- About
- Centre for Communications and the Arts
- Calendars of Events & Happenings
- Event Poster Collection
- The Communications Centre: Experiment in human experience
- Jade: Flower-child happenings and conceptual art projects in 1969
- Nini Baird: A Day in the Hectic Life of the Arts Centre Director
- Sound Recordings: Faculty Lectures from 1967 Communications Course
- Dance
- Film
- Literary Arts
- Music & Sound
- Music & Sound image gallery
- My "a-ha" moment with Murray Schafer
- World Soundscape Project
- Phillip Werren's electronic music
- Radio CKSF "on the air" fall 1966
- Robert Aitken performs with the Purcell String Quartet & Soundscape on radio
- David Skulski and the early music revival at SFU
- Phyllis Mailing: SFU Singer Who Reached the Top
- Purcell String Quartet: In High Demand
- Theatre
- Theatre at SFU: The First Ten Years
- Theatre image gallery
- How the early days of the arts at SFU changed my parochial little life
- Norm Browning, Jackie Crossland and Cece Granbois in Beverley Simons' new 1-act play "Greenlawn Rest Home"
- The Centralia Incident: "A theatre in search of a town鈥擜 town in search of its memory."
- The only escape: The early years of the SFU theatre
- Robin Patterson and the SFU Mime Troupe
- Theatre of Total Limbo
- Visual Arts
Theatre at SFU: The First Ten Years
Theatre began as part of the Centre for Communication and the Arts, and with a 450-seat theatre ready. Theatre was to be a spare-time activity for students, part of being different from UBC, an important consideration in the early years. "Students have responded to [not-for-credit activities] in an extraordinary way, in a way which is almost frightening, because for many of them, what they do here in theatre is much more real and meaningful than what they do in passing their credit courses," said Michael Bawtree in a 1968 interview in Stage in Canada.[1]
The Centre was intended not only to bring together all the arts but to house two professors of futurology. Several appointees, notably Tom Mallinson, sat around discussing how they could create a "new Bauhaus," not fully realising that there were time constraints.