Research As… with Justin Ducharme

From January to March 2024, writer & filmmaker Justin Ducharme will be programming events on campus at Emily Carr University sharing insight into the research practice behind his upcoming feature film project SEVENTEEN. He will be presenting screenings, leading a workshop and hosting discussions that highlight the research that goes into his own creative practice.

Seventeen is a feature film that was written, and will be directed, by Justin Ducharme. The story follows three urban indigenous people whose lives intersect over the course of seventeen hours through chaos, circumstance and the shared experience of familial and colonial displacement.

This is the first installment of a new public program series from Libby Leshgold Gallery and READ Books titled, Research As… Please follow our social media accounts for further details about each event.

Justin Ducharme is a writer, filmmaker and curator from the Métis community of St. Ambroise on Treaty 1 Territory. He was a fellow in the Sundance Film Festival's 2022 Native Film Lab with his television pilot "Positions” adapted from his short film. He was the recipient of the Toronto International Film Festival's Barry Avrich Fellowship and is an alumni of their 2021 TIFF Filmmaker Lab. Justin is also the co-editor of Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers Poetry published by Arsenal Pulp Press. His writing has been featured in Canadian Art, Sex Worker Wisdom, Room Magazine, Prism International and Filmmaker Mag. He currently lives and works on the Unceded Coast Salish Territory colonially known as Vancouver.

Research As… is a new public program from READ Books and Libby Leshgold Gallery that makes creative research visible. Artists, writers, curators, designers, performers, filmmakers, and more are invited to engage with ECU and the wider arts community in a series of public programs that present their research practices.

Full Public Event Schedule

Islands of Decolonial Love: Reading & Reception
January 12th, 6:00 PM
Aboriginal Gathering Place
Emily Carr University of Art + Design

KIN. Screening & Social
January 23rd, 2024
Social at 6:30PM / Screening at 7:30PM DJ set by DJAMA
Libby Leshgold Gallery
Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Open Studio
February 12th - 14th, 12-5 PM ECU
Library Artist Book Room
Emily Carr University of Art + Design

WRITING WORKSHOP: CHARACTER MONOLOGUE
February 13th, 2:00 PM
ECU Library Artist Book Room
Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Seventeen, A LIVE Table Read
March 7th, 6:30 PM
Libby Leshgold Gallery
Emily Carr University of Art + Design

REALITY TV AS RESEARCH… real Housewives Watch Party w/ Chandra Melting Tallow
March 27th, 6:30 PM
Libby Leshgold Gallery
Emily Carr University of Art + Design

GUSH by fox maxy, film screening
February 20th, 7:00 PM
Reliance Theatre
Emily Carr University of Art + Design