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Academy Award–winning producer reflects on four decades of filmmaking and connections to AMPD
Academy Award–winning producer Niv Fichman reflects on four decades of filmmaking and his work with AMPD alumni helping shape Canadian cinema.
AMPD and industry partners launch first-of-its-kind production design workshop
From AMPD to Sundance, two alumni tie the knot at Film Premiere
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AMPD Theatre Professor Wins Big at the 2021 Canadian Screen Awards
AMPD Theatre Professor Wins Big at the 2021 Canadian Screen Awards Professor Greyeyes Photo credit: George Pimentel AMPD Theatre Professor Michael Greyeyes brought home the Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role award for his work in Blood Quantum a ...
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 pr ...
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 Professor Mary Fogarty As Tokyo's Olympians fly home, the Olympic flame hits the road to Paris 2024, where an AMPD professor breaks tradition to ans ...
Dance Professor Patrick Alcedo's documentary wins at Cannes Indies Cinema Awards
Dance Professor Patrick Alcedo's documentary wins at Cannes Indies Cinema Awards A film by York University Associate Professor Patrick Alcedo earned the Best Short Documentary award at the Cannes Indies Cinema Awards on July 10. The film, titled They C ...
My Secret Life: AMPD facilities co-ordinator finds balance on his family farm
My Secret Life: AMPD facilities co-ordinator finds balance on his family farm Joey Vander Kooi Joey Vander Kooi has worked as the facilities co-ordinator in York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design since completing his unde ...
Music Professor Ron Westray to release autobiography this fall
Music Professor Ron Westray to Release Autobiography this Fall Ron Westray 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 ...
Luis Ramirez to Premiere with Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Music PhD Student to Premiere with Toronto Symphony Orchestra Luis Ramirez The Toronto Symphony Orchestra has announced that Luis Ramirez, a York University PhD candidate in Music, has received a commission for an original composition in their 2022 sea ...
Message to the AMPD community
A Message from the Dean To the community of AMPD: A rainbow flag at half-mast: perhaps no image better captures the painful mood of this June. The revelation of the 215 Indigenous children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School on Tk’emlups te Secwé ...
Political and Personal: Images of Gay Identity
Eric Birkle is a Doctoral Student in the Department of Visual Art & Art History at York University. As part of his research, Birkle curated a museum exhibition at the Flint Institute of Arts called Political and Personal: Images of Gay Identity. Th ...