Performance

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

CSTV Movie Night: Jurassic Park (1993)

CSTV hosts a series of movie screenings and discussions.  All UWaterloo students, faculty and staff are welcome!  Free admission!  Free popcorn!

Next up—September 16, 2025—Jurassic Park (1993): An ambitious industrialist invites experts to vet his theme park filled with genetically engineered dinosaurs but things get real when sabotage turns the creatures loose on their visitors.

See you in E5 2004.  Bring a friend!

Friday, July 11, 2025 7:00 pm - 10:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Akira (1988)

CSTV hosts a series of movie screenings and discussions.  All UWaterloo students, faculty and staff are welcome!  Free admission!  Free popcorn!

This screening is being held with the UW Movie Club.

Next up—July 11, 2025—Akira (1988): Biker gang leader Kaneda struggles to help his friend Tetsuo, whose suddenly manifesting psychic powers threaten all of Neo Tokyo.

See you in AL 116 @ 7pm.  Bring a friend!

Tuesday, June 10, 2025 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

CSTV Movie night: Ex Machina

CSTV hosts a series of movie screenings and discussions.  All UWaterloo students, faculty and staff are welcome!  Free admission!  Free popcorn!

Next up—June 10, 2025—Ex Machina (2014): This movie revisits the classic Frankenstein story in which an artificial person is made to prove herself to her high-tech creators.

See you in E5 6008 at 6:30pm.  Bring a friend!

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

CSTV Movie Night: The Matrix (1999)

CSTV hosts a series of movie screenings and discussions.  All UWaterloo students, faculty and staff are welcome!  Free admission!  Free popcorn!

Next up—May 13, 2025—The Matrix (1999): This movie combined cyberpunk themes with kung fu and lots of guns to raise issues of human freedom in the age of AI!

See you in E5 6008 at 6:30pm.  Bring a friend!

Tuesday, March 4, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

CSTV Movie night: Blade Runner

Join us to enjoy and discuss the classic Sci-Fi movie Blade Runner (1982) by Ridley Scott!  Free popcorn!  Free admittance!  Screening followed by a discussion of the movie's relation to technology and society today!

Open to all Waterloo students, staff, and faculty.

See you March 4 @ 6:30pm in E5 6004!

Friday, June 14, 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Chasing Time (film screening)

The documentary Chasing Time will be screened with a following panel discussion, Friday in the E7 event space (2nd floor).  The documentary is the visually stunning culmination of the Extreme Ice Survey project: an unprecedented 15-year photographic record of the melting glaciers around the world.

Admission is free.  RSVP at the event site.

This event is part of the visit of David and Linda Cornfield to the Systems Design Engineering department.  David Cornfield is a Waterloo Engineering graduate ('85), who went on to a successful career with Microsoft.  David and Linda Cornfield turned their attention to philanthropy and environmentalism, choosing to support projects that will have great social and environmental impact.

Chatting Time is a follow-up to the documentary Chasing Ice (2012).

Thursday, November 10, 2022 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

CSTV movie night: Rossum's Universal Robots

Join us to watch and discuss a performance of Karel Čapek's (1920) play "Rossum's Universal Robots," the work that introduced the word and concept of "robot" to the world.  

When robots rise up, will humanity fall?

See you on November 10 at 7pm in E5 6006.  Free admittance & free popcorn!

This performance is a presentation of Battle Damage Theater.