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Cultural heritage project engages Indigenous voices

Cultural heritage project engages Indigenous voices

A highly collaborative project seeks to recover, document and disseminate Inuit traditional knowledge and creativity; engage Inuit leaders; and enrich Inuit culture for generations. York University fosters collaborative and socially engaging research aimed at providing a lasting legacy of benefits to cultures and societies. These characteristics are embodied in the work of Professor Anna Hudson, […]

Transforming creative practice through technology and engagement

Transforming creative practice through technology and engagement

Two major ventures in York’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design have paved the way for a continued upward trajectory that draws together highly diverse areas of creative practice around next-generation technology. The School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) at York University has launched two important ventures in the span […]

York University artists spend a sleepless night for Nuit Blanche

York University artists spend a sleepless night for Nuit Blanche

Originally launched in Paris with the goal of bringing contemporary art to the masses, Nuit Blanche has established itself as one of the highlights of Toronto’s annual cultural calendar. Each year, this free dusk-to-dawn event enlivens and transforms the city with original art projects ranging from intimate encounters to large-scale spectacles. More than one million […]

Annual CineSiege showcases top York student films

Annual CineSiege showcases top York student films

Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, CineSiege is an externally juried showcase featuring outstanding student productions created in the Department of Film in York University’s Faculty of Fine Arts. Catch a rising wave of fresh young talent as CineSiege 2012 lights up the silver screen at TIFF Bell Lightbox on Tuesday, Oct. 23. The screening will […]

CFI awards York researchers more than $592,000 in research infrastructure

CFI awards York researchers more than $592,000 in research infrastructure

The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has awarded York University $592,631 in infrastructure funding to support the research of four York professors. Ali Kazimi, professor in Department of Film in the Faculty of Fine Arts, will receive $143,186 in funding for industry standard infrastructure of a Stereoscopic 3D Lab @ York. The funding will allow Kazimi to augment […]

Grads team up to honour prof's life with a documentary film

Grads team up to honour prof's life with a documentary film

York contract faculty members and alumni Laurel Paetz (MFA Theatre’07) and L.J. Nelles (BA Music ’84, MFA  Theatre ’07) are teaming up to make a documentary about theatre Professor Emeritus David Smukler, a master teacher of voice and speech. Titled Breath is Alive, the film’s intent is to capture the essence of Smukler’s work by […]

Master's students study direction at Canadian Stage and beyond

Master's students study direction at Canadian Stage and beyond

In the high stakes field of large-scale theatre directing, experience is usually gained on the job and in a sink-or-swim situation. While there’s no prescribed career path, most directors develop their chops on small- and mid-sized stages while waiting for the big break. Theatre artists Ted Witzel and Ker Wells are going about it somewhat […]

Theatre @ York ends current season with 'Restoration'

Theatre @ York ends current season with 'Restoration'

Theatre @ York wraps its 2011-2012 season with Restoration, a play by visionary English playwright Edward Bond, directed by David Storch. The play opened March 18 and will continue until March 24 at York University. Bond’s biting and witty play strips away the genteel veneer of life in 18th-century England to expose the brutal truth beneath. The […]

Award-winning film examines discrimination

Award-winning film examines discrimination

In commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Racism, the Centre for Human Rights – in collaboration with the York United Black Students’ Alliance (YUBSA) – is screening the documentary film Colour Me. The screening will take place Wednesday, March 21 at 280N York Lanes, Keele campus. A light lunch will be served starting at […]