A whole lot of design going on.
All events are FREE and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Event schedules are still a bit tentative at this point. Links to speaker bios and ticket purchasing information will be added shortly.
Download the handy "at-a-glance" Design Week schedule
Monday, November 14
7 pm - 8 pm Opening Night Cocktail Reception
Saskatoon Farmers' Market, 414 Ave B South
8 pm - 10 pm Speaker Series
Saskatoon Farmers' Market, 414 Ave B South
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (Toronto) is one of Canada's premier architecture studios. Its portfolio of work has grown in terms of diversity and quality, enabling it to attract exceptional clients from around the world. Regardless of scale, every project is conceived as a contextual response, to both site and a client's strategic vision. The firm is also the architect for the Remai Art Gallery of Saskatchewan. THIS PRESENTATION IS CANCELLED.
Tuesday, November 15
9 am - 5 pm Premier's Awards Design Competition Exhibit
Saskatoon Farmers' Market, 414 Ave B South
7 pm - 9 pm Speaker Series
Top of The Inn at the Sheraton Cavalier Hotel, 612 Spadina Crescent
Bernard Flaman (Regina) is a registered architect working in the field of Heritage Conservation. He will discuss his new book "Architecture in Saskatchewan: A Visual Journey, 1930-2011."
Valerie Elliott CGD (Victoria) is the National Sustainability Chair of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC). She authored the GDC Sustainability Principles and has acted as an advisor to the AIGA's Center for Sustainable Design. She is also the Managing and Creative Director of iD2 Communications Inc., a firm specializing in engagement strategies and sustainable communications design. Her talk will demonstrate how designers of all disciplines can make deep change through design thinking; fuelling the evolution of our communities, our culture and our professional practices.
Wednesday, November 16
1 pm - 5 pm Premier's Awards Design Competition Exhibit (note exhibit is closed in the morning for judging)
Saskatoon Farmers' Market, 414 Ave B South
7 pm - 10 pm Film Series
Robin Smith Memorial Lecture
Roxy Theatre, 320 20th St. W.
The Meewasin Valley Authority will present a short documentary "BioBlitz" about the importance of Saskatoon's Northeast Swale along the South Saskatchewan River. The film shows that the challenge for Meewasin and the City of Saskatoon is how best to manage and protect the area, not by fencing it off, but by conserving and providing public access to it with a sound management plan.
Q & A will follow.
Thursday, November 17
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Premier's Awards Design Competition Exhibit
Saskatoon Farmers' Market, 414 Ave B South
12 - 1:30 p.m. Luncheon Speaker
Saskatoon Club, 17 21st St E
$20 (includes lunch) Call RSVP Event Design @ 384-6044.
David Stubbs, B.Eng, P.Eng.The Canadian Masonry Design Centre is commited to providing masonry contractors and designers in Canada with tools and resources to facilitate the proper design and construction of masonry structures.
6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Film Series
Broadway Theatre, 715 Broadway Ave
"Migrating Landscapes" is a joint venture between 5468796 Architecture Inc. and Jae-Sung Chon (University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture), was selected as Canada's official entry to the 2012 Venice Biennale in Architecture. The project examines how experiences of immigration can be incorporated into designs for contemporary housing that also respond to today's architectural, geographic and cultural environments. A representative from Migrating Landscapes will discuss the competition, the Venice project, and how things are progressing.
"The Man Who Built My Childhood" is Brian Stockton's series of humourous autobiographical shorts that takes a detour into architecture with "appendix" about renowned Saskatchewan architect Joseph Pettick.
"Beautiful Losers" is a documentary by Aaron Rose that celebrates the independent spirit of D.I.Y. (do-it-yourself) culture in the art world. The film details how a group of like-minded American artists emerged from the underground in the early 1990s to have an enormous impact on the worlds of fashion, film, art, music, and pop culture in general.
Reception to follow.
Friday, November 18
9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Premier's Awards Design Competition Entries Exhibit
Saskatoon Farmers' Market, 414 Ave B South
6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Premiers Design Awards Reception
Saskatoon Farmer's Market, 414 Ave B South
Tickets $35
Purchase tickets online at picatic.com
Check out fresh, homegrown professional design at the Saskatoon Farmers' market.
Aside from handing out the awards, this is a great opportunity to get out and celebrate with Saskatchewan's professional design community.
Food, refreshments and entertainment.
Public welcome.
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