Immersive audio experience takes listeners into the drug overdose crisis Brenda Longfellow worked with Darkfield, a U.K. theatre company specializing in immersive audio, and Crackdown, a monthly podcast covering the drug war through the eyes of drug user activists, to produce Intravene to plunge listeners into the heart of the overdose crisis in Vancouver. Intravene, which …
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Goldfarb Summer Institute explores contemporary painting, curatorial practices
The 14th annual Goldfarb Summer Institute took place from May 3 to 17, and was presented by the Department of Visual Art and Art History at York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD).
Mel Hague named Artistic Director of iconic Toronto theatre
Photo by Dahlia Katz Alum Mel Hague named Artistic Director for Toronto’s Factory Theatre The Factory Theatre Artistic Director Search Committee appointed acclaimed dramaturge and AMPD Theatre alum Mel Hague (BA ’09, MFA’ 11) Artistic Director of Factory Theatre. Hague will take over for AMPD’s Prof. Nina Lee Aquino, who is preparing to helm the NAC English …
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Designing across hemispheres – sustainably
Prior to the pandemic, Ian Garrett, an associate professor of ecological design for performance in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, would work with York International each summer to take a group of students to a theatre festival such as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe or Prague Quadrennial to experience theatre design with an …
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2022 Dean’s Student Leadership Award recipients announced
2022 Dean’s Student Leadership Award recipients announced Dean Sarah Bay-Cheng is pleased to announce Film Production student Devki Patel and Music student Selwyn Tchang as the recipients of the 2022 Dean’s Student Leadership Award. While the adjudication committee received many excellent nominations, Patel and Tchang stood out as passionate and dedicated advocates for students across …
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Sundar Viswanathan’s Avataar wins 2022 Juno Award
Prof. Sundar Viswanathan’s Avataar wins 2022 Juno Award AMPD Music professor Sundar Viswanathan’s world jazz group Avataar took home the 2022 Juno for Jazz Album of the Year – Group with their latest album, WORLDVIEW. Conceived and created during the pandemic lockdown, the album is a reflective look on honesty, compassion and world leadership in times of …
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Toronto Mayor joins AMPD in City film industry mission to Los Angeles
Mayor John Tory will lead a film mission to Los Angeles next week to help deepen relationships with established studios producing in Toronto, and those that have not yet brought productions to the city. Ken Rogers, AMPD and Schulich School of Business professor, will join the delegation alongside Deputy Mayor Michael Thompson and city councillors …
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Ian Garrett awarded Developing Strategic Research Frameworks for Sustainability and the Arts Scholarship
Ian Garrett awarded Developing Strategic Research Frameworks for Sustainability and the Arts Scholarship AMPD’s Ian Garrett, in partnership with Tarah Wright from Dalhousie University, has successfully received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through the No Culture, No Future: Developing Strategic Research Frameworks for Sustainability and the Arts Scholarship. The …
Dean Sarah Bay-Cheng weighs in on the ‘The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical’ historic Grammy win
Is musical theatre an event, a sound — or something else? This year, the 2022 Grammy Award for best musical theatre album went to a show that originated as a TikTok smash hit: The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical by duo Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear.
AMPD to launch inaugural Queer Summer Institute
Inspired by radical new poetic methods of digital and intermedial performance storytelling, transgressive visual techniques emerging from new media platforms, and new activisms engaging with theories of homonationalism, pinkwashing and the global queer (un)commons, the TQU courses offer students insight and participation in the debates, voices, ideas and images of the current queer/trans digital moment.