Alistair Newton, a 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 York’s 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 York University 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. 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 York’s 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’s 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 […]
...if I could preach to birds I'd tell them – fly and kiss, lives depend on this. "The Language of Birds" Lover Through Departure, the newest collection of poetry by York English and education Professor Rishma Dunlop, offers up an enticing glimpse of lovers as they weave a world of secrets with their affairs of the […]
Emotionally raw and deeply human, womanhood and marginalization, these are just a few of the words that describe the two newest books of poems and conversations coming from York English and creative writing Professor Patricia Keeney. There are three launches scheduled for Keeney's new books, First Woman (Inanna Publications) and You Bring Me Wings (ANTARES Publishing House of […]
Theatre @ York launches its 2011-2012 season with the world premiere of a new adaptation of John Vanbrugh's English Restoration romp, The Provok’d Wife. Director Vikki Anderson (left), of Toronto’s 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 what it takes to edit an anthology or what is happening in the Canadian poetry publishing scene? Join the York 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 with her long-time collaborator, pianist Leslie De’Ath, in a recital of songs by Richard Strauss for a showcase performance Nov. 1 at 7:30pm in York’s Tribute Communities Recital Hall. Obermeyer's appearance on the York concert stage is the second event in the 2011-2012 Faculty Concert Series of York’s 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, […]