Two PhD candidates in York’s Graduate Program in Music are among the half-dozen international scholars awarded study grants this year by the Morroe Berger – Benny Carter Jazz Research Fund. The awards enabled Bonnie Brett and Ryan Bruce to advance their doctoral research with a visit to the prestigious Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers […]
Oscar-nominated screenwriter and accomplished American playwright Bruce Jay Friedman has a new collection of selected works coming out, and it’s being published by York University’s Leaping Lion Books, which is run by students in the Professional Writing Program. The launch of 3.1 Plays will take place Thursday, March 1, from noon to 3pm, at the […]
Established and emerging artists in York University’s Faculty of Fine Arts bring their collective talents to a riveting new production of a baroque classic: Henry Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas. This epic story of love and betrayal plays out at the Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan Theatre on York’s Keele campus for two performances only, March […]
Trombonist Ron Westray, Oscar Peterson Chair in Jazz Performance in York University’s Department of Music, returns to Toronto’s Massey Hall on Thursday, Feb. 23 for an innovative youth outreach program. He will lead “Rhythm Counts”, an invitational workshop for young people, just before his former bandmates, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra led by Wynton […]
York University’s Department of Dance is spearheading an innovative health initiative that sends students into the community to lead weekly dance activity classes for older adults at partner institutions in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The program, supported by the Government of Ontario’s Healthy Communities Fund, focuses on the positive and preventative effects that dance […]
playGround, the annual juried fringe festival of York University’s Department of Theatre, celebrates its 20th season with two dynamic programs running Feb. 14 to 17 in the Joseph G. Green Studio Theatre, 139 Centre for Film & Theatre atYork’s Keele campus. Well-known for its uncurbed spirit and risk-taking mindset, playGround is a student-produced seedbed for the […]
Graduate students Shannon Roberts, Nancy Latoszewski Greyeyes and Ilse Gudiño, candidates in York’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in choreography and dance dramaturgy, premiere new choreographies for ensembles in Temenos. The show, performed by professional and pre-professional dancers, runs Feb. 15 to 17 in the Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan Theatre at the Keele campus. Shannon Roberts. […]
From investigating how typography could reduce medication errors to using math as a tool to teach jazz, Faculty of Fine Arts scholars and practitioners have a fascinating array of research projects to share during the Fine Arts Research Celebration Monday, Feb. 6. Robert Haché, vice-president research & innovation, and Barbara Sellers-Young, dean of the Faculty of […]
Two of Canada’s leading classical performers come together for a concert featuring contemporary Canadian works on Tuesday, Jan. 17 in the Tribute Communities Recital Hall at York’s Keele campus. Violinist Jacques Israelievitch and pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico, both professors in York’s Department of Music, offer an evening of repertoire as diverse and inspiring as the […]
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, […]
A cross section of creative artists from the Faculty of Fine Arts is on deck for tomorrow's all-night art party. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, which will take place throughout downtown Toronto, features the work of more than 500 local, national and international artists Theatre Professor Shawn Kerwin collaborated with Laurel McDonald to create "Alone Together", an “art-app” for […]