ECUAD DONOR MAP THE CAMPUS Land and Place Acknowledgement- Old campus + New campus Announced at a throne speech in 2010, we moved from Granville Island which was near the long-time seasonal Sḵwx̱wú7mesh village Sen̓áḵw meaning “inside at the head” in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh snichím (language) became permanent in 1876 and was ‘dozed by settlers in 1913 to start building a road in what is known as Stanley Park. Our campus is now on Skwácháy̓s, translated as water that comes up from ground below, right now underneath it all pretty much encompasses all of the concrete now called Strathcona, South Flats, and part of Mount Pleasant neighbourhoods. Nearby was also X̱áywá7esks, “a narrow passage” or “two points exactly opposite” referring to the narrow point of the waterway, and now speaks to the Science World areas. All of this Land, Air, and Water is stewarded by Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ ̓ílwətaʔ, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations, stolen and occupied by settlers through active colonization that is inherent to property and capitalism. How did we get here in this shiny new campus “owning” the Land? Who are our donors that paid for this? Where do we find them in our school and in our neighbourhoods? How much of the “property” in East Van do they own? What other capital investments do they hold? Who does our being here serve? And ultimately, how can we disrupt this built-in power imbalance to be better neighbours? ECUAD DONOR MAP THE CAMPUS | Mickey M. & Mickey V. MappingEastVan@gmail.com Reliance Theatre Reliance Properties president is Jon Stovell, started in real estate knowing the son of Jack Leshgold, who owned the company back then Reliance donated $7 million to build the theatre and Leshgold Gallery/READ Second biggest “property owners” in Gastown, which Stovell frames as downtown, but is really East Van gentrified (is it East Van still?) Stovell said “there is ‘massive demand’ for creativity in property development” meaning ECUAD is a labour market. See Libby Leshgold Gallery + READ to learn more about what Jon thinks about the neighbours around one of Reliance’s Downtown Eastside buildings Burn’s Block Chip Wilson Plaza LEVEL 1 Ron Burnett Library Chip Wilson Plaza Former president and vice chancellor until 2018 when he went on his contractual one year (2018-19) paid sabbatical (paid vacay, not unusual for execs’) Developer and renoviction extraordinaire Lowtide properties own good ol’ millennial-targeted office space South Flatz For a more detailed analysis see the poster, QR code on LEVEL 4 Highest paid at ECUAD, even in 2019 he was paid over $200,000 Though influential in enacting the new campus, in a Tyee article he explains about the “compromises” that limit urban-capitalist-utopia potential of False Creek Flats redevelopment ECUAD DONOR MAP THE CAMPUS | Mickey M. & Mickey V. MappingEastVan@gmail.com Rennie Hall A master of media and marketing with data analysis, the real estate brokerage Rennie is owned by Bob Rennie A large donor to the Liberal Party, and negotiated the deal that landed the partial government funding of our building Art-Washing- In this institution are a few of many creatives in Rennie’s collection laundering his reputation from someone who ruins lives to someone who “supports arts and culture” Marketed Woodward’s building, displaced houseless folks who had taken up residence since it’s closing. Not a social housing complex DTES community demanded, Woodward’s is 500+ market condos on 200 social housing units. Rennie’s tagline? “Be bold or move to suburbia” LEVEL 2 Libby Leshgold Gallery + READ RBC Media Gallery RBC is a huge investor in fossil fuels. Reliance developed Burn’s Block, a locally detested building in DTES... The industry is well-known to effect tho the president Jon Stovell attributes “crime” around this “proper- Indigenous communities and people in vity” to addiction rather than admitting this building is a monument of olation of Land sovereignty and to cause (more) local dispossession! Of course they’re mad! Stovell also comMMIW2G with man-camps. This action is pares it to “Strathcona where young families feel unsafe and at risk part of the overall colonial project which because of drug use and addiction in the homeless camp at the park” continues to be reproduced through pipelines as much as gentrification. For Reliance Properties, like all those with dominant stake in this displacement economy neoliberal capitalist profit> ethics, empathy & RBC invested in in DAPL and continues to community care. See Reliance Theatre fore more info on Leshgold fund TMX pipeline in “BC” & “Alberta” ECUAD DONOR MAP THE CAMPUS | Mickey M. & Mickey V. MappingEastVan@gmail.com Ian Gillespie Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media Gillespie’s firm also “bought” and developed a large chunk of Mount Pleasant “property” into tech offices in 2016, the year before ECUAD new campus opened Westbank, Ian Gillespie’s firm, developed the Woodwards building which is a housing complex that is mostly-condos built against the will of the existing residents. Gillespie is described in the National Post as “developer” and “art-lover” To understand the marketing of the redevelfollowed by his commission of a photo-mural from Stan Doug- oped Woodwards building by another art-washed las on the Gastown Riots. This is a stark example of art-wash- donor see Bob Rennie’s Rennie Hall ing: the development is made to seem better, more relatable/ trustworthy because it and Gillespie support art/creatives LEVEL 3 Emily Carr is upheld as someone who knew Indigenous people well enough to act as a kind of lorax to speak to the white high-art audience. There are several who have written on the use of a white These two ideas cannot both be true: woman as ‘Indigenous-enough’ to represent Indigeneity but civilized/ -Emily Carr has/had an equitable relation- educated (white) enough to be seen and heard in these institutions ship with Indigenous nations on the coast founded and run by colonizers. This is not in the past, the idea of -Emily Carr deserved to be a part of the her being used for colonial purposes is active (obviously), and as Group of Seven, the “Canadian” colonial Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets’lo:tseltun put simply “Why would landscape painting canon they show an Aboriginal artist when they had Emily Carr?” Emily Carr University of Art + Design ECUAD DONOR MAP THE CAMPUS | Mickey M. & Mickey V. MappingEastVan@gmail.com Audain Faculty of Fine Arts Logically, since this zoning surrounding ECUAD is mixed live-work properties, Polygon would develop university “properties” here when given Michael Audain is chairman of Polygon the chance. Again, we are a consumer-base and an anchor for the local Homes, a development firm who built economy. the Foundry in South Flats in 2009, and they also have built several conIn his view, the biggest problem facing “vancouver” is “How to build do towers on the “property” of the much taller buildings to accommodate those who want to live here, other two local universities. without sacrificing Vancouver’s precious lifestyle.” What about those who do not fit within the marketable ideals of the “precious lifestyle”? LEVEL 4 (RE)SOURCES Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies Jake Kerr donated over a million dollars to the institution, like many of the people and orgs. who have areas named after them including: Audain Foundation, Ian Gillespie, Reliance Properties, Chip & Shannon Wilson He was also an IDEA campaign executive funraisng for our new campus ECUAD DONOR MAP THE CAMPUS | Mickey M. & Mickey V. Scan the QR or click here THE CAMPUS is one map in the ECUAD DONOR MAP series connecting some of the biggest donors for our new campus to gentrification and other Place-based violence. The series is by Mickey Vescera and Mickey Morgan for FALL 2020 SOCS-302 Ethics of Representation. The series is also part of Mickey M.’s gratuation project Mapping East Van MappingEastVan@gmail.com