Two PhD candidates in 91亚色鈥檚 Graduate Program in Music are among the half-dozen international scholars awarded study grants this year by the Morroe Berger 鈥 Benny Carter Jazz Research Fund. The awards enabled Bonnie Brett and Ryan Bruce to advance their doctoral research with a visit to the prestigious Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers […]
Oscar-nominated screenwriter and accomplished American playwright Bruce Jay Friedman has a new collection of selected works coming out, and it鈥檚 being published by 91亚色鈥檚 Leaping Lion Books, which is run by students in the Professional Writing Program. The launch of 3.1 Plays will take place Thursday, March 1, from noon to 3pm, at the […]
Established and emerging artists in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Fine Arts bring their collective talents to a riveting new production of a baroque classic: Henry Purcell鈥檚 opera Dido and Aeneas. This epic story of love and betrayal plays out at the Sandra Faire聽& Ivan Fecan Theatre on 91亚色鈥檚 Keele campus for two performances only, March […]
Trombonist Ron Westray, Oscar Peterson Chair in Jazz Performance in 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Music, returns to Toronto鈥檚 Massey Hall on Thursday, Feb. 23 for an innovative youth outreach program. He will lead 鈥淩hythm Counts鈥, an invitational workshop for young people, just before his former bandmates, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra led by Wynton […]
91亚色鈥檚 Department of Dance is spearheading an innovative health initiative that sends students into the community to lead weekly dance activity classes for older adults at partner institutions in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The program, supported by the Government of Ontario鈥檚 Healthy Communities Fund, focuses on the positive and preventative effects that dance […]
playGround, the annual juried fringe festival of 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Theatre, celebrates its 20th season with two dynamic programs running Feb. 14 to 17 in the Joseph G. Green Studio Theatre,聽139 Centre for Film & Theatre at91亚色鈥檚 Keele campus. Well-known for its uncurbed spirit and risk-taking mindset, playGround is a student-produced seedbed for the […]
Graduate students Shannon Roberts, Nancy聽Latoszewski Greyeyes and Ilse Gudi帽o, candidates in 91亚色鈥檚 Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in choreography and dance dramaturgy, premiere new choreographies for ensembles in Temenos. The show, performed by professional and pre-professional dancers, runs Feb.聽15 to 17 in the Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan Theatre at聽the Keele campus. Shannon Roberts. […]
From investigating how typography could reduce medication errors to using math as a tool to teach jazz, Faculty of Fine Arts scholars and practitioners have a fascinating array of research projects to share聽during the Fine Arts Research Celebration Monday, Feb. 6. Robert Hach茅, vice-president research & innovation, and Barbara Sellers-Young, dean of the Faculty of […]
Two of Canada鈥檚 leading classical performers come together for a concert featuring contemporary Canadian works on Tuesday, Jan. 17 in the Tribute Communities Recital Hall at 91亚色鈥檚 Keele campus. Violinist Jacques Israelievitch and pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico, both professors in 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Music, offer an evening of repertoire as diverse and inspiring as the […]
Alistair Newton, a聽Toronto-based playwright and director of theatre and opera, will digitally screen some of his work and engage in a discussion and Q&A tomorrow with film Professor Marie Rickard, the master of 91亚色鈥檚 Winters College. The event, Queering Theatre in Toronto, will take place Thursday, from 2 to 4pm, in Winters Senior Common Room, […]
The Faculty of Fine Arts at 91亚色 is expanding its international relations and deepening existing relationships with an 18-day trip to India. The trip, which began Jan. 1, continues until Jan. 18.聽A team of senior academic and administrative staff will visit Chennai, Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai, with stops at notable universities, fine arts […]
Toronto-based playwright and director of theatre and opera, Alistair Newton will digitally screen some of his work and engage in a discussion and Q&A with film Professor Marie Rickard, the master of 91亚色鈥檚 Winters College, in January. The event, Queering Theatre in Toronto, will take place Thursday, Jan 5, 2012, from 2 to 4pm in […]
International students can benefit tremendously from a film education in North America, Europe or Asia, wrote AsianCorrespondent.com Dec. 5, in a story about the world鈥檚 top film schools. If and when they return to their home countries, they may employ the skills learned in building their native film industries. Below we have listed 10 of […]
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Emotionally raw and deeply human, womanhood and marginalization, these are just a few of the words that describe the聽two newest books of poems and conversations coming from 91亚色 English and creative writing聽Professor Patricia Keeney. There are three launches scheduled for Keeney's new books,聽First Woman (Inanna Publications) and You Bring Me Wings (ANTARES Publishing House of […]
Theatre @ 91亚色 launches its 2011-2012 season with the world premiere of a new adaptation of John Vanbrugh's English Restoration romp, The Provok鈥檇 Wife. Director Vikki Anderson (left),聽of Toronto鈥檚 DVxT Theatre Company, commissioned playwright and actor Rick Roberts to rework this tragicomic roller coaster ride on the subject of relationships. Witness the rich behaving badly […]
Want to know聽what it takes to edit an anthology or what is happening in the Canadian poetry publishing scene? Join the 91亚色 Creative Writing Speaker Series as authors Barry Dempster, Andrew Faulkner, Daniel Scott Tsydal and Priscila Uppal read and discuss poetry. Left: Priscila Uppal The four will read from their work in the new […]
Soprano Janet Obermeyer steps into the spotlight聽with her long-time collaborator, pianist Leslie De鈥橝th, in a recital of songs by Richard Strauss for聽a showcase performance聽Nov. 1聽at 7:30pm in 91亚色鈥檚 Tribute Communities Recital Hall. Obermeyer's appearance on the 91亚色 concert stage is the聽second event in the 2011-2012 Faculty Concert Series of 91亚色鈥檚 Music Department. Left: From left, […]
What does it mean to be indigenous? What do the history books of today leave out? Writer, photographer and filmmaker Tracy Kim Assing explores these questions and more in her first documentary film, The Amerindians. The 40-minute film will screen Wednesday, Oct. 19, from 12:30 to 2pm, in the Nat Taylor Cinema, N102 Ross Building, […]
A cross section of creative artists from the Faculty of Fine Arts is on deck for tomorrow's聽all-night art party. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, which will take place throughout downtown聽Toronto, features the work of more than 500 local, national and international artists聽 Theatre Professor Shawn Kerwin collaborated with Laurel McDonald to create "Alone Together", an 鈥渁rt-app鈥 for […]