Alumni – AMPD

ARTFORUM: Alum & recent sculptor in residence at YorkU, Brendan Fernandes wins the $10,000 Chicago Artadia Awards

Brendan Fernandes, The Master and Form, 2019, at the Whitney Biennial, New York. Photo: Lauren Cavalli.

https://www.artforum.com/news/bethany-collins-and-brendan-fernandes-win-2019-chicago-artadia-awards-80384

York U partners on multiple Telefilm Talent to Watch films

Madeleine Sims-Fewer BFA 08 and Dusty Mancinelli BFA 07

Six York U alumni teams got the green light for funding up to $125,000 for their first feature films through Telefilm Canada’s 2019 Talent to Watch program. Now in its second year, the juried program supports the production, digital distribution and promotion of a first feature-length film or other format of narrative-based audiovisual content made specifically […]

York University Magazine: Primed to Succeed Using dance research for mental health

Primed to Succeed

The York University Magazine: Singular Sensation, York theatre at 50

Singular Sensation

Canadian actor Paul Gross encourages grads to nurture their curiosity, devotion and stubbornness

Gregory Sorbara, Paul Gross, Rhonda Lenton

http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/06/18/canadian-actor-paul-gross-encourages-grads-to-nurture-their-curiosity-devotion-and-stubbornness

Students and new grads team up to remount Theatre@York’s rochdale at SummerWorks

Production photo from rochdale by Jeremy Mimnagh

For the first time ever, a Theatre@York production will be remounted in Toronto’s acclaimed SummerWorks Performance Festival, one of the most important platforms for launching new work in Canada. A whip-smart, funny and politically charged play, Rochdale was created specifically for the York University Acting Conservatory graduating class of 2019 with design and production support […]

AMPD Faculty & Alumni recognized with Dora nominations for their contributions to the top shows of 2018-19

Now celebrating its 40th anniversary, The Dora Mavor Moore Awards are Canada’s longest-running professional theatre, dance and opera awards. The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts rolls out the red carpet Tuesday, June 25 at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts and faculty and alumni from the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design […]

Professor Lisette Canton to conduct choir at Carnegie Hall, May 25

http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/05/21/york-music-professor-lisette-canton-to-conduct-choir-performing-at-carnegie-hall-may-25/

Brendan Fernandes returns to his alma mater as Louis Odette Sculptor-in-Residence

Chicago-based York U Visual Art alumnus Brendan Fernandes (BFA ‘02) is the 2019 Louis Odette Sculptor-in-Residence at York University. One of the five Ontario artists nominated for a Sobey Art Award, Fernandes works at the intersection of dance and visual arts. During his residency he is developing new work related to two of his recent exhibitions – […]