numerous bus stops.

• Parking: There are many parking garages around the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. The closest is at 500 & 400 W. Cordova St.
• Bike parking is available at the Hastings entrance of SFU Harbour Centre across the street from the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. Visit the Vancouver campus’s Cycling Resources for details on bicycle racks and cages.

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