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York University is known for its vibrant, diverse arts programs and the Arts@Congress Showcase  bring Congress 2023 a sampling of this creativity.

AMPD Film Production student AJ Lawrence joins the team behind the history-making CBC and HBO Max dramedy Sort Of with a mentorship program for trans and non-binary film professionals to “bridge the gap” for diversity and inclusion on Canadian TV sets.

The Global Networked Learning (GNL) Course, World Stage Design (WSD) Exhibition, and Creative Climate Leadership (CCL) program are all connected to each other, York University, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The $25,000 Cllr. Yeung Collucci’s Markham Spring Gala Award will benefit incoming Creative Technologies (BFA)students at York's new Markham Campus. It aims to encourage students to strive for academic excellence and make positive contributions to society.

Twenty graduating BFA students from the Department of Dance in York’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) preformed in Colossus at the Meridian Arts Centre, alongside dancers from Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU).

Ian Garrett is helping the arts go green with the No Future: Developing Strategic Research Frameworks for Sustainability and the Arts Scholarship. The project will examine Canada's challenges and barriers to Sustainability and the Arts (SATA) research. 

“The OER we are creating now will serve as models for others to get involved and to show that it can be done. People start to think differently about the nature of teaching, the nature of resources and the nature of our responsibility to create a different kind of learning experience.”  

Stephanie Martin’s new Composition WATER: An Environmental Oratorio imagines two different worlds. In a fantastical world, Water is personified, surrounded by singing spirits. In the everyday world, played out in a fictional Northern Ontario town, a beleaguered Mayor must decide whether to support a developer’s factory, or protect the purest water on the planet.

Hemispheric Encounters, led by AMPD Associate Dean, Research Laura Levin, and Zoë Heyn-Jones, facilitated a platform for embodied learning and sharing of knowledge of alternative food futures with Visualizing Foodways Field School (VFFS). Players from all parts of the supply chain including artists, migrant labour organizers and chefs can explore the nexus between arts-based research and food justice practices and mobilize meaningful collaborations supporting sustainable food systems. 

Led by Anna Hudson, the Inuksiutit project (IFSNu) brings together Inuit knowledge holders, Elders researchers and non-Inuit academics to advance Inuit self-determination in environmental health policy and researc