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AMPD unveils an exciting 2024-25 season of Theatre and Dance
The Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance at York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design has unveiled an exciting lineup of theatre...
AMPD alumni and students shine at TIFF
AMPD’s York U Motion Media Studio Partners with OYA Black Arts Coalition for Industry Talks 2.0
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AMPD Launches New Virtual Tour
Virtual Tour 360 Prospective students worldwide can now experience AMPD 24/7, 365. The School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) has unveiled a new virtual tour resource to showcase its 300,000-square-feet worth of facilities, share st ...
AMPD Championed Creativity at Nuit Blanche 2023
AMPD Championed Creativity at Nuit Blanche York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) champions creativity and positive change at Nuit Blanche Toronto this Saturday, September 23 from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. With the theme o ...
Eight new faces joined the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RamVYozruzE The York University School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) welcomes eight new faculty members this fall. Dean Sarah Bay-Cheng “It is always a pleasure to welcome new colleagues who bring o ...
AMPD Alumni Premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival
September signals back-to-school for many, but for cinema buffs in Toronto, it marks the beginning of film festival season. The 46th annual Toronto International Film Festival is just around the corner, and the School of the Arts, Media, Performance ...
AMPD alum named new imagineNATIVE festival director
Kahstarohkwanoron Lindsay Monture, who graduated York with a bachelor of arts in film and media studies, has been named the new festival director of the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, the world’s largest showcase for film, video, audio, digi ...
Project champions audiovisual heritage of minoritized communities
Archive/Counter-Archive (A/CA): Activating Canada’s Moving Image Heritage is a seven-year research-creation project focusing on preserving the audiovisual cultural heritage of Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Métis, Inuit), Black communities and peop ...
The Archive/Counter-Archive presents: The Indigenous Archives Gathering
Indigenous artists, curators, Knowledge Keepers, Elders, and memory workers gather with scholars from across Canada to discuss Indigenous media art archives. Long histories and current realities of colonialism in Canada have made collective indigenous ...
Mary Bunch and John Greyson launch Inaugural AMPD Queer Summer Institute
Inspired by radical new poetic methods of digital and intermedial performance storytelling, Transiting the Queer Uncommons: Queer Summer Institute in Research Creation (TQU) is dissecting the current queer/trans digital moment. The summer session inc ...
Caitlin Fisher and Sharon Hayashi awarded York-wide CIRC for Catalyzing Collective Action at The Intersection of Global Health and the Arts
Over the course of the 3-year grant, Fisher and Hayashi explore the power of art and interdisciplinary storytelling to address global health issues alongside co-primary investigator Steven Hoffman. Catalyzing Collective Action at The Intersection ...