A series of films, concerts, workshops, artist talks and community events will usher in Black History Month this February, under the title Performing Diaspora 2010: Celebrating Black History Month through Expressive Culture – Afro Diasporic Women in Focus. Produced by York’s Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, Performing Diaspora 2010 is designed to serve as a catalyst […]
Performer, composer and educator Ron Westray has been appointed as the Oscar Peterson Chair in Jazz Performance at York University. “We’re excited and honoured to have an artist of Ron Westray’s calibre as the Chair,” said York University President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri. “This Chair will enable us to further advance the quality of education for […]
York film Professor Colleen Wagner’s current project, “Theatre of the Wounded”, places women at the centre of heroic myths, a space they have not traditionally occupied. Wagner’s creative undertaking, which is funded by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, seeks to give women and girls a new role and voice, something that no […]