ECU x Mount Pleasant

In tandem with Emily Carr University’s centennial celebrations, we’re moving out into the neighbourhood! Celebrating students, alumni and members of the ECU community, ECU x Mount Pleasant highlights collaborations with some of our favourite institutions, artists and venues.  

100 Years in the Making | This series has been curated in support of ECU 100, Emily Carr University of Art + Design’s centennial anniversary.

ECU x MP: Craftsmanship
Western Front
Thursday, November 20, 7:30 PM

Organized by Peter Bussigel and Susan Gibb  
Working with Western Front visiting artist Itziar Okariz, ECU students will share insights from Craftsmanship, a workshop that reflects on performance both in its specificity and at the limits that define it. The workshop engages practical exercises that consider the body as a sign and language in its positional and performative dimensions. 

ECU x MP: Boots ‘n’  Cats
The Birdhouse
Friday, January 9, 7 PM

Curated by Katria Phothong-McKinnon (BMA ‘25)
Merging performance, sound/music and celebration to bridge the vibrant local communities of Ballroom and Hip Hop/Street Dance. This evening brings these forms into dialogue, the event highlights their shared spirit of resilience, artistry and community, calling in future, present and past Emily Carr alumni alongside the wider community, the event expands what performance can be within the contemporary art context. Positioning Ballroom and Street Dance as not only cultural practices but as vital, living art forms that challenge and reimagine how performance enters and transforms institutional spaces.

ECU x MP: End of Greatness
Eugene Choo and Collage Collage
April 9, 7 PM

Curated by Maiko Yamamoto (MAA, ‘14)
As the final installment of the ECU x Mt Pleasant performance series, we’re delighted to present a studio showing of the new multidisciplinary performance work End of Greatness. Conceived by friends, longtime collaborators and ECU alumni Veda Hille and Maiko Yamamoto the show also brings together fellow alums Geoffrey Farmer and Hitoko Okada. Through songs and music, dialogue, mythology, art objects, choreography and cake, End of Greatness conjoins microscopic intricacies with cosmological concepts to explore what it means to accept the dire elements of our time. Hosted by Main Street icons Collage Collage and Eugene Choo, the artists will present excerpts and tidbits of the work against a backdrop of fashion, friendship and play.