CAPILANO UNIVERSITY Chancellor’s Dinner

Honouring Skw'cháys

One of CapU’s annual events include a Chancellor’s Dinner, where guests gather to celebrate and donate.

To celebrate Capilano University's 50th anniversary, CapU worked with Indigenous carvers who crafted and gifted a traditional Coast Salish canoe - Skw'cháys - to the university, as a symbol of the univerisity’s commitment to Truth & Reconciliation.

The theme for this years’ Chancellor’s Dinner was to honour Skw'cháys and gather donations for the support and construction of a permanent home for the canoe.

To align the design with the theme of the event, I created display graphics, social graphics, table setting cards, among other pieces, that matched the elegant theme of the event, making sure to create a design that honoured those who worked on the creation of the canoe.