Hot on the heels of a JUNO win, York U’s Head of Choral Conducting sits down with Brainstorm to reflect on this remarkable accomplishment; muse about the future of the concert hall; and elaborate on the unique gift that choirs offer in the unsettling era of COVID.
Hatsumi: One Grandmother’s Journey through the Japanese Canadian Internment premiered at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre on Sunday, April 1. It was part of a larger conference hosted by the centre to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Japanese Canadian Internment. The film by Osgoode grad Chris Hope (JD ’04) offers a moving account of Japanese […]
The students of the York Dance Ensemble (YDE) have a spring in their step as they perform their year-end concert, Tangled Dances, in the Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre. The lively young repertory company of the Department of Dance is presenting an engaging collection of contemporary choreography by established and rising dance artists. The show, which opened Thursday, runs […]
Learn more about the heart of Africa through poetry, music, dancing and storytelling at the fifth annual How much do you know about the DR Congo? conference Friday. The conference will take place March 23, from noon to 6pm, at 152 Founders Assembly Hall, Founders College, Keele campus. It is hosted by H20Congo, a non-governmental […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Art Gallery of York University starts 2012 by looking back. The exhibition Will Munro: History, Glamour, Magic is about the history that Toronto artist Will Munro based his work on and the history he was – his glam subjects and the glamorous one he was – and the magic dimension of his last work. Munro, who was […]
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 […]
New music pioneer Trichy Sankaran, whose work is known for bridging the traditions of India and the West, has won the Muriel Sherrin Award for International Achievement in Music. The York professor received the $10,000 prize Oct. 20 at the 2011 Toronto Arts Foundation Awards ceremony at the annual Mayor’s Arts Awards Lunch. More than […]
How is “hip” constructed? Is a culture of dissent ultimately a by-product of prevailing sociopolitical forces? Do countercultural events influence mainstream society? Those questions and more are at the core of Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s, a new book by York postdoctoral fellow Stuart Henderson published this month by the University of Toronto Press. The […]