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Join us on April 18 for a conversation with Manuel Herz, architect and Robert Jan van Pelt, curator.

The Synagogue at Babyn Yar is both a place of worship and a monument at a place with both a horrifying past and present. The site of the Holocaust’s first large-scale massacre, on 29 and 30 September 1941, is now also under threat of bomb and missile attack by the Russian Federation.

The Koffler Gallery, in partnership with Swiss Architect Manuel Herz and Canadian historian and curator Robert Jan van Pelt, announce the world-premiere exhibition of The Synagogue at Babyn Yar: Turning the Nightmare of Evil into a shared Dream of Good. 

This international exhibition is brought together with assistance from Canadian architect Douglas Birkenshaw and through architectural photography by celebrated Dutch phot

Robotic Clay: New Methods in Architectural Ceramics

June 2 to September 10, 2023

The exhibition will bring together academic institutions from across North America to showcase 3D-printed architectural ceramics. Combining traditional ceramic craft and robotic fabrication, the exhibition will explore how attuning emergent technologies to the unique properties of clay can create new form and spatial languages.

The Velocity $5K pitch competition offers the opportunity for University of Waterloo student-led teams with innovative solutions and high potential business ideas to showcase their hard work and compete for grant funding.

This is your opportunity to be in the audience as UWaterloo student teams pitch their startup ideas to a panel of judges from the local community. The top 8 teams from across night one and night two will move on to the Velocity $5K Finals on November 23rd to compete for a chance at one of four $5,000 prizes in grant funding to help turn their concept into a reality.