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Artist and entrepreneur Sophie Brussaux talks the art of collaboration in the latest Final Mile Club Podcast
The myth “the artist stands alone” is something artist and entrepreneur Sophie Brussaux wants to challenge. A former wealth management graduate and current Arts Help Founder and Artistic Director, Brussaux explores the necessity of community and collaboration in realizing your creative potential in the latest installment of the Final Mile Club Podcast. Brussaux operates at …
Theatre @ York gracefully tackles bespoke David Yee play “Love in the Time of Werewolves”
Theatre @ York returns to the traditional way of theatre-making with playwright David Yee’s new play, Love in the Time of Werewolves. Maggie Basset Award-winning director Diana Belshaw led 30 upper-year and 100 first-year crew members alongside 15 Theatre @ York Acting Conservatory students in designing, producing, and realizing the production. Love in the Time …
140 high school students visit AMPD for a day of musical exploration with Music alumni homecoming
On November 22, AMPD Music welcomed 140 high school students to campus for a day of musical exploration and technique workshops for the inaugural We are York! (WAY), a Music alumni homecoming event. The event was a homecoming for three York alumni, now inspiring young minds as teachers in the greater Toronto area, who accompanied …
Philippine consulate general in Toronto and York University sign deed of donation to implement a Philippine studies program
The Philippine Consulate General in Toronto and York University signed a Deed of Donation to implement a Philippine Studies Program. The Philippine Government will donate around $116,000.00 to York University through the Deed of Donation. Consul General Orontes V. Castro signed on behalf of the Philippine Government while Dr. Rhonda L. Lenton, President and Vice-Chancellor …
Embodying climate change: Dance Innovations 2022 showcases inspiring new student work
Dance Innovations 2022: Escalate featured new choreographic works by 23 fourth-year dance BFA students. Performed by students in all years of York’s undergraduate program in dance, this series engages with social justice-oriented themes of resistance and rebellion. “Escalate examines the ways in which we have the capacity to take things into our own hands, individually and …
Prof. Ali Kazimi’s documentary explores little-known struggle of the Sinixt people
Twenty-seven years in the making, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design Film Professor Ali Kazimi’s documentary about an autonomous Indigenous people’s struggle to overturn their legal extinction is set to receive its international premiere. The film poster for Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence The film, Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence, is Kazimi’s critically acclaimed, award-winning feature documentary. It recently …
Christina Petrowska Quilico wins York University Research Award for being named 2021 Order of Ontario appointee
The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and Chancellor of the Order of Ontario, announced AMPD Professor of Musicology and Piano and world-renowned pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico‘s appointment to the Order of Ontario for 2021. The Lieutenant Governor will bestow the province’s highest honour on Petrowska Quilico at a ceremony to be held on November …
Alum Michelle Peraza wins 2022 Petry Award
Nancy Petry Foundation and the Joe Plaskett Foundation announced AMPD alum Michelle Peraza (MFA 2022) as the recipient of the 2022 Petry Award. The award recognizes Peraza as an outstanding emerging Canadian artist in the field of painting. Peraza is a second-generation Latin American Canadian of Cuban and Costa Rican descent. In her work as …
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AMPD and the Allan I. Carswell Observatory welcome attendees of all ages to their Halloween Astronomy Extravaganza
It was an evening of fright-filled, inspirational and educational in equal parts. The Halloween Astronomy Extravaganza comprised of two ticketed events, the first – Herschel 200th Anniversary: Astronomy, Music, Extraterrestrials – celebrates the monumental achievements of 18th-century astronomer and composer Sir William Herschel. Since his death in 1822, Herschel’s contributions to science and the arts …
