Faculty of Art
December 2025 I I Don’t Know Where I’m Going, But I’m Going
It started with a conversation about Vancouver bus routes, one of those unexpected detours that happens in the middle of a meeting. Carolyn pulled up Google Maps to help me make sense of my poor direction skills and general confusion about how to get anywhere in this city. Soon we were zooming in and out […]
November 2025 I “Spoiler: She Didn’t Hire Me…”
The first message I ever sent on LinkedIn was a carefully crafted paragraph singing the praises of a marketing executive at a communications company. She had written a post about how nervous she’d felt looking for a job after graduating, and I thought: finally, someone real on this app. So I spent a week drafting, […]
October 2025 I The Art of Making Time (When You Don’t Have Any)
The Art of Making Time (When You Don’t Have Any) October feels like that part of the semester where time starts to blur. One day I’m opening fresh notebooks, the next I’m staring down midterms, looming deadlines, and an inbox exploding with workshop and event invites. Among them? The Arts Amplifier’s entrepreneurship panel on Oct […]
September 2025 I Plotting Possibilities (Career Curiosities Edition)
Hi! I’m Marjorie Rugunda, the new Communications & Programming Assistant at Arts Amplifier and a second-year PhD student in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice. I’m also an avid reader, professional napper, day-dreamer, and occasional “out-fit repeater.” When I began my master’s, the word career barely crossed my mind. “Career? I’m […]
April 2025 | Off to the alternate universe I go!
Okay, so I don’t know if or how this has manifested in your circles, but I swear, based on an n of maybe 10, there is this graduate student phenomenon where we are all actually just fantasizing about opening up one or more of the following three things: a coffee shop, flower shop, or bookshop. […]
March 2025 | It’s been a busy month!
This truly is the busiest time of the year, I say, every month. But really, with many of our flagship events and opportunities opening up in Term 2, a lot has happened here at the Arts Amplifier! So, let’s take this opportunity to recap ✨ what we have been up to (and to showcase a […]
February 2025 | Great Expectations
I don’t really have time to read for pleasure anymore and don’t worry, I would never try to add more recommendations to your endless list of content to get to one day (or never at all)… but here are some books we have been reading at the Arts Amplifier which might help orient you, especially […]
January 2025 | New Year, New Network
New Year’s Resolutions for 2025: 1. Shed the weight… of needing a new job I am an emotional eater. Whenever I feel anxious, despondent, melancholic, brooding, I will inevitably have a pair of chopsticks wrist deep into a family size bag of BBQ flavored potato chips. During what is supposedly the last year of my […]
December 2024 | Bad Feelings
During our panel discussion event on November 21, a group of graduate and undergraduate students from last year’s Entrepreneurship Workshop Series cohorts came together to reflect on their experiences—how they came to the workshops, what they learned, and what has happened in the year since. Among the undergraduates, there was the usual youthful sense of […]
November 2024 | Boss Babes Unite
When I asked a friend recently what came to mind when hearing the word “entrepreneurship,” her exact words in response were: “A dudebro. At a Ted Talk. Saying insufferable BS”, a Six(ish)-Word Poem. Truly, what does entrepreneurship even mean outside of this image it invariably summons (something, something, signified, signifier)? This image and the ethos […]