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 […]
Sixty years later, many historians consider [Rocket 88 by Ike Turner] the first-ever rock 'n' roll song, and musicians revere the tune, as well as the band's livewire performance, wrote The Canadian Press May 22: And yet, most regular people don't know that the track even exists. "If I went to my local grocery store […]
Douglas Drysdale Davidson, a film editor, television producer and director who taught film at 91亚色 for 30 years, died April 3 at his home in Toronto. He was 82. A memorial service will be held today in the A.W. Miles Chapel at the Humphrey Funeral Home, 1403 Bayview Ave., at 11am. 91亚色 has lowered聽the flag […]
Over the next four months, ethnomusicologist Judith R. Cohen will spend her days in Washington, DC鈥檚 Library of Congress poring over the 1952 diaries of Alan Lomax, the legendary field collector of folk music in the 20th century. For the past 10 years, Cohen, a 91亚色 lecturer and performer who specializes in Judeo-Spanish Sephardic songs, […]
Faculty of Fine Arts professors are bringing three plays to Canadian stages聽this week 鈥 each packing a聽political punch. The thought-provoking plays tackle the Rwandan genocide, the Canadian election and the untraceable ghost population of the city of Whitehorse. A聽catalyst for dialogue and healing is 91亚色 film Professor Colleen Wagner鈥檚 Governor General鈥檚 Award-winning play The Monument. […]
The Gaelic Song Project is 91亚色 music Professor Dorothy de Val鈥檚 next project once her book on Lucy Broadwood, the English folk song collector, is published in May. De Val is studying traditional Gaelic songs and aiming to foster an awareness of the language while also contributing to its preservation. A key part of this […]
Everyday life. Everyday people. Most of us say "everyday" almost every day. Academically, it is a term that聽has been theorized, used as a concept and developed into narratives. But what does it really mean? The Everyday: Experiences, Concepts, Narratives is an upcoming Graduate Program in Humanities conference looking at the "everyday" as it relates to […]
Toronto helped lead the world in its embrace of diversity when the first same-sex couple to be legally married in North America was wed here in 2003. That local tradition of re-examining legal attitudes to gender issues will carry on as 91亚色 Professor Nancy Nicol [Faculty of Fine Arts] has received $1 million in […]
Artists of all stripes from around the world are reducing their carbon footprint in creative ways. Many prominent ones 鈥 including the Cirque de Soleil鈥檚 Gil Favreau 鈥 are coming to 91亚色 this month to share how at a conference on sustainability and the arts. Hosted by 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Fine Arts, Staging Sustainability: Arts, […]
Nancy Nicol鈥檚 team receives $1 million to study LGBT human rights around the world 91亚色 visual arts professor Nancy Nicol will lead a major international project on the impact of criminalizing sexual orientation and gender identity, with $1 million in funding over five years from the Social Sciences聽& Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). […]
Shan Chandrasekar (Hon. LLD 鈥10) once said that 鈥渆ducation is the greatest opportunity.鈥 Now, the founder, president and CEO of Asian Television Network (ATN) has ensured that students in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Fine Arts will benefit from a unique opportunity. Making good on a collaboration he first outlined as part of last spring鈥檚 convocation address, […]
Lovebirds, a mix of animation and live action from by Toronto company Starz Animation, is the showcase production of the Toronto-based 3D Film Innovation Consortium (3D FLIC), a 91亚色 initiative that has brought academic researchers and filmmakers together to explore the burgeoning world of 3D filmmaking to achieve better results, wrote Liam Lacey in […]
91亚色 researchers and students displayed their research projects and innovations at the聽91亚色 Technology Alliance鈥檚聽Solutions Showcase event, which took place at the Markham Convergence Centre (MCC) on March 10. Titled 鈥淕ame Changers: How local innovations are creating a new 鈥榖usiness as usual'鈥, the 91亚色 Technology Alliance (YTA) showcase encouraged participants from industry, academia and government agencies […]
A slew of entertainers will perform at the Winters Gala Fundraiser to raise awareness and funds for the renovation of student space in Winters College. The gala evening will take place Tuesday, March 22, starting with student performers at 6pm, followed by headlining acts from 7 to 10pm. Right: Rita di Ghent Jazz musician and […]
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 […]
With the rich monastic history of some of England鈥檚 universities, the tradition of聽choral evensong still thrives, creating a thirst for new settings for the canticles. As Canada is not steeped in the same rituals, few Canadians take this work on, making 91亚色 music Professor Stephanie Martin the exception. She composed a new setting of the […]
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. […]
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 […]
91亚色's Oscar Peterson Chair in Jazz Performance, Ron Westray, makes his Faculty Concert Series debut March 1 with a swinging concert of jazz standards and original works in the Tribute Communities Recital Hall on 91亚色鈥檚 Keele campus. Joining Westray on stage will be Toronto jazz artists Chris Banks and John Maharaj on bass and […]
Alumna Lata Pada (MFA 鈥96), adjunct professor in the Department of Dance's graduate program, has already received Canada鈥檚 highest award 鈥 the Order of Canada, in 2009聽鈥 but now she can add one of India鈥檚 highest honours to her collection. In January, Pada accepted the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award聽for her contributions to Indian dance and […]
