A film by 91亚色 Associate Professor聽Patrick Alcedo聽earned the Best Short Documentary award at the聽Cannes Indies Cinema Awards聽on July 10. The film, titled聽They Call Me Dax, tells the story of 15-year-old Dorothy Echipare who struggles to survive as a high-school student and ballet dancer while living alone in a poor urban district in Quezon City, […]
Hatsumi: One Grandmother's Journey through the Japanese Canadian Internment premiered at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre on Sunday, April 1. It was聽part of a larger conference hosted by the centre to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Japanese Canadian Internment. The film by Osgoode grad Chris Hope (JD 鈥04) offers a moving account of Japanese […]
In commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Racism, the Centre for Human Rights聽鈥 in collaboration with the 91亚色 United Black Students鈥 Alliance (YUBSA) 鈥 is screening the documentary film Colour Me. The screening will take place聽Wednesday, March 21 at 280N 91亚色 Lanes, Keele campus. A light lunch will be served starting at […]
The Art Gallery of 91亚色 starts 2012 by looking back. The exhibition Will Munro: History, Glamour, Magic is about the history that Toronto artist Will Munro based his work on and the history he was聽鈥撀爃is glam subjects and the glamorous one he was 鈥 and聽the magic dimension of his last work. Munro, who was […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tricky math and haunting messages accumulate in unresolved poetics this fall at the Art Gallery of 91亚色 (AGYU).聽 The AGYU invites you to "surge out there" as it joins with Raqs Media Collective: technological poets for an India in transition, to present their newest exhibit 聽Surjection. Of the current generation of Indian artists, the […]
Five 91亚色 professors have been appointed directors at聽91亚色 research centres.聽 The new directors are Professor Colin Coates, director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies (RCCS); Professor Laurence Harris, director of the Centre for Vision Research (CVR); Professor Christina Kraenzle, director of the Canadian Centre for German聽& European Studies (CCGES); Professor David Mutimer, director of […]
Vinay Virmani [BA Hons. 鈥08] is no stranger to waiting in TIFF鈥檚 notoriously long lineups, but this year the Brampton boy will be walking right up the red carpet, reported Now聽Magazine Sept. 10.聽 鈥淚t鈥檚 a dream come true,鈥 says Virmani, the writer and star of the new Masala-flavoured hockey movie Breakaway, which gets its world […]
And as the film world continues its rapid transition from traditional 2 D celluloid film to 3 D digital, a weekend conference at the TIFF Bell Lightbox is aimed at boosting the Toronto film community鈥檚 chances of capitalizing on the next wave in film 鈥 3-D, wrote the Toronto Star June 9: The [Toronto International […]
Conference driven by 91亚色 research in digital media, psychology, vision and computer science The Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D Conference, a one-of-a-kind gathering of experts in stereoscopic 3D art and entertainment, takes place in Toronto June 11 to 14. Major figures from the USA, UK, Russia, Germany and Canada will convene at TIFF Bell Lightbox to […]
Hailing it as 鈥渙ne of the best film schools in Canada鈥, the Canadian Film Centre鈥檚 Worldwide Short Film Festival (WSFF) is honouring 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Film with a dedicated retrospective screening at the Royal Ontario Museum on June 1. Now in its 17th year,聽WSFF is the leading venue for the exhibition and promotion of […]
The Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D Conference, a one-of-a-kind gathering of experts in stereoscopic 3D art and entertainment, takes place in Toronto June 11 to 14. Major figures from the USA, UK, Russia, Germany and Canada will convene at TIFF Bell Lightbox to address and analyze the latest developments in the field. The first of its […]
91亚色 nursing Professor Christine Jonas-Simpson has always been keenly interested in loss and grief, how people experience it and how they integrate it into their lives in a continuing way. It was while doing research on daughters who had lost their mothers to Alzheimer鈥檚 disease that Jonas-Simpson experienced what she calls 鈥渢he deepest loss of聽my […]
Environmental studies Professor Timothy Leduc (MES 鈥01, PhD 鈥07) will be part of a panel discussing the environment, following a free screening of the documentary film Climate Refugees. The screening will take place Friday, April 29, from 6:30 to 8pm in Room 2158 JJR MacLeod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building, 1 King鈥檚 College Circle, University of […]
The National Post鈥檚 Popcorn Panel March 18 on the film Red Riding Hood included Alison Halsall, adjunct professor of English literature at 91亚色 [Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies]. She has published articles on 鈥淪outh Park鈥 and Harry Potter, and is working on a study of the Victorian legacy in graphic novels: 鈥淩ed […]
91亚色 will host the Canadian聽premiere screening of a new feature-length documentary about Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the few professional women painters of 17th-century聽Italy. The film A Woman Like That will be screened tonight in the Nat Taylor Cinema, N102 Ross tonight from 6:30 to 9:15pm. Created by New 91亚色 filmmaker Ellen Weissbrod, this documentary […]
The Department of Film celebrates the work of recent alumni and current candidates in the master's program in film production with a screening of graduate works from 2009 to 2011. Dubbed "Depth of Field", two free programs of short films will be screened tonight, March 7, at 7pm and 9pm at Toronto鈥檚 TIFF Bell Lightbox. […]
CBC's The Nature of Things aired its Raccoon Nation documentary Feb. 24, featuring 91亚色 psychology and biology Professor Suzanne MacDonald and PhD student Marc Dupuis-Desormeaux: The researchers tagged the raccoons with GPS collars to log their travels throughout the city, recording them at up to 1,500 points over six weeks. They found that the raccoons […]
91亚色 visual arts Professor Katherine Knight鈥檚 documentary film about influential Winnipeg artist Wanda Koop in some ways mirrors the style found in Koop鈥檚 paintings: full of colour and precise, playing with the idea of glancing and observation, and entering into a world where the real and the abstract co-exist. The world premiere of the 52-minute […]