Our Vision: Ever since its inception, Stong College has steadfastly and enthusiastically upheld its commitment to the very best ideals of multiculturalism, sport and athletics, literacy, cultural studies, and above all, social commitment.

We believe that pluralism and eclecticism are essential features of a good liberal education. We are interested in the many groups who make up the Canadian mosaic, and their attempts at self-expression, whether in language and literary discourse, visual arts, music, or sports.

We are proud of our heritage and our origins, and of our connection to the Stong family who pioneered the land that York University now occupies. The strength of our community is based on our diversity, and our belief that body, mind, and soul must all be fully engaged in any worthwhile human activity.

We are proud to house the McLuhan Initiative for Literacies, the Canada-Maghreb Centre, and the Samuel J. Zacks Art Gallery. Our writer in residence is Hédi Bouraoui.

Monday, February 22nd, 2010, 2:30pm

Renaissance Room, 001 Vanier College

`Educating “Emma”: Stories to Pass on from the Late Slavery Era in the Niger Area'

Presented by Vanier College, Stong College Master's Office, and the Harriet Tubman Institute

Dr. Modupe Olaogun

This lecture explores a critical excavation of a submerged history that is in the form of a play by Femi Osofisan, Ajayi Crowther: The Triumphs and Travails of a Legend, which debuted in 2002. The eponymous subject is a figure from the transatlantic slave trade. Ajayi was a young boy when he was torn from his family in the Yoruba town of Osogun by slave raiders in 1821, shackled a few months later in a Portuguese slave ship headed for Lisbon but rescued by a British anti-slavery vessel, subsequently becoming the first Black Anglican Bishop in 1864 and over the next thirty-five years leading a massive Christianization of a geographical area that stretched from the Niger delta to the north, east and west of present-day Nigeria. The lecture examines the dramatic and symbolic structures of Osofisan’s play and how the play’s tropes of riddles, games and the story-that-begets-another-story participate in the discursive act that imbues the story of Ajayi Crowther with continuing significance.

Modupe Olaogun is Associate Professor of English at York University and Master of Stong College. Dr. Olaogun specializes in African and postcolonial literatures and drama and has published widely in these areas. She founded AfriCan Theatre Ensemble in Toronto in 1998 and has staged several plays, many of them Canadian premieres of African classics and new creation. Recently, she has written a new play, with Olabisi Gwamna, “Woman King,” which was featured at the Toronto Buzz Festival in December 2009, and is expected to premiere in 2011. Dr. Olaogun is a Fellow of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples.

Kent Haworth Playwriting Contest: (click here )

Stong Annual Student Show

Show runs Monday March 15 - Friday April 2, 2010

Samuel J. Zacks Gallery Presents the works of students at the annual student show.

Click on link for information on how to submit art work.

Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails

Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 3, 7-9pm

Show runs Wednesday, February 3 - Friday, February 26

Samuel J. Zacks Gallery Presents Simon Black and Robert Clements' interests lie in their own bodily materials and common instruments used to collect them - hair, finger nail clippings, soap, and dental floss to name a few. They have gathered these materials to create sculptures that invite reflection upon one's own physical excess.

Confluences

Wednesday, January 6 - Friday, January 29

Samuel J. Zacks Gallery presents the artists of Confluences. Chris Domanski, Peter W. and Vlasta Svoboda. This show opens on Wenesday, January 6th and runs until Friday, January 29th, 2010.

Our opening hours for the new year are: Monday, Tuesday, Friday 11:30-4:30

Bodyworks

Wednesday, November 4- Friday, November 20

Samuel J. Zacks Gallery, the Special Projects Gallery, and Pricila Uppal present the artists of Bodyworks. Craig Le Blanc, Jane Roos, and Kevin Light show their works involving sports and the Olympics. This show opens during the groundbreaking two day symposium on the enormous potential for intersections between sport, art, and culture in North America. Featuring a variety of exciting panel presentations by artists, professional and Olympic athletes, and cultural commentators, Bodyworks performs its own cultural Olympiad as it celebrates the return of the Olympics to Canada. Taking place just months before the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Bodyworks is sure to garner wide media coverage.

Critical Issues in the Studio, Group show

Wednesday, November 25- Thursday, December 10

Yam Lau's class of first year students come together to show their explorative artwork. Critical Issues in the Studio introduces students to visual, conceptual and theoretical language as it relates to studio practice.

Ashley de Jong-Doucette

Samuel J. Zacks Gallery Director

109 Stong College

4700 Keele St.

Tel: 416-736-2100 ext. 33055

Stong Academic Resource Advisors:

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Academic Resource Advising, room 204 (fish bowl). Office hours 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
For an appointment with Kari Hoffman, Academic Advisor, please email: scacad@yorku.ca
The Junior Common Room 111 is a place to study and rest in between classes.
The Zacks Art Gallery is located in Room 109 Stong College.