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York Music alumna earns spot in Vancouver Opera’s Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program

York Music alumna earns spot in Vancouver Opera’s Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program Soprano Jonelle Sills (BFA ’16) earns a spot in the Vancouver  Opera’s Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program lead by industry leaders Leslie Dala, Kinza Tyrrell, Tina Chang and Vancouver Opera Music Director Emeritus Jonathan Darlington. Winner of the Dora Award winner …

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The Art Gallery of York University to present Jess Dobkin’s ‘Wetrospective’ exhibition

The Art Gallery of York University to present Jess Dobkin’s ‘Wetrospective’ exhibition The Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) will reopen its doors this next month with the first-ever retrospective exhibition of Toronto’s performance art matriarch Jess Dobkin, curated by former AGYU director/curator Emelie Chhangur (now at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ont.). …

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The show must go on: How York theatre students helped adapt a local high-school musical for pandemic times

The show must go on: How York theatre students helped adapt a local high-school musical for pandemic times A year-end musical theatre production can be as important to the heart and soul of a high school as its season-opening football game or senior prom. So when the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year and began robbing …

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Dance Professor Appointed to World DanceSport Federation Breaking Division in time for Paris 2024 Debute

Dance Professor Appointed to World DanceSport Federation Breaking Division in time for Paris 2024 Debut As Tokyo’s Olympians fly home, the Olympic flame hits the road to Paris 2024, where an AMPD professor breaks tradition to answer the age-old question – is dance a sport?   World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) appoints Dance Professor Mary Fogarty …

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Music Professor Ron Westray to release autobiography this fall

Music Professor Ron Westray to Release Autobiography this Fall Originally featured on York YFile York University Associate Professor Ron Westray, in the Department of Music, School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, is releasing an autobiography this September titled Life in Reverse: Tales of a Very Stable Narcissist (Anthem Press). “It is possible that we exist in …

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