October 27, 2005

TERREURS, TERRORISMES ET PROCESSUS INCONSCIENTS

Thursday, October 27: 14:30-17:30; 20:00-22:00
Friday, October 28: 9:30-12:30; 14:30-17:30; 20:00-22:00
Saturday, October 29: 9:30-13:30

Terreurs, terrorismes et processus inconscients is an international conference on the theme of terrors, terrorisms and unconscious processes. Interdisciplinary perspective, including philosophy, sociology, ethics, art, and psychoanalysis. Keynote speakers: Jean Baudrillard, Sophie de Mijolla-Mellor and Myriam Revault d'Allonnes.

Sponsors: Department of Sociology, UQAM and Department of Creative Arts Therapies, Concordia
Contact: Dr. Josée Leclerc, 848-2424 #4795 or colloque_terreurs_terrorismes@uqam.ca
Website link: www.colloqueterreursterrorismes.uqam.ca
Location: Auditorium, Pavillon Sherbrooke, UQÀM, 200 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal
** Lecture given by Jean Beaudrillard will be held at Delta Montreal Hotel, 475 President Kennedy, Montreal

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Visiting Artist Program - TONY CONRAD

Thursday, October 27, 2005
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Artist’s talk by TONY CONRAD (New York)

A pioneering force behind the evolution of minimalism, violinist and composer Tony Conrad introduced the idea of "Eternal Music,"; through both his solo work and through collaborations with artists including LaMonte Young, John Cale and Faust, he forged new creative directions which proved enormously influential on successive generations of artists ranging in background from pop to the avant-garde.

Department: Sponsored by Mel Hoppenheim Film Studies and MFA Visiting Artist Program
Contact: Selena Liss slis@videotron.ca
Location: Bourget Building MF-108, 1230 de la Montagne

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Visiting Artist Program - TONY CONRAD

Thursday, October 27, 2005
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Artist’s talk by TONY CONRAD (New York)

A pioneering force behind the evolution of minimalism, violinist and composer Tony Conrad introduced the idea of "Eternal Music,"; through both his solo work and through collaborations with artists including LaMonte Young, John Cale and Faust, he forged new creative directions which proved enormously influential on successive generations of artists ranging in background from pop to the avant-garde.

Department: Sponsored by Mel Oppenheim Film Studies and MFA Visiting Artist Program
Contact: Selena Liss slis@videotron.ca
Location: Bourget Building MF-108, 1230 de la Montagne

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October 28, 2005

JAZZ SCHOLARSHIP RECITAL

Friday, October 28, 2005
8:00 p.m.
Featuring competition finalists.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students
with ID.

Oscar Peterson Concert Hall

7141 Sherbrooke West

Montreal, Quebec Canada H4B 1R6

http://oscar.concordia.ca

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October 29, 2005

INDIAN CLASSIC MUSIC

Saturday, October 29, 2005
7:00 p.m.

An evening of classical Indian song and dance, presented by the Nrithyalaya Foundation.

Admission is free of charge.
Information: 450-466-5216.

Oscar Peterson Concert Hall

7141 Sherbrooke West

Montreal, Quebec Canada H4B 1R6

http://oscar.concordia.ca

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October 30, 2005

Marguerite & Soleil presents LA PASSIONATA - A BENEFIT CONCERT

Sunday, October 30, 2005
7:30 p.m.

A musical tribute to all those who helped give support to "The Weekend To End Cancer," to CAMMAC, and to the wonderful people who have helped changed the world!

Tickets available at the box office and on the Admission network: $40
(services charges applicable).

Oscar Peterson Concert Hall

7141 Sherbrooke West

Montreal, Quebec Canada H4B 1R6

http://oscar.concordia.ca

Tickets are available at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall box office unless otherwise indicated. The box office is open Monday-Friday, 9:30am-noon & 1:30pm-4:30pm in the OPCH Administration Office (Room SC01-10). Additionally, the box office opens in the lobby one hour prior to ticketed events. To purchase tickets via the Admission network, call (514) 790-1245 or visit http://www.admission.com.

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January 18, 2006

The Defiant Imagination François Morelli: Sleep, Eat and Go

Wednesday, January 18, 2006
6:00pm
Lecture (in French)
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Maxwell Cummings Auditorium

In this overview covering thirty years, François Morelli, artist and professor of Studio Arts at Concordia University, will present a selection of his sculptures, installations, and graphic works that stem from these three activities of his daily life. Alone or accompanied, he systematically notes and celebrates his encounters and the passage of time. Weaving a peripatetic narrative framework, he has developed a poetic and personal syntax built from a system of symbols that is dream-base and political. You are invited to this journey that will highlight the key moments of the artist’s career.

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January 21, 2006

Saturday Art Workshops

Saturday, January 21 – March 18, 2006
10:00am – 12:00 noon
Saturday Art Workshops - Winter Session'06

The Concordia Community Art Center invites you to participate in the Saturday Art Workshops designed and taught by Art Education students as part of their teaching practicum. We offer art programs for pre-schoolers, children, adolescents and adults.

The winter session begins January 21 to March 18. (Saturday - 10 am to 12). Classes are held at the VAV Building (corner Rene Levesque and Crescent).
We offer special rates for Concordia students, staff, faculty and alumni.
For further information contact: Janette Haggar, Director 848-2424 ext. 4793
b.newland@bellnet.ca

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January 24, 2006

Fundraiser and Small Works Sale: Vernissage at the VAV Gallery

Tuesday, January 24, 2006
5-10pm
Vernissage and Fundraiser

Here is your chance to buy small art works at prices that cannot be beat. All manner of works created by today’s hottest talent. All proceeds go to supporting CaféX, so that they can keep offering you the same fine cuisine at prices you can afford. Come on down for the vernissage and enjoy some refreshments while you view the works
for sale.

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January 25, 2006

The Defiant Imagination Cilia Sawadogo: The Art of Film Animation in Africa

Wednesday, January 25, 2006
6:00pm
Lecture (in French)
Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal

A short overview of the African independent animation industry which has developed its own unique African style. Particular attention will be fiven to the AFRICA ANIMATED WORKSHOPS organized by UNESCO AFRICA in Nairobi (Kenya) and in Durban (South Africa). Cilia Sawadogo, a professor at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinemas and a member/researcher of Hexagram, will also talk about personal work as an African animator working in the field for more than 15 years

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January 26, 2006

The Workshop of Film Form: Polish Experimental Shorts

Thursday, January 26, 19: 00 – 21:00 Screening This unique program of shorts takes us back 30 years to the beginnings of media art in Poland, when a group of students from the Polish National Film School created the renowned Workshop of Film Form. The collective’s interdisciplinary analytical experiments included film, photography, performance, the first Polish videos and multi-media installations. Curated by Marielle Nitoslawska.

The screening will take place at:
Cinémathèque québecoise
Salle Fernand-Séguin, 335 boul. de Maisonneuve Est, Montreal.
FREE ADMISSION

For more information contact mnitosla@alcor.concordia.ca

Or see the website link at:

http://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/affiche/aussi2.html

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We Can Make Rain But No One Came To Ask: Documents from the Atlas Group Archive. A Project by the Atlas Group in Collaboration with Walid Raad

Exhibition January 26 to March 4, 2006 The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, presents three projects and a series of videos from The Atlas Group. Based in Beirut and New York The Atlas Group is a project and foundation created by Walid Raad in 1999 to locate, preserve, study and produce audio, visual, literary and other artifacts that shed light on the contemporary history of Lebanon.

Through collaborations with various professionals, The Atlas Group has produced an extensive archive of photographs, videos, notebooks, and sculptural works that document the effects of the Lebanese Civil Wars. Central to their concerns is the inherent failure of such an archive to definitively convey the effects of catastrophic events. While many of these documents are based on factual evidence gathered from police files, newspapers and press images, many come from unorthodox sources, collective memories and fictional characters created by The Atlas Group pointing to innumerable other apprehensions of the event. The result is a blurred distinction between the real and the imagined, which questions how such "facts and events" are represented and mediated as part of the history of Lebanon.

The Atlas Group documents in this exhibition focus more specifically on the city of Beirut, its wartime trauma, the complex issue of reconstruction and its psychological and physical repercussions. They are presented here in North America for the first time. This sculpture, photographs, video projection and texts are the product of various collaborations with The Atlas Group. I Was Overcome With A Momentary Panic At The Thought That They Might Be Right was produced by Nahia Hassan, a topographer in the Lebanese Army. We Can Make Rain But No One Came To Ask is a document of collaboration between Yussef Bitar, an ammunitions expert and investigator of car bomb detonations, and Georges Semerdijian, a well-known photojournalist. Sweet Talk: The Hilwé Commission is a photographic project by Lamia Hilwé. Finally, a video program brings together other documents donated to The Atlas Group over the years and that focus on issues such as the western hostage crisis, activities of the Lebanese intelligence and of Dr. Fakhouri, one of the most important historians of contemporary Lebanon.

The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Galerie Sfeir-Semler (Beirut/Hamburg), FACT Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (Liverpool), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Concordia Studio Arts Visiting Artists Program.

WALID RAAD MEETS WITH ARTISTS AND STUDENTS
AT THE LEONARD & BINA ELLEN ART GALLERY

Thursday, January 26th at 12:30 (In English)

EXHIBITION TOUR WITH MICHÈLE THÉRIAULT (DIRECTOR OF THE GALLERY)

Tuesday, February 7th at 4 pm (In English)

BILINGUAL WALK-IN TOURS OF THE EXHIBITION

January 28 - March 4, 2006

Tuesdays, Thursdays: 12 - 2 p.m.

Saturdays: 1- 3 p.m.

GROUP TOURS are available throughout the exhibition. To make a reservation please contact Marie-Hélène Lemaire, Education and Public Programmes Coordinator at (514) 848-2424 ext. 4778 or mh.lemaire@concordia.ca

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January 28, 2006

Concordia Hosts Portfolio Day in Montreal

Saturday, January 28, 2006
11:00am – 4:00pm
Portfolio Day
Engineering and Visual Arts Building, 1515 Ste Catherine St. West

Concordia Fine Arts (Montreal), NSCAD University (Halifax) and Emily Carr Insitiute of Art & Design (Vancouver) are very excited to host, for the first time in Quebec, a Portfolio Day in Montreal in the new Visual Arts Building.

The aim for the Portfolio Day I Montreal is to bring together students and experienced university representatives and professors from Concordia
Fine Arts, NSCAD University and Emily Carr Institute, who will review artwork offer critique, discuss university plans, and share information about their schools. To compliment the portfolio reviews, there will be regular tours of the building, informative presentations of different departments, and their programs, print sales… and more.
Concurrently, Concordia University will hold an Open House. This will be a great opportunity for all programs in the Fine Arts to get involved and show the public what they have to offer. We will be advertising this event across Quebec, Ontario and the North Easter States.
For More information contact Amanda French at 848-2424 ext. 4649
or go to the website at http://www.portfoliodayinmontreal.com

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January 30, 2006

Agnaldo Ferias: Visiting Curator Lecture on February 2nd Postponed Until Further Notice

POSTOPNED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Due to an illness in the family, Agnaldo Ferias’, Brazilian writer, curator and professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Sao Paolo, will not be giving the lecture that had been planned for February 2nd. News of a new date for the lecture will be posted as soon as possible.

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February 01, 2006

Finding Peace: A Perspective by Jean Vanier

Wednesday, February 1, 2006
7:00pm
Lecture
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall

Jean Vanier, renowned author, lecturer and founder of the worldwide L’Arche communities and the 1998 recipient of the distinguished Concordia University Loyola Medal, will address the relationship of the individual and the community to finding peace on a personal and collective level. Dr Claude Lajeunesse, President of Concordia University will introduce Jean Vanier, and an academic discussion will follow.

If you are interested in attending the event, you will need to reserve tickets, free of charge, by contacting Rosemary Curry, the Event Assistant, at vanier.peacelecture@gmail.com. For your information, general admission tickets will be available at either the Hall Building Information Desk at the Sir George Campus, or the Dean of Students Office at Loyola- AD 121. We suggest getting tickets as soon as possible as we expect this to be a popular event.

For any further information, you can call Lenore Vosberg at 848-8619
download pdf poster

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February 03, 2006

Thérèse Chabot: Hiver Rouge

Exhibition January 17 to February 19, 2006. FOFA Gallery Vitrines EV, Main Floor, 1515 Ste. Catherine West Thérèse Chabot creates delicate, ephemeral installations – carpets, dresses and crowns – using flower petals and natural materials to speak of the stages of life and the paths we are given to choose from. A selection of Chabot’s work, entitled Hiver Rouge, is on display at Concordia University’s new Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery, recontextualized from past site-specific installation projects in Montreal, Cologne, Saskatchewan and Mexico.

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9th Annual Roots of Rock and Roll Concert

Friday, February 3rd, 2006
8:00pm
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
Craig Morrison and the Momentz will perform songs from the 1950s and early 1960s in keeping with this year’s theme: Rock Around the Clock: The Golden Age of Rock and Roll.

Craig will be joined by a stellar cast of musicians, including the inimitable John McDiarmid (keyboards); Gary Sharkey (drums, vocals) of Vintage Wine; and guest vocalists, including Steve Solo, a founding member of the original Momentz band in 1985, and Alex Nesrallah, of the Never-Be Brothers The concert will be held at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall at Concordia University’s Loyola Campus in NDG: 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, NDG tickets: regular $9, seniors $6 students $4 (all plus service charge), now on sale at the Concert Hall box office (514-848-4848), or through Admission (but they have a higher service charge).

see poster

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February 07, 2006

Curator’s Talk: with Michèle Thériault

Director of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery

Tuesday, February 7th at 4 pm
Lecture
Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, LB 165

in conjunction with the exhibition
WE CAN MAKE RAIN BUT NO ONE CAME TO ASK:
DOCUMENTS FROM THE ATLAS GROUP ARCHIVE
A PROJECT BY THE ATLAS GROUP IN COLLABORATION WITH WALID RAAD

From January 26th to March 4th, 2006, the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery presents three projects and a series of videos from The Atlas Group. Based in Beirut and New York The Atlas Group is a project and foundation created by Walid Raad in 1999 to locate, preserve, study and produce audio, visual, literary and other artifacts that shed light on the contemporary history of Lebanon. Through collaborations with various professionals, The Atlas Group has produced an extensive archive of photographs, videos, notebooks, and sculptural works that document the effects of the Lebanese Civil Wars. Central to their concerns is the inherent failure of such an archive to definitively convey the effects of catastrophic events. While many of these documents are based on factual evidence gathered from police files, newspapers and press images, many come from unorthodox sources, collective memories and fictional characters created by The Atlas Group pointing to innumerable other apprehensions of the event. The result is a blurred distinction between the real and the imagined, which questions how such "facts and events" are represented and mediated as part of the history of Lebanon.

The Atlas Group documents in this exhibition focus more specifically on the city of Beirut, its wartime trauma, the complex issue of reconstruction and its psychological and physical repercussions. They are presented here in North America for the first time.

Image above: We Can Make Rain but No One Came To Ask, 2006 (video still)
Courtesy Sfeir Semler Gallery (Hamburg/Beirut) and Anthony Reynolds Gallery (London)

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February 09, 2006

Concordia Tango Club

Club meetings

Every Thursday evening
19:30-21:00 beginners tango course
21:00-24:00 milonga (dance)

Evenings commence with a beginner course given by tango teacher Richard Sagala, assisted by Dania Adamuszek. At 21:00 there is a milonga (dance) where D.J. Michel Auzet plays a wide variety of tango recordings, and many members of the Montreal tango community share a tango soirée. This event is located in the foyer of the F.C. Smith auditorium (entrance through side door) located on the ground floor of the Loyola campus chapel.

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Bonnie Baxter: Rewind

Exhibition

February 9 – April 1, 2006
Opening Reception February 9 from 7 to 9 pm
Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery
Memorial University of Newfoundland

Bonnie Baxter: Rewind charts a progression of ideas that are neither static nor strictly linear. With artful slight of hand, Baxter creates thoughtful connections, seamlessly layering disparate content and tactile experiences.

Her subject matter reveals not only a deep involvement with world events but a personal vision that refuses to see any aspect of life as less important than another. Her finely honed printmaker’s ability to produce imagery in complex layers allows her to relate the most mundane experiences to the most exalted and intense. The transcendent and the terrible are arbitrated with humour. Even the work which confronts the most hostile acts of humanity is mediated by the perspective of time, implied in the combination of print techniques Baxter uses, each eliciting its own tactile memory of historical place: the pixel precision of the digital now; the etched and ragged lines of simpler pasts.
The history of printmaking is revealed in the layers of Baxter’s newest prints. Techniques and imagery that are ostensibly incompatible find common ground. Her images push the technical boundaries of print using digital process, UV inks, large scale and unorthodox surfaces. At the same time she layers this work with the most ancient forms of the printmaker’s art – stamps, and wookblock printing. Through the correlation of objects, prints and video images, this exhibition bridges gaps between traditional and experimental mediums. It mediates the boundaries between objective and subjective representation, the mundane and the transcendent, gravity and humour, the artist commitment to social engagement and the need to find comfort and reason through aesthetic expression.

Press release

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Criminals in Love

February 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 2006 @ 8:00 p.m.
Matinée: February 12 & 18, 2006 @ 2:00 p.m.

Play performance

Concordia University Theatre Department begins its spring season with George F. Walker’s "Criminals in Love", directed by the new artistic director for Geordie Productions, and co-founder of ASM Productions, Dean Patrick Flemming.

For tickets, contact our Box Office at 848-2424, ext. 4742
General admission: $10, Students: $5
The performance will take place in the Cazalet Theatre 7141 Sherbrooke Street West (underneath the Loyola Chapel)
download press release

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February 13, 2006

Bonnie Baxter: Award Winner at Print Art Biennial in India

International Print Exhibition Biennial

February 13 – April 2006
Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts

Bonnie Baxter received an honourable mention award for work having outstanding creative merits at the Seventh Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print-Art, 2006 at the Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts in Bhopal, India.

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February 14, 2006

Raffle My (H)art:

Tuesday, February 14, 2006. 7:00pm
Bourget Gallery, MF, 1230 de la Montagne
Concordia MFA Fundraiser for Final Group Show

Forget the Chocolates, ditch the hallmark cards, put away that leopard skin thong, and come and join us in a valentine’s Day orgy of Art. Drinks by donation, truly grotesque MC’s and of course art by artists that may eventually cut an ear off. Consider this very factual fact: Concordia is the leading art school in Canada. For 75 dollars you are ensured to stumble away with an original art work from an MFA student or faculty member because this is not an auction, there is no pressure, pushing, hair pulling, or bruised egos. Total number of tickets: 50. Cost of Tickets: $75.00 (cold hard cash only) To inquire/acquire tickets, drop by the Front office of the Bourget Building (MF between 10am and 5 pm) tickets will be available until Friday, February 10th, 2006.

For further information contact: Ian Shatilla 514-937-4038 – Anna Sprague: 514-481-1686

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Nina Czegledy: Sans Frontières. Existence on the threshold of dreams and reality

Lecture

Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Lecture: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Question and Answer: 12:30 – 1:00 PM
EV building Concordia University (EV6.735)
1515 St. Catherine Street West

In describing the miracle-making activities of a media artist/curator, tales of the mythical Trickster come to mind. Combining the metaphor of the controversial and provocative activities of the mythological character with personal folklore, an eclectic, interdisciplinary world is presented. The presentation charts borderless collaborations from Budapest to Beijing, ranging over the last two decades.

We are delighted to announce that the University has awarded a position as Adjunct Associate Professor to NINA CZEGLEDY. This means that Nina will have a research association with the faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia for at least the next five years. Her particular interests are new media and international collaborations. Many of you already know her, or know of her, because of her pioneering efforts worldwide as a new media artist and curator, tireless organizer and connector of people and projects.

Nina is the current Chair of ISEA, the Inter Society of Electronic Arts, a high profile, New Media conference/exhibition held every second year in a different part of the world. In Canada she is the president of Critical Media, a Canadian based Knowledge Institute, and for three years has been working on the development of Circuit4.ca the Canadian digital culture database for the Canadian Heritage Information Network. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Knowledge, Media, Design Institute of the University of Toronto.
Nina brings together her experience with New Media and her sense of political activism on a number of international advisory boards. For example, she is a key advisor to the UNESCO DigiArts Portal for the African Network and a member of UNESCO's Arab States DigiArts group and on the advisory boards for the Zonghaus Group in Beijing and the Sarai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in India.

She has curated over 35 digital art/video programs presented in more than 25 countries. Resonance, the Electromagnetic Bodies Project, co-curated with Louise Provencher and exhibited at Oboro gallery here in Montreal last April, is currently on tour showing the work of 10 Canadian media artists in five major European venues.

Her lecture at Concordia provides an opportunity to connect, or reconnect, with Nina, find out about her current projects and see how we can, as individuals and as a Faculty both support her and benefit from her vast network of international and Canadian contacts.

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February 16, 2006

Collision

Exhibition

MFA candidates from Concordia University and l’université du Québec à Montréal will present their thesis exhibitions at the Parisian Laundry in two parts.

Parisian Laundry, 3550 rue Saint-Antoine Ouest

Part 1:
Randal Anderson
Catherine Carmichael
Sunhye Hwang
Aliette Mahé
Stéphanie Pouliot
Tomasz Szadkowski
February 17 - March 4
Vernissage: February 16, 5pm – 9pm

Part 2:
Ian Campbell
Patrick Lundeen
Émilie Moralès
Clint Neufeld
Nelly-Ève Rajotte
Margo Ray
March 12 – March 25
Vernissage: March 9, 5pm – 9pm

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February 17, 2006

The Sacred Run: the lotus and the feather

Film Screening 6:30 pm, February 15, 2006 D.B. Clarke Theatre in the Henry F. Hall Building 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West basement level

The screening will take place at 6:30 p.m., in the D.B. Clarke Theatre, in the Henry F. Hall Building (1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, basement level).

The Sacred Run, the lotus and the feather describe a First Nations-organized run across Japan for peace and environmental awareness. It addresses the concept of peace as paradoxically complex and simple, yet ultimately it begins by transformation of the individual held within the fabric of a larger community. It will be preceded by a ritual blessing by Rainbow Weaver and storytelling by Jonathan Kruk.

For more information, please contact Donald Boisvert at (514) 848-2424, ext. 4153. For more information about the film please visit:http://www.dragonflyfilms.ca

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Cash and Carry 2

Exhibition and Silent Auction
February 13 – 17, 2006
Vernissage: 6:00pm, February 17, 2006
VAV Gallery: 1395 Rene-Levesque, VA 033

Following in the footsteps of last year’s successful Cash and Carry event, graduating students in the photography program at Concordia University are hosting Cash and Carr 2 – a silent auction and exhibition at the VAV gallery.

. All proceeds from the auction will go to the production of the graduating class exhibit, which is to be held in April 2006. For avid collectors of contemporary art, members of the artistic community as well as the general public, this silent auction is a unique opportunity to support emerging contemporary artists.
Each of the 24 students involved in the graduating show will exhibit one piece at the auction. The work up for auction offers the viewers a visual taste of the class’s individual practices.

Featuring work by: Ricardo Ariano, Melissa Campbell, Sara Taylor, Louis Vigneault, Mark Diego Fragua, Marc Gaudet, Johanna Heldebro, Bianca Dioro valary Haines, Gisele Bernatchez-E, Aydin Matalbi, Caitlin Durlak, Alexis Vallee-Charest, Celia Perrin-Sidarous, Johanne assedou, Anne Parisien, Jim Berburg, Maria-Helena Pacelli, Tatiana Parniakova, Young-Su Park, Dominique Ferraton, Anne-Renée Hotte, Laura Dutton, and Tracy Bockus.

Bidders are welcome anytime during the gallery’s opening hours and are encouraged to place bids throughout the week. Prices begin at $40 depending on the size of the work. Bidding ends on Friday February 17th during the Vernissage, which begins at 6 pm.

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February 20, 2006

Call For Submissions: Fourth Annual Graduating Students’ Exhibition

Deadline: Friday, April 28th, 4:00pm, 2006
Submissions may be dropped off at the Office of the Dean, EV 2-781, or sent by mail to 1455, boul de Maisonneuve ouest, Montreal QC, H3G 1M8, EV 2-781.
For more information, contact Tricia Middleton at tricia@alcor.concordia.ca, or 848-2424 ext 4701.

Are you graduating from Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts this June 2006? Students graduating at this time with a major in Animation, Art Education, Art History, Cinema, Computation Arts, Creative Arts Therapies, Dance, Design, Music, Theatre and Studio Arts at both the Undergraduate and Graduate level are eligible to submit work to this juried exhibition.

These events will happen over the course of Convocation week. Fine Arts Convocation is June 14th, 2006. Students are responsible for ensuring works selected for exhibition will be available at this time. Students may also be asked to assist in the presentation of their work.

More:
ALL ARTISTS MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
Name, student ID, full mailing address, email, telephone number, their area of specialization during their studies at Concordia and which exhibition context they envision for their work.

VISUAL ARTS (Myriad art work intended for display in a gallery context)
Please submit:
• 2-3 good quality images either in slide format or on a CD (72 dpi, JPEG, 1024 x 768 pixels, Mac compatible). All images must be clearly labelled and numbered.
• Visual support material must be accompanied by a documentation list indicating the title, dimensions, media and year of completion.
• Brief artist statement or project description, 300 words max.
• A summary of all your technical requirements, if any.

Whenever possible, please include visual documentation of the work you intend to exhibit, indicating it is the work you are proposing for exhibition. Limit: One work per artist.

PERFORMING ARTS (Dance, Music, Theatre intended for presentation in an auditorium context)
Please submit:
• A brief project description, or proposal of what you would like to perform, 500 words max, including a summary of all technical needs.
• An artist’s resume of relevant past projects and/or documentation of past projects.
• Brief artist statement, or statement of intent, 300 words max.

Individual performances should not exceed 15 minutes in length. Students are encouraged to collaborate with one another as much as possible.

TIME BASED ART (Animation, Film, New Media, Video work intended for presentation in a screening context)
Please submit:
• A VHS or DVD copy of the work you intend to have screened.
• A brief description of this work.
• Brief artist statement, 300 words max.
• Technical specifications, including running time, year of completion, colour, sound, etc.

Limit: One work per artist.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE, 4pm, FRIDAY APRIL 28th, 2006.

Submissions may be dropped off courtesy of the FOURTH ANNUAL GRADUATING STUDENTS EXHIBITION at the Office of the Dean, EV 2-781

or sent by mail to
1455, boul de Maisonneuve ouest
Montreal QC,
H3G 1M8, EV 2-781.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, contact Tricia Middleton at:
tricia@alcor.concordia.ca
or 848-2424 ext 4701.

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February 21, 2006

Album: Print Media’s Annual Exhibition.

Exhibition
February 20-26, 2006
Vernissage: February 21, 7:00pm
VAV Gallery, VA 033
1395 Rene-Levesque
Each year this dynamic and innovative program highlights students’ work through an exhibition in the University’s Art Gallery.

For the first time, a series of albums carried out by advanced students will be presented. While staying true to the rich traditional character of print media, the works fall under a contemporary practice. These works reflect the collaborative aspect and openness of the print community, two key factors in the evolution of the artist in the printmaking milieu.

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February 22, 2006

Joey Berzowska: Soft Computation and Responsive Fashion

Lecutre
Musée d’art Contemporatin de Montréal
6:00 pm
In French
Free Admission

Joey Bersowska, Professor of Design and Computation Arts and a member/researcher with Hexagram will be presenting a lecture on soft computation and responsive fashion. Electronic fabrics and nanotechnology promise us a future of smart clothes coupled with wearable computing: a second skin that has been well described in science fiction and military research proposals. This talk describes her research and presents outfits that embody key concepts in responsive fashion. Conductive yarns and fabrics, colour-change inks and flexible sensors allow for the construction of soft electronic garments. The goal is to achieve the seamless integration of technology into the tradition of textile and fashion design.

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February 27, 2006

MFA Photography Student Exhibition

Exhibition
February 27 to April 23, 2006
FOFA Gallery Vitrines, EV 1.715
1515 Ste Catherine St. West

The MFA Photography Student Exhibition will be a two-part exhibition of work by the MFA Photography Students under the professorship of Geneviève Cadieux. The first 4-week segment will feature the work of six first-year students whose work addresses a range of contemporary photographic concerns including space, photographic construction of the subject, performative identities and staged realities, and relational aesthetics. The second component of the exhibition will showcase the time-based work of four second-year students whose practices deal with performativity embodied through self-enactment or addressed through the construction of spaces for social theatre.

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March 17, 2006

Raymonde April bifurcations

Exhibition

March 2 – April 2, 2006
Centre d’exposition
Université de Montréal
Pavilion de la Faculté de laménagement
2940, Cote St. Catherine, room 0056

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“LUCID”: CONCORDIA MFA PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

MFA Photography Exhibition

Reception, March 31st at 6:00 pm
FOFA Gallery - Vitrine
Main Floor, 1515 St-Catherine West, Concordia University

The first and second year graduate students of the MFA Photography program at Concordia University proudly present Lucid, a group exhibition in the FOFA Gallery Vitrine.

The selected works, addressing a variety of photographic, digital, and time-based concerns, will showcase the diverse talents of the ten students currently enrolled in the MFA Photography program under the professorship of Geneviève Cadieux.

The exhibition will comprise two three-week segments, each with its own opening reception. From March 3 – 24, Lucid will feature the work of Alyssa Andrews, Susi Brister, Darren Ell, Nicholas Hoban and Meera Margaret Singh.

The second segment of the show will occur from March 27 to April 23 with an opening reception on March 31 at 6 pm. Presenting artists will be: Esther Choi, Leigh Davis, Erika Kierulf, Margaret Mclean and Olga Chagaoutdinova.

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Shifting Borders

Graduate conference on visual culture

An inter-disciplinary graduate conference focusing on the notion of borders in visual culture with a keynote address by Dr. Michelle Wallace, Cornell University
York Amphitheatre (EV 1.615)
Concordia University
1515 St. Catherine St. West.

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Writing Material

The Defiant Imagination Lecture Series 2005 - 2006
March 17

Jason Lewis
Professor of Design and Computation Arts and a member/researcher of Hexagram

Different materials lead us down different creative paths. The digital medium generates new "materials" at an astonishing pace. How do we, as artists, make use of these new materials to create innovative forms of expression? How do we identify and effectively use the qualities unique to the digital medium?

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Maxwell Cummings Auditorium
1379 Sherbrooke St. West

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March 20, 2006

Creative Arts Therapies Week

March 18 - 26 2006

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March 21, 2006

Alicia Henry

6:30pm – 8:30pm
Visual Arts Building VA-323
1395 René Lévesque Blvd W.

Studio Arts Visiting Artist Program in conjunction with the Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University
Alicia Henry received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her M.F.A. from Yale Unversity. Henry has received numerous grants, fellowships, and awards, for example, the Ford Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center (Fellowship), MacDowell (Residency) and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Residency).

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March 24, 2006

Tanya Mars and Joanna Householder

6:30pm – 8:30pm
York Amphitheatre
Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex (EV) 1-615
1515 rue St Catherine W.

MFA Visiting Artist Program in conjunction with galerie La Centrale
 
Two seminal Canadian performance artists, Tanya Mars and Johanna Householder, speak about their work as feminist performance artists.  As co-editors of Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women their experience and knowledge is far-ranging

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March 31, 2006

Lucid (part two)

Vernissage
March 31
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
FOFA Gallery
1515 St. Catherine St. West, EV 1-715
Lynn Beavis, FOFA Gallery Coordinator
lbeavis@alcor.concordia.ca, 848.2424 ext. 5467

Graduate students of the MFA Photography program at Concordia University proudly present Lucid, a group exhibition in the FOFA Gallery Vitrine. The works address a variety of photographic, digital, and time-based concerns of the students currently enrolled in the MFA Photography program, under the professorship of Geneviève Cadieux. The second segment of the show is on display from March 27 to April 23. Presenting artists will be: Esther Choi, Leigh Davis, Erika Kierulf, Margaret Mclean and Olga Chagaoutdinova.

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April 01, 2006

Grads in the News

Articles
Keena Trowell, BFA 2001, was interviewed in "Calling in from the cold," Gazette, March 20, 2006. She launched her own company, Keena Trowell Design last year specializing in eco-friendly designs for residential furniture and lighting. To hone her business skills, she took courses at Youth Employment Workshop where Marvin Garellek , BComm 1983, shares his experience. Garellek is Vice-President of sales, marketing and investor relations for Prestige Telecom.

Congratulations
Louise Archambault, BFA 1993, won the prestigious Claude Jutra Award for her first feature film, Familia. The award was presented at the Genie Awards on March 13, 2006.

Matthew Reichertz, BFA 1993, is one of five finalists for the $50,000 Sobey Art Award. The award is a biennial award given to an artist under the age of 40 who has had a show in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated. The winner will be announced in November.

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April 03, 2006

Permutations

April 2 – 30, 2006
Exhibition of drawings and ceramics
Students from Concordia's Departments of Drawing and Ceramics will be represented

Vernissage: April 7th from 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Monday to Wednesday: 10:00 am-6:00 pm
Thursday to Friday: 10:00 am-9:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am-5:00 pm
Sunday: 1:00 pm-5:00 pm

A chance to see the drawings and ceramic works of twenty-one emerging artists from Concordia's undergraduate program of Fine Arts. Curated by Jennifer Laoun- Rubenstein.

Optique Georges Laoun 4012 St. Denis (corner Duluth), Montreal
Jennifer Laoun-Rubenstein 514-620-5366 or setsuna_ _@hotmail.com

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April 05, 2006

Dont Rhine

12:00pm – 1:30pm
Visual Arts Building, VA-210
1395 René Lévesque Blvd W.

Studio Arts Visiting Artist Program in conjunction with INTE 390 and the Concordia University AIDS project
 
Dont Rhine is part of Ultra Red, a collective that makes political sound art through collaborations with human rights and labour rights organizations producing provocative outdoor public sound installations, primarily on the West Coast of the US. The group has also included artists from Mexico and Chile with recent works aimed at facilitating dialogue across the US/Mexico border.

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April 06, 2006

AT THE CROSSROADS, Directed by Micheline Chevrier

Play
April 6 - 8
Department of Theatre
D.B. Clarke Theatre, 1455 de Maisonneuve West
Vladimir Cara, Assistant Director, at caravladimir@yahoo.com, or for tickets call our box office at 848-2424, ext. 4742
theatre.concordia.ca

In a new adaptation by Gina Wilkinson, the Greek playwright Sophocles reveals himself as surprisingly modern nearly 25 centuries after the creation of his plays. AT THE CROSSROADS is based on the Theban Cycle (OEDIPUS TYRANNOS, OEDIPUS AT KOLONUS and ANTIGONE) and, as in the original plays, examines the tension between fate and free will, love of family and of country, man and the gods, life and death.

We all know the story of Oedipus and Antigone: the king who killed his father and wedded his mother, and his sorry child bound to bury her outcast brother. In AT THE CROSSROADS, we are once again in Thebes, victorious in war over the city of Argos. In this conflict, two brothers, the cursed sons of Oedipus, have opposed and killed each other. One had fought for Thebes, the other for the enemy. Enter Kreon, their uncle and the new king, powerful and feared. He condemns the treacherous brother to rot, a prey for the birds. Enter Antigone, defiant and loyal. She decides to bury her brother despite the threat of death tied to such an act. Enter Oedipus, the father and cursed king, proud and stubborn. Through him, we learn how history repeats itself and how past actions have shaped present choices.

In AT THE CROSSROADS, the stories of Oedipus, Antigone and Kreon merge, exposing the dangers of pride, tyranny and fear. In this age of suspicion and retribution, Sophocles’ works reflect present day dilemmas as they expose human failings as well as man’s greatness.

Over 25 students from Concordia University’s Theatre Department – actors, designers and production staff – have created this production. Join them on this challenging and inspiring journey into the world of Classical Greek theatre.

D.B. Clarke Theatre
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

April 6, 7, 8, 2006 @ 8:00 p.m.
Matinée: April 8, 9, 2006 @ 2:00 p.m.

General Admission: $10
Students $5
BOX OFFICE:
514-848-2424 ext. 4742

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Dance Student Performances

April 6, 2006 to April 8, 2006

Department of Contemporary Dance
Moyse Hall, McGill University
Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West

Year-end performances choreographed and performed by Contemporary Dance students.

Tickets/billets: $10.00 & $5.00 (students/etudients)
sold at the door only / billets à l’éntrée

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April 08, 2006

White Cube On The Move

April 8 - 9, 2006 Exhibition Vernissage: April 8th from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm Sculpture Garden, EV. 1515 St Catherine Street W. EXHIBITION SPACE: 4 X 20’ Budget trucks, 6 X 16’ trucks

Concordia’s MFA Studio Arts program is in the midst of a transformation. We are in the process of relocating our studios and classrooms from the FS and Bourget Buildings to other Buildings around the Sir George Williams Campus. White Cube On The Move is a show geographically and metaphorically suspended between our point of departure and our point of intended destination. In light of several months of nomadic flux, construction, and relocation this is our opportunity to respond and place a positive spin on these circumstances. In keeping with this tone of transience, we are organizing a site-specific exhibition in and around the downtown campus that is simultaneously edgy and curiously optimistic.

Bourget: White Cube On The Move recognizes the importance for MFA students to show along side their colleagues, presenting their work and research in relation to other departments. Collective exhibitions illustrate commonalities among the departments while simultaneously showing differing impulses and concerns specific to their medium. Bourget: White Cube On The Move showcases works from 39 MFA students and investigates this alternate site for exhibition: probing notions of agency, accessibility, interstice and provision.

ARTISTS:

JO BALL, JULIE BEUGIN, IAN SHATILLA, BRIDGET KEATING, CHRISTIN WAHLSTRÖM, CHANTAL DURAND, MOMOKO ALLARD, J. PENNEY BURTON, OLGA CHAGAOUTDINOVA, ALAN GROOMBRIDGE, TERRI FREW, CARA SAWKA, PATRICK BUREAU, DAVE JOHNSON, ALYSSA ANDREWS, SUSI BRISTER, ALEXANDER WILSON, CHARLES STANKIEVECH, JAMES CRAIG, SHAWNA MCLEOD, PATRICK MCEOWN, MARGARET MCLEAN, NICHOLAS HOBAN, ROSALIE D. GAGNÉ, ANNE-MICHÈLE FORTIN, CHLOÉ BERTRAND, MEERA, MARGARET SINGH, TARA COOPER, JAKE MOORE, VÉRONIQUE MALO, GENEVIÈVE SIDELEAU, RYAN STATZ, MARC PETERS, LALIE DOUGLAS, CANDICE TARNOWSKI, HÉLOÏSE AUDY, JESSICA FIELD, ANNA SPRAGUE, CARRIE TANNANT, SCULPTURE DEPARTMENT/ CERAMICS DEPARTMENT COLLABORATIVE

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April 18, 2006

Grads in the News

Vittorio Rossi, BFA 85, was mentioned in "The stage is set", Gazette, March 29, 2006. His play, Carmela's Table, will run from Oct. 5-29, 2006 at the Centaur Theatre.

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Congratulations

Kodak Faculty Scholarships is awarded annually to a faculty member who demonstrates a high level of production skills, creativity and teaching experience in production. Assistant Professor Roy Cross, who teaches film production at Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, fits the bill perfectly. His upcoming ten minute short film, Heavy Water, intends to serve both as a stand-alone narrative project and as an educational tool for Roy’s production class.
For More information

Ana Cappelluto, Associate Dean Research, Graduate Studies and International Relations congratulate the following researchers on their successful application to the 2005-2006 SSRCH Standard Research Grant Competition, Strategic Grants: Aboriginal Research Program Competition and Canada Council New Media Grant Competition.
Elaine Cheasley Paterson
Mario Falsetto
Rosanna Maule
Yehudit Silverman
Johanne Sloan
Stephen Snow
Jason Lewis
Joey Berzowska

Professor Marielle Nitoslawska, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and Rachael Van Fossen, Part-time Instructor, Department of Theatre are recognized as this year’s recipients of the Faculty of Fine Arts Distinguished Teaching Awards.

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April 24, 2006

Stanley Mills Purchase Prize Collection, 2006

April 24 – May 21, 2006
Vernissage: April 27
Please join us in celebration of the Stanley Mills Purchase Prize Collection winners for 2005/2006. A reception will be held in the Vernissage hall on the ground floor of the EV building (EV7-715), on Thursday, April 27 form 4:30 – 6:30 pm.
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May 26, 2006

Robert Davidson and Contemporary Aboriginal Arts Practice

Lecture

May 26, 2006
12:30 – 4:30 pm
McCord Museum

Organized in conjunction with the Department of Art History, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University and the Gail and Stephan A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, the symposium will bring together artists, curators and academics from across Canada to discuss Aboriginal contemporary art.
Registration Form English
Registration Form French

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Awards of Distinction

On May 8, 2006 Concordia University’s Fine Arts Department handed out the 2006 Awards of Distinction. The awards ceremony took place on the 11th floor of Terrace Integrated Engineering, Computer Science and Visual arts Complex.

These awards are designed to acknowledge and honour individuals and corporations who have distinguished themselves by becoming benefactors to the arts and whose substantial philanthropic contributions have furthered the development of the arts. The three winners this year were: Michal Hornstein, Avrum Morrow and Liliane Stewart.

Mr. Hornstein has been a major arts contributor for decades and here at Concordia he established The Romek Hornstein Memorial Endowment and the Renata Hornstein Graduate Fellowship in Art History.

Mr. Morrow has been a supporter of Concordia for many years. He is one of the original contributors to the Sir George Williams Art Gallery; more recently, he established the Dora Morrow Fellowship for Excellent Achievement in Visual Arts.

Ms. Stewart presides over the Macdonald Stewart Foundation, one of the country’s most important charitable organizations, providing crucial support in Health care, education and culture. Ms. Stewart is also the founder of the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts and works closely with the Stewart museum, founded by her husband David in 1955.

For more information: http://mediarelations.concordia.ca

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June 07, 2006

Thinking Through New Media

June 7 to June 8, 2006
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

Duke University is pleased to announce that it will be hosting an international graduate student conference dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of digital technologies and their impact on art, culture, science, commerce, society, and the environment.

The purpose of the Thinking through New Media workshop is to build an interdisciplinary graduate student community around new media scholarship and to introduce participants to HASTAC (pronounced “haystack”), ISIS, and RENCI. Conference organizers are currently encouraging students from all academic disciplines to submit 20-minute papers exploring their own research into the study and/or creation of new media technologies.
Applicants whose papers are not accepted for presentation will be invited to present their work at a digital poster session during the first day of the conference.
Online conference registration, schedules, participants, travel information, and other details are available at the conference website at http://isis.duke.edu/events/TTNM

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Visual Conversations:The Centre for the Arts in Human Development at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

June 7, 2006
Vernissage

The Centre for the Arts in Human Development invites the Concordia community to a vernissage of artwork by its participants, adults with developmental or related disabilities, in the Cultural Passage of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on Wednesday, June 7, 2006, at 5:30 p.m.

Entrance directly into the Cultural Passage is at 2200 Crescent Street. The works on display are the result of the participants’ involvement in a series of workshops in the Education and Public Programmes Department of the Museum. In addition to providing internships for students in Concordia’s Graduate Program in Creative Arts Therapies, the Centre for the Arts in Human Development has a mandate of promoting the integration of its participants as equal and contributing members of the community.

Originally proposed to the Museum’s Sharing the Museum Program by Lenore Vosberg, the Centre’s Executive Director, and Elizabeth Anthony, Art Therapy Coordinator at the Centre, the workshops were developed in concert with Centre and Museum staff, two artists selected by the Centre from the Montreal community and volunteers from Concordia’s Art Therapy and Art Education Programs. Using material and symbolic means, the artworks in this display present this rich experience of exchange and mutual learning.

The display will continue through the summer months, until August 28, 2006.

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September 08, 2006

FOFA Gallery

Concordia University’s new FOFA (Faculty of Fine Arts) Gallery has set itself the task of showcasing the best of the current artistic and research practices of the faculty, staff, students and alumni across the various media and disciplines resident in the Faculty. While it is incumbent on the Gallery to represent the Faculty of Fine Art’s diversity through critically based, curated exhibitions and interdisciplinary presentations, the Gallery also embraces the principles of experimentation and experiential learning through “laboratory” experiences, in-gallery teaching and professional training opportunities for students. Educational opportunities including workshops, panels, tours and artist talks, will be presented to broaden the appreciation and understanding of contemporary art within the Gallery’s various communities.

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Shelly Low: Self Serve

Until September 17
FOFA Vitrines
This project arises from the artist’s research on the commodification and manufacture of cultural identity. Using self-portraiture and the paraphernalia of Chinese restaurants (dishes, chop sticks and take-away menus), Low is exploring her own identity which crosses the Eastern/Western cultural boundaries. The display is entitled Self-Serve, and reflects on cultural stereotypes and self-representations, and the relationship between cultural identity and food. This exhibition will be shown at Ace Art in Winnipeg following its presentation in the FOFA Gallery Vitrines.

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Oscar Peterson Concert Hall

Event Calendar for September

http://oscar.concordia.ca/events/09-2006-Calendar.pdf

To view the calendar, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (6), available for free at:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

For day-to-day updates and last minute additions, please visit:

http://oscar.concordia.ca/events/hevents.html

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September 09, 2006

Homewall Drawing :: L'art de manger at Optica - Faire à sa tete at Galerie Joyce Yahouda

Saturday, September 9, 2006 at 3 p.m.
Optica Gallery and the Joyce Yahouda Gallery invite you to the vernissages of François Morelli

Both exhibitions are located on the fifth floor of the Belgo building located at 372 Ste-Catherine, West. It is a unique opportunity to view work in both galleries. The exhibitions will span a range of media drawn from several years of this Montreal artist's career. The exhibitions delve in the imaginative, artistic activity as subject. In addition, it reexamines the status of the art object, and the form, both in their reception and in their dissemination. Interested in the so-called minor forms of expression and materials, Morelli attempts to give new life to artistic engagement, using ornamentation, dream material, ritual, and the everyday as premise for communication with the other.

The work presented at Optica includes: a stamp-drawing frieze print on paper, porcelain plates, and a sculpture. Simultaneously, the Joyce Yahouda gallery presents sculptures, artifacts and drawings. The exhibitions continue until October 14, 2006.

Biography:
François Morelli lives and works in Montreal. After completing his bachelor's degree in 1981, he left his home town and headed for New York where he was captivated by new art forms, including performance and conceptual approaches. During this New York phase, he taught at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the State University of New York and the City University of New York in Manhattan. Morelli returned to Montreal in 1991 to teach at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and
joined the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University in 1996. Morelli regularly exhibits at Galerie Christiane Chassay, in Montreal, and at Horodner Romley Gallery, in New York. In addition, he has participated in several national and international exhibitions, including the Biennale du Havre (2006), the Biennale de Montréal (2002), and ICI's Walk Ways, New York (2002). Currently, Morelli is represented by the Joyce Yahouda Gallery in Montreal. His research includes: events/actions/performances, drawing, sculpture, installation, and artists' books.

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September 12, 2006

5 à 7 for Chicks and Dudes

Tuesday, September 12th, 5 to 7pm,
located at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery (LB-165), LB Building (SGW), 1400 boul de Maisonneuve ouest. We provide information on Fine Arts resources, video installations by Mike Hoolboom, music and relaxing beverages.

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September 14, 2006

High Performance Picnic

Thursday, September 14th, 4 to 7 pm,
located on TJ Lawn (LOY), 7315 Terrebonne. Enjoy the free BBQ and beverages, and relax to the live sounds by PK + timmer.

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September 20, 2006

Bernard Gamoy: AUTOPORTRAIT/ANIT-PORTRAIT

September 20 – October 29
FOFA Vitrines
Bernard Gamoy has been working on a series of self-portraits since 2005, through which he explores self-identity and the marginality of the artist in society. These works on paper are as much truths as they are fictions. Working from photographs taken with the camera on auto, the artist has developed a series in which he has discovered odd angles and asymmetrical facial expressions. The focus of these works is the gesture, expression and position of the body represented in an empty, non-narrative background. As a result the gestures, the occasional inclusion of text, or addition of animals create an ironic and often self-mocking allegory of the individual’s search for identity in the global society.

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September 21, 2006

Zoom! A new work by Randall Anderson.

September 21, 2006 to August 2007
Public installation in the FOFA Sculpture Court
Adjacent to the FOFA Gallery, the Sculpture Court sits at the heart of the Quartier Concordia. Dedicated to the installation of experimental works by Fine Arts students working at the Graduate level, the Sculpture Court will host large-scale projects created specifically for the site. Randall Anderson’s project, Zoom! won the first competition held in the spring of 2006. Zoom! is composed of a human form “in absence,” set on an arabesque shaped plinth, and draws allusions to icons in Modernist art, particularly the Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni’s bronze, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.

Anderson’s work addresses the individual’s negotiation of complex social and psychological spaces, where the sense of self is constantly being redefined by changing information and circumstances. As the artist puts it, “In the face of the contemporary onslaught of information Zoom! is the instant of change where the body is only the echo of what once was.” A brochure, with text by Dr. Johanne Sloan of Concordia University’s Art History Department, will be published to accompany this installation.

This work will be celebrated with the opening of the FOFA Gallery on September 21.

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Body Notes

September 21 to October 13, 2006
Caroline George, Sophie Jodoin, Theresa Sapergia, Marc Seguin and Marion Wagschal
This inaugural exhibition at the FOFA Gallery looks at the work of five artists who deal with the human body in their art practices. The body, as the nexus between the self and the world, is the means by which knowledge, perception and experience are produced. Echoes of the self are sought in representations of the human figure, and through it the artists seek an understanding of self, place and relationships. Marion Wagschal plumbs the psychological depths of her sitters, while Sophie Jodoin seeks facets of herself within others. Marc Seguin uses the figure to explore the world of inner struggle and self-recognition, as does Caroline George, whose androgynous figures wrestle with inner demons. Theresa Sapergia employs the human form and divines an animal presence in the body that borders the physical flesh and the metaphysical presence.

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September 26, 2006

Seen and Herd

Tuesday, September 26th, 5 to 7 pm,
located on the sixth floor, EV Building (SGW) 1515 Ste Catherine ouest. Selected Montreal artist run centres and artist initiatives converge to provide students all the info they need to make their way in the Montreal art scene. We feature temporal video installation and sound experience by Annie Briard, Brian Hunter and Karim Talaat.

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September 28, 2006

Call for Submmissions

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Oscar Peterson Concert Hall

Event Calendar for October

By clicking on the link below, you will be directed to the October 2006
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall Event Calendar.
http://oscar.concordia.ca/events/10-2006-Calendar.pdf

To view the calendar, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (6), available for
free at:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

For day-to-day updates and last minute additions, please visit:
http://oscar.concordia.ca/events/hevents.html

Renée Dunk
Promotions & Publicity

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September 30, 2006

Third Annual Art Crawl

September 30th, 12 noon
Departs from the VAV Gallery (SGW) located at 1395 boul. Rene Levesque ouest. Tour Montreal Fine Arts hotspots and put a face to the names from the Seen and Herd event. Not to be missed!

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October 05, 2006

Four members of Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts make the 25 most influential figures, in the history of Canadian photography, in the prestigious Photo Sélection Magazine.

Montreal, October 4, 2006 – In its November issue, Photo Sélection magazine highlights 25 of the most influential figures in the history of Canadian photograhy. Among them are three photographic artists and an art historian affiliated with the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. The Québec based photo magazine celebrates its 25th anniversary with this special issue.

Three of the four, Raymonde April, Evergon and Martha Langford, currently teach at the Faculty of Fine Arts while Gabor Szilasi recently retired from teaching at the Faculty.

Raymonde April
As a photographer and artist, she has been known from the late 70s for her minimalist style inspired by the quotidian, at the junction point of documentary, autobiography and fiction. Her major solo exhibitions include «Voyage dans le monde des choses», organized by the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in 1986, «Les Fleuves invisibles», produced by the Musée d’art de Joliette in 1997 and circulated in Canada and France until 2000, and Tout embrasser, presented at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery of Concordia University as part of Le Mois de la photo à Montréal 2001.
Raymonde April’s works are in leading Canadian museums and many private collections. In November 2003, Raymonde April received the Prix Paul-Emile Borduas, the highest distinction given by the Government of Quebec to an artist working in the visual arts. In 2005, she was the recipient of the Paul De Hoeck and Norman Walford Artistic achievement award for art photography.

Evergon
His international career as instructor and artist spans 35 years. In his early photographs, concerned with technology and gay politics, he explored collage, alternative processes, and copy art. In the 1980’s Celluloso superseded with colour Polaroids and in the 1990’s Egon and Celluloso fabricated a document 'Ramboys: a Bookless Novel' & documented fiction/action in 'Manscapes’. Since 2000, Evergon has produced ‘Margaret and I’ (life-size nudes of his Mother), ‘Chez Moi’ (memorabilia & self portraits), and ‘XXX/L’ (robust self sexing other men).

Martha Langford
Martha Langford received her PhD (Dean's Honour List) from McGill University in
1997 and continued her research for two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the Humanities of Simon Fraser University (1999-2000). In the fall of 2003, she held the National Gallery Fellowship in Canadian Art to conduct research toward an intellectual biography of Michael Snow. Aspects of this research have been presented in publications and conferences, including the XXXIst Congress of the Comité International d'Histoire de I'Art (CIHA) held in Montreal, 2004.
Langford's study of photography and orality, Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums, was published in 2001 by McGill-Queen's University Press. Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art is forthcoming from McGill-Queen's University Press (Spring 2007).
Langford was the founding Director and Chief Curator of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (1985-1994) and the Executive Producer of the Still Photography Division of the National Film Board (1981-1984). In 2005, she was the Artistic Director of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, exploring the theme of Image & Imagination. This international photographic biennale included 29 exhibitions, a scholarly publication (English and French editions), a two-day symposium, and a public educational programme.
As a co-Investigator in a SSHRC-funded research project headed by Louise Vigneault, L’Americanité et I'art canadien, Langford is examining the influence of Vietnam-era American immigration on Canadian photographic activity. Results to date include a panel co-organized with Jerry Zaslove at the College Art Association, Seattle, 2004.
Langford is a contributing editor for Border Crossings (Winnipeg) and sits on the advisory panel of BlackFlash (Saskatoon). She has taught at the University of Ottawa, McGill University, and Bishop's University. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University and a Research Associate of the McCord Museum of Canadian History.

Gabor Szilasi
He became interested in photography after he was forced to interrupt his medical studies in Hungary, having been blacklisted after attempting to flee the country to escape the incoming communist regime in 1949. From November 15-25 1956, Szilasi used his camera to document the Hungarian Revolution. Escaping from Hungary in 1957, Szilasi arrived in Halifax and later settled in Montréal in 1959. Employed by the Office du film du Québec, Szilasi worked on photography assignments in Montreal as well as in rural regions of Québec to document the province, particularly the rural regions. In 1970, Szilasi began taking a series of photographs, in particular, Charlevoix, Beauce, Abitibi and Lac St-Jean (Québec), the photographs of Charlevoix winning him national acclaim. This kind of work, photographs of people, facades, interiors, and signs in the country and city, resulted in exhibitions such as La Beauce (1974) and Panoramas de Montréal (1982). Considered an exponent of "down to earth humane realism," Szilasi rarely photographs "official" buildings, choosing instead to capture the vernacular and non-monumental architecture of Québec. In 1980 Szilasi would make his first trip back to Hungary since his emigration. This trip marked the beginning of numerous visits where he would photograph family friends and various architectural sites. In 1997, Szilasi commenced a series of Polaroid portraits, which marked the beginning of a more collaborative process, wherein subjects were encouraged to tell Szilasi their opinions about the initial photograph. Szilasi would then proceed to take more pictures of the subject, often incorporating his subject's suggestions. Also in 1997, the Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal held a retrospective of his work entitled Gabor Szilasi: Photographs 1954-1996. Szilasi's latest project is a photographic series on the Saint-Michel neighborhood of Montréal, which explores this community's unique mixture of South American, Italian, Haitian, and Québecois cultures. From 1979 to 1995, Szilasi was a photography teacher at Concordia University in Montréal.

The role of the Faculty of Fine Arts is to passionately champion the arts as a vital activity that shapes and reflects contemporary culture. Our reputation for innovative research and teaching excellence, across a diverse range of fine arts disciplines, is vital to drawing top students to our seven graduate programs.

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October 10, 2006

Graduates

Articles
Vittorio Rossi, BFA 85, was profiled in Playwright’s heart still in the ‘hood, Gazette, September 30, 2006. His plays have made Ville Émard a feature of Canada’s literary landscape. Rossi’s latest drama, Carmela’s Table, opens the Centaur theatre and runs from October 3rd to October 29th.

Elizabeth Glimenaki, BFA 90, was profiled in Five-star hotel a perfect fit for her, September 16, 2006. She is General Manager of the Le St-James Hotel, a 61-room boutique hotel in Old Montreal where she runs a staff of 113 employees and hosts celebrities and heads of state.

Accolades
Singer-songwriter, Alexandre Désilets, attendee ‘99 (Fine Arts), was the $40,000 grand prize winner in the Festival International de la chanson de Granby

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FOFA Gallery

Concordia University’s new FOFA (Faculty of Fine Arts) Gallery has set itself the task of showcasing the best of the current artistic and research practices of the faculty, staff, students and alumni across the various media and disciplines resident in the Faculty. While it is incumbent on the Gallery to represent the Faculty of Fine Art’s diversity through critically based, curated exhibitions and interdisciplinary presentations, the Gallery also embraces the principles of experimentation and experiential learning through “laboratory” experiences, in-gallery teaching and professional training opportunities for students. Educational opportunities including workshops, panels, tours and artist talks, will be presented to broaden the appreciation and understanding of contemporary art within the Gallery’s various communities.

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Bernard Gamoy: AUTOPORTRAIT/ANIT-PORTRAIT

September 20 – October 29
FOFA Vitrines
Bernard Gamoy has been working on a series of self-portraits since 2005, through which he explores self-identity and the marginality of the artist in society. These works on paper are as much truths as they are fictions. Working from photographs taken with the camera on auto, the artist has developed a series in which he has discovered odd angles and asymmetrical facial expressions. The focus of these works is the gesture, expression and position of the body represented in an empty, non-narrative background. As a result the gestures, the occasional inclusion of text, or addition of animals create an ironic and often self-mocking allegory of the individual’s search for identity in the global society.

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VAV :: The Super Art Market

The VAV Gallery is excited to present a one-week exhibit that will adopt a supermarket context with the intent to question contemporary consumerism, art as commodity and multiplicity vs. exclusivity. A variety of art objects made by 25 of Concordia's Fine Arts students will be on sale as of the vernissage!

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October 18, 2006

Fesitval Nouveau Cinema

Montreal
Salle H 110, atrium du pavillon Henry F. Hall - 1455, boul. De Maisonneuve Ouest, Montréal
Kenneth Anger is a living legend whose experimental films leave no one indifferent. Anger has had a major impact on avant-garde film artists and major-league film directors like Derek Jarman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch and Martin Scorcese. Anger will be available for interviews on the morning of October, 19th.

Kenneth Anger est une légende et ses expérimentations ne laissent personne indifférent. Ses films lui ont conféré un statut de mythe vivant parmi les cinéastes d’avant-garde et il a constitué une source d’inspiration manifeste pour plusieurs grands réalisateurs, dont Pier Paolo Pasolini, Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch et Martin Scorcese. M. Anger sera disponible pour des entrevues le jeudi 19 octobre, en matinée.

ANGER ME, a documentary about Kenneth Anger, will also be shown on October 19, 2006 at 9:15 pm and October 27, 2006 at 1:15 p.m. at the FELLINI Room (Ex-Centris complex).
Une projection de ANGER ME, un documentaire sur Kenneth Anger, aura également lieu le 19 octobre 2006 à 21 h 15 et le 27 octobre 2006 à 13 h 15 dans la salle FELLINI du complexe Ex-Centris.
Collective Exhibit by Concordia Students – Theme : Nouveau Cinema – New Image • Exposition collective d’étudiants de Concordia – Thème Nouveau cinéma - Nouvelle image

October 23 to 28, 2006 • Du 23 au 28 octobre 2006
Opening on Monday, October 23 at 6 p.m.
Vernissage le lundi 23 octobre à 18 h
1-725 Suite (Street Level), EV Building - 1515, Saint Catherine Street W., Montreal
Suite 1-725 (Rez-de-Chaussée), Pavillon EV - 1515, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, Montréal
Biography of Kenneth Anger, presentation of the exhibitors and general information about these activities available at:
Biographie de Kenneth Anger, présentation des exposants et informations générales sur ces activités disponibles sur le lien: MEDIARELATIONS.CONCORDIA.CA
General information about the Festival du Nouveau Cinema: www.nouveaucinema.ca
Informations générales sur le Festival du nouveau cinéma: www.nouveaucinema.ca

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October 19, 2006

ART MATTERS INFO PARTY

Thursday, October 19th, 9pm
The Main Hall, 5390 St.Laurent St
Curator and Artist application forms will be available.
Admission is FREE.
BANDS - Swamp Sex Robots, The Nymphets, Dishwasher and Crystal Clyffs
DJS - Irma la duce and Sundown Sundown

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The MFA Program is hosting the 11th Annual rencontre interuniversitaire des maitrises en art.

October 19th, 20th and 21st
Bourget building at 1230 Mountain Street, rooms 107-108

The event will brings together Graduate students from four MFA programs across Québec (l'Universté du Québec à Montréal (Montréal), l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (Saguenay), l'Université de Laval (Québec),and Concordia).

On October 19th, a welcoming reception will be held on the 11th floor of the EV building and everyone is invited to meet with faculty and students.

Students will present recent research leading to their MFA thesis. The presentation is followed by a question and answer period. Throughout the Rencontre art work by the various speakers will be on view at the Bourget Gallery.

For more information please contact François Morelli Graduate Program Director at 514.848.4608.

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VOCAL JAZZ CONCERT

October 19 // 6:00 p.m.
Concordia University Department of Music presents

Part of the Jazz Vocal Summit Invitational. Featuring Jeri Brown, John
LaBelle, Madeleine Thériault, the Concordia Jazz Choir, members of the Jeri
Brown Pumped Singers of Montreal, selected singers of the Jeri Brown Voice
Studio plus outstanding male and female vocalists and choral groups from the
invitational.
Free entry for students and summit participants, $5 for the general public.
Summit information and registration: 514-848-2424, ext. 4712.

Jazz Vocal Summit is a non-competitive day of jazz vocal solo and choral music that takes place on the Loyola campus of Concordia University on October 19, 2006. The Department of music is proud to be the sponsor of this year’s event under the direction of Jeri Brown, Director of Vocal Studies, and founder of Jazz Vocal Summit.
A first-class concert and numerous workshops of the JVSI conducted from many of Quebec’s finest jazz vocal educators make for a full day of jazz vocal concentration and enjoyment. This year’s conference will bring together singers, choral directors, and vocal educators of the Montreal community. To kick off the start of this event, Jeri Brown has invited Vanier College and St. Laurent College hosted by Concordia vocal music students and faculty. Registered students will attend workshops, perform for jury critique in four categories: male solo jazz vocals, female solo jazz vocals, small jazz choral ensembles (2-4 members), and large jazz choral ensembles (5+ members), and be invited to a grand concert.
Open and Free Admission: This is an educational event that is open to the public. Registration is required to be included in the competitions and free workshops. Call 1-514-848-2424 X4712 to register. (Space is limited.)
Schedule:
9:30-10 Registration & Refreshments (Participants who will be competing will be expected to arrive with 6 copies of their chart for rhythm section and judges at 9:00a.m. unless they have mailed appropriate forms/music and received receipt confirmation)
10:00-10:30 Assembly with guest speakers: Concordia Fine Arts Admission Representative, Jeri Brown, Director of Concordia Vocal Studies, Jennie Lariviére, President of Concordia Music Student Association, Kathleen Perry, Chair, Concordia Department of Music
10:30-10:25 Vocal Research - Dr. Christine Beckett
10:25-10:30 QUESTIONS/GENERAL DISCUSSION
10:30-11:00 Open Singing - Jeri Brown
11:00-11:50 ABC's of Recording Vocalists - Dr. Mark Corwin
11:50-12:00 QUESTIONS/GENERAL DISCUSSION
12:00-12:50 Jazz Vocal Technique - Madeleine Therriault
12:50-1:00 QUESTIONS/GENERAL DISCUSSION
1:00-1:50 ABC's of Working with an Accompanist - Roddy Ellias
1:50-2:00 QUESTIONS/GENERAL DISCUSSION
2:00-2:50 Jazz Vocal Technique - Johanne Des Forges (cegep Vanier)
2:50-3:00 QUESTIONS/GENERAL DISCUSSION
3:00-3:50 Jazz Choral Master Class - Vincent Morel(cegep St. Laurent)(Ask for Choral signup sheet)
3:50-4:00 QUESTIONS/GENERAL DISCUSSION
4:00-5:40 Adjudications of REGISTERED Singers and Choral Groups (selections of 3-4 minutes each)
5:30-6:00 Dinner Break/Stage Sound check/Judge Deliberation
6:00-8:00 Jazz Vocal Summit Invitational Concert & Outstanding Singer Adjudication results!!
Featuring: members of Jeri Brown PUMPED Singers of Montreal/Johanne Des Forges/Madeleine Therriault/ Judges Picks as: 4 Outstanding Emerging Jazz Vocalists, Choral Group of Vincent Morel, Conchord Singers of Concordia, selected singers of Jeri Brown & Madeleine Theriault Voice Studio and special guest, jazz vocalist John LaBelle with Chris Tauchner Trio, Conchord Quartet under direction of composer-in-residence, Simon Sloutsker, Choral Group of Francois Ouimet, and other special guests
Also, here is a closer look at the 4:15-5:30 Singer Slots. Please insert the names of your singers and return to me by email. Please mail or drop off 6 copies of their lead sheets to:
Jeri Brown, Director of Vocal Studies
Dept. of Music , RF320
Concordia University
7141 Sherbrooke St. West
Montreal, Quebec H4B1R6


Student of Madeleine Therriault (3 singers! Angela, Stina, & Joanie )(Please confirm selections.)
Student of Johanne Des Forges (5 singers!) (Please confirm their time slots/names/selections.)
Student of Jeri Brown (7 singers! Drew, Rica, Jennie, Christina, Melody, Lise, Chantale)
Registered Other Singer (3 singers!) (These slots are open at this time.)
Student of Vincent Morel (5 singers!) (Please confirm their time slots/names/selections.)
4:00 Student of Jeri Brown
4:05 Student of Madeleine Therriault
4:10 Student of Jeri Brown
4:15 Student of Jeri Brown
4:20 Student of Jeri Brown
4:25 Student of Johanne Des Forges
4:30 Student of Jeri Brown
4:35 Student of Madeleine Therriault
4:40 Student of Jeri Brown
4:45 Student of Johanne Des Forges
4:50 Student of Vincent Morel
4:55 Student of Jeri Brown
5:00 Student of Vincent Morel
5:05 Student of Johanne Des Forges
5:10 Student of Vincent Morel
5:15 Student of Johanne Des Forges
5:20 Student of Vincent Morel
5:25 Student of Johanne Des Forges
5:30 Student of Vincent Morel
5:35 Student of Madeleine Therriault

Tight Squeeze (only if time permits within 4:00-5:35 time slot!)
A)Registered Other Singer
B)Registered Other Singer
C)Registered Other Singer

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October 20, 2006

AUKTION 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf

October 20 to November 12, 2006
FOFA Main Gallery

The FOFA Gallery is organizing an exhibition, Auktion 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf, based on the current research of Art History Professor, Dr. Catherine MacKenzie. Max Stern was a pre-eminent art historian, collector and dealer who had a profound effect on the Montréal art milieu. Prior to his emigration to Canada, Dr. Stern ran an influential gallery in Germany. In 1937, however, he was required under the German National Socialist Government to sell all cultural property belonging to his family gallery, the Galerie Stern. After Dr. Stern’s death his Estate became aware of the forced sale of the Stern collection and began to investigate the issue of art restitution. This exhibition examines the documents and art works uncovered, and places them in the context of current cultural dialogue around looted and stolen art, and the legal issues involved.

Dr. Willi Korte, Public Lecture, October 20
Public Reception, October 23
Series of tours – by appointment

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HONOURING WRAY: CONCORDIA PAYS TRIBUTE TO LEGENDARY JAZZMAN DOWNES

Concordia University Department of Music proudly presents HONOURING WRAY – a jazz faculty event celebrating the life and work of Wray Downes.

Members of the Jazz Faculty, alumni, students will pay a musical tribute to Wray at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall on Friday, October 20th at 7:00 p.m.

Wray’s legendary career began when he became the first Canadian to receive the British Empire (Overseas) Scholarship to London’s Trinity College of Music. After studying classical piano in London with Kinloch Anderson, then at the Paris Conservatory with Lazare Lévy and Henri Lauth, Wray turned to jazz under the direction of the great Dizzy Gillespie. Wray later attended Oscar Peterson's Advanced School of Contemporary Music in Toronto and mentored in New York with Mary Lou Williams, the “First Lady of the Jazz Keyboard.” Wray’s forceful, vigorously physical style is a direct nod to the Peterson influence and displays his strong grounding in bebop and a deep feeling for the blues.

In his illustrious career, Wray has worked as a sideman with leading musicians such as Sidney Bechet, Buck Clayton and Bill Coleman. With his own ensembles, he has played alongside bassist Dave Young, guitarists Ed Bickert and Reg Schwager, drummer Pete Magadini and saxophonist Don Thompson, among many, many more.

In 1990, Wray began teaching at Concordia University. Offering instruction in performance and composition, he quickly became a student favourite. To this day, students still have the opportunity to be directed by this jazz great.

Members of the Jazz Faculty, alumni, students will pay a musical tribute to Wray at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall on Friday, October 20th at 7:00 p.m.

Admission to the concert is free, though tickets are required. Tickets are available at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall box office and will given away at the door.

This event has been made possible with the support of Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, the Department of Music and the Part-Time Faculty Association (CUPFA).

Contact: Renée Dunk, (514) 848-2424, ext. 7928, rdunk@alcor.concordia.ca

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November 02, 2006

BlackBox, Thursday, November 16

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May 07, 2007

Cosmicomics @ Elektra Festival, Montreal : 9-13 May 2007

Based on previous work with Meteor Shower, Cosmicomics presents a fantastical sky animated by a
fusion of lunar dreams inspired by Italo Calvino's eponymous novel,
and by the quantum inflationary cosmology created by Andre Linde.

A large ceiling-mounted display opens a window into a fable of a
cosmos, filled with liquid light and sound that dance to movement,
epoch, and the alchemical condition of the Moon.

By: Sha Xin Wei
Jean-Sébastien Rousseau - Timothy Sutton - Emmanuel Thivierge
Josee-Anne Drolet - Olfa Driss
Michael Fortin - Harry Smoak

Visit Elektra for more information.

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June 11, 2007

FIFTH ANNUAL GRADUATING STUDENTS’ EXHIBITION (CONVOCATION EVENT)

June 11 – 22 Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. FOFA Gallery, FOFA Vitrines, VAV Gallery and VA Lobby, in the EV and VA buildings respectively.

Français

Du 11 au 22 juin
du lundi au vendredi, de 11 h à 19 h

Encore une fois cette année, les remarquables talents des étudiants et étudiantes en beaux-arts de l’Université Concordia ont été mis en valeur dans le cadre de cette exposition annuelle. L’édition 2007, qui aura lieu en juin, se veut un carrefour entre les nombreuses disciplines et activités de recherche des étudiants sur le point d’obtenir leur diplôme de baccalauréat ou de maîtrise. Les exposants sont représentatifs des différents départements de la Faculté : cinéma, enseignement de l’art, peinture et dessin, design, sculpture, histoire de l’art, intermédia/cyberarts, art numérique, impression, photographie et fibres. Les œuvres, choisies par un jury, sont présentées en marge de la cérémonie de collation des grades et donnent l’occasion aux étudiants de montrer leurs créations dans un lieu public tout en fêtant la fin de leur programme d’études. La Faculté des beaux-arts de l’Université Concordia est reconnue au Canada et dans le monde entier pour la compétence de ses professeurs et la qualité de ses diplômés. Elle encourage les étudiants à développer leurs aptitudes dans les pratiques artistiques traditionnelles tout en explorant les approches multidisciplinaires et nouvelles de la création.

http://gradshow.concordia.ca

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June 13, 2007

COLLECTING LOSS

Karen Haffey, BFA 95, and Esther Kalaba, Masters in Creative Arts Therapy program, are requesting contributions of clothing and stories for Collecting Loss, a project to create a public art exhibit to honour people who have passed away and the living who love them.
Collecting Loss involves collecting clothes from their lost loved ones and the stories evoked by the clothing to create a public space to speak about loss and bereavement, in order to stimulate dialogue and educate about what often is only given space behind closed doors.
They will be collecting clothing and stories until June 30, 2007. Those who have learned about and contributed to the project to date include the Critical Care Unit at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, a mother in Newfoundland whose daughter was killed in a ski doo accident, and three sisters honouring the memory of their mother by donating her wedding dress. To contribute, please visit www.collectingloss.com or contact the artisits at info@collectingloss.com.

Français

Karen Haffey (BFA) et Esther Kalaba (maîtrise en thérapies par les arts) sont à la recherche de vêtements et de récits pour Collecting Loss: Weaving Threads of Memory, une exposition publique en l’honneur de personnes décédées et de leurs proches.

À partir de vêtements appartenant aux disparus et des souvenirs qui leur sont associés, les deux artistes créeront un espace où le public sera invité à échanger sur la perte et le deuil. Leur projet vise à sensibiliser les gens à cette réalité et à stimuler le dialogue sur ce qui se déroule habituellement à huis clos.

Parmi les participants au projet, on compte l’Unité des soins intensifs du Hospital for Sick Children de Toronto, une dame de Terre-Neuve qui a perdu sa fille dans un accident de motoneige et trois sœurs qui rendent hommage à leur mère en faisant don de sa robe de mariée. Si vous désirez y prendre part vous-même, visitez le site www.collectingloss.com ou communiquez avec les artistes à info@collectingloss.com. La collecte de vêtements et de récits prendra fin le 30 juin 2007.

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June 16, 2007

INTERACTION IN ACTION:  Faculty of Fine Arts at Eureka! Festival

http://concordia.ca/sciencefair

Saturday, June 16, 1 – 5 p.m.

Tours at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. from the Festival Eureka! site, Quays of the Old Port of Montreal, to Concordia University’s Hexagram Institute for Research / Creation in Media Arts and Technology

The Faculty of Fine Arts presents four fun-filled interactive installations as part of the first ever Eureka! Festival on June 15, 16 and 17.  The festival, created by the Montreal Science Centre and CRE (Conférence régionale des élues), is a free public event intended to celebrate the wealth and diversity of science-related activities in Montreal.
The event features over 50 different science and technology-oriented activities, including a series of demonstrations at the festival site by Concordia University’s Faculty of Arts & Science. 
On June 16 only, two tours to the Hexagram research institute explore and celebrate media art and design through the work of four Fine Arts professors and their teams:  CUBID (Professor Lynn Hughes), Cosmicomics (Dr. Sha Xin Wei), Hysterical Machines (Dr. Yves Bilodeau/Bill Vorn) and Tulipomania (Professor Leila Sujir).

Français

L’INTERACTION EN ACTION:La Faculté des beaux-arts de l’Université Concordia au Festival Eurêka!

http://concordia.ca/sciencefair

Samedi 16 juin, de 13 h à 17 h

Visites d’Hexagram à 13 h et à 15 h. Départ du site du Festival Eurêka! (Quais du Vieux-Port de Montréal) jusqu’à l’Institut Hexagram de recherche et création en arts et technologies médiatiques de l’Université Concordia.

La Faculté des beaux-arts présente quatre installations interactives et amusantes dans le cadre de la première édition du Festival Eurêka!, qui se déroulera les 15, 16 et 17 juin 2007 aux Quais du Vieux-Port de Montréal. Créé par le Centre des sciences de Montréal et la Conférence régionale des élus de Montréal (CRE), le Festival offre gratuitement au public l’occasion d’apprécier la richesse et la diversité des activités scientifiques dans la métropole.
Les visiteurs pourront assister à plus de 50 différentes activités à saveur scientifique et technologique, notamment à une série de démonstrations données par la Faculté des arts et des sciences de l’Université Concordia sur le site même du festival.

Le samedi 16 juin seulement, deux visites du laboratoire de recherche Hexagram seront proposées afin d’explorer les arts médiatiques et le design à travers les œuvres de quatre professeurs en beaux-arts et leurs équipes : CUBID (Lynn Hughes, PhD), Cosmicomics (Sha Xin Wei, PhD), Hysterical Machines (Yves Bilodeau [Bill Vorn], PhD) et Tulipomania (Leila Sujir).

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July 01, 2007

News – Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema

Current Cinema student Jeannette Pope has just returned from the Cannes Film Festival where her award-winning short film, Birth of the Smoked Meat, met a warm reception as part of the KODAK Student Short Film Showcase 2007. Jeanne was the only Canadian among the four future filmmakers featured.

Incoming Chair Peter Rist was a guest panelist at the first Hong Kong Film Festival and conference at the University of Toronto in May. In addition to writing chapters on Chinese cinema in five recently published books, Peter has just written an endorsement for Young Rebels in Contemporary Chinese Cinema for the publisher, Hong Kong University Press.

Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema will now be able to teach ‘The History of Chinese Film’ on a regular basis thanks to a gift of 35 film prints of classic films from the Chinese consul in Ottawa. The collection includes works of the 1980s ‘fifth generation’ who were educated after the Cultural Revolution and earlier classics of the 1950s and 1960s

Nouvelles – École de cinéma Mel-Hoppenheim

L’étudiante en cinéma Jeannette Pope revient tout juste du Festival de Cannes, où son court métrage primé, Birth of the Smoked Meat, a connu un grand succès à la présentation de courts métrages étudiants organisée par Kodak. Jeannette Pope était la seule Canadienne parmi les quatre jeunes cinéastes en compétition.

Le nouveau directeur de l’école de cinéma, M. Peter Rist, était invité en mai à participer à titre de panéliste au premier Hong Kong Film Festival de l’Université de Toronto. Auteur prolifique sur le cinéma chinois, M. Rist a récemment publié cinq ouvrages sur le sujet et vient tout juste d’achever un article qui recommande le livre Young Rebels in Contemporary Chinese Cinema, à paraître aux éditions Hong Kong University Press.

Grâce au consul de Chine à Ottawa, l’École de cinéma Mel-Hoppenheim de l’Université Concordia a reçu 35 classiques du cinéma chinois et sera bientôt en mesure d’offrir régulièrement le cours The History of Chinese Film. La collection comprend des œuvres de la « cinquième génération » des années 1980, qui a grandi après la révolution culturelle, ainsi que des classiques des années 1950 et 1960.

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News – Alumni at National Gallery of Canada

Works by Tricia Middleton (MFA 2005) and Karilee Fuglem (MFA 1992) are featured at the National Gallery of Canada as part of the exhibition De-con-structions until September 3, 2007.

Nouvelles – Des diplômés exposent leurs œuvres au Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

Des œuvres de Tricia Middleton (MFA 2005) et de Karilee Fuglem (MFA 1992) sont présentées au Musée des beaux-arts du Canada dans le cadre de l’exposition Dé-con-structions, qui prendra fin le 3 septembre 2007.

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September 04, 2007

FOFA GALLERY

Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (FOFA)
1515 St. Catherine St. W.
Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 7p.m.
fofagallery.concordia.ca

September 4 – October 6, 2007

Denis Farley: Displacements series

The content of this work touches upon the relation between the individual and their presence in a contemporary architectural environment. The artist integrates individuals in strategic locations and links them between volume, space and building materials. Through simple techniques of juxtapositions and combining images, the spectator is brought to question their own cultural and emotive references. The reflective qualities of water and glass panels, for example, act as visual triggers stimulating the passage from physical to mental states. The quasi-symmetry of the structures along with the body language, are closely united in a meditative choreography. A direct outcome of these choreographed ''actions'' are perceptions of institutional values associated with architecture evokes reflective states within the individuals while they review their memory of nature.

Sarah Ciurysek: Farm Works

Sarah Ciurysek is a Graduate Student in Concordia University's Photography Program. Although much of her artwork is photography and video it also highlights the artform of storytelling. The rural context of her videos reminds the viewer that oral traditions are strongly associated with rural culture, combining history, knowledge, humour and a connection to the land. Through this series of videos the artist explores her own relationship to the rural tradition, the family farm, her life as a city dweller and the multiple readings of the land.

FOFA Gallery Vitrines: Jessica Auer and Andreas Rutkauskas / photography

Jessica Auer and Andreas Rutkauskas both look at the human occupation of land in their work – Auer through a look at art and archaeology sites such as Machu Picchu or Smithson's Spiral Jetty at Great Salt Lake, Utah; Rutkauskas with his examination of suburban housing developments across the country. Jessica Auer's compulsion to view and understand places, and her fascination with recreation and tourism, have led her to photograph popular cultural sites in North and South America. These images give witness to the way landscape and architecture has been preserved, restored or altered for tourism, along the way addressing issues of post-colonialism, environmental sustainability and education. Andreas Rutkauskas's practice rises out of the differing attitudes toward the urban environment in cities across Canada. The desire to live in a metropolis is weighed against economic and social reasoning, resulting in a boom in suburban development. This work underscores both the dystopia and desire that such housing tracts represent and calls into question issues of urban decay, socio-cultural change and environmental legacies.

Galerie de la Faculté des beaux-arts (FOFA)
1515, boul. Ste-Catherine O.
lundi au vendredi, de 11 h à 19 h
fofagallery.concordia.ca

4 septembre – 6 octobre, 2007

Denis Farley :  Série Displacements

La série de photographies Displacements traite de la relation entre l’individu et l’architecture contemporaine dans laquelle il se trouve. L’artiste place ainsi des personnes dans des lieux stratégiques selon les volumes, l’espace et les matériaux environnants.  Grâce à de simples techniques de juxtaposition et d’association d’images, le spectateur est amené à s’interroger sur ses propres références culturelles et émotionnelles. La surface réfléchissante de l’eau et des panneaux en verre, par exemple, agit comme dispositif stimulant le passage de l’état physique à l’état mental. Les structures et le langage corporel, quasi symétriques, sont d’ailleurs étroitement liés dans une chorégraphie méditative. Ces « actes » chorégraphiés renvoient à des valeurs institutionnelles qui, associées à l’architecture, évoquent l’état de réflexion dans lequel on se trouve en revoyant nos souvenirs de la nature.

Sarah Ciurysek: Farm Works

Sarah Ciurysek suit le programme de maîtrise en photographie à l’Université Concordia. Ses œuvres, pour la plupart des photos et des vidéos, mettent en valeur la forme narrative. Le contexte champêtre de ses vidéos rappelle ainsi au spectateur que les traditions orales sont fortement liées à la culture rurale, qui combine histoire, savoir, humour et attachement à la terre. Grâce à cette série de vidéos, l’artiste explore sa propre relation à la tradition rurale et à la ferme familiale, ainsi que sa vie comme citadine et les multiples interprétations de la terre.

Galerie FOFA Vitrines :  Jessica Auer et Andreas Rutkauskas / photographies

Les photographies de Jessica Auer et d’Andreas Rutkauskas traitent de l’occupation de la terre par les hommes. Jessica Auer explore ainsi des sites artistiques et archéologiques tels que le Machu Picchu et la jetée en spirale de Robert Smithson au Grand Lac Salé, en Utah. Son désir compulsif de voir et de comprendre les lieux qu’elle visite, et sa passion pour les loisirs et le tourisme, l’ont amenée à photographier des sites culturels populaires d’Amérique du Nord et du Sud. Ses photos témoignent de la manière dont les paysages et les architectures ont été préservés, restaurés ou altérés à des fins touristiques, tout en abordant les thèmes du postcolonialisme, de la durabilité de l’environnement et de l’éducation. Andreas Rutkauskas, pour sa part, examine le développement des banlieues au pays et s’inspire des différentes attitudes observées dans plusieurs villes vis-à-vis de l’urbanisme. En effet, le désir de vivre en métropole ne fait pas le poids face à un raisonnement socioéconomique et entraîne un boom des banlieues. Ses photographies soulignent à la fois la contre-utopie et l’attraction que représentent de telles étendues habitables ainsi que les questions de déclin urbain, de changement socioculturel et d’héritage environnemental.

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September 25, 2007

2007 FINE ARTS WELCOME

Throughout the month of September, the Faculty of Fine Arts is pleased to welcome all new and returning Fine Arts students.

Please join FASA, your Fine Arts Dean, the VAV Gallery, Art Matters, Fine Arts Reading Room, Café X, the FOFA Gallery and tons of other fabulous guests for an outstanding program of Fine Arts Orientation events. Enjoy free food and drinks, and stimulating sights and sounds, presented alongside all the information you need to make for an excellent year in Concordia Fine Arts!

Dean’s Welcome BBQ
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
4 to 7 p.m., VA Courtyard (SGW), 1395 Réné Lévesque Blvd. W.
Free BBQ and relaxing beverages, featuring DJ Little Girl.

High Performance Picnic
Monday, September 10, 2007
4 to 7 p.m., TJ Lawn (LOY), 7315 Terrebonne
Free picnic and relaxing beverages, featuring DJ David Albert-Toth.

Artist-run Centres are the Talk of the Town
Thursday, September 20, 2007
5 to 7 p.m., Sixth floor, EV Building (SGW) 1515 St. Catherine W. 
Selected Montreal artist-run centres and artist initiatives converge to provide students all the info they need to make their way in the Montreal art scene.

Performing Arts Lunchtime Social
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
12 noon to 1:30 p.m., AD308 (LOY) 7141 Sherbrooke St. W.
Selected Montreal performing arts organizations and artist initiatives will gather at this informal luncheon to provide students all the info they need to make their way in the Montreal performing arts scene.
 
Art Crawl
Saturday, September 29, 2007

BIENVENUE/WELCOME - BEAUX-ARTS 2007

À la Faculté des beaux-arts, tout le mois de septembre est consacré à l’accueil des nouveaux étudiants.

L’Association des étudiants en beaux-arts (FASA), la doyenne de la Faculté, la Galerie VAV, le Festival Art Matters, la salle de lecture des Beaux-arts, le Café X, la Galerie FOFA et d’innombrables autres invités, tous plus fantastiques les uns que les autres, vous ont concocté tout un programme. Boissons et repas communautaires gratuits, musique, spectacles, conférences et information à profusion : tout est prévu pour que vous passiez une excellente année à la Faculté!
 
Le BBQ de la doyenne
mercredi, le 5 septembre, 2007
16 h à 19 h, jardin du pavillon VA (SGW), 1395, boul. Réné-Lévesque O.
Grillades et boissons gratuites avec la DJ Little Girl.
 
Le chic pique-nique
lundi, le 10 septembre, 2007
16 h à 19 h, pelouse du pavillon TJ (Loyola), 7315, ave. Terrebonne
Pique-nique et boissons gratuits avec le DJ David Albert-Toth.

Le 5 à 7 branché des centres d'artistes autogérés
jeudi, le 20 septembre, 2007
17 h à 19 h, 6e étage, pavillon EV (SGW), 1515, rue Ste-Catherine O.
Rassemblement exceptionnel de responsables de galeries d’art montréalaises tenues par des étudiants et d’artistes qui vous indiqueront les pistes à suivre pour percer sur la scène montréalaise.

Le dîner des arts de la scène
mardi, le 25 septembre, 2007
12 h à 13 h 30, pavillon AD 308 (Loyola) 7141, rue Sherbrooke O.
Grand rassemblement d’organismes qui s’occupent des arts d’interprétation à Montréal et d’artistes qui vous indiqueront les pistes à suivre pour percer sur la scène montréalaise.

La tournée des galeries et musées
samedi, le 29 septembre, 2007
à partir de 12 h, départ de la Galerie VAV (SGW), 1395, boul. René-Lévesque O.
Visite du Tout-Montréal branché pour savoir où aller et qui rencontrer. À ne pas manquer!


SVP visitez notre site du web pour plus d’information :  http://fasa.concordia.ca

Pour vous abonner au bulletin de l’Association des étudiants en beaux-arts, il suffit d’envoyer un courriel à l’adresse fasa@alcor.concordia.ca   en inscrivant la mention « Newsletter » dans le champ Objet.
 
Un grand merci à nos commanditaires : le projet d’accueil communautaire du Programme d’accueil des nouveaux étudiants, le Bureau de la doyenne de la Faculté des beaux-arts, la Galerie VAV et le Festival Art Matters.
 

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September 28, 2007

FROM IDEA TO DRAWING: Imprints of Process

Canadian Exhibition of Scenography and Contemporary Architecture
September 28, 29 and 30, 2007

Hall des Pas Perdus, 175 Ste. Catherine Street West
Friday, September 28 – 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Saturday, September 29 and Sunday, September 30 – 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.


Assistant Professor Raymond Marius Boucher (Design for the Theatre) will be present at the exhibition of Canadian theatre design that was showcased at the Prague Quadrennial 07, the 11th International Exhibition of Scenography and Theatre Architecture.

For details, please visit: http://www.apasq.org/images/23102007/infolettre.html

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October 01, 2007

FOFA GALLERY

Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (FOFA)
1515 St. Catherine St. W.
Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 7p.m.
fofagallery.concordia.ca

September 4 – October 6, 2007

Denis Farley: Displacements series

The content of this work touches upon the relation between the individual and their presence in a contemporary architectural environment. The artist integrates individuals in strategic locations and links them between volume, space and building materials. Through simple techniques of juxtapositions and combining images, the spectator is brought to question their own cultural and emotive references. The reflective qualities of water and glass panels, for example, act as visual triggers stimulating the passage from physical to mental states. The quasi-symmetry of the structures along with the body language, are closely united in a meditative choreography. A direct outcome of these choreographed ''actions'' are perceptions of institutional values associated with architecture evokes reflective states within the individuals while they review their memory of nature.

Sarah Ciurysek: Farm Works

Sarah Ciurysek is a Graduate Student in Concordia University's Photography Program. Although much of her artwork is photography and video it also highlights the artform of storytelling. The rural context of her videos reminds the viewer that oral traditions are strongly associated with rural culture, combining history, knowledge, humour and a connection to the land. Through this series of videos the artist explores her own relationship to the rural tradition, the family farm, her life as a city dweller and the multiple readings of the land.

FOFA Gallery Vitrines: Jessica Auer and Andreas Rutkauskas / photography

Jessica Auer and Andreas Rutkauskas both look at the human occupation of land in their work – Auer through a look at art and archaeology sites such as Machu Picchu or Smithson's Spiral Jetty at Great Salt Lake, Utah; Rutkauskas with his examination of suburban housing developments across the country. Jessica Auer's compulsion to view and understand places, and her fascination with recreation and tourism, have led her to photograph popular cultural sites in North and South America. These images give witness to the way landscape and architecture has been preserved, restored or altered for tourism, along the way addressing issues of post-colonialism, environmental sustainability and education. Andreas Rutkauskas's practice rises out of the differing attitudes toward the urban environment in cities across Canada. The desire to live in a metropolis is weighed against economic and social reasoning, resulting in a boom in suburban development. This work underscores both the dystopia and desire that such housing tracts represent and calls into question issues of urban decay, socio-cultural change and environmental legacies.

Galerie de la Faculté des beaux-arts (FOFA)
1515, boul. Ste-Catherine O.
lundi au vendredi, de 11 h à 19 h
fofagallery.concordia.ca

4 septembre – 6 octobre, 2007

Denis Farley :  Série Displacements

La série de photographies Displacements traite de la relation entre l’individu et l’architecture contemporaine dans laquelle il se trouve. L’artiste place ainsi des personnes dans des lieux stratégiques selon les volumes, l’espace et les matériaux environnants.  Grâce à de simples techniques de juxtaposition et d’association d’images, le spectateur est amené à s’interroger sur ses propres références culturelles et émotionnelles. La surface réfléchissante de l’eau et des panneaux en verre, par exemple, agit comme dispositif stimulant le passage de l’état physique à l’état mental. Les structures et le langage corporel, quasi symétriques, sont d’ailleurs étroitement liés dans une chorégraphie méditative. Ces « actes » chorégraphiés renvoient à des valeurs institutionnelles qui, associées à l’architecture, évoquent l’état de réflexion dans lequel on se trouve en revoyant nos souvenirs de la nature.

Sarah Ciurysek: Farm Works

Sarah Ciurysek suit le programme de maîtrise en photographie à l’Université Concordia. Ses œuvres, pour la plupart des photos et des vidéos, mettent en valeur la forme narrative. Le contexte champêtre de ses vidéos rappelle ainsi au spectateur que les traditions orales sont fortement liées à la culture rurale, qui combine histoire, savoir, humour et attachement à la terre. Grâce à cette série de vidéos, l’artiste explore sa propre relation à la tradition rurale et à la ferme familiale, ainsi que sa vie comme citadine et les multiples interprétations de la terre.

Galerie FOFA Vitrines :  Jessica Auer et Andreas Rutkauskas / photographies

Les photographies de Jessica Auer et d’Andreas Rutkauskas traitent de l’occupation de la terre par les hommes. Jessica Auer explore ainsi des sites artistiques et archéologiques tels que le Machu Picchu et la jetée en spirale de Robert Smithson au Grand Lac Salé, en Utah. Son désir compulsif de voir et de comprendre les lieux qu’elle visite, et sa passion pour les loisirs et le tourisme, l’ont amenée à photographier des sites culturels populaires d’Amérique du Nord et du Sud. Ses photos témoignent de la manière dont les paysages et les architectures ont été préservés, restaurés ou altérés à des fins touristiques, tout en abordant les thèmes du postcolonialisme, de la durabilité de l’environnement et de l’éducation. Andreas Rutkauskas, pour sa part, examine le développement des banlieues au pays et s’inspire des différentes attitudes observées dans plusieurs villes vis-à-vis de l’urbanisme. En effet, le désir de vivre en métropole ne fait pas le poids face à un raisonnement socioéconomique et entraîne un boom des banlieues. Ses photographies soulignent à la fois la contre-utopie et l’attraction que représentent de telles étendues habitables ainsi que les questions de déclin urbain, de changement socioculturel et d’héritage environnemental.

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October 03, 2007

Department of Music presents MID-AUTUMN HARVEST MOON FESTIVAL

October 3 at 7:30 p.m.
October 4 & 5 at 2:30 p.m. /4:30 p.m. /7:30 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Seven concerts devoted to multi-channel electroacoustic compositions. Many new works including the Montreal premieres of works by Barry Truax and students from Simon Fraser University. All works will have a brief spoken analytic introduction. All concerts will be webcast, and podcasts will become available.
Free admission. Information: http://music.concordia.ca

Le Département de musique présente FESTIVAL PLEINE LUNE DE LA MI-AUTOMNE

3 octobre à 19h30
4 & 5 octobre à 14h30 / 16h30 / 19h30
Salle de Concert Oscar Peterson
7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest

Sept concerts d’oeuvres multi–canaux électroacoustiques. Les programmes seront différents pour chaque concert. Œuvres de Barry Truax et des étudiants de l’Université Simon Fraser. Chaque concert sera précédé par une introduction analytique. Les diffusions par Internet et iPod seront disponibles après les concerts.

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October 17, 2007

Katja Kessin Retrospective

October 17 – November 16, 2007
EVENT: FOFA GALLERY
Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (FOFA)
1515 St. Catherine St. W.
Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 7p.m.
fofagallery.concordia.ca

Born in Hamburg, Germany, Katja Kessin emigrated to Montreal in 1981 where she became an active member of the Concordia community, receiving a BFA, MFA and, in 2003, a PhD in Humanities. Over the years she developed a detailed iconography that drew on her childhood experiences in Germany and explored the socially accepted forms of violence, the hidden dangers and often false comforts of traditional family life. Kessin's work examined the connections between the home environment and large-scale acts of violence as exemplified by Hitler's Third Reich and the resulting Holocaust. She was a teacher, curator, mother and artist who saw her practice as a means to explore, communicate with and impact the society she lived in. Kessin died on April 1, 2006 after a long battle with illness, and is greatly missed by friends, family and the Concordia community. A retrospective of Kessin's work is being organized by a curatorial committee of her friends and peers.

17 octobre – 16 novembre, 2007

Galerie de la Faculté des beaux-arts (FOFA)

1515, boul. Ste-Catherine O.

lundi au vendredi, de 11 h à 19 h

fofagallery.concordia.ca

Rétrospective de Katja Kessin

Née à Hambourg (Allemagne), Katja Kessin a émigré, en 1981, à Montréal où elle est devenue un membre actif de la communauté de l’Université Concordia; elle a obtenu un BFA, un MFA et, en 2003, un doctorat en lettres et sciences humaines. Au fil des ans, elle a élaboré une iconographie minutieuse qui s’inspire de son enfance en Allemagne, explorant les formes de violences socialement acceptées ainsi que les dangers cachés et les sécurités, souvent mensongères, de la vie de famille traditionnelle. Son travail examine les relations entre la vie au foyer et les actes de violence d’envergure, par exemple, les liens entre le IIIe Reich d’Hitler et l’holocauste.  Enseignante, conservatrice d’art, mère et artiste, Katja Kessin considérait sa pratique comme un moyen d’explorer la société, de communiquer avec elle et d’y exercer une influence. Décédée le 1er avril 2006 après avoir combattu une longue maladie, elle manque beaucoup à ses amis, à sa famille et à la communauté de l’Université Concordia. Cette rétrospective de son œuvre est organisée par un comité de conservateurs composé d’amis et de collègues.

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Department of Theatre presents Public Reading by Marcus Youssef

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
5 to 7 p.m.
Concordia University EV Building 11-715 (Corner of Ste. Catherine and Mackay)
Free admission
Since 1996, award-winning playwright, essayist and broadcaster Marcus Youssef has been writing in multiple forms about North America's complicated relationship with the Middle East, both before and after the so-called “War on Terror”. Work that he will read from will include: A Line in the Sand (co-written with Guillermo Verdecchia), recipient of the Chalmer's Canadian Play Award and most recently produced in Venice, Italy; Ali and Ali and the aXes of Evil (co-written with Verdecchia and Camyar Chai), which The Seattle Post called "must be the funniest exposition of American foreign policy ever devised" and the Times said it, "Out-Borats Borat" Adrift on the Nile, winner of the 2007 Alcan Performing Arts Award as well as excerpts from his fiction, essays and the upcoming CBC radio series the World According to Marcus. Marcus is also a nationally recognized leader of community based writing and theatre programs, co-founded CRANK Magazine with Matt Hern and in 2004-05 was an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Concordia. Currently Marcus is a Co-Artistic Producer of newworldtheatre in Vancouver.
This event is sponsored by Playwrights Guild of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts. Everyone is welcome!

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October 22, 2007

Department of Art History presents Public Lecture by Marianne Hirsch: Street Photographs: ‘Before, During and After’ the Holocaust

Monday, October 22, 2007
7 p.m. Doors open 15 minutes before the lecture.
Concordia University EV Building 1-615 (Corner of Ste. Catherine and Mackay)
Free admission

Concordia University’s Department of Art History presents Street Photographs: ‘Before, During and After’ the Holocaust, a public lecture by Dr. Marianne Hirsch, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. This is the first lecture in the department’s Speaking of Photography series.

Photos from the decades preceding the Holocaust and the early years of World War II offer more than visual evidence of past events. These powerful “points of memory” also signal a visceral connection to the past, and carry its traces forward. And yet photographs may be limited and flawed historical documents, promising more than they can actually reveal. Focusing on photos of Jews taken by street photographers on the main avenues of Cernauti, Romania, Dr. Hirsch’s lecture shows how they challenge the “before, during and after” timeline of Holocaust historiography that has come to be accepted as a given.

The event is sponsored by the Concordia University Research Chair program in conjunction with the Montreal Holocaust Education Month Series and the memorial exhibition of Katja McLeod Kessin at the Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Concordia University.

For further information, please visit: http://art-history.concordia.ca

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October 24, 2007

Department of Art History presents Public Lecture by Catherine MacKenzie: Reclaiming Looted Art: A Year of Mixed Results

Wednesday, October 24, 2007
7 p.m.
Concordia University EV Building Room 1.605 (corner of Ste. Catherine and Mackay)
Free admission

As part of the Tenth Annual Holocaust Education Series and in conjunction with the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, Professor Catherine MacKenzie will give a lecture entitled Reclaiming Looted Art: A Year of Mixed Results.

Since curating the Auktion 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern, Düsseldorf last fall, Dr. Catherine MacKenzie and students in a senior undergraduate seminar in the Department of Art History at Concordia University have been tracking cases involving the return of art looted during the Nazi period. The past twelve months have been marked by mixed results: successes, large and small – including some for the Max Stern Estate - but also a number of disturbing situations and decisions indicating that there are many who simply want the issue of restitution to go away. We need to ask why, almost a decade after the Washington Principles were supposed to clear a path for reclamation, there appears to be no real consensus and, indeed at times, serious misunderstandings of what transpired from 1933-1945.

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Department of Music presents OSCAR PETERSON LAUREATE CONCERT

October 24 at 8:00 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Performances by outstanding jazz scholarship student finalists. Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.

Le Département de musique présente CONCERT DE JAZZ POUR LA BOURSE OSCAR PETERSON

24 octobre à 20h00
Salle de Concert Oscar Peterson
7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest

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November 08, 2007

Department of Art History presents Public Lecture “Making Motion Pictures in Eighteenth-Century London” by Dr. Ann Bermingham, Professor of Art History at the University of California Santa Barbara

Thursday, November 8
7 p.m.
Concordia University EV building Room 1.605 (Corner of Ste Catherine and Mackay)
Free Admission

Over one hundred and twenty years before Edison and the Lumière brothers created modern motion pictures, a new attraction called the "Eidophusikon," opened in Leicester Square. Described in the London press as "moving pictures, representing, phenomena of nature," the Eidophusikon thrilled audiences by combining moving images with sound effects and music. Dr. Bermingham’s presentation will include visuals about this forgotten ancestor of modern cinema.

Ann Bermingham is a Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California Santa Barbara. Former chair of the department and former acting director of the University Art Museum, she is the author of several books on British eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art including Landscape and Ideology: The English Rustic Tradition and Learning to Draw: Studies in the History of a Polite and Useful Art.

The event is sponsored by Concordia University Research Chair, Dr. Kristina Huneault, and presented with the generous support of the Mary Ann Beckett-Baxter Memorial Fund.

For more information, visit the Art History website at http://art-history.concordia.ca

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Department of Theatre presents LITTLE KATRINA

Written and Directed by Harry Standjofski

November 8, 9 & 10 at 8:00 pm, November 11 at 2:00 pm.
F.C. Smith Auditorium, Loyola Campus
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Little Katrina is inspired by Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening. A fantasia on graduating high-school students in the Deep South of the United States, Little Katrina explores themes of sexual repression and religion, all taking place in the summer of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf of Mexico.

Little Katrina plays at the F.C. Smith Auditorium (7141 Sherbrooke Street West – under the Loyola Chapel) November 8, 9 & 10 at 8:00 pm, and on November 11 at 2:00 pm. Admission fees are $10 for adults, $5 for students and seniors. Tickets can be purchased in person only at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall box office (7141 Sherbrooke Street West, SC01-10) and will be sold at the door (subject to availability). For additional box office information, call (514) 848-2424, ext. 4742, or visit http://theatre.concordia.ca/little_katrina.php

Le Département de Théâtre présente LITTLE KATRINA

Texte et mise en scène de Harry Standjofski

les 8, 9 et 10 novembre 2007 à 20 h, et le 11 novembre à 14 h.
Auditorium F.C. Smith, 7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest — à l’étage sous la chapelle Loyola

Little Katrina s’inspire de la pièce Spring Awakening (L'Éveil du printemps) de Frank Wedekind. À l’été 2005, l’ouragan Katrina frappait le golfe du Mexique et les États-Unis. Mettant en scène les élèves d’une école secondaire du sud des États-Unis, l’histoire fantaisiste de Little Katrina explore les thèmes de la répression sexuelle et de la religion au moment où la catastrophe naturelle s’est produite.

Little Katrina sera présentée à l’auditorium F.C. Smith (7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest — à l’étage sous la chapelle Loyola) les 8, 9 et 10 novembre 2007 à 20 h, et le 11 novembre à 14 h. Le tarif général est de 10 $ (5 $ pour les étudiants et les personnes âgées). Achat des billets en personne seulement à la billetterie de la salle de concert Oscar-Peterson (7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest — SC01-10). Les billets seront également vendus à la porte les jours de représentation (s’il en reste). Renseignements : 514 848-242, poste 4742. Visitez http://theatre.concordia.ca/little_katrina.php

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November 09, 2007

Free Public Lecture on the background of Psychohistoriographic Cultural Therapy by Dr. Frederick Hickling and Dr. Hilary Robertson-Hickling

Applying the Method of Cultural Therapy to the Issue of “Reasonable Accommodation” in Quebec.

Concordia University’s Centre for the Arts in Human Development and McGill University’s Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry Present Three Special Events:

Free Public Lecture on the background of Psychohistoriographic Cultural Therapy by Dr. Frederick Hickling and Dr. Hilary Robertson-Hickling.

Friday, November 9
7 p.m.
Concordia University EV Building, Room 1.605
1515 St. Catherine Street West, Montreal
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED – Reserve your seats, free of charge, by contacting:
cultural.therapy@gmail.com

Dr. Frederick Hickling is the creator of an original technique of cultural therapy called psychohistoriography. Important social issues are explored by interpreting the personal stories of a community group through various art forms, such as music, dance and story-telling, resulting in a performance and open discussion.

Dr. Hickling’s technique will be used to generate a dialogue on the topic of “reasonable accommodation” in Quebec at a workshop on November 10 and 11. The workshop participants will present their stories in a performance and open forum on November 15.

Dr. Hickling is the former Head of the Section of Psychiatry at the University of the West Indies (MONA campus, Kingston, Jamaica) and is presently the Chairman of the Steering Committee for the establishment of the Caribbean Institute of Mental Health and Substance Abuse (CARIMENSA). Dr. Robertson-Hickling is an organizational psychologist at the University of the West Indies

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November 10, 2007

Two-day workshop applying Psychohistoriography Cultural Therapy to the issue of “Reasonable Accommodation” in Quebec

Applying the Method of Cultural Therapy to the Issue of “Reasonable Accommodation” in Quebec

Two-day workshop applying Psychohistoriography Cultural Therapy to the issue of “Reasonable Accommodation” in Quebec.

Saturday, November 10, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sunday, November 11, 1 – 6 p.m.
St. Ignatius of Loyola Church
4455 West Broadway, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED – If you are interested in participating in this free workshop, contact Dr. Stephen Snow at (514) 848-8616 or ssnow@alcor.concordia.ca

At the workshop, participants will be encouraged to tell personal stories about their experiences with “reasonable accommodation” in Quebec. Facilitators will include Dr. Frederick Hickling, Dr. Hilary Robertson-Hickling, Dr. Jaswant Guzder, Head of Child Psychiatry at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital and Dr. Stephen Snow, co-founder of Concordia University’s Centre for the Arts in Human Development, who will also guide the development of a performance resulting from the two-day workshop.

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November 15, 2007

An evening with Marc Mayer, Director of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

Thursday, November 15
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex, Room 1.605
1515 St. Catherine St. W., corner of Mackay
$5 alumni and students, $8 general admission

What is Contemporary Art? 
The CUAA and Advancement and Alumni Relations are hosting an evening with Marc Mayer, Director of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to listen to and meet with one of Canada’s foremost museum directors.

Marc Mayer was born in Sudbury, Ontario, in 1956. A graduate of McGill University where he studied art history, his career began in earnest when in 1986 he was named Assistant to the Director, and ultimately Assistant Director of 49th Parallel, Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art in New York. 

From 1990 to 1993, he was Head of Visual Art with the Cultural Services of the Canadian Embassy in Paris and correspondent for the New York periodical The Journal of Art. Mayer was Director of the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto from 1998 to 2001, and Deputy Director for Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art from 2001 to 2004. He has organized more than thirty exhibitions by Québec, Canadian and international artists.

Register at 514-848-2424, ext. 4397
For more information about the this lecture and reception, contact Linda Rice, Alumni Officer, Fine Arts, by email lrice@alcor.concordia.ca or by phone at 514-848-2424, ext. 4261.

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Department of Art History presents Public Lecture by Mary Warner Marien: The Absent Present: Picturing the Poor in the 1840s

Thursday, November 15, 2007
5 p.m.
Concordia University EV Building 1-615 (Corner of Ste. Catherine and Mackay)
Free admission

As part of its Speaking of Photography lecture series, Concordia University’s Department of Art History presents The Absent Present: Picturing the Poor in the 1840s, a public lecture by Mary Warner Marien, Syracuse University.

During photography's first decade in Britain, issues of poverty, child labour, factory abuses, and public health dominated parliamentary social reports, as well as surveys conducted by private agencies. Newspapers and journals regularly reported on these subjects, and illustrated them with sensational engravings showing the plight of the poor. In addition, novelists wrote fiction about factories and the poor, and their efforts were frequently illustrated with images showing abject misery.

But where are the photographs? This lecture shows the prominence of non-photographic images of the poor and speculates on why photography was not enlisted to verify such urgent social reporting.

For further information, please visit: http://art-history.concordia.ca

Le Département d’histoire de l’art présente une conférence publique par Mary Warner Marien :
The Absent Present: Picturing the Poor in the 1840s

Jeudi 15 novembre 2007
17 h
Pavillon EV (EV 1-615) de l’Université Concordia
(angles Sainte-Catherine et Mackay)
Entrée libre

Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences Speaking of Photography, le Département d’histoire de l’art de l’Université Concordia présente The Absent Present: Picturing the Poor in the 1840s, une conférence publique donnée par Mary Warner Marien, de la Syracuse University.

Au cours de la première décennie de l’histoire de la photographie en Grande-Bretagne, les thèmes de la pauvreté, du travail des enfants, des abus dans les usines et de la santé publique étaient prédominants dans les rapports parlementaires sur la société et les études des organismes privés. Les journaux et les revues abordaient régulièrement ces problèmes et les illustraient par des gravures bouleversantes sur la situation critique des pauvres. Les romans traitaient, quant à eux, des usines et des pauvres et contenaient souvent des images d’une misère tragique.

Mais quelle était la place de la photographie? La conférence rendra compte de la prépondérance des représentations non photographiques de la pauvreté et formulera des hypothèses sur les raisons pour lesquelles cette détresse sociale n’a pas été immortalisée par la photo.

Renseignements : http://art-history.concordia.ca

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Free Public Performance and Open Forum on the Issue of “Reasonable Accommodation” in Quebec

Applying the Method of Cultural Therapy to the Issue of “Reasonable Accommodation” in Quebec

Free Public Performance and Open Forum on the Issue of “Reasonable Accommodation” in Quebec.

Thursday, November 15
7:30 p.m.
Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry
Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital
4333 Chemin de la Côte St. Catherine, Montreal
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED – Reserve your seats, free of charge, by contacting:
cultural.therapy@gmail.com

The participants of the two-day workshop on November 10 and 11 will present a performance about their experiences with the issue of “reasonable accommodation” in Quebec. Following the performance, the audience will be invited to participate in an Open Forum on the topic, chaired by Dr. Laurence Kirmayer, Director of the McGill Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry.

The Workshop and Performance/Open Forum represent a pilot research project to establish the Initiative for the Advanced Study of Culture, Conflict and the Arts Therapies at Concordia University.

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November 17, 2007

Department of Contemporary Dance OPEN HOUSE

Saturday, November 17
7315 de Terrebonne (at West Broadway), 3rd floor

An opportunity for potential students to visit the department and experience what the Contemporary Dance program is all about.

10 a.m. – Technique class
11:30 a.m. – Creative Process / Choreography
1:00 p.m. – Student Performances in the black box

No registrations necessary/free of charge. Open to everyone. For further information, please call (514) 848 2424 ext. 4740 or e-mail dance@concordia.ca

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November 19, 2007

Charles C. Hill awarded Honorary Doctorate at Faculty of Fine Arts convocation ceremony on November 11

Concordia University awarded an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Laws) during the fall convocation ceremony for the Faculty of Fine Arts to Charles C. Hill, a curator at the National Gallery of Canada. The ceremony took place in Salle Wilfrid Pelletier at Montreal’s Place des Arts.

Hill was awarded his honorary doctorate in recognition of his years of dedication to Canadian art and our cultural heritage. Hill has been part of the curatorial staff at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa since 1972. In 1980, he was appointed Curator of Canadian Art and in 2001, he was made a member of the Order of Canada. Concordia is currently working with Hill on the biography of the late Dr. Max Stern, one of the country’s pioneering dealers and collectors who elevated Canadian art to new heights after the second World War.

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November 21, 2007

Department of Theatre presents Reading by Emil Sher

Wednesday, November 21
11 a.m. to noon
Concordia University EV Building, Room 1-615
1515 St. Catherine Street West
Everyone welcome – free admission

As part of the Canada Council Readings series, the Department of Theatre is pleased to present Emil Sher. Sher’s works include stage plays, screenplays, radio dramas and essays. Previous plays include Sanctuary, Derailed and his adaptation of Hana’s Suitcase (opens November 22 at Concordia’s D.B. Clarke Theatre).

Following its premiere in March 2006 at the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre (Toronto), Hana’s Suitcase was remounted in October 2006, toured to Edmonton and Winnipeg and received its U.S. premiere at Metro Theater Company (St. Louis) in January 2007. Several more productions are scheduled in upcoming seasons, including runs in Montreal, Milwaukee, Lexington, London (Ontario) and Chicago.

Mourning Dove has been produced every year since it premiered in 2005 and will receive its Toronto premiere in 2008. Three of Sher’s radio plays have been collected in one volume (Making Waves) and his stage work has been published and anthologized. His latest play-in-progress is Moses Moves In. Works-in-progress include two commissioned plays (Studio 180, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre), and several screenplays.

For current news about Sher’s work, please visit:
http://www.emilsher.com

This event is sponsored by Playwrights Guild of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts.

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November 22, 2007

Department of Music presents JAZZ IMPROVISATION I

November 22 at 8:00 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students directed by Dave Turner, jazz repertoire.
Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.

Le Département de musique présente IMPROVISATION EN JAZZ I

22 novembre à 20h00
Salle de Concert Oscar Peterson
7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest

Étudiants sous la direction de Dave Turner, répertoire jazz.  Billets en vente sur place seulement : 5$, entrée libre pour les étudiants avec une carte d’identité.

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November 25, 2007

Free Symposium, Featuring a Key Address by Eric Lewis, The Improvisational Gesture in Jazz and the Visual Arts, and presentations by artists John Heward and Sylvia Safdie.

The Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (FOFA)
Sunday, November 25
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Concordia University EV Building, Room 1-605
1515 St. Catherine Street West, Montreal
OPEN TO PUBLIC
Admission: free of charge

As part of the exhibition at the FOFA Gallery entitled Ensemble, an Exhibition of Art and Jazz (see below), a symposium is being presented featuring a key address by Eric Lewis, The Improvisational Gesture in Jazz and the Visual Arts, and presentations by artists John Heward and Sylvia Safdie.

Dr. Eric Lewis is from the Department of Philosophy at McGill University. He is the founding editor of the journal Critical Studies in Improvisation and is researching the philosophy of improvised music, mainly focusing on the intersection of the aesthetics, metaphysics and ethics of improvised music.

John Heward is a painter, sculptor, and musician, equally involved in visual and aural art. As a percussionist, he has performed and recorded contemporary jazz and improvised music with jazz bands in many situations. Notions of time, space and expression are concerns that Heward continually explores in either the form of free jazz or abstract painting.

Sylvia Safdie has been involved in an ongoing series of videos which explore the relationship between image/sound, sound/image. This is a result of working very closely with contemporary musicians. Joe, 2007, will be shown at the exhibition for the first time. In this video Joe McPhee (b. 1939), an American jazz musician plays the pocket trumpet to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of his father’s birth and the tenth anniversary of his death by exploring the “birth of sound.”

This symposium is an initiative of Concordia University’s art history graduate students, working in partnership with the FOFA Gallery, the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Concordia University’s Department of Music, the Concordia University Archives the Musée des ondes Emile Berliner and the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery.

Colloque : Ensemble, an Exhibition of Art and Jazz
Conférence d’Eric Lewis, The Improvisational Gesture in Jazz and the Visual Arts, et exposés des artistes John Heward et Sylvia Safdie
Faculté des beaux-arts, Université Concordia
Le 25 novembre 2007, de 11 h à 16 h
1515, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, pavillon EV, salle 1-605
514 848-2424, poste 7962
Entrée libre

Le conférencier principal sera M. Eric Lewis, du Département de philosophie de l’Université McGill. Fondateur de la revue Critical Studies in Improvisation, M. Lewis mène des recherches sur la philosophie à la base de l’improvisation musicale, en particulier sur les croisements entre esthétique, métaphysique et éthique. Sa conférence aura pour titre : The Improvisational Gesture in Jazz and the Visual Arts. Les artistes John Heward et Sylvia Safdie prendront part à une discussion sur les liens entre la musique et leur pratique artistique.

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November 26, 2007

Exhibition: Ensemble, an Exhibition of Art and Jazz.

The Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (FOFA)
November 26 - December 14
Monday-Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
FOFA Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University
1515 St. Catherine Street West, EV Building, Room 1-715
514-848-2424 ext 7962
Admission: free of charge

The exhibition will feature the work of Canadian artists from the 1960s to the present day who have developed a relationship with jazz music. The artists are Sam Borenstein, Graham Coughtry, Jacques de Tonnancour, Yves Gaucher, Betty Goodwin, John Heward, Harold Klunder, Guido Molinari, Michael Snow, Sylvia Safdie and Joyce Wieland.

Whether it is through their own experiences as jazz musicians, their love for music or the jazz-like spontaneity by which they produce their art work, each artist's work can be considered in musical terms. At a listening station in the gallery, visitors will be able to hear recorded music by the artists, including “The Artists’ Jazz Band Live at the Edge” published by Michael Snow.

The exhibition is an initiative of Concordia University’s art history graduate students, working in partnership with the FOFA Gallery, the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Concordia University’s Department of Music, the Concordia University, Archives the Musée des ondes Emile Berliner and the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery. Most of the works for this exhibition were selected from the latter’s collection.

Exposition : Ensemble, an Exhibition of Art and Jazz
Galerie FOFA, Faculté des beaux-arts, Université Concordia
Du 26 novembre au 14 décembre 2007
Du lundi au vendredi, de 11 h à 19 h
1515, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, pavillon EV, salle 1-715
514 848-2424, poste 7962
Entrée libre

L’exposition soulignera l’œuvre d’artistes canadiens qui, des années 60 jusqu’à nos jours, se sont intéressés au jazz d’une manière ou d’une autre, en l’occurrence Sam Borenstein, Graham Coughtry, Jacques de Tonnancour, Yves Gaucher, Betty Goodwin, John Heward, Harold Klunder, Guido Molinari, Michael Snow, Sylvia Safdie et Joyce Wieland.

Que ce soit par leur expérience en tant que musiciens de jazz, par leur amour de la musique ou par la spontanéité, parente de celle du jazz, qui caractérise leur travail artistique, chacun de ces artistes a réalisé des œuvres à résonance musicale. À partir d’un « poste d’écoute », les visiteurs pourront écouter des pièces musicales proposées par les artistes, notamment le « Jazz Band Live at the Edge », compilé par Michael Snow.

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November 27, 2007

Vernissage: Ensemble, an Exhibition of Art and Jazz

The Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (FOFA)
Tuesday, November 27
6 - 8 p.m.
1515 St. Catherine Street West, EV Building, Room 1-715
514-848-2424 ext. 7962
Admission: free of charge

Featuring the jazz trio Syllogisme (Concordia jazz students) and the screening of Michael Snow's 16mm film, New York Eye and Ear Control (34 min) introduced by Martha Langford from Concordia's Department of Art History.

Le 27 novembre 2007, de 18 h à 20 h
Avec le trio de jazz Syllogisme (étudiants en jazz de Concordia). Il y aura projection d’un film de Michael Snow intitulé New York Eye and Ear Control (1964), présenté par Martha Langford du Département d’histoire de l’art de Concordia.
1515, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest, pavillon EV, salle 1-715
514 848-2424, poste 7962
Entrée libre

Au vernissage, le 27 novembre, Martha Langford, du Département d’histoire de l’art de Concordia, présentera un film de Michael Snow intitulé New York Eye and Ear Control  (1964). Les invités pourront également entendre le trio de jazz Syllogisme, composé d’étudiants en jazz de Concordia : Marc-André Séguin, Pierre Haché et Philippe Leduc.


L’exposition est une initiative des étudiants à la maîtrise du Département d’histoire de l’art de Concordia, en collaboration avec la Galerie FOFA, l’Institut de recherche en art canadien Gail et Stephen A. Jarislowsky, le Département de musique, le Service des archives ainsi que la galerie d’art Leonard et Bina Ellen; la plupart des œuvres de l’exposition proviennent de la collection de cette dernière.

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November 28, 2007

Department of Music presents JAZZ CHOIR

November 28 at 8:00 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students directed by Jeri Brown, jazz repertoire.
Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.

Le Département de musique présente CHŒUR DE JAZZ

28 novembre à 20h00
Salle de Concert Oscar Peterson
7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest

Étudiants sous la direction de Jeri Brown, répertoire jazz.  Billets en vente sur place seulement : 5$, entrée libre pour les étudiants avec une carte d’identité.

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November 29, 2007

Department of Theatre presents TITANICA: THE GREAT BATTLEGOWN

Written by Sebastien Harrisson, (translated by Crysal Beliveau)
Directed by Brendan Healy
English-language premiere

November 29, 30 & December 1, as well as December 6, 7 & 8 at 8:00 pm, and on December 2 and 9 at 2:00 pm.
Cazalet Studio, Loyola Campus
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Titanica, a transvestite of some fifty years of age, is a walking work of art. The metallic battle gown welded to her body audaciously embodies the defiant spirit of the sixties – a period marked by social upheaval and a politically active youth culture. But what happened to the idealistic spirit of the sixties and are
there battles still worth fighting for today?

On the docks of present day London, a band of squatters heed the battle cry when they must fight to protect their home from the British Monarch, Queen Virginia I, who seeks to rid the country of undesirables” – freaks, artists, activists, homosexuals and outcasts. Jimmy, a young American filled with revolutionary ideals, becomes the leader of this fierce uprising and Titanica emerges as the only person who can perhaps bring about conciliation.
A penetrating reflection on art and “alternity”, Titanica renews political theatre by combing trenchant social commentary with a rich and fantastical imagination.

Titanica: The Great Battlegown plays at the Cazalet Studio (7141 Sherbrooke Street West – under the Loyola Chapel) on November 29, 30 & December 1, as well as December 6, 7 & 8 at 8:00 pm, and on December 2 and 9 at 2:00 pm. Admission fees are $10 for adults, $5 for students and seniors. Tickets can be purchased in person only at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall box office (7141 Sherbrooke Street West, SC01-10) and will be sold at the door (subject to availability). For additional box office information, call (514) 848-2424, ext. 4742.

Le Département de Théâtre présente TITANICA: THE GREAT BATTLEGOWN

Texte de Sebastien Harrisson
Traduction de Crystal Beliveau
Mise en scène de Brendan Healy
Grande première en anglais le 29 novembre 2007

les 29 et 30 novembre, 1er, 6, 7 et 8 décembre 2007 à 20 h ainsi que les 2 et 9 décembre à 14 h.
Studio Cazalet, 7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest — sous la chapelle Loyola

Travestie d’une cinquantaine d’années, Titanica est une véritable œuvre d’art. La robe de métal qu’elle porte chevillée au corps incarne l’esprit rebelle des années soixante, une période de grands bouleversements sociaux portés par une jeunesse très politisée. Qu’est-il advenu aujourd’hui de ce bel idéal? Existe-t-il encore des batailles qui en valent la peine?

À Londres aujourd’hui, sur les docks, une bande de squatters mènent une bataille rangée pour se protéger des représailles de la reine Virginia 1ère, qui veut supprimer tous les indésirables  du pays : marginaux, artistes, militants, homosexuels et exclus de tous acabits. Jimmy, un jeune Américain aux idées révolutionnaires, se retrouve à la tête du mouvement de grogne populaire. Seule Titanica semble pouvoir concilier les deux parties.
Réflexion sur l’art et l’altérité, Titanica renouvelle le théâtre politique en alliant le commentaire social tranchant à l’imagination fantastique.

Titanica: The Great Battlegown sera présentée au Studio Cazalet (7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest — sous la chapelle Loyola) les 29 et 30 novembre, 1er, 6, 7 et 8 décembre 2007 à 20 h ainsi que les 2 et 9 décembre à 14 h. Le tarif général est de 10 $ (5 $ pour les étudiants et les personnes âgées). Achat des billets en personne seulement à la billetterie de la salle de concert Oscar-Peterson (7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest — SC01-10). Les billets seront également vendus à la porte les jours de représentation (s’il en reste). Renseignements : 514 848-242, poste 4742.

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Department of Music presents JAZZ GUITAR ENSEMBLE

November 29 at 8:00 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students directed by Andrew Homzy, jazz repertoire.
Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.

Le Département de musique présente JAZZ GUITAR ENSEMBLE

29 novembre à 20h00
Salle de Concert Oscar Peterson
7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest

Étudiants sous la direction de Andrew Homzy, répertoire jazz.  Billets en vente sur place seulement : 5$, entrée libre pour les étudiants avec une carte d’identité.

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Department of Dance presents End of Term Performances

Thursday, November 29 at 8 p.m.
Friday, November 30 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, December 1 at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sunday, December 2 at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Studio 303
372 St. Catherine St. West (corner of de Bleury)

Tickets sold only at the door:
$10 / $8 for students

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December 01, 2007

Department of Theatre presents TITANICA: THE GREAT BATTLEGOWN

Written by Sebastien Harrisson, (translated by Crysal Beliveau)
Directed by Brendan Healy
English-language premiere

November 29, 30 & December 1, as well as December 6, 7 & 8 at 8:00 pm, and on December 2 and 9 at 2:00 pm.
Cazalet Studio, Loyola Campus
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Titanica, a transvestite of some fifty years of age, is a walking work of art. The metallic battle gown welded to her body audaciously embodies the defiant spirit of the sixties – a period marked by social upheaval and a politically active youth culture. But what happened to the idealistic spirit of the sixties and are
there battles still worth fighting for today?

On the docks of present day London, a band of squatters heed the battle cry when they must fight to protect their home from the British Monarch, Queen Virginia I, who seeks to rid the country of undesirables” – freaks, artists, activists, homosexuals and outcasts. Jimmy, a young American filled with revolutionary ideals, becomes the leader of this fierce uprising and Titanica emerges as the only person who can perhaps bring about conciliation.
A penetrating reflection on art and “alternity”, Titanica renews political theatre by combing trenchant social commentary with a rich and fantastical imagination.

Titanica: The Great Battlegown plays at the Cazalet Studio (7141 Sherbrooke Street West – under the Loyola Chapel) on November 29, 30 & December 1, as well as December 6, 7 & 8 at 8:00 pm, and on December 2 and 9 at 2:00 pm. Admission fees are $10 for adults, $5 for students and seniors. Tickets can be purchased in person only at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall box office (7141 Sherbrooke Street West, SC01-10) and will be sold at the door (subject to availability). For additional box office information, call (514) 848-2424, ext. 4742.

Le Département de Théâtre présente TITANICA: THE GREAT BATTLEGOWN

Texte de Sebastien Harrisson
Traduction de Crystal Beliveau
Mise en scène de Brendan Healy
Grande première en anglais le 29 novembre 2007

les 29 et 30 novembre, 1er, 6, 7 et 8 décembre 2007 à 20 h ainsi que les 2 et 9 décembre à 14 h.
Studio Cazalet, 7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest — sous la chapelle Loyola

Travestie d’une cinquantaine d’années, Titanica est une véritable œuvre d’art. La robe de métal qu’elle porte chevillée au corps incarne l’esprit rebelle des années soixante, une période de grands bouleversements sociaux portés par une jeunesse très politisée. Qu’est-il advenu aujourd’hui de ce bel idéal? Existe-t-il encore des batailles qui en valent la peine?

À Londres aujourd’hui, sur les docks, une bande de squatters mènent une bataille rangée pour se protéger des représailles de la reine Virginia 1ère, qui veut supprimer tous les indésirables  du pays : marginaux, artistes, militants, homosexuels et exclus de tous acabits. Jimmy, un jeune Américain aux idées révolutionnaires, se retrouve à la tête du mouvement de grogne populaire. Seule Titanica semble pouvoir concilier les deux parties.
Réflexion sur l’art et l’altérité, Titanica renouvelle le théâtre politique en alliant le commentaire social tranchant à l’imagination fantastique.

Titanica: The Great Battlegown sera présentée au Studio Cazalet (7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest — sous la chapelle Loyola) les 29 et 30 novembre, 1er, 6, 7 et 8 décembre 2007 à 20 h ainsi que les 2 et 9 décembre à 14 h. Le tarif général est de 10 $ (5 $ pour les étudiants et les personnes âgées). Achat des billets en personne seulement à la billetterie de la salle de concert Oscar-Peterson (7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest — SC01-10). Les billets seront également vendus à la porte les jours de représentation (s’il en reste). Renseignements : 514 848-242, poste 4742.

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December 04, 2007

Department of Music presents CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHORUS AND CHAMBER CHOIR

December 4 at 8:00 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHORUS Students conducted by Jean-Sébastien Allaire, classical repertoire. CHAMBER CHOIR Students conducted by Christopher Jackson, classical repertoire. Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.

Le Département de musique présente CHORALE UNIVERSITAIRE ET CHŒUR DE CHAMBRE

4 décembre à 20h00
Salle de Concert Oscar Peterson
7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest

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December 06, 2007

Department of Music presents JAZZ IMPROVISATION II

December 6 at 8:00 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students directed by Charles Ellison, jazz repertoire.
Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.

Le Département de musique présente IMPROVISATION EN JAZZ II

6 décembre à 20h00
Salle de Concert Oscar Peterson
7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest

Étudiants sous la direction de Charles Ellison, répertoire jazz.  Billets en vente sur place seulement : 5$, entrée libre pour les étudiants avec une carte d’identité.

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December 07, 2007

Department of Music presents BIG BAND

December 7 at 8:00 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students directed by Dave Turner, jazz repertoire.
Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.

Le Département de musique présente BIG BAND

7 décembre à 20h00
Salle de Concert Oscar Peterson
7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest

Étudiants sous la direction de Dave Turner, répertoire jazz.  Billets en vente sur place seulement : 5$, entrée libre pour les étudiants avec une carte d’identité.

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December 09, 2007

Department of Music presents CHAMBER ENSEMBLES

December 9 at 4:00 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students conducted by Liselyn Adams and Louise Samson, classical repertoire. Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.

Le Département de musique présente ENSEMBLES DE CHAMBRE

9 décembre à 16h00
Salle de Concert Oscar Peterson
7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest

Étudiants sous la direction de Liselyn Adams et Louise Samson, répertoire classique.  Billets en vente sur place seulement : 5$, entrée libre pour les étudiants avec une carte d’identité.

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December 10, 2007

Department of Music presents CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA

December 10 at 8:00 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students conducted by Monique Martin, classical repertoire. Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.

Le Département de musique présente ORCHESTRE DE L’UNIVERSITÉ CONCORDIA

10 décembre à 20h00
Salle de Concert Oscar Peterson
7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest

Étudiants sous la direction de Monique Martin, répertoire classique.  Billets en vente sur place seulement : 5$, entrée libre pour les étudiants avec une carte d’identité.

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December 11, 2007

Department of Music presents CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERT

December 11 at 8:00 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students directed by Gregory Chaverdian, classical repertoire. Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.

Le Département de musique présente CONCERT DE MUSIQUE CLASSIQUE

11 décembre à 20h00
Salle de Concert Oscar Peterson
7141, rue Sherbrooke Ouest

Étudiants sous la direction de Gregory Chaverdian, répertoire classique.  Billets en vente sur place seulement : 5$, entrée libre pour les étudiants avec une carte d’identité.

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January 04, 2008

Lecture by Marc Steinberg - How Characters Became Ubiquitous: Astro Boy and Meiji Seika’s Sticker Campaign

Friday, January 4
2 p.m.
Concordia University EV Building 1-615 (corner of Ste. Catherine and Mackay)
Free admission

Marc Steinberg is a short-listed candidate for a teaching position in Film Studies. His lecture will focus on the marketing of the very first “star” of Anime (Japanese Animation). The 1/2 hour lecture will be followed by a Q & A.

Everyone is welcome.

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January 10, 2008

Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (FOFA Gallery) presents three concurrent exhibitions

Jan. 10 to Feb. 9:

- Houbart’s Hope by Vancouver-based artist Landon Mackenzie (Concordia MFA ‘79)
- Carnivalissimo by Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo (Concordia student)
- Bleui (Middle Sky) by Katherine Jerkovic (Concordia student)

January 10 – February 9, 2008, Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Last (chance) Saturday February 9, 12 to 4 p.m.

Vernissage: January 10, 6-8 p.m.

Talk by Landon Mackenzie in Gallery: January 11, noon to 1 p.m.

LOCATION:
1515 Ste Catherine Street W., Concordia EV 1-715, Metro Guy-Concordia

COST:
Free of charge

INFO:
www.fofagallery.concordia.ca
514-848-2424 ext. 7962

BACKGROUND:

Houbart’s Hope by Vancouver-based artist Landon Mackenzie (Concordia MFA‘79)
In Houbart’s Hope, Mackenzie combines her interests in landscape, cartography and neuroscience.  Although abstract in appearance, vestiges of historical maps and the process of cartography remain. Using unusual methods, she plays with the immense canvases (7’6” x 10’3”) themselves as a platform for her intuition and her ideas, deliberately constructing parallels of exploration.

Carnivalissimo by Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo (Concordia student)
Exhibited in the gallery vitrines, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo’s project features large, mixed media drawings that explore the possibilities of narrative and the significance of drawing as a personal act of remembering. Castillo employs personal iconography in allegorical form to explore El Salvador’s collective memory in connection to Latin American myth, history and North American popular culture.

Bleui (Middle Sky) by Katherine Jerkovic (Concordia student)
Jerkovic presents her installation, BLEUI (Middle Sky) in the Black Box, featuring two silent single channel video projections mounted side by side. Shot on the Uruguayan coast the images evoke, with their "elsewhereness”, the imaginary landscape of emigrants - a place suspended between the lost original and the promised land.

La galerie de la Faculté des beaux-arts de l’Université Concordia (Galerie FOFA) présente trois expositions du 10 jan. au 9 fév. :

- Houbart’s Hope de l’artiste de Vancouver Landon Mackenzie (MFA 1979, Concordia)
- Carnivalissimo de Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo (étudiant à Concordia)
- Bleui (Middle Sky) de Katherine Jerkovic (étudiant à Concordia)

DATES / HORAIRE:
10 janvier au 9 février, 2008, lundi à vendredi de 11h00 à 19h00
Le samedi de la dernière chance! — La galerie sera ouverte le dernier samedi de l’exposition (samedi 9 février 2008 seulement), de midi à seize heures.

Vernissage: 10 janvier, à 18 heures

Rencontre avec Landon Mackenzie dans la Galerie: le 11 janvier de midi à 13 h vendredi

ADRESSE:
1515, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest (angle Guy), EV 1-715 (l’Université Concordia), Metro Guy-Concordia

ENTRÉE LIBRE

CONTACT:
www.fofagallery.concordia.ca
514-848-2424, poste 7962

RENSEIGNEMENTS:

Landon Mackenzie

Landon Mackenzie combine dans sa peinture son vif intérêt pour les paysages, la cartographie et les neurosciences. Ses œuvres au caractère apparemment abstrait, d’où surgissent des vestiges d’anciennes cartes géographiques, révèlent sa maîtrise de la cartographie. Avec des méthodes inusitées, l’artiste couche ses intuitions et ses réflexions sur d’immenses toiles (7 pi 6 po х 10 pi 3 po), s’amusant à explorer des univers parallèles.

Vitrines : Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo Carnivalissimo
Puisant dans la tradition des conteurs de son pays, le Salvadorien Osvaldo Castillo a recours à l'allégorie pour mettre en scène une iconographie personnelle. Il fouille ainsi la mémoire de son peuple et revisite la mythologie latino-américaine, l'histoire ainsi que la culture populaire nord-américaine. Ses œuvres grand format, réalisées au moyen de techniques mixtes, explorent les possibilités du récit et la signification du dessin en tant que vecteur du souvenir. Avec pour cadre le carnaval poussé à l'extrême, cette série approfondit le thème de la violence exercée sur le corps en soulevant les couches historiques, culturelles et politiques qui le façonnent à travers les âges.
(Projection space) Katherine Jerkovic Bleui (Middle Sky)
Katherine Jerkovic présente une installation où deux monobandes vidéo sont projetées côte à côte. œ uvre muette inspirée du procédé de la coupe franche entre deux plans juxtaposés dans les interfaces de montage numérique, BLEUI tente d'en faire un étalage physique. L'artiste suscite ainsi une réflexion sur l'ellipse et invite à explorer l'idée de contiguïté spatiale et temporelle. Quant aux images, tournées sur la côte uruguayenne, elles évoquent l'ailleurs auquel s'attachent souvent les émigrants, sorte de lieu imaginaire entre terre perdue et terre promise, entre origine et avenir.

www.kaesthesia.com
Cette œuvre a été réalisée avec le soutien du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec et de la vidéographe.

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January 16, 2008

Lecture by Dr. Tess Takahashi - Aliens Among Us: Digital Media, Animation, and Critical Documentary

Wednesday, January 16
10 a.m.
Concordia University EV Building 1-615 (corner of Ste. Catherine and Mackay)
Free admission

Dr. Takahashi is a short-listed candidate for a teaching position in Film Studies. The 1/2 hour lecture will be followed by a Q & A.  Everyone is welcome.

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January 17, 2008

Lecture by Dr. Dale Hudson - Scratching the surface of film history: French icon, Hong Kong star, and Hollywood garb in "Irma Vep"

Thursday, January 17
2 p.m.
Concordia University VA Building, Room 323 (1395 Réné Lévesque Blvd. West)
Free admission
Dr. Hudson is a short-listed candidate for a teaching position in Film Studies. The 1/2 hour lecture will be followed by a Q & A.  Everyone is welcome.

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January 21, 2008

Lecture by Dr. Bruno Lessard - An Indeterminate Spectacle: Framing the Post-Cinematic Apparatus

Monday, January 21
10 a.m.
Concordia University EV Building 1-605 (corner of Ste. Catherine and Mackay)
Free admission
Dr. Lessard is a short-listed candidate for a teaching position in Film Studies. The 1/2 hour lecture will be followed by a Q & A.  Everyone is welcome.

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January 22, 2008

Department of Art History presents Public Lecture by Rosemary Donegan: Industrial Photography: from the vernacular to the new monumentalism

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Concordia University EV Building 1-615 (Corner of Ste. Catherine and Mackay)
Free admission

As part of its Speaking of Photography lecture series, Concordia University’s Department of Art History presents Industrial Photography: from the vernacular to the new monumentalism, a public lecture by Rosemary Donegan, Ontario College of Art.

This presentation will trace the iconographic traditions of industrial photography in Canada from the vernacular studio portraiture of the Hayashi Studio through Yousuf Karsh's melodramatic factory portraits, to the contemporary dystopian industrial landscape. Industrial photography emerged out of the mainly anonymous vernacular tradition of the documentation of industry and industrial life routinely undertaken by business and government at the turn of the 19th century.
Throughout the 20th century, industrial imagery evolved as a distinct modernist subject area and included portraiture, factory architecture, social documentary and abstract machinery imagery. These images were imbued with complex issues of race, class, technology, labour unions and the nature of work. Finally, the presention will consider contemporary industrial photography, as epitomized by Burtynsky and others, in relation to postmodernist concepts of the sublime, the photographer as creator and the wider meanings (social, cultural, environmental) of industrial photography.

This lecture is sponsored by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art.

For further information, please visit: http://art-history.concordia.ca

Le Département d’histoire de l’art présente une conférence publique par Rosemary Donegan :
Industrial Photography: from the vernacular to the new monumentalism

Mardi 22 janvier 2008
18 h 30
Pavillon EV (EV 1-615) de l’Université Concordia
(angles Sainte-Catherine et Mackay)
Entrée libre

Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences Speaking of Photography, le Département d’histoire de l’art de l’Université Concordia présente Industrial Photography: from the vernacular to the new monumentalism, une conférence publique donnée par Rosemary Donegan, du Ontario College of Art.

La conférence retracera l’évolution iconographique de la photographie industrielle au Canada, des portraits vernaculaires en atelier du Hayashi Studio aux paysages industriels dystopiens contemporains, en passant par les clichés mélodramatiques de Yousuf Karsh pris dans des usines. La photographie industrielle vient de la tradition vernaculaire et plutôt impersonnelle du tournant du XIXe siècle, alors que les entreprises et le gouvernement prenaient de manière routinière des clichés industriels. Puis, au cours du XXe siècle, l’imagerie industrielle est devenue un domaine moderne à part entière touchant au portrait, à l’architecture des usines, aux documentaires sociaux et à l’imagerie abstraite des machines pour aborder les problèmes complexes de race, de classe sociale, de technologie, de syndicat et de nature du travail.
La conférence traitera également de la photographie industrielle contemporaine, notamment avec Burtynsky et d’autres, par rapport aux concepts postmodernistes du sublime, du photographe comme créateur et de notions plus vastes (sociales, culturelles, environnementales) de la photographie industrielle.

Conférence commanditée par l’Institut Gail et Stephen A. Jarislowsky d’études en art canadien.

Renseignements : http://art-history.concordia.ca

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January 23, 2008

The Faculty of Fine Arts presents THE DEFIANT IMAGINATION LECTURE SERIES 2008

This dynamic lecture series brings together innovators of the critical imagination to explore the role of art in contemporary society.

La Faculté des beaux-arts présente LE CYCLE DE CONFÉRENCES PROVOCANTE IMAGINATION – ÉDITION 2007-2008

Ce cycle de conférences invite des esprits novateurs à l’imagination provocante à explorer le rôle de l’art dans la société.

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Theo Jansen - Strandbeest :: THE DEFIANT IMAGINATION LECTURE SERIES 2008

Wednesday, January 23
6 p.m.
D.B. Clarke Theatre  
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West  
Admission is free                                               

Artist and kinetic sculptor, Theo Jansen has been called a modern-day Da Vinci. Trained in Science at the University of Delft in the Netherlands, Jansen creates large-scale kinetic sculptures that are a fusion of art and engineering. Jansen's interest in technology and the process of biological evolution have led to his development of his own creatures.

His animals ("Strandbeests", or" beach animals", as he calls them) are enormous skeletal, complex mobile structures made out of plastic pvc tubes that use computer programs to calculate their movements. Powered by the wind, these creatures, which have evolved through several generations, walk, flap, roll, and discern obstacles. Eventually, Jansen hopes to 'release' his animals in herds where they can live out their own lives.

To learn more about Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests, visit: www.strandbeest.com

The Defiant Imagination lecture series continues on Feb. 7 with David Wilson (The Museum of Jurassic Technology) and Feb. 27 with Carol Becker (What We Do: Values Implicit in Schools of Art and Design).

For more information, contact 514-848-2424 ext. 4261

www.strandbeest.com

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February 07, 2008

David Wilson - The Museum of Jurassic Technology :: THE DEFIANT IMAGINATION LECTURE SERIES 2008

Thursday, February 7
6 p.m.
D.B. Clarke Theatre
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West  
Admission is free

The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California is a museum like no other.  A cross between a genuine museum, a wunderkammer (cabinet of wonders) and a performance art piece, it challenges the role of museum and archival practice, blurring boundaries between the real and the unreal. 
 
David Wilson, its director and founder and recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant (2003), has dedicated himself to the advancement of knowledge and public appreciation of the lower Jurassic.   Wilson’s extraordinary collection of specimens, which includes spore-inhaling ants, s-ray bats, stink ants, human horns, peach-pit carvings and his novel theories of oblivion, are among the many marvels of Museum of Jurassic Technology.  Currently, the museum and its director are the subject of a book by Lawrence Weschler entitled Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder.

The Defiant Imagination lecture series continues on Feb. 27 with Carol Becker (What We Do: Values Implicit in Schools of Art and Design).

For more information, contact 514-848-2424 ext. 4261

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February 08, 2008

Sandeep Bhagwati, Canada Research Chair in Fine Arts, reports on the UNESCO conference, Music as a Means of Intercultural Dialogue

Friday, February 8
3:30 p.m
Department of Music
RF 101, Loyola Campus, Concordia University,
7141 Sherbrooke St. West
Free admission

MUSIC AS A MEANS OF INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE was the title of a UNESCO conference on Nov 26, 2007 in Paris. Composers, musicians and music administrators from all over the globe were personally invited to discuss questions around the role of music in the context of globalisation and the role it can play for intercultural dialogue. Composer Sandeep Bhagwati, Canada Research Chair in Inter-X Art Practice and Theory, was one of the invitees. He will give an informal report on this conference and its results, but also on the larger issues surrounding the role of music in the UNESCO convention for the preservation of "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity".

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February 09, 2008

Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (FOFA Gallery) presents three concurrent exhibitions

Jan. 10 to Feb. 9:

- Houbart’s Hope by Vancouver-based artist Landon Mackenzie (Concordia MFA ‘79)
- Carnivalissimo by Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo (Concordia student)
- Bleui (Middle Sky) by Katherine Jerkovic (Concordia student)

January 10 – February 9, 2008, Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Last (chance) Saturday February 9, 12 to 4 p.m.

Vernissage: January 10, 6-8 p.m.

Talk by Landon Mackenzie in Gallery: January 11, noon to 1 p.m.

LOCATION:
1515 Ste Catherine Street W., Concordia EV 1-715, Metro Guy-Concordia

COST:
Free of charge

INFO:
www.fofagallery.concordia.ca
514-848-2424 ext. 7962

BACKGROUND:

Houbart’s Hope by Vancouver-based artist Landon Mackenzie (Concordia MFA‘79)
In Houbart’s Hope, Mackenzie combines her interests in landscape, cartography and neuroscience. Although abstract in appearance, vestiges of historical maps and the process of cartography remain. Using unusual methods, she plays with the immense canvases (7’6” x 10’3”) themselves as a platform for her intuition and her ideas, deliberately constructing parallels of exploration.

Carnivalissimo by Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo (Concordia student)
Exhibited in the gallery vitrines, Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo’s project features large, mixed media drawings that explore the possibilities of narrative and the significance of drawing as a personal act of remembering. Castillo employs personal iconography in allegorical form to explore El Salvador’s collective memory in connection to Latin American myth, history and North American popular culture.

Bleui (Middle Sky) by Katherine Jerkovic (Concordia student)
Jerkovic presents her installation, BLEUI (Middle Sky) in the Black Box, featuring two silent single channel video projections mounted side by side. Shot on the Uruguayan coast the images evoke, with their "elsewhereness”, the imaginary landscape of emigrants - a place suspended between the lost original and the promised land.

La galerie de la Faculté des beaux-arts de l’Université Concordia (Galerie FOFA) présente trois expositions du 10 jan. au 9 fév. :

- Houbart’s Hope de l’artiste de Vancouver Landon Mackenzie (MFA 1979, Concordia)
- Carnivalissimo de Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo (étudiant à Concordia)
- Bleui (Middle Sky) de Katherine Jerkovic (étudiant à Concordia)

DATES / HORAIRE:
10 janvier au 9 février, 2008, lundi à vendredi de 11h00 à 19h00
Le samedi de la dernière chance! — La galerie sera ouverte le dernier samedi de l’exposition (samedi 9 février 2008 seulement), de midi à seize heures.

Vernissage: 10 janvier, à 18 heures

Rencontre avec Landon Mackenzie dans la Galerie: le 11 janvier de midi à 13 h vendredi

ADRESSE:
1515, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest (angle Guy), EV 1-715 (l’Université Concordia), Metro Guy-Concordia

ENTRÉE LIBRE

CONTACT:
www.fofagallery.concordia.ca
514-848-2424, poste 7962

RENSEIGNEMENTS:

Landon Mackenzie

Landon Mackenzie combine dans sa peinture son vif intérêt pour les paysages, la cartographie et les neurosciences. Ses œuvres au caractère apparemment abstrait, d’où surgissent des vestiges d’anciennes cartes géographiques, révèlent sa maîtrise de la cartographie. Avec des méthodes inusitées, l’artiste couche ses intuitions et ses réflexions sur d’immenses toiles (7 pi 6 po х 10 pi 3 po), s’amusant à explorer des univers parallèles.

Vitrines : Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo Carnivalissimo
Puisant dans la tradition des conteurs de son pays, le Salvadorien Osvaldo Castillo a recours à l'allégorie pour mettre en scène une iconographie personnelle. Il fouille ainsi la mémoire de son peuple et revisite la mythologie latino-américaine, l'histoire ainsi que la culture populaire nord-américaine. Ses œuvres grand format, réalisées au moyen de techniques mixtes, explorent les possibilités du récit et la signification du dessin en tant que vecteur du souvenir. Avec pour cadre le carnaval poussé à l'extrême, cette série approfondit le thème de la violence exercée sur le corps en soulevant les couches historiques, culturelles et politiques qui le façonnent à travers les âges.
(Projection space) Katherine Jerkovic Bleui (Middle Sky)
Katherine Jerkovic présente une installation où deux monobandes vidéo sont projetées côte à côte. œ uvre muette inspirée du procédé de la coupe franche entre deux plans juxtaposés dans les interfaces de montage numérique, BLEUI tente d'en faire un étalage physique. L'artiste suscite ainsi une réflexion sur l'ellipse et invite à explorer l'idée de contiguïté spatiale et temporelle. Quant aux images, tournées sur la côte uruguayenne, elles évoquent l'ailleurs auquel s'attachent souvent les émigrants, sorte de lieu imaginaire entre terre perdue et terre promise, entre origine et avenir.

www.kaesthesia.com
Cette œuvre a été réalisée avec le soutien du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec et de la vidéographe.

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February 27, 2008

Carol Becker - What We Do: Values Implicit in Schools of Art and Design  :: THE DEFIANT IMAGINATION LECTURE SERIES 2008

Wednesday, February 27
6 p.m.
D.B. Clarke Theatre
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West  
Admission is free

Carol Becker is an artist, art historian and incoming Dean of The School of the Arts at Columbia University in New York.  Becker's research interests range from feminist theory, American cultural history, and the education of artists, to South African art and politics.  She is the author of numerous articles and several books including: The Invisible Drama: Women and the Anxiety of Change (translated into seven languages) The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society, and Social Responsibility; Zones of Contention: Essays on Art, Institutions, Gender, and Anxiety, and most recently, Surpassing the Spectacle: Global Transformations and the Changing Politics of Art.

Her talk examines the ethical assumptions, often unarticulated, that are unique and fundamental to art and design. These values include social justice, sustainability, historical consciousness, activism and preservation of the built environment and of human life. Becker explores how art and design can continue to be forces of social change, leading the conversation about the urgencies of our planet.

For more information, contact 514-848-2424 ext. 4261

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February 28, 2008

Department of Art History presents Public Lecture by Geoffrey Batchen: Snapshots: Art History and the Ethnographic Turn

Thursday, February 28, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Concordia University EV Building 1-615 (Corner of Ste. Catherine and Mackay)
Free admission

As part of its Speaking of Photography lecture series, Concordia University’s Department of Art History presents Snapshots: Art History and the Ethnographic Turn, a public lecture by Geoffrey Batchen, City University of New York Graduate Centre.

This lecture is about art history’s worst nightmare—boring pictures. This is the only possible description of the vast majority of photographic images, which tend to be predictable, conservative and repetitive in both form and content. As a consequence, they do not easily fit into an art historical narrative still anxiously, insecurely, focused on originality, innovation, and individualism. The study of photography thus represents a serious problem for the practice of art history, just as, say, the snapshot, represents a serious problem for the history of photography. How should one go about writing a history for an infinity of generic snapshots? What historical rationale should one adopt when value judgments no longer seem to be relevant elements of the historical process? Hal Foster has worried aloud about the “ethnographic turn” he says is involved in the displacement of art history by visual culture, a concern that seems to focus on the relativism he associates with an anthropological model of historical practice. Through an examination of the problem of writing a history for the snapshot photograph, this lecture will address the othering of art history that the ‘ethnographic turn’ apparently entails by proposing yet another kind of historical model.

Co-sponsored by the Concordia University Research Chair Program.

For further information, please visit: http://art-history.concordia.ca

Le Département d’histoire de l’art présente une conférence publique par Geoffrey Batchen :
Snapshots: Art History and the Ethnographic Turn

Jeudi 28 février 2008
18 h 30
Pavillon EV (EV 1-615) de l’Université Concordia
(angles Sainte-Catherine et Mackay)
Entrée libre

Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences Speaking of Photography, le Département d’histoire de l’art de l’Université Concordia présente Snapshots: Art History and the Ethnographic Turn, une conférence publique donnée par Geoffrey Batchen, du Graduate Centre de la City University of New York.

Cette conférence porte sur le pire cauchemar de l’histoire de l’art : les photographies ennuyeuses. C’est le seul moyen de décrire la grande majorité des photographies, qui se caractérisent par leur côté prévisible, classique et répétitif autant dans le fond que dans la forme. Il est par conséquent difficile de les considérer du point de vue de l’histoire de l’art, qui s’attache avant tout à l’originalité, l’innovation et l’individualisme. L’étude de la photographie pose donc un sérieux problème dans la pratique de l’histoire de l’art, tout comme, par exemple, les photos instantanées sont problématiques pour l’histoire de la photographie. Comment écrire l’histoire d’une infinité d’instantanés banals? Quels fondements historiques devrait-on adopter lorsque les jugements de valeur ne semblent plus être des éléments pertinents du processus historique? Hal Foster a exprimé haut et fort son inquiétude face au « tournant ethnographique » qu’il dit impliqué dans le remplacement de l’histoire de l’art par la culture visuelle. Pour lui, c’est un problème de relativisme lié au modèle anthropologique de la pratique de l’histoire. En s’interrogeant sur comment écrire l’histoire des photos instantanées, la conférence abordera l’altérité de l’histoire de l’art, créée par le « tournant ethnographique » qui propose encore un nouveau modèle historique.

Conférence commanditée notamment par le programme de chaires de recherche de Concordia.

Renseignements : http://art-history.concordia.ca

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March 05, 2008

Associate Professor Sherry Farrell Racette presents a talk on the “archaeology of story”

Wednesday, March 5
6 pm (in English)
Auditorium Maxwell-Cummings
Pavillon Michal et Renata Hornstein
1379 Sherbrooke Street West
Free admission

Sherry Farrell Racette, Artist, scholar and associate professor, Department of Art History, Concordia University, is an interdisciplinary scholar with an active arts and curatorial practice that draws on studies in fine arts, education, Native studies, anthropology and history. Her broad focus is Métis and First Nations women’s history, particularly reconstructing indigenous art histories that recontextualize museum collections and reclaim women’s voices and lives. In this talk, she focusses on her preoccupation with narrative across her artistic and curatorial work, the “archaeology of story.”

Info: (514) 285-1600, poste/ext 440 or education@mbamtl.org

Le mercredi 5 mars à 18 h, en anglais
Auditorium Maxwell-Cummings
Pavillon Michal et Renata Hornstein
1379, rue Sherbrooke ouest
Entrée libre
La pratique active de Sherry Farrell Racette, Artiste, chercheure et professeure adjointe, Département d’histoire de l’art, Université Concordia, en tant qu’artiste et commissaire, s’appuie sur ses études en arts, en éducation, en études autochtones, en anthropologie et en histoire. Elle s'intéresse principalement à l’histoire des femmes des Premières Nations et des Métis, cherchant à reconstruire l’histoire de l’art autochtone par une remise en contexte des collections muséales pour faire valoir les vies et les voix des femmes. Cette conférence mettra en évidence son souci pour la narrativité propre à son travail de commissaire et d’artiste – ce qu’elle appelle l’archéologie de l’histoire contée.

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March 06, 2008

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture presents a public lecture by Professor Bonnie Honig of Northwestern University

Thursday, March 6
7:30 pm
Samuel Bronfman Building Atrium
1590 Dr. Penfield (corner Côte des Neiges)
Free admission.
 
Bonnie Honing is Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University and Research Professor, American Bar Foundation, Chicago.  Her lecture is entitled "Reading Antigone for Rights:  On Death, War, and Civil Disobedience."
 
In addition to the lecture, faculty and students are also invited to an advanced seminar led by Professor Honig on Friday, March 7 at 2:30 pm in LB-659-4.  In this seminar, she will discuss her work and recent research.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, created by the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Arts and Science, fosters interdisciplinary exchange in the humanities and highlights Concordia's leading contributions to Humanities-oriented scholarship in Canada.
 

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March 07, 2008

Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (FOFA Gallery) presents three concurrent exhibitions by Concordia students

Feb. 18 – Mar. 8:

(Main Gallery) choeur de griffonage by Elisabeth Belliveau + Niki Mulder + Jerry Ropson
(Black Box) Exercises in Napery by Karen Zalamea
(Vitrines) Moving the Gallery by Emma Howes and Caroline Boileau

Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Last (chance) Saturday March 8, 12 to 4 p.m.
1515 Ste Catherine Street W., EV 1-715 (Metro Guy-Concordia)
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

(Main Gallery ) choeur de griffonage: Individually the three artists in this exhibition are dedicated to the research and development of drawing. Their work is concerned with the expression of narrative, do-it-yourself initiatives and the aesthetics of the handmade. By drawing stories and through the stories in their drawings they locate and contextualize their place historically, geographically and emotionally. Imagery of animals, friends and domestic spaces prevail in their work, and are presented in tandem with the textual practices that parallel their imagery.

(Black Box) Exercises in Napery: Karen Zalamea's video, Exercises in Napery, is an intensive study of napkin folding as a militant task, demonstrated as a fast-pasted instructional video.

(Vitrines) Moving the Gallery: The practices of these two artists engage with formal and conceptual movement, and an evolution out of distinct practices towards each other until the boundaries between them become blurred. Working from either end of the vitrines towards the centre, Boileau and Howes create points of contact through site-specific performance and installation.

For more information, call 514-848-2424 ext. 7962 or visit http://fofagallery.concordia.ca

Du 18 février au 7 mars

lundi à vendredi de 11h00 à 19h00
Le samedi de la dernière chance! — La galerie sera ouverte le dernier samedi de l’exposition (samedi 8 mars seulement), de midi à seize heures.
1515, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest (angle Guy), EV 1-715 (l’Université Concordia), Metro Guy-Concordia
ENTRÉE LIBRE

(Salle principale) choeur de griffonage - elisabeth belliveau + niki mulder + jerry Ropson
Les trois artistes de cette exposition se consacrent tous à faire évoluer le dessin. Leurs travaux sont axés sur la narration, les projets amateurs et l'esthétique du fait main. En dessinant des histoires et en racontant des histoires à partir de leurs dessins, ils mettent en place un contexte historique, géographique et émotionnel. Toute une imagerie représentant des animaux, l'amitié et des espaces familiaux occupe ainsi une place prédominante dans leurs œuvres, en parallèle des textes reflétant l'imaginaire des trois artistes.

(Salle de projection) Exercises in Napery - Karen Zalamea
Intitulée Exercises in Napery , la vidéo éducative de Karen Zalamea étudie attentivement l'art de plier des serviettes en tant qu'acte militant.

(Vitrines) Moving the Gallery - Emma Howes et Caroline Boileau
Basées sur les mouvements formels et conceptuels, les œuvres de ces deux artistes évoluent distinctement pour se rapprocher l'une de l'autre et brouiller les frontières qui les séparent. Elles se déplacent ainsi des côtés de la vitrine au centre pour se rejoindre à certains points de l'installation.

CONTACT: http://fofagallery.concordia.ca ou 514-848-2424, poste 7962

ou 514-848-2424, poste 7962

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March 11, 2008

Department of Art History presents Public Lecture by John O'Brian: Camera Atomica: A Case Study in Nuclear Photography

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Concordia University EV Building 1-615 (Corner of Ste. Catherine and Mackay)
Free admission

As part of its Speaking of Photography lecture series, Concordia University’s Department of Art History presents Camera Atomica: A Case Study in Nuclear Photography, a public lecture by John O'Brian, University of British Columbia.

Although John O’Brian is wary of nuclear photographs, unsure of their excesses and logic, he is convinced they have a crucial place in understanding Cold War anxieties at the time of their making. What, it might be asked, was their role in underwriting a public image of the Bomb? How should the different visual protocols of journalistic, documentary, touristic, and post-documentary nuclear photography be understood? Are there historical meanings that can be attributed to one of these categories, but not to the others? This lecture will address an instance in which photography participated in the construction of the atomic imaginary during the Cold War.

"Ever since cameras were invented in 1839, photography has kept company with death," writes Susan Sontag in Regarding the Pain of Others, a book deliberating on the hurt and spectacle of war and disaster. This title, "Camera Atomica," means to recall the title of Roland Barthes's book, Camera Lucida, a meditation on the relationship of photographic representation and trauma. For Barthes, cameras are "clocks for seeing" and photographs work to superimpose present reality on the past. The title is also indebted to Paul Virilio's observation in War and Cinema that the technologies of photography and warfare since the mid-nineteenth century have not only become all-pervasive, they have also developed a fatal interdependence.

Co-sponsored by the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and the Department of Art History and Communications Studies, McGill University.

For further information, please visit: http://art-history.concordia.ca

Le Département d’histoire de l’art présente une conférence publique par John O'Brian :
Camera Atomica: A Case Study in Nuclear Photography

Mardi 4 mars 2008
18 h 30
Pavillon EV (EV 1-615) de l’Université Concordia
(angles Sainte-Catherine et Mackay)
Entrée libre

Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences Speaking of Photography, le Département d’histoire de l’art de l’Université Concordia présente Camera Atomica: A Case Study in Nuclear Photography, une conférence publique donnée par John O'Brian, de la University of British Columbia.

Bien que John O’Brian se montre prudent face aux photographies d’explosions nucléaires, incertain de l’utilité de leur caractère excessif et de leur logique, il est convaincu qu’elles sont cruciales pour comprendre les angoisses ressenties au moment de la guerre froide. Dans quelle mesure, peut-on se demander, ont-elles influencé l’image qu’on a de la bombe atomique? Comment les différents protocoles visuels journalistiques, documentaires, touristiques et postdocumentaires de la photographie nucléaire devraient-ils êtres interprétés? Peut-on attribuer une signification historique à l’une de ces catégories et pas à d’autres? La conférence traitera d’un exemple où la photographie a joué un rôle dans la construction d’un imaginaire atomique durant la guerre froide.

« Depuis l’invention des appareils photographiques en 1839, la photographie a accompagné la mort », écrit Susan Sontag dans Regarding the Pain of Others, un ouvrage sur la guerre, les désastres et la douleur qui en découlent. Le titre de la conférence, Camera Atomica, fait allusion à celui du livre de Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida (La chambre claire), qui s’interroge sur le lien entre représentation photographique et traumatisme. Pour Barthes, les appareils photo sont des « horloges de représentation » et les photographies apposent la réalité présente sur le passé. Le choix du titre s’inspire également de la remarque de Paul Virilio dans War and Cinema, selon laquelle les technologies de photo et de guerre sont devenues non seulement omniprésentes depuis le milieu du XXe siècle, mais aussi d’une interdépendance fatale.

Conférence commanditée notamment par l’Institut d’études canadiennes et le Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études en communications de l’Université McGill.

Renseignements : http://art-history.concordia.ca

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March 12, 2008

Department of Music presents RAYMOND SCOTT CENTENNIAL TRIBUTE CONCERT

March 12
8 p.m. (pre-show exhibition 7:30 p.m.)
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

This concert is an interdisciplinary student production paying tribute to eccentric composer/inventor/bandleader Raymond Scott during the centennial celebration of his birth in 1908. Participants from the Concordia University Jazz and Electroacoustic Studies programs (and special guests) are recreating material from all periods of Scott's prolific career including music for his 1930's and 1940's “quintette(s)”, dance orchestra and Secret Seven groups, and from the acclaimed electronic releases Soothing Sounds for Baby and Manhattan Research Inc.. The show will also feature world premieres of never-before performed Scott compositions and contributions from students in Dance, Theatre and other Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts departments. Produced with the cooperation of the Raymond Scott Archives and raymondscott.com, this show has been made possible with support from the Concordia University Department of Music, the Electro-Acoustic Studies department, the Fine Arts Student Association, the Dean of Students, the Concordia Electroacoustic Studies Student Association and Art Matters.

Tickets available at the box office and on the Admission network (service charges applicable): $10 general admission, 5$ for students with I.D. Tickets also on sale at Cheap Thrills (2044 Metcalfe) and l'Oblique (4333 Rivard).

Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

For more information on Raymond Scott, visit http://raymondscott.com/News.html

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March 13, 2008

Department of Theatre presents Alfred Jarry’s Ubu The King

March 13 – 16

March 13 (8pm), March 14 (8pm), 15 (8pm & 2pm) and March 16 (2 pm)
F.C. Smith Auditorium (7141 Sherbrooke Street West – under the Loyola Chapel)
Tickets: $10 for adults, $5 for students and seniors
Concordia University’s Department of Theatre proudly presents Alfred Jarry’s avant-garde classic Ubu The King, in a new translation by Steve Friedman, directed by Mark Sussman. Professor Sussman, a theatre artist and scholar working on the animation of public space and the integration of old and new technologies in live performance, has adapted Ubu The King as a traveling play for puppet theatre in multiple formats and spaces. A grand misadventure of greed, gluttony, brutality, treachery, cowardice, and overwhelming stupidity shown through a variety of puppet mediums, from tabletop miniatures to larger than life silhouettes, Jarry’s Ubu Roi began life as a ridiculous schoolboy farce. The abuse, confusion, praise, inspiration and utter disgust felt by its premiere audience in 1897 have positioned the play as a parable for the irrational at work in history and politics.

Tickets can be purchased in person only at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall box office (7141 Sherbrooke Street West, SC01-10) and will be sold at the door (subject to availability).

For additional box office information, call (514) 848-2424, ext. 4742.

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Department of Music presents ANGELA GALLUPO, OSCAR PETERSON JAZZ SCHOLARSHIP LAUREATE

March 13
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Angela Galuppo, the Oscar Peterson Scholarship recipient, will present her ensemble in a concert entitled “My Favourite Things," a collection of classic songs from a variety of genres including jazz, pop, folk and soul. With Ryan Fleury (bass), Tristan Boucher (drums), Gregory Burton (piano) and friends.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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March 14, 2008

Graduate Students from the Department of Art History present Charged Circuits:Questioning International Exhibition Practices

March 14 and 15
Concordia University
1515 Sainte-Catherine Street West, EV - 1.605
Everyone welcome.  Free Admission.
No registration necessary.

Graduate Students from the Department of Art History are proud to present Charged Circuits: Questioning International Exhibition Practices, a two-day interdisciplinary symposium that brings together two distinguished keynote speakers and over a dozen emerging scholars to critically assess the aesthetic, political and economic foundations of international exhibitions, both historic and contemporary.

Doryun Chong, Assistant Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, will give the opening address on March 14 at 5:30 p.m. and Scott Burnham, Creative Director of the upcoming Biennale de Montréal 2009, will close the conference on March 15 at 4:30 p.m.

For further information, contact Tatiana Mellema and Jacqueline Sischy at ahconf@gmail.com or (514) 889-1375

Les 14 et 15 mars
Université Concordia
1515 rue Sainte-Catherine ouest, EV-1.605
Les conférences sont ouvertes à tous et sont offertes gratuitement. Aucune inscription n'est nécéssaire.

Les étudiants de 2e et 3e cycles du Département d’histoire de l’art sont fières de présenter Charged Circuits: Questioning International Exhibition Practices, un colloque interdisciplinaire de deux jours, auquel participeront deux éminents conférenciers d’honneur et plus d’une douzaine d’universitaires prometteurs, pour se pencher sur les fondements esthétiques, politiques et économiques des expositions internationales historiques et contemporaines.

Doryun Chong, conservateur d’art visuel au Walker Art Center de Minneapolis, donnera le coup d’envoi du colloque vendredi le 14 mars à 17 h 30. Le colloque s’achèvera avec l’allocution principale de clôture de Scott Burnham, commissaire et directeur de création de la Biennale de Montréal 2009, le 15 mars à 16 h 30.

Contact:  Tatiana Mellema et Jacqueline Sischy à ahconf@gmail.com ou (514) 889-1375

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March 19, 2008

Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (FOFA Gallery) presents Remedios' Terrarium

An exhibition by Associate Professor Sha Xin Wei (Canada Research Chair in New Media Arts) and the Topological Media Lab

March 19 – April 5
Vernissage: March 20, 6-8 p.m.

Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Last (chance) Saturday April 5, 12 to 4 p.m.
1515 Ste Catherine Street W., EV 1-715 (Metro Guy-Concordia)
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

Remedios' Terrarium is about the circulation and transubstantiation of matter in a built space. An installation-event springing from the Topological Media Lab's recent work on responsive environments will form the basis of the installation based on an alchemical homology between the Gallery and the activity of the street and corridors outside.

Visit: http://fofagallery.concordia.ca/

Du 19 mars au 5 avril
lundi à vendredi de 11h00 à 19h00
Le samedi de la dernière chance! — La galerie sera ouverte le dernier samedi de l’exposition (samedi 5 avril mars seulement), de midi à seize heures.
1515, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest (angle Guy), EV 1-715 (l’Université Concordia), Metro Guy-Concordia
ENTRÉE LIBRE

Remedios' Terrarium tourne autour de la circulation et la transformation de la matière dans un espace délimité. Issue des récents travaux du Topological Media Lab sur les milieux interactifs, cette installation est axée sur l'homologie alchimique entre la galerie et ce qui se passe dans la rue et les corridors adjacents grâce à des projections sur tissus fibreux et écrans sensibles aux mouvements des visiteurs et des passants. De concert avec les artistes, le public aura la possibilité de participer à cet espace réceptif.

CONTACT: http://fofagallery.concordia.ca/

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March 25, 2008

The Fine Arts Reading Room invites presents Addressing the Gap between Student Culture and Work in Culture

Tuesday, March 25
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.,
1395 Réné Lévesque Blvd. West, VA 234
Snacks will be served.

The Fine Arts Reading Room has invited three guest panelists – Annie Gauthier (visual artist and member of the performance collective Women With Kitchen Appliances), Graham Hall (interdisciplinary artist living and working in Montreal) and Tina Piper (Assistant Professor of Law and member of McGill’s Centre for Intellectual Property Policy) – as well as moderator Danna Vajda artist/writer based in Montreal) to speak about their own experience negotiating between the realities of making art and work in the cultural sector. This is a discussion of interest for anyone concerned about the transition from school to the real world. The event will also be an opportunity to network with the panelists and with fellow students.

For more information, contact The Fine Arts Reading Room at 514-848-2424 ext. 5633 or
http://readingroom.concordia.ca

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March 27, 2008

Department of Art History presents public lecture by Andrew Hemingway entitled Art/Ideology/Value: Problems in Marxist Art History

Thursday, March 27
6:30 p.m.
Concordia University
1395 Réné Lévesque Blvd. West (at Crescent), VA-323
Everyone welcome. Free admission.

What is at stake in the act of incorporating political commitment into art history writing? And how is such commitment manifested? Focusing on different strategies for engagement employed by contemporary art historians from T.J. Clark to O.K. Werkmeister, Professor Hemingway's lecture will address current methodological problems in Marxist art history.

Andrew Hemingway is Professor of Art History at University College London. Since 1990 his research has focused primarily on U.S. art and culture, with particular reference to the period c. 1900 -1955. A concern with the history of the left and of workers’ movements in the twentieth century resulted in his 2002 book 1926-1956 (Yale University Press) Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement,and in the edited volume Marxism and the History of Art: From William Morris to the New Left (Pluto Press 2006). In 2002, he initiated the seminar ‘Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture’ at the Institute of Historical Research (University of London, School of Advanced Study) and remains an active member of the organizing group. He has also co-organized two major international conferences held at UCL: ‘Cold War Culture’ (with Adrian Forty, 1994) and ‘Marxism and the Visual Arts Now’ (with Matthew Beaumont, Esther Leslie and John Roberts, 2002). He has recently completed the manuscript of a book with the provisional title Precisionism as Critique: American Art and Romantic Anti-Capitalism in the Interwar Years.

Sponsored by Concordia University Research Chair in Art History, Dr. Kristina Huneault.

For more information contact huneault@alcor.concordia.ca or call 848-2424 ext. 4697

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Department of Music presents JAZZ FACULTY ENSEMBLES

March 27
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Featuring performances of classic and original jazz compositions.

Visit: http://oscar.concordia.ca/

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March 28, 2008

2boys.tv (Concordia Alumni) and Ramon Rivera-Servera (Northwestern University)

A Performance and Lecture
Performance - PHOBOPHILIA

When: March 28, 2008 - 15h, 16h, 17h, 18h (each performance is 45 minutes)
Where: 11th floor EV BUILDING, Fine Arts Tower
Details: Seating is limited to 20 spectators at a time. Reserve in advance by email phobophilia.2boys@gmail.com .
Lecture

Performance will be followed by a lecture by Dr. Ramon Rivera-Servera, a professor at the School of Communication at Northwestern University. When: March 28, 2008 - 19h30
Where: EV 605 (ground floor)
More details... http://cissc.concordia.ca/events/2boystv.php

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April 03, 2008

Department of Music presents CHARLES ELLISON QUINTET CANCELLED

Cancelled

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April 04, 2008

Concordia University MFA Group Exhibition: S T R A T A

April 4 – 20
Thursdays and Fridays: 12 – 8 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays: 12 – 6 p.m.

Vernissage: Friday April 4: 5 – 8 p.m.
Catalogue Launch: Saturday April 19, 4 – 7 p.m.

Espace Artefacto
3520, rue St-Jacques Ouest, Montréal
(metro Lionel-Groulx, corner of rue Rose-de-Lima)

Concordia University's Master of Fine Arts program is presenting an ambitious interdisciplinary group exhibition that brings together works from sixty-five emerging artists working in painting, drawing, print, fibres, sculpture, photography, video, film and installation. This student-run annual Spring exhibition provides a unique platform for critical dialogue, the exchange of ideas, and the convergence of diverse creative practices. S T R A T A is the dynamic result of active studio work completed under the auspices of one of Canada's finest MFA programs.

An exhibition catalogue will be released at the exhibition space on April 19, 4 - 7 pm. The catalogue will feature documentation of the works in the exhibition and will include essays written by alumni and students of the MA Programs in Art History and Film Studies.

For further information, contact: Daichi Saito and Malena Szlam
mfa.show.08@gmail.com
514.270.1699

Exposition collective de la maîtrise en beaux-arts de l'Université Concordia: S T R A T A

4 – 20 avril 2008
Heures d'ouverture: jeudi & vendredi 12h00 - 20h00 / samedi & dimanche 12h00 - 18h00

Vernissage: le vendredi 4 avril, 17h00 - 20h00
Lancement du catalogue: le samedi 19 avril, 16h00 - 19h00

E s p a c e A r t e f a c t o
3520, rue St-Jacques Ouest, Montréal, QC
(métro Lionel-Groulx, angle rue Rose-de-Lima)

Le programme de maîtrise en beaux-arts de l'Université Concordia présente une ambitieuse exposition interdisciplinaire réunissant 65 artistes émergeants. Cette exposition annuelle du Printemps met en espace peintures, dessins, gravures, sculptures, photographies, vidéos, films et installations. S T R A T A est le résultat dynamique de pratiques d'atelier soutenues, complétées sous l'égide de l'un des programmes de beaux-arts les plus réputés au Canada.

D'anciennes étudiantes et des étudiants des programmes de maîtrise en Histoire de l'art et en Études cinématographiques rédigeront de courts essais sur les œuvres présentées dans le cadre de l'exposition. Ces textes accompagneront la documentation des œuvres dans une publication dont le lancement aura lieu le samedi 19 avril, de 16h à 19h, à l'Espace Artefacto.

Pour plus d'informations, veuillez contacter: Daichi Saito et Malena Szlam
mfa.show.08@gmail.com
514.270.1699

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Department of Music presents JAZZ IMPROVISATION I

April 4
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students directed by Dave Turner, jazz repertoire.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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April 09, 2008

Department of Music presents JAZZ CHOIR

April 9
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students directed by Jeri Brown, jazz repertoire.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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April 10, 2008

The Department of Contemporary Dance presents Danse 2008 Year-End Performances

Thursday, April 10 and Friday, April 11 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 12 and Sunday, April 13 at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Enjoy year-end performances choreographed by 2nd and 3rd year dance majors. All performances take place at Moyse Hall, McGill University, 853 Sherbrooke Street West. Tickets sold only at the door ($15 / $8 for students).

Le Département de danse contemporaine présente Printemps 2008
Jeudi avril 10 et vendredi avril 11 @20h00
Samedi avril 12 et dimanche avril 13 @ 14h30 & 20hoo
Billets vendus exclusivement à la porte
$10 / $8 tarif étudiant
Moyse Hall
McGill University
853, rue Sherbrooke O.

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Department of Theatre presents Provincial Anecdotes: An Incident with a Paginator & 20 Minutes with an Angel

April 10 – 13

April 10, 11, 12, 2008 at 8:00 pm
April 13, 2008 at 2:00 pm
D. B. Clarke Theatre (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd West – in the Henry H. Hall Building)
Tickets: $10 for adults, $5 for students and seniors.

Concordia University’s Department of Theatre proudly presents Provincial Anecdotes: An Incident with a Paginator & 20 Minutes with an Angel, written by Alexandr Vampilov and directed by Alexandre Marine. Provincial Anecdotes, a tragicomedy in two one-act plays, evolved out of projects on which Vampilov had been working since the early 1060s. In 1968 he combined them into his Provincial Anecdotes.

Tickets can be purchased in person only at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall box office (7141 Sherbrooke Street West, SC01-10) and will be sold at the door (subject to availability).

For additional box office information, call (514) 848-2424, ext. 4742.

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Department of Music presents JAZZ COMBO playing Let Go - The Music of Ornette Coleman

April 10
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Arrangements by Cote, Winters, Doxas and Smith. Students directed by Gary Schwartz.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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April 11, 2008

Department of Music presents JAZZ GUITAR ENSEMBLE

April 11
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students directed by Andrew Homzy, jazz repertoire.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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April 12, 2008

Department of Music presents CHAMBER ENSEMBLES

April 12
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students directed by Liselyn Adams and Louise Samson; works by Bach (BWV 525 Triosonata), Astor Piazzolla (Histoire du tango) and Mozart (Symphony No. 40, arranged for 2 pianos 8-hands), among others.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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April 13, 2008

Department of Music presents PIANO RECITAL

April 13
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students of Gregory Chaverdian, classical repertoire.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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April 14, 2008

Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (FOFA Gallery) presents Annual Undergraduate Students' Exhibition

April 14 – May 9
Vernissage: April 17, 6 – 8 pm

Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
1515 Ste Catherine Street W., EV 1-715 (Metro Guy-Concordia)
Everyone welcome.  Free Admission.

The Undergraduate Student Exhibition has been a Faculty of Fine Arts tradition for more than 25 years, offering students enrolled in Visual Arts programs an opportunity to present their work in a professional public gallery.   This show also introduces the work of Concordia's emerging contemporary artists to the general public. Typically the exhibition includes artwork in a variety of media, including photography, sculpture, drawing, video, and installation. The works assembled demonstrate a broad spectrum of aesthetic and technical concerns, and reveal current interests in contemporary art. The exhibition is organized by the VAV Gallery and is juried by an undergraduate student committee which is also responsible for the design and printing of the invitations and the preparation of biographical materials that accompany the show.

Visit: http://fofagallery.concordia.ca/

p>Du 14 avril au 9 mai

lundi à vendredi de 11h00 à 19h00

1515, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest (angle Guy), EV 1-715 (l’Université Concordia), Metro Guy-Concordia

ENTRÉE LIBRE

Tenue à la Faculté des beaux-arts depuis plus de 25 ans, cette exposition donne aux étudiants inscrits à un programme d'arts visuels l'occasion de présenter leurs œuvres dans une galerie professionnelle. De plus, elle présente au public les travaux des artistes contemporains en émergence formés à Concordia, réalisés dans divers médias : photographie, sculpture, dessin, vidéo et installation. Les œuvres sélectionnées illustrent un vaste éventail de préoccupations techniques et esthétiques et révèlent les tendances de l'art contemporain. L'Exposition des étudiants de 1 er cycle est organisée par la Galerie VAV. Les œuvres sont sélectionnées par un comité d'étudiants de 1 er cycle, également chargé de la conception et de l'impression des invitations ainsi que de la préparation des notices biographiques de l'exposition.

CONTACT: http://fofagallery.concordia.ca/

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April 15, 2008

Department of Music Presents CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHORUS and CHAMBER CHOIR

April 15
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHORUS - Students conducted by Jean-Sébastien Allaire; works by Stephen Leek (Tunggare), Maurice Duruflé (Ubi caritas), Harry Somers (Two Songs for the Coming of Spring) and Ruth Watson Henderson (The Banks of the Don), among others.

CHAMBER CHOIR - Students conducted by Christopher Jackson, classical repertoire.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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April 16, 2008

Department of Music presents VOCAL JAZZ REPERTOIRE

April 16
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students directed by Jeri Brown, jazz repertoire.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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April 17, 2008

Department of Music presents JAZZ IMPROVISATION II

April 17
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students directed by Charles Ellison, jazz repertoire.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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April 18, 2008

Montreal as Palimpsest:  Architecture, Community, Change

A conference exploring Montreal’s architectural history presented by the Department of Art History.

Friday, April 18
1 – 7:30 p.m.
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Shaughnessy House, 1920 rue Baile

Graduate students in Concordia University’s Department of Art History have chosen 13 distinct sites in Montreal to explore the many layers of the city’s development, from the early seigneurial system to neighbourhood projects in present-day Montreal.  The Canadian Centre for Architecture opened its archives for the PhD students and the result is a one-day conference where the papers will be delivered (in English, with bilingual questions and answer period).  The conference will close at 6:30 p.m. with a keynote address by Guest Speaker Dr. Anne Gérin, Department of Art History, UQAM.  The event is free and the public is welcome.

The conference organizers acknowledge the support of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for the Study of Canadian Art and the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

http://www.canadianartinstitute.org/conf08_palimpsest

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The Department of Contemporary Dance holds 2008/09 Auditions

April 18, 19 and 20 (by appointment)
All candidates must fill in the pre-audition questionnaire found on the Admissions page http://dance.concordia.ca/Admission.html and send it directly to the Department. For more information please contact Hilary Scuffell, Assistant to the Chair, Department of Contemporary Dance at (514) 848-4740 or via email dance@concordia.ca

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Department of Music presents BIG BAND

April 18
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students directed by Dave Turner, jazz repertoire.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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April 21, 2008

Department of Music presents KATHERINE LACH, PIANO

April 21
4 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

KATHERINE LACH, PIANO, student of Anna Szpilberg.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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Department of Music presents JENNNIFER ARSENAULT, PIANO

April 21
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

JENNNIFER ARSENAULT, PIANO, student of Anna Szpilberg.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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April 22, 2008

Department of Music presents COLLEEN BARTLEY, SOPRANO

April 22
3 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

COLLEEN BARTLEY, SOPRANO, student of Beverly McGuire.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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Department of Music presents YANGFANG ZHY, PIANO

April 22
4 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

YANGFANG ZHY, PIANO, student of Yaron Ross.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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April 23, 2008

Department of Music presents COMPOSITION CONCERT

April 23
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Performances of original student compositions.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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April 24, 2008

Concordia University Department of Music presents CHAMBER ENSEMBLES

April 24
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students of Gregory Chaverdian, classical repertoire.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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April 29, 2008

Department of Music presents IMPROVISATION ENSEMBLE

April 29
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

Students directed by Roddy Ellias.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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April 30, 2008

Department of Design and Computation Arts presents End of Studies Show THIS SIDE UP

April 30 – May 5
Wednesday to Friday, 12 noon – 9 p.m.
Saturday to Monday, 12 noon – 5 p.m.
Vernissage: Thursday, May 1, 6 – 9 p.m.
3520 St-Jacques Street (Metro Lionel-Groulx)
Everyone welcome. Free of charge.

THIS SIDE UP presents the graphic, object, and multimedia works of design students who are completing their studies at Concordia University in 2008. A broad range of design approaches, interests, and concerns are shown. The exhibition reflects upon the transition between university and post-university life, and the act of presentation within a gallery environment.
Visit: http://graduationshow.concordia.ca

Le Département de Design et arts numériques présente l’Exposition de fin d’études THIS SIDE UP

30 avril au 5 mai
mercredi au vendredi de 12h00 à 21h00
samedi au lundi de 12h00 à 17h00
Vernissage : jeudi, 1 mai de 18h00 à 21h00
3520, rue St-Jacques (Métro Lionel-Groulx)
Entrée libre.

Le Département de design et arts numériques aborde tous les aspects culturels et prospectifs reliés au design contemporain. Le programme de Design se concentre principalement sur les traditions de l'image, la conception d'objets et l'utilisation des médias informatisés dans la pratique du design, tout en mettant l'accent sur l'étude de la culture matérielle. Le programme intègre les technologies numériques dans le processus créatif.
Info : http://graduationshow.concordia.ca

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Department of Music presents JOANNA DEMPSTER, SOPRANO

April 30
5 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

JOANNA DEMPSTER, SOPRANO, student of Beverly McGuire.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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Department of Music presents CATHLEEN GINGRICH, SOPRANO

April 30
8 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

CATHLEEN GINGRICH, SOPRANO, student of Jocelyne Fleury.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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May 02, 2008

Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema presents 35th Annual Film Festival

May 2 - 8, with screenings at 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. daily
Cinéma du Parc, 3575 Park Ave.
A showcase of the finest films and animations from Concordia University’s Cinema Program 2007/2008.
For full program information visit http://cinema.concordia.ca, or call Cinéma Du Parc on (514) 281-1900.

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May 04, 2008

Hitting the High Notes Benefit Concert

Sunday, May 4
Concert: 4 – 6 pm
Gala Dinner: 6:30 pm
Théâtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts
175 Ste. Catherine Street West

The fourth annual Hitting the High Notes benefit concert promises an evening of enchanting music by Bernstein, Delibes, Handel, Mozart, Offenback, Rossini and Strauss. Four internationally acclaimed soloists will perform: sopranos Renée Fleming and Diana Damrau, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and tenor Matthew Polenzani. They will be accompanied by the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

All proceeds from the benefit concert will support Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts and the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal.

Concert Tickets: $75 and $50 – Call 514-842-2112 (Place des Arts)
Concert: $200 ($160 tax receipt) and Concert and gala dinner: $3,000 ($2,520 tax receipt) – Call 514-848-2424 ext. 4397 or 1-888-777-3330

$20 Student tickets also available, by reservation, at 514-848-2424 ext. 4397 or 1-888-777-3330 visit http://highnotes.concordia.ca/2008/tickets/
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May 05, 2008

Department of Music presents ANNA BONNEL, PIANO

May 5
5 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

ANNA BONNEL, PIANO, student of Gregory Chaverdian.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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May 06, 2008

Department of Music presents CHRISTIAN GIRARD, PIANO

RE-SCHEDULED TO MAY 28 AT 7:30 P.M

Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

CHRISTIAN GIRARD, PIANO, student of Gregory Chaverdian.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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May 09, 2008

Department of Music presents CLAIRE HAFNER, SOPRANO

May 9
3 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

CLAIRE HAFNER, SOPRANO, student of Adrienne Savoie.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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Department of Music presents AMELIA LAKOFF, SOPRANO

May 9 CANCELLED
5 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

AMELIA LAKOFF, SOPRANO, student of Colette Boky.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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Concordia University Department of Music presents CAROLINE LOUIS, PIANO

May 9
7:30 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

CAROLINE LOUIS, PIANO, student of Gregory Chaverdian.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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May 12, 2008

Department of Music presents KATARYNA MUSIAL, PIANO

May 12
7:30 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

KATARYNA MUSIAL, PIANO, student of Anna Szpilberg.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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May 15, 2008

The Centre for the Arts in Human Development presents It’s a Wonderful World

May 15
7:30 p.m.
D.B. Clarke Theatre
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Tickets: $15

It’s a Wonderful World is a presentation involving music and drama performed by the participants at the Faculty of Fine Arts’ Centre for the Arts in Human Development, a creative arts therapies centre for adults with developmental disabilities and other special needs. The performance culminates a three-year research project exploring a research performance method called ethnodrama, where individuals re-create personal experiences to express their feelings and personal circumstances and to foster better understanding of their lives and challenges. This production theatrically expresses the voices of the participants about such themes as “Family and Friends”, “Romance, Love and Marriage”, “Stigma and Name-Calling”, and “Desire for Independence and Dreams”.

To book seats, first come-first served, please call Jocelyn at 514-848-8616 on Monday, Wednesday or Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Matralab presents McGill Digital Orchestra

May 15
6 – 8 p.m.
Hexagram Black Box, Concordia University
1515 Ste. Catherine Street West, EV S3-845 (use Entrance @ Mackay/Ste. Catherine and go down the stairwell to the bottom)
Free admission.

The Faculty of Fine Arts’ research space for inter-x art, Matralab, in a first collaboration with the Digital Composition Studio at the McGill Schulich School of Music, presents an exciting encounter with new digital instruments for live-music. The presentation will demonstrate new means of controlling sound in performance and include:

- the development of digital musical instruments; hardware; software; our digital instruments, in context;
- team interaction and the interdisciplinary approach; developing playing technique; "entry-fee" versus virtuosity; developing a robust interface; musical notation; and,
- composing interactive-electronics; sounds; compositional structure; poetics.

This presentation may be of interest to traditional singers/instrumentalists of all genres and electroacoustic musicians, and also to artists interested in collaborating with musicians or using sound in their work. At the end of the lecture-demonstration and discussion, the audience will be able to manipulate and play with the instruments.

Info: www.matralab.hexagram.ca

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Creative Arts Therapies 25th Anniversary Reunion

The Concordia University Alumni Association and Advancement and Alumni Relations cordially invite the graduates of the Department of Creative Arts Therapies to join in the celebration of its 25th anniversary.

Thursday, May 15, 2008
Reception
5 p.m.–7 p.m.
Engineering, Computer Science & Visual Arts Integrated Complex
1515 Ste. Catherine St. W., 11th floor

Performance
7:30 p.m.
DB Clarke Theatre
Henry F. Hall Building
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

As creative arts therapists, teachers and artists of the Creative Art Therapies alumni family, graduates have contributed to the creative application of the arts as therapeutic tools.

This event will be a unique opportunity to network, reunite with former classmates and teachers, and commemorate the Creative Art Therapies department with Art Therapy pioneer Beth Robinson and Drama Therapy pioneer Barbara McKay at a reception in honour of the alumni.

The evening will conclude with a special performance by the participants from the Centre for Arts in Human Development at the DB Clarke Theatre.

Register by May 8, 2008, online or call 514-848-2424, ext. 4397.

For more information about this reunion, contact Linda Rice, Alumni Officer, Fine Arts, at lrice@alcor.concordia.ca or 514-848-2424, ext. 4261.

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May 20, 2008

Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (FOFA Gallery) presents Izhizkawe: To Leave Tracks to a Certain Place

May 20 – June 14
Finissage: June 12, 7 - 8 p.m.
Gallery hours:  Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Last (chance) Saturday, June 14 only, 12 to 4 p.m.
1515 Ste Catherine Street W., EV 1-715 (Metro Guy-Concordia)
Free admission. Everyone welcome.
Note: VAV Gallery, 1395 René Lévesque Blvd. W. VA-033, will host a Concordia Aboriginal student exhibition from June 2 – 14 (Finissage June 12, 5 - 6 pm).
Visit: http://www.vavgallery.com/

Concordia’s First Nations and Métis alumni have collectively combined innovative practice with a strong commitment to their diverse communities, using aesthetic expression as a tool for decolonization, activism and healing. The title Izhizkawe alludes to the tracks left by each individual graduate, creating a path for those who have followed.

The exhibition, organized by Dr. Sherry Farrell-Racette (Associate Professor, Art History) [delete - with the assistance of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective,] will be presented in conjunction with the annual Land InSights First Peoples’ Festival (Terres en Vues), http://www.nativelynx.qc.ca/en/index.html

CONTACT: http://fofagallery.concordia.ca/
514-848-2424 ext. 7962 and the http://www.vavgallery.com/

Si le nombre d'artistes autochtones inscrits à la Faculté des beaux-arts de l'Université est demeuré relativement bas au fil des ans, le flot constant de diplômés-es et de commissaires autochtones formés à Concordia a fortement influencé l'art et la conservation au Canada et à l'étranger. Du collectif montréalais Nation to Nation formé à la fin des années 1990 jusqu'aux expositions révolutionnaires telles que Indigena, les diplômés-es autochtones de Concordia ont su combiner pratiques novatrices et engagement actif au sein de leurs diverses communautés grâce à l'expression esthétique utilisée en tant qu'outil de décolonisation, de militantisme et de ressourcement.
Le titre, Izhizkawe , fait allusion à la marque laissée par chaque diplômé qui trace alors la voie pour ceux et celles qui suivront. Organisée par Sherry Farrell Racette, professeure agrégée au Département d'histoire de l'art, en collaboration avec le Collectif des conservateurs autochtones, l'exposition sera présentée en marge du festival annuel des peuples autochtones de l'organisme Terres en vues. http://www.nativelynx.qc.ca/en/index.html

CONTACT: http://fofagallery.concordia.ca/

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May 23, 2008

Department of Music presents ANNIE HSU, PIANO

RE-SCHEDULED TO MAY 28 AT 5 P.M

Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

ANNIE HSU, PIANO, student of Gregory Chaverdian.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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Department of Music presents WEI TU, PIANO

May 23
5 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

WEI TU, PIANO, student of Anna Szpilberg.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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Department of Music presents CHUCK HOBSON, GUITAR

May 23
7:30 p.m.
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

CHUCK HOBSON, GUITAR, student of Daniel Bolshoy.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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May 28, 2008

Department of Music presents CHRISTIAN GIRARD, PIANO

RE-SCHEDULED TO MAY 28 AT 7:30 P.M

Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

CHRISTIAN GIRARD, PIANO, student of Gregory Chaverdian.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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Department of Music presents ANNIE HSU, PIANO

RE-SCHEDULED TO MAY 28 AT 5 P.M

Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
7141 Sherbrooke Street West

ANNIE HSU, PIANO, student of Gregory Chaverdian.

Tickets available at the door only: $5 general admission, free for students with ID.
Box office hours of service are Monday to Friday, 9:30-12:00 & 1:30-4:30. The box office is open during the week in Room SC01-10, outside the concert hall building and down the stairs. The box office in the atrium will open one hour before each event.

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June 02, 2008

In your Footsteps

An exhibition of works by Concordia’s First Nations students presented by the VAV Gallery

June 2 – 13
9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily
Finissage: June 12, 5 – 6 p.m.
VAV Gallery
1395 René Lévesque Blvd. West, VA – 033
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

Concordia’s Aboriginal students are aware of the legacy of the Aboriginal students who have gone before them, including the artists featured in the Aboriginal alumni exhibition at the FOFA Gallery entitled Izhizkawe: To Leave Tracks to a Certain Place. Curated by Laurie Filgiano and Amber Berson, In your Footsteps is a multi-media exhibition, including film, print, drawing, photography and paintings on plexi-glass and features the works of the following students:

Shannon Letandre
Jobena Petonoquot
Walter Scott
Jonathan Mark Igloliorte
Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo
Jean-Francois LaLumiere

Info: http://www.vavgallery.com

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June 13, 2008

Centre for the Arts in Human Development presents Once Upon a Midsummer Night

June 13 and 14 at 7:30 p.m.
F.C. Smith Auditorium
Loyola Campus, Concordia University
7141 Sherbrooke Street West
General Admission: $15 (Friday) / $20 (Saturday – includes reception following performance)

Once Upon a Midsummer Night is a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic play performed by the participants at the Faculty of Fine Arts’ Centre for the Arts in Human Development, a creative arts therapies centre for adults with developmental disabilities and other special needs. The show’s director/writer is Mira Rozenberg, a graduate of the Department of Creative Arts Therapies’ Master’s program in Drama Therapy. A number of students from the departments of Theatre, Music and Contemporary Dance are working with Mira and the performers, whose roles have been creatively adapted to suit their needs and skills.

Proceeds from this event support the Centre’s programs. Private donations are warmly welcomed.

For tickets and further information, please contact Jocelyn Saulnier at 514-848-8616.

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June 18, 2008

Faculty of Fine Arts Sixth Annual Graduating Students Exhibition

VERNISSAGE:
June 18, 6 - 8 p.m. in the VAV Gallery

EXHIBITION DATES & INFO:

FOFA Gallery:
June 18 – July 4
Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
1515 Ste Catherine Street W., EV 1-715, Metro Guy-Concordia
http://fofagallery.concordia.ca

VAV Gallery:
June 18 – July 4
Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
1395 René Lévesque Blvd. West
http://gradshow.concordia.ca

COST:
Free of charge

Please join us for the Sixth Annual Fine Arts Graduating Students' Exhibition series. This exhibition series features both visual and cinematic arts happening in two different locations with forty two Concordia artists participating. This exhibition aims to showcase the exceptional talents of artists from Concordia University who are graduating from our Fine Arts programmes at this time. A Faculty of Fine Arts co-production with the Concordia University Alumni Association, this event remarks the transition of our most notable young artists from students into alumni. The Sixth Annual Graduating Students' Exhibition is a one of a kind event featuring animation, film and every different kind of visual art one can imagine.

This project has been generously supported by the Fine Arts Students Alliance (FASA), the VAV Gallery, FOFA Gallery, Office of the Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University Fine Arts Alumni Chapter, and the Concordia University Alumni Association. Vernissage sponsored by the Concordia University Alumni Association and the Office of Advancement and Alumni Relations.

ARTISTS EXHIBITING AT THE FOFA GALLERY:
Michael Bishop & Stephanie Geracitano, Hélène Brousseau, Patrick Bureau, Kyla Chevrier, Marie-Eve Collette, Julie Couturier, Keren Epstein, Breanna Fabbro, Avalon Fotheringham, Neely Gondiodsky, Newsha Hamidi, Nicholas Steven Hoban, Josie-Anne Lemieux, Gabriela Ana Lim, Yen-Chao Lin, Kristen McCrea, Raed Moussa, Linda Ross, Celia Perrin Sidarous, Gabriela Nunez Silva, Nicola Tibbetts, Jim Verburg, Ben Williamson, Karin Zuppiger

ARTISTS EXHIBITING AT THE VAV GALLERY:
Juan Ortiz-Apuy, Diane Dubeau, Zoe Kirk-Gushowaty, Lara Kaluza, Ann-Lisa Kissi, Marc Knowles, Naomi Lasry, Natalie Leblanc, Janine-Annette Littmann, Caitlin Livingston, Jan Ollner, Magalie Han Hung Pew, Blair Phillips, John Player, Lisa Pietersma, Christine Suarez, Sarah Andrea Tosques, Sara A. Tremblay

Please visit our website for further details: http://gradshow.concordia.ca
Contact: Tricia Middleton, (514) 848-2424 ext: 4701, tricia@alcor.concordia.ca

VERNISSAGE :
Le 18 juin, 18 h à 20 h à la Galerie VAV

DATE / HEURES D’OUVERTURE / INFO:

GALERIE FOFA :
Le 18 juin au 4 juillet
lundi à vendredi de 11 h à 19 h
1515, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest (angle Guy), EV 1-715 (l’Université Concordia), Métro Guy-Concordia
http://fofagallery.concordia.ca

GALERIE VAV :
Le 18 juin au 4 juillet
lundi à vendredi de 9 h à 21 h
1395, boul. René Lévesque O.
http://gradshow.concordia.ca

ENTRÉE LIBRE

À ne pas manquer! Dans le cadre de la sixième série annuelle d’expositions des finissants en beaux-arts, quarante-deux artistes en arts visuels et art cinématographique de Concordia présenteront leurs œuvres dans deux immeubles, à quarte différents

ARTISTES A LA GALERIE FOFA:
Michael Bishop & Stephanie Geracitano, Hélène Brousseau, Patrick Bureau, Kyla Chevrier, Marie-Eve Collette, Julie Couturier, Keren Epstein, Breanna Fabbro, Avalon Fotheringham, Neely Gondiodsky, Newsha Hamidi, Nicholas Steven Hoban, Josie-Anne Lemieux, Gabriela Ana Lim, Yen-Chao Lin, Kristen McCrea, Raed Moussa, Linda Ross, Celia Perrin Sidarous, Gabriela Nunez Silva, Nicola Tibbetts, Jim Verburg, Ben Williamson, Karin Zuppiger

ARTISTES A LA GALERIE VAV:
Juan Ortiz-Apuy, Diane Dubeau, Zoe Kirk-Gushowaty, Lara Kaluza, Ann-Lisa Kissi, Marc Knowles, Naomi Lasry, Natalie Leblanc, Janine-Annette Littmann, Caitlin Livingston, Jan Ollner, Magalie Han Hung Pew, Blair Phillips, John Player, Lisa Pietersma, Christine Suarez, Sarah Andrea Tosques, Sara A. Tremblay

Info: http://gradshow.concordia.ca
Contact: Tricia Middleton, (514) 848-2424 ext: 4701, tricia@alcor.concordia.ca

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July 08, 2008

Concordia Alumni and Faculty Shine at Inaugural Quebec Triennal at MACM

May 24 - September 7, 2008

Concordia graduates and faculty members make up half of the 38 artists selected to display their works at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal’s first Quebec Triennial exhibit, on view until September 7, 2008.

The Quebec Triennial, which creates a group portrait of Quebec’s contemporary art scene, is one of the largest exhibits in the museum’s history with 135 works on display. It is the first time all the museum’s galleries are devoted to a single show.

The Globe and Mail’s Sarah Milroy wrote on May 31, “Why is Montreal art so strong these days? You have to credit the strong art schools in Montreal…Looking at the CVs of these artists, one sees most them are homegrown talents trained at Concordia University…”

For the list of Concordia artists and more information, visit: http://alumni.concordia.ca/calendar/news/2008/05/23/012918.php and http://macm.org

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Photography Students Featured in McCord Museum’s Open-Air Inspirations

June 19, 2008

For the third summer, the McCord Museum will take over McGill College Avenue, this year showcasing Inspirations, where the Notman Photographic Archives will be displayed with contemporary portraits created by talented young photographers from Concordia University. A fascinating open air event!

Undergraduate Students
Jasmine Bakalarz / Véronique Ducharme / David Olivier Gascon / Stewart Gerard / Margaret Valary Haines / Julia Inniss / Hanna Kang / Laurie Kang / Lise Latreille / JJ Levine / Shannon Lucky / Andreanne Michon / Erik Osberg / Nazli Sadeghilar / Hyekyong Yun / Zoe Yuristy

Graduate Students
Olga Chagaoutdinova / Darren Ell / Nicholas Steven Hoban / Aydin Matlabi / Yedda Morrison / Meera Margaret Singh

For information, visit: McCord Museum Website and News@Concordia

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July 14, 2008

The Faculty of fine Arts Gallery (FOFA Gallery) presents resents Jake Moore’s Reverse Engineering and Maskull Lasserre’s Recital

July 14 – August 15

Vernissage: July 17, 6 – 8 p.m.

Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
1515 Ste Catherine Street W., EV 1-715 (Metro Guy-Concordia)
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

Main Gallery and Black Box: Reverse Engineering, the first-ever exhibition of works on paper by installation and intermedia artist, Jake Moore

Tree branches have been central objects in Jake Moore’s practice for several years. Evoking antennae and antlers, they represent both the natural world and a metaphor for a kind of hierarchical “arboreal” learning strategy (as rejected by Deleuze and Guattari). Here, the same branches used in earlier installations have been measured, mapped and charted using the tools available in Concordia’s Hexagram rapid prototyping lab. In a twist of technique, Moore has produced prints instead of wireframe models, thus creating a complex abstract cartography of the skin of the trees.

Vitrines: Recital by Maskull Lasserre

Maskull Lasserre’s work addresses notions of class, culture and crafted artefact and reconsiders the static sculptural objects within traditional gallery space. Lasserre’s sculptures resemble, and function to some degree, as mechanical musical instruments, having a function, a use, or purpose beyond its mute physical properties that implicates the viewer in a moment of apprehension.

For more information, call 514-848-2424 ext. 7962 or visit http://fofagallery.concordia.ca

La galerie de la Faculté des beaux-arts de l’Université Concordia (Galerie FOFA) :

Du 14 juillet au 15 août 2008

Vernissage : le 17 juillet, 18 h 00 à 20 h 00

lundi à vendredi de 11 h 00 à 19 h 00
1515, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest (angle Guy), EV 1-715 (l’Université Concordia), Metro Guy-Concordia
ENTRÉE LIBRE

Salle principale et sale de projection:

Jake Moore travaille à partir d’images de la nature qu’elle voit comme une réflexion silencieuse sur la culture occidentale. Son nouveau projet, Rétroingénierie, propose une vision métaphorique et abstraite de branches d’arbre, numérisées en 3D et représentées en tant qu’objets médiateurs laissés à la libre interprétation du visiteur. Au centre de la galerie, un socle évoque la trace des branches originales, sortes d’ombres tout aussi représentatives que les images indiciaires posées au mur.

Vitrines :

L’œuvre de Maskull Lasserre explore les notions de classe, de culture et d’artefacts transmués par l’artiste, et revisite les objets sculpturaux statiques exposés dans l’espace traditionnel des galeries d’art. Ressemblant à des instruments de musique mécaniques, fonctionnant presque de la même manière, ses sculptures ont une fonction, un usage ou un objet qui transcendent leur mutisme intrinsèque et interpellent le visiteur dans sa recherche d’appréhension de l’œuvre.

Contact : 514-848-2424, poste 7962 ou visitez http://fofagallery.concordia.ca

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September 18, 2008

Art as Witness: Art, Art Therapy and Trauma Resolution Conference

September 18-20, 2008
Le Nouvel Hôtel
1740 René-Lévesque Blvd. West

In Canada’s first-ever conference about trauma and the arts, researchers, practitioners, artists, and students will gather to create an interdisciplinary dialogue about the witnessing function of art created in a time of trauma or during its aftermath, and the role of the creative arts therapies to overcome trauma.  Dr. Josée Leclerc at the Department of Creative Arts Therapies is organizing the conference in partnership with the Art Therapy Association of Quebec (AATQ) and the Canadian Art Therapy Association (CATA).

Visit the conference website
http://joseeleclerc.concordia.ca/artaswitness

Find out more
Dr. Josée Leclerc, Concordia Featured Researcher

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September 23, 2008

Department of Art History presents a public lecture by Jerry Zaslove, Professor emeritus, Humanities and English, Simon Fraser University

Part of the 2008 - 2009 Speaking of Photography lecture series

Mindfulness Toward Memory in Four Photographic Objects, or How Benjamin’s Objects Speak to Us

Tuesday, 23 September, at 6:30 p.m.
1515 Ste-Catherine Street West, EV-1.605
Metro Guy-Concordia.
Admission is free. Everyone welcome.

Jerry Zaslove will trace the line of Walter Benjamin’s demystifications of violence and memory from several of his meditations in “Berlin Childhood” around 1900 through the “Critique of Violence” to “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility” in order to show the continuity of his thought about art as form of reality that speaks to us as both object and dialectical image of that reality.

Jerry Zaslove is Professor emeritus of Humanities at Simon Fraser University where he was the founding director of the Institute for the Humanities and the Prague Field School. He is a consulting editor for West Coast Line. His recent publications include “Talking Through: This Space Around Four Pictures by Jeff Wall,” a dialogue with Glen Lowry in Locating Memory: Photographic Acts Berghahn Books, (2006); “Geological Poetics” in Unfinished Business, Photographing Vancouver Streets, 1955-1985 (West Coast Line Books, 2006); and “The Reparation of Dead Souls – Siegfried Kracauer’s Archimedean Exile,” in Exile, Science and Bildung (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2005). The topics of his writings and lectures range from literary modernism to public education and literacy, while his research on photography considers neighborhood mapping projects, as well as works by Alex Morrison and Jeff Wall.

Speaking of Photography is organized by the Department of Art History and made possible by the generosity of an anonymous donor. The 2008-2009 series is also supported by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art; the Special Individualized Programs, School of Graduate Studies, Concordia University; /Ciel Variable/ magazine and Château Versailles Hotel.

All lectures take place at 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West, EV-1.605.
The series continues with:

Tuesday, October 21 at 6:30 p.m.
William A. Ewing, Director, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland – Jack’s True Calling

Tuesday, November 4 at 6:30 p.m.
Elizabeth Edwards, Professor and Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London – ‘Unblushing Realism’ and the Threat of the Pictorial: Photography, Evidence and the Problem of Style

Monday, January 19 at 6:30 p.m.
John Raeburn, Professor of American Studies and English, University of Iowa – Tradition and Modernity in Ben Shahn’s American Scene, 1938

Monday, March 9 at 6:30 p.m.
Carol Williams
Associate Professor, Tier II, Canada Research Chair in Feminism & Gender Studies, Trent University – Puncturing History’s Blindness

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September 26, 2008

The Faculty of fine Arts Gallery (FOFA Gallery) presents four concurrent exhibitions

Jane Tingley, Untitled, 2008

September 2 – 26 Vernissage: September 11, 6 – 8 p.m. Jane Tingley – Plant (iPod) Installation Mark Clintberg – Recovering Agnostic Laura St.Pierre – Model Dome Griffith Aaron Baker – Residual Geoscapes Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 1515 Ste Catherine Street W., EV 1-715 (Metro Guy-Concordia) Free admission. Everyone welcome.

Main Gallery: Jane Tingley – Untitled plant (iPod) Project (pictured above)

Concordia graduate Jane Tingley presents an installation that explores the active relationship between the gallery space, its objects and its audience. Using plants, prosthetics, sensors and speakers, the sounds in this installation will change as it detects the presence of its viewer. The overall effect of a “living space” is created through the sculptural objects that fill the space with the sound of breathing. Growth, materiality, technology, nature and the body are synthesized.

Projection Gallery: Mark Clintberg - Recovering Agnostic

Organized by Concordia University Art History graduate student, Mark Clintberg, this program of recent video by young Canadian artists addresses the problematics of confessional, persuasive or emotive displays in art making. The title describes an ambivalence: one can recover and reclaim satisfaction with the unknowable [agnosis] or be in a state of healing or escape from the potential void offered by disbelief. Here, the idea of agnosticism applies outside spiritual credence, and describes a condition in an audience who finds it impossible to fully determine the sincerity of an artist's emotional performance. The works in this show attempt to persuade using belief, hope and emotion as they set up scenarios of performance that are simulations by their nature.

Vitrines: Griffith Aaron Baker and Laura St.Pierre

Griffirth Aaron Baker will exhibit a large-scale freestanding sculpture that, fashioned principally from plastic bottle caps, forms an examination of bottled water through the three largest manufacturers, Evian, Pepsi and Coca Cola. Baker's work is intended to entice the viewer to re-evaluate what they interact with on a daily basis; consumerism, the media, and the corporation's role in the control and mass-waste epidemic of North American culture.

Laura St. Pierre will create a site-specific installation in the FOFA vitrines, comprising a landscape of small dwellings assembled from materials culled from Concordia's recycling and waste management programs. Drawing from the languages of vernacular architecture, interior design, and abstraction, St.Pierre's installations explore the absurdity and contradictions of Western materialism and excess. www.laurastpierre.ca

For more information, call 514-848-2424 ext. 7962 or visit fofagallery.concordia.ca

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September 27, 2008

Fine Arts Bienvenue

Please join FASA, the Dean of Fine Arts, the Art Matters Festival, Café X, Fine Arts Reading Room and VAV Gallery for a series of outstanding Fine Arts Orientation events. Free food and drinks paired with enjoyable sights and sounds will be presented alongside all the information students will need to make for an excellent school year in Concordia Fine Arts.

Featuring:

Dean’s Welcome BBQ
Wednesday, September 3rd 2008, 4 to 7pm
VA Courtyard (SGW) 1395 Rene Levesque West
Free BBQ and relaxing beverages, featuring live dj sets and other enjoyments, Feat: DJ Wilson Heart

High Performance Picnic IV
Wednesday, September 10th 2008, 4 to 7pm
TJ Lawn (LOY) 7315 Terrebonne
Free picnic treats and relaxing beverages, featuring live music and other enjoyments, Feat: Jazz Ensemble lead by Dominic Desjardins

All That Glitters Also Glows Wine and Cheese
Thursday, September 18th 2008, 5 to 7pm
6th floor EV Building (SGW) 1515 Sainte Catherine West
Selected Montreal artist-run centres converge to provide students all the info they need to make their way in the Montreal art scene

FOFA Gallery workshop, Restorientation 101
Saturday, September 20th, 2008, 2 to 5pm
FOFA Gallery, EV Building (SGW) 1515 Sainte Catherine West
Restore. Reorient. Restructure. The FOFA Gallery is inviting students entering their first year in any program at Concordia University to experience our September show and the RESTORIENTATION 101 workshop. Get to know fellow first year students over refreshments; orient yourself to the FOFA Gallery; experience an artist talk with Jane Tingley; and join our RESTORIENTATION 101 workshop, where you will be sent out into the Concordia campus, equipped with disposable cameras (feel free to bring a digital camera along if you have access to one) and a toolkit of materials. You will find a part of the campus that you would like to improve, alter and interact with. You will be invited to make an artistic intervention and to take photo documentation of this. Participants will be welcomed to share their experiences with fellow first year students and will receive a copy of their photographs. This workshop is for 1st year undergraduates ONLY. Students may reserve space in this workshop now by contacting Tricia Middleton at: tricia@alcor.concordia.ca

Art Crawl, Performing Arts Edition
Saturday, September 27th 2008, 12noon to 5pm,
Kicking off at the TJ Building (LOY) 7315 Terrebonne
Tour highlights will include: Place des Arts, Studio 303, Geordie Productions, MAI Centre, Casa del Popolo, Mainline Theatre, Tangente

Art Crawl, Visual Arts Edition
Saturday, September 27th 2008 12noon to 5pm
Kicking off at the VAV Gallery (SGW) 1395 Rene Levesque West
Tour highlights will include: Ellen Gallery, MMFA, MACM, Belgo Building, 460 Building, many galleries on the plateau

Performing Arts workshop w/ local performer (TBA)
Thursday, October 16th, 2008 date and time TBA'
To find out more, email Cam and Sam at: fasa@alcor.concordia.ca

FASA’s 2008 Bienvenue has been generously sponsored by the New Student Programme’s Community Orientation Initiative, the Office of the Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, the Art Matters Festival, Fine Arts Reading Room and VAV Gallery.

You can check the FASA website here for more updates: http://fasa.concordia.ca/orientation_08.htm

In addition to these events, expect more Faculty-wide Fine Arts information mingling sessions to come in November and well into 2009.

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September 30, 2008

An Evening With Michael Snow

Presented by The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. Tuesday, September 30 at 7 p.m. J.A de Sève Theatre J.W. McConnell Library Building, Concordia University 1400 De Maisonneuve West, Montreal (Metro Guy-Concordia) Free of charge. Everyone welcome.

Acclaimed Canadian artist Michael Snow will introduce and talk with the audience about three cinematic works:

Wavelength (1967)

WVLNT. Wavelength for Those Who Don’t Have the Time (1967/2003)

SSHTOORRTY (2005)

The astonishingly varied and prolific output of Canadian artist Michael Snow spans over fifty years, including a decade in New York during which he expanded his practice from painting and sculpture to experimental film and photography. Impossible to categorize, Michael Snow has worked at the leading edge of virtually all media, including sound and holography, in parallel with his performances and recordings as an improvisational musician.

There are, in the history of film, a very few artists whose work, in its radical purity and incisiveness strikes one as paradigmatic … Among them is Michael Snow, whose Wavelength, some four years old, is now a celebrated film, a turning point for many in the history of the medium as in the maker’s own development.

Annette Michelson, “Toward Snow,” 1971

AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL SNOW has been organized by the Department of Art History, with the generous support of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema of Concordia University, the Concordia University Research Chair in Film Studies, and the Château Versailles Hotel.

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October 07, 2008

The Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery presents two concurrent exhibitions:

Vitrines: Crossing Cultures: Images of Norman Bethune in China Main Gallery: Rearranging Desires: Curating the ‘Other' Within October 6 – 31 Vernissage: October 17, 6 - 8 p.m. Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 1515 Ste Catherine Street W., EV 1-715 (Metro Guy-Concordia) Free of charge. Everyone welcome. http://fofagallery.concordia.ca 514-848-2424 ext.7962

Canadian surgeon, Dr. Norman Bethune, is the subject of many events and celebrations throughout the City of Montreal during 2008 and 2009. His personal legacies of discovery, political conviction and international outreach are exemplified in these two concurrent exhibitions.

In the vitrines, journalistic photographs, reproductions of posters and an especially commissioned bust from the People's Republic of China illustrate the lasting homage to Bethune in his adopted homeland from his arrival there in 1938 to the present. Crossing Cultures: Images of Norman Bethune in China is curated by Art History professor Catherine MacKenzie.

In the main gallery, four Montreal-based Canadian artists of Asian descent who graduated from Concordia University explore global and local perceptions about Asian culture and heritage: Ayesha Hameed (MFA student (Open Media) and Design & Computation Arts Graduate Certificate 07), Karen Tam (BFA 00), Chih-Chien Wang (MFA 05) and Mary Sui Yee Wong (MFA 03). The curator of Rearranging Desires: Curating the ‘Other' Within is Art History professor Alice Ming Wai Jim.

In conjunction with the exhibitions, curators MacKenzie and Jim are presenting concurrent symposia on October 18 entitled Norman Bethune and Visual Culture(s) and Rearranging Desires: About Culturally-Specific Work.

For more information on the City of Montreal’s year of celebration, visit the Homage to Norman Bethune 1890 – 1939 website

The exhibitions and symposia are made possible through the cooperation of The Embassy of the People's Republic of China, The Ministry of Culture and The Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and the support of Power Corporation of Canada, Diane and Salvatore Guerrera and family, Mary Ann Beckett-Baxter Memorial Fund, the McCord Museum, assisted by the Aubin Foundation, and Concordia University’s Gail & Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Department of Art History and Faculty of Fine Arts.

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The Department of Art History presents The 2008 Mary Ann Beckett-Baxter Memorial Lecture: Jamelie Hassan: Answerable Participant : "I-for-the other”

Saturday, October 18
10 – 11 a.m.

1515 Ste Catherine Street W., EV 1-615 (Metro Guy-Concordia)
Free of charge. Everyone welcome.

http://fofagallery.concordia.ca
514-848-2424 ext.5376

With her lecture, Answerable Participant : "I-for-the other", award-winning Canadian visual artist and curator Jamelie Hassan will open two symposia taking place conjointly at Concordia University on October 18: Rearranging Desires: About Culturally-Specific Work and Norman Bethune and Visual Culture(s). The symposia, which address such issues as Bethune’s own “revolutionary “ ideas on art and the role of art-making in society as well as the notion of culturally-specific (particularly Asian) exhibitions in North America, are presented in conjunction with the City of Montreal’s year-long series of events and celebrations during 2008-09 in homage to Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune.

Based in London, Ontario, Hassan is well-known for her deeply provocative artistic and curatorial projects on issues of cultural representation. Her numerous awards include the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2001.

From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., immediately following the lecture, two related exhibitions can be viewed in the FOFA Gallery across the hall. In Crossing Cultures: Images of Norman Bethune in China, posters and statues from the People’s Republic of China illustrate the lasting homage to Bethune in his adopted homeland from his death in 1939 to the present. In Rearranging Desires: Curating the ‘Other' Within, four Montreal-based Canadian artists of Asian descent who graduated from Concordia University explore global and local perceptions about Asian culture and heritage.

This lecture is presented with the generous support of the Mary Ann Beckett-Baxter Memorial Fund.

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Textiles Unlimited, a colloquium of the 21st Entretiens Jacques-Cartier

Tuesday, October 7, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Marché Bonsecours, Ville-Marie Room 350, St-Paul East

Prominent speakers from Europe, Canada and the United States will discuss groundbreaking initiatives in fibres and textiles to a broad audience of entrepreneurs, researchers, industry specialists, artists and students at the Marché Bonsecours.

Held during Expo Hightex, this scientific Colloquium is the result of an international collaboration between Concordia's Faculty of Fine Arts, Hexagram, CTT Group, Techtera (Lyon), and ITECH (Lyon). The latest developments in the following four themes will be presented:

- Textiles and security/safety
- Textiles and sustainable development
- Textiles and health/sports
- Textiles in the arts and cultural industries

The Colloquium is an unparalleled opportunity for enterprise/university collaborations and will feature presentations by Fine Arts researchers Joanna Berzowska and Barbara Layne. The event will close with a special presentation by the Cirque du Soleil featuring their innovative use of textiles over the years.

Information/program: http://ejc2008.concordia.ca/textilesunlimited

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October 24, 2008

TEACHING FOOD CULTURE: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES

The Food Culture Group
of The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Food and Culture,
Concordia University

Invites you to a bring-your-own brown bag lunch
on Friday, 24 October 2008
11:30, Library Building rm. LB 671-1

SPEAKERS

Norma Joseph
(Religion)
The Study of Food and Religion

Satoshi Ikeda
(Sociology/Anthropology)
Making Students Uncomfortable:
Challenging Food Culture in
Undergraduate Globalization Courses

Christine Jourdan
(Sociology/Anthropology)
Anthropology and the Study of Food

Jessica Mudry
(General Studies Unit)
Discourses of Food and Nutrition

DESSERT WILL BE PROVIDED

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October 26, 2008

Speak Out!

Music Performances by
hip hop artist Tu Three (23)
and his DJ and punk band Without Will

Sunday, October 26, 8 p.m.
Le Caigibi, 5490 boul. St-Laurent
Pay as you can. Everyone welcome.

This fun and provocative night of socially-engaged music performances has been organized to promote community discussion about issues of cultural tolerance in Quebec in acknowledgment of the one-year anniversary of the beginnings of the Reasonable Accommodation hearings.

Organized by Concordia Art History Graduate Students.
Sponsored by QPIRG Concordia and other partners.
Contact info: amberberson@yahoo.ca
http://fofagallery.concordia.ca

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October 28, 2008

CONTREBANDE/CONTRABAND

Visual Arts vs Electroacoustic FRANÇOIS LALUMIÈRE ADAM DAVIDSON In collaboration with Emily Maturo, Megan Schwartz, Andris Brazus. GALERIE VAV GALLERY> Oct. 27 – Nov. 7 Mon. to Fri. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Opening:  Tues., Oct. 28, 6 - 8 p.m. 1395 René Lévesque Blvd. West VA BUILDING 033 514.848.2424 EXT 7956 vav@alcor.concordia.ca http://vavgallery.com

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October 29, 2008

ETIENNE ZACK

Presented by the Studio Arts Visiting Artists Program & Painting and Drawing.

ARTIST TALK
Wednesday, October 29
12:30 pm
Room VA 323
Visual Arts Building,
1395 René-Lévesque West

2005 RBC Painting Competition winner and critically acclaimed painter Etienne Zack will present his work. "Known for his wild palette and crunching of form, history
and realities within the picture plane, Etienne Zack's work explores the physical act of art making. He does so through the use or re-interpretation of fictitious possibilities and iconic symbols - specifically those of the painter as a centre piece i.e., paint, brushes, theoretical books, canvasses, and scenes from the studio. Zack's paintings feature staged sculpture-like scenes from the artist's studio and frequently reference well
known historical paintings taken up in historical and contemporary critical debates. Essentially, he constructs his imagery by thinking the artist as mythical isolated subject while rendering the tropes of art history analysis as conceptual devices."

Etienne Zack graduated from Emily Carr Institute in 2000 with a diploma in Fine arts and attended Concordia University between 1996 and 1997. His work has been shown extensively in Canada and internationally including solo exhibitions in Norway; London, UK; Madrid, Spain; New York, New York; Toronto; Vancouver; and Montreal. Recent Canadian exhibitions include The Quebec Triennial at the Musee d'Art Contemporain and a survey exhibition at the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto. Zack's work can be found in numerous private and public collections including the National Gallery of Canada and The Musee de Beaux Arts among others.

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November 04, 2008

The Department of Art History presents a public lecture by Elizabeth Edwards, Professor and Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London

‘Unblushing Realism’ and the Threat of the Pictorial: Photography, Evidence and the Problem of Style

A lecture in the Speaking of Photography series
Tuesday, November 4
6:30 p.m.
1515 Ste-Catherine Street West, EV-1.605 Metro Guy-Concordia.
Admission is free. Everyone welcome.

G. Druce, Cobham Lingfield Tomb, detail, 1905. Courtesy of the Surrey History Centre.

Drawing on new research, Elizabeth Edwards explores the aesthetic, material, and social values that informed the 19th- and early 20th-century photographic survey movement in Britain – the recording of historical buildings, landscapes, and customs. At the core of this movement was a debate about the nature and purpose of photography itself at a period of both social change and the expansion of photographic practice.

Elizabeth Edwards is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Arts, London (LCC). She was previously curator of photographs at Pitt Rivers Museum and Lecturer in Visual Anthropology, University of Oxford. Her publications include Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology and Museums (2001), and numerous co-edited collections, including Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture (2006).

Speaking of Photography is organized by the Department of Art History, Concordia University, and made possible by the generosity of an anonymous donor. The 2008-09 series is also supported by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art; the Special Individualized Programs, School of Graduate Studies, Concordia University; Ciel Variable magazine; and Château Versailles Hotel.

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November 06, 2008

The Inner Space/The Outer Place

Presented by the Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery. In the vitrines Vernissage: Nov. 6, 6 – 8 p.m. Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 1515 Ste Catherine Street W., EV 1-715, Metro Guy-Concordia Free of charge. Everyone welcome

The Inner Space/The Outer Place highlights the diversity and richness of community partnerships forged by Art Education students and alumni, from the creation of privacy panels in a homeless mission to the exploration of photography, narrative writing and oral history as a means for young people to tell their stories. Featured artists include: • Carol Beer • Miriam Davidson • Martine Galarneau • Janette Haggar • Natalie LeBlanc • Lynn Millette • Adriana Oliveira • Hyo-Min Park • Katherine Rochon

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HIV and TB: Southern Africa’s Fatal Combination by Winstone Zulu, PWA activist, Zambia

The 16th Annual Concordia University Community HIV/AIDS Lecture Series

Thursday, November 6
6 - 8 p.m.

SGW Campus, Room H - 110
Henry F. Hall Building 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Winstone Zulu is an AIDS and tuberculosis activist from Zambia who speaks at conferences all over the world. Living HIV positive for the past 18 years, he was the first to come out openly as HIV+ in Zambia. As a subject in Stephanie Nolen’s book, 28 stories of AIDS in Africa, he has inspired people around the world through his involvement in conferences, documentaries and books. His lecture will touch on his fierce activism throughout the years for health and governmental agencies to recognize the tight connection between TB and HIV.

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Changing Connections, Communities and Contexts:

A research symposium on art education, visual/consumer culture, and related issues

November 6 - 8
Department of Art Education
1515 Ste. Catherine St. West, EV 2-619

YOU ARE INVITED to join scholars, artists and educators from across Canada and the U.S. for a wide-ranging program that includes more than 60 sessions. Themes include: Philosophical and theoretical inquiry; critical pedagogy; social contexts of art(s) education, challenges and opportunities; community-based programs; interdisciplinary connections; arts-based research; narrative-based research; visual culture; popular culture; and aesthetics and art criticism.

On Saturday, November 8, Dr. Joe L. Kincheloe, Canada Research Chair in Critical Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education at McGill University, will give the Keynote Lecture entitled Critical pedagogy and art education: Teaching about the Brooklyn Art Museum’s “Sensation” Controversy.

Hosted by Concordia University’s Department of Art Education, in partnership with the Canadian Society for Education Through Art--Société Canadienne d'Éducation par l'Art (CSEA-SCÉA), McGill University, and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Registration and all presentation sessions will take place in Concordia University’s Engineering, Computer Science and Fine Arts Complex (EV Bldg), 1515 Ste. Catherine Street West, Montreal, QC (between Guy and MacKay Streets. Metro station: Guy-Concordia).

$40 single-day passes available
Detailed information and registration forms available at:
- The Department of Art Education, EV Bldg. 2.619,
- online at http://www.csea-scea.ca/confNat.htm
- or by emailing csea2008@alcor.concordia.ca

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November 14, 2008

Department of Contemporary Dance Friday Night Cabarets

Join us for a casual performance laboratory of contemporary art:

Friday, November 14
January 30, 2009
February 13, 2009
March 27, 2009

All cabarets take place in the TJ Black Box at 8 p.m.
7315 de Terrebonne, 3rd Floor
Loyola Campus, TJ annex
Free admission.

For more information: 514-848-4740 or dance@concordia.ca
http://dance.concordia.ca

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November 22, 2008

Department of Contemporary Dance Open House – Come and Be a Contemporary Dance Student for a Day

Saturday, November 22
7315 de Terrebonne, 3rd Floor (cross street is West Broadway)
Metro Vendôme with bus 105 or Metro Snowdon with Bus 51

Technique class with Karen Guttman – 10 a.m.
Choreography and Creative Process with Silvy Panet-Raymond – 11:30 a.m.
Presentation of student works – 1 p.m.

If you take part in dance classes, it's best to wear comfortable clothing - bare feet preferable.

For more information: 514-848-4740 or dance@concordia.ca
http://dance.concordia.ca

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November 24, 2008

The Politics of Literary Reputation, or How Writers Become Famous,

A lecture by Prof. John Rodden, University of Texas at Austin presenterd by The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture.

Mon., Nov. 24
7 p.m.
EV 11-705
The lecture will be followed by a reception.

John Rodden is the author of The Politics of Literary Reputation (1989), Lionel Trilling and the Critics (1999), Scenes from an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell (2003), Performing the Literary Interview: How Writers Craft Their Public Selves (2004), and The Worlds of Irving Howe (2005) among other books. His research interests focus on American and European intellectual history and British and American literary criticism and theory.

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November 25, 2008

Concordia Dans la rue Fall 2008 Youth Exhibition

Tues., Nov. 25, 6 – 9 p.m. EV 7-735   Featuring live performances, beverages and a delicious chocolate fountain !   The ‘Concordia dans la rue’ project has been connecting design and computation arts students and youth on the street since 2001, fostering creative expression and digital literacy among high-risk youth.  The exhibition showcases work done this fall by students and the youth in Montreal’s dans la rue alternative school.   For further information visit:  http://danslarue.concordia.ca/

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November 28, 2008

The Suspension of Wait

Nov. 20 to 23 and 27 to 30 at 8 p.m. Q & A with the artists after the show on Nov. 28 661 Rose-de-Lima St., Montreal (Metro Lionel-Groulx) Tickets: $15 - $20 Sunday performances: $12 for groups of 10+ / $10 for groups of 20+

Concordia University Theatre students and alumni will work closely with professional artists across disciplines in The Suspension of Wait, a collaborative production by the new collective LANDED 2.

Occupying an old train depot in St. Henri, The Suspension of Wait tackles issues of the immigrant experience in the history and modern daily life of Montreal. Set in 1960, the production follows the travels of a young Italian man and a woman from the Gaspé Peninsula who eventually meet in Montreal. Using little text, the story relies on the languages of image, movement and sound to create evocative visual poetry. The found space at Rose-de-Lima is explored, revealed and transformed into various landscapes along this flowing, alinear narrative.

Director Cathia Pagotto and Scenographer Amy Keith, both Concordia alumni and currently professors at the Department of Theatre, are the founding members of LANDED 2, along with Composer/ Sound Designer John A. Wilson. Recent and current Concordia students have contributed to the process as performers, crewmembers, dramaturgs and interns alongside professional stage and sound designers, visual artists, musicians and performers. The resulting collective creation and unconventional use of space promise a resonant and innovative theatre experience.

For information and tickets, contact: info@landed2.org or visit www.landed2.org

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November 30, 2008

World premiere screening of documentary Turning 20

The 16th Annual Concordia University Community HIV/AIDS Lecture Series

Sunday, November 30
2 – 4 p.m.

SGW Campus, Room De Seve Cinema
De Seve Cinema 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Free of charge. Everyone welcome.

Co-directors Jessica Mayne and Kim Simard, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, will present their heartwarming and funny documentary, Turning 20 (also co-directed by Ken Monteith). Created for the 20th anniversary of AIDS Community care Montreal (ACCM), this riveting history of loss and collective resilience marks World AIDS Day 2008 and pays tribute to a unique, deep-rooted Montreal organization with a special relationship to Concordia.

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December 03, 2008

An Evening of Chinese Opera

Performances and demonstrations by Prof. Lu Suosen, students of the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (NACTA), Beijing (China), and Concordia University Theatre students. Dec. 3 at 8 p.m. (includes reception at 7 p.m.) Dec. 4 at 8 p.m. Dec. 5 at 8:30 p.m. Montreal Chinese Community and Cultural Centre 1088 Clark St. (Metro Place-d’Armes)

The evening’s program will feature:

Demonstration of Training: Basic Skills, Sword training, Sword Fighting, Solo (by students from Concordia)

Excerpts of Chinese Opera Plays: Horse Whip and Spying the Village (by students from Concordia)

Excerpts of Beijing Opera Plays:
Goddess Scattering Flowers performed by Shixian SONG (National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, Beijing)

Red Peach Mountain by Suosen LU , Shijia JIANG (National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, Beijing)

Tickets: $10 General / $5 Students

Available at:
Oscar Peterson Concert Hall Box Office
7141 Sherbrooke Street West, SC01-10
514-848-2424 ext 4742

Montreal Chinese Community and Cultural Centre
1088 Clark St.
514-788-8986

For information, visit: http://theatre.concordia.ca or 514-848-2424 ext. 4747

In addition to these public performances, the Department of Theatre’s academic exchange with the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (NACTA) from Beijing (China) has included two course offerings by visiting professor Lu Suosen, numerous demonstrations and master classes and, most recently, a visit to the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Ottawa. Theatre professor Robert Reid will travel to NACTA with a group of Theatre students to teach and study in the spring of 2009.

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December 04, 2008

Department of Contemporary Dance presents Danse 2008

End of term performances choreographed by 2nd and 3rd year dance students.

Thursday, December 4 - 8 p.m.
Friday, December 5 - 8 p.m.
Saturday, December 6 - 2 & 8 p.m.
Sunday, December 7 @ 2 & 8 p.m.
Monday, December 8 @ 8 p.m.
Tuesday, December 9 @ 8 p.m.
Wednesday, December 10 @ 8 p.m.

Loyola Campus, TJ annex Black Box
7315 de Terrebonne, Cross street West Broadway 3rd floor
Limited Seating Tickets 10$ / $7 Students & seniors
Please note these performances are not wheel-chair accessible.

For more information: 514-848-4740 or dance@concordia.ca
http://dance.concordia.ca

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December 07, 2008

Alumni Work to be auctioned at Santropol Roulant Gala

Dec. 7, 6 p.m.
Just for Laughs Museum

Since 1995, Santropol Roulant has delivered more than 380,000 meals to seniors and individuals living with a loss of autonomy. Every year they host a fundraising gala to celebrate their achievements and to thank the community.

This year, in addition to fabulous food and great entertainment, the gala will feature an art auction which will include works by 3 well-known Concordia Fine Arts alumni: Olivier Longpré (BFA 97), Yechel Gagnon (MFA 01) and Kevin Sonmor (MFA 91).

Ticket prizes have been based on a sliding scale of $25, $45, $65 and $100. For tickets, donations, volunteering and any information regarding this event please contact Lynne Cooper at 514.284.9335 or
gala@santropolroulant.org.

www.santropolroulant.org

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December 11, 2008

A Jazz Christmas

Dec. 11, 5 – 7 p.m.
Grumpy’s, 1242 Bishop St.
No cover – pay what you can

Students and teachers from the Department of Music’s jazz studies program are hosting a fundraiser for the Gazette Christmas Fund, a non-profit charity that helps families in need during the holidays. Enjoy a swingin’ good time and support a worthy cause!

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December 13, 2008

LASAGNA

An exhibition by the Advanced Projects in Print class

Dec. 13 - Jan. 28
Vernissage: Dec. 13, 2 - 5 p.m. (Lasagna will be served!)
ARPRIM, 372 St. Catherine St. West, Suite 426

The Department of Studio Arts’ Advanced Projects in Print class presents an exhibition of intaglio prints, lithographs, digital prints, collographs and screenprints at Arprim Gallery. LASAGNA, the exhibition’s title, plays with the methodology of creating a print through the process of layering - drawing to drawing and color to color - until the image comes into being. The prints in the exhibition are in a 22” x22” format. Many are multidisciplinary pieces that integrate several different print media and are presented as single works, diptyches and triptychs and as sculptural pieces. The artists have also created a portfolio of prints in collaboration with internationally acclaimed book artist Odette Drapeau of Tranchefile in Montreal. Open and closed versions of the collaboration will be on view.

The artists represented are: Maroussia Beaulieu, Charmaine Bynoe, Robert Cameron, Annie Axtell, Stephanie Locas, Jennifer Lupien, Joanne Madeley, Lisa McQuaid, Matthew Mewett, Innah Park, Nick Prescott, Alexandra Sebag and Anthony Vrakotas. They have all completed advanced classes in many print disciplines. As well, most have worked with invited master printers who have taught at the university through the Master Printer Program and Stinger Editions, Concordia University’s fine art print publishing initiative. Associate Professor, Judy Garfin and Graduate Print Media Teaching Assistant, Maria Doering teach the Advanced Projects in Print class.

All the works are for sale.

For information, contact: 514-525-2621 / info@arprim.org / http://www.arprim.org

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January 15, 2009

Artist Talk by David McMillan

Thurs., Jan. 15, 1:30 pm EV 3-645, 3rd floor 1515 Ste. Catherine Street West. Free of charge.

David McMillan began his career as a painter but gradually became more interested in photography, which he teaches at the University of Manitoba’s School of Art. Since 1994, he has photographed annually in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Within the millions of acres of the zone, there are fields left to lie fallow and cities and villages where the vestiges of the defunct Soviet Empire and the everyday remnants of the lives of the former citizenry remain.

Sponsored by Studio Arts Visiting Arts Program (SAVAP) in conjunction with the Photography Program.

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January 19, 2009

Tradition and Modernity in Ben Shahn’s American Scene, 1938

What happens when the modernity we all now live with-mass culture, mass consumption, cars-infiltrates a traditional small town that previously had little experience of these developments? This lecture explores how Ben Shahn’s Depression-era photographs expose the conflicts set off by this clash of modern innovation with traditional ways of life.

In the summer of 1938 Ben Shahn photographed a dozen small towns in central Ohio for the Farm Security Administration, and working in such a limited geographical area and over an extended period permitted him scope to approximate an ethnographic survey of these communities. Among his some-320 photographs a substantial fraction address a tension between the small towns’ traditional ways of life and their embrace of modernity, notably in the form of mass entertainment and communications, consumer culture, and universal car ownership. Shahn had initially conceived of his Ohio project as a tribute to the American small town as the avatar of traditional democratic culture, a goal consonant with his fervent anti-fascism of the late thirties, but once on the ground in Ohio his artist’s critical eye would not permit him to disregard entirely the transformations modernity was introducing into community life. As a result his survey of the American small town as the bastion of traditional values is profoundly equivocal, and his ambivalence illuminates several key cultural conflicts that were percolating just below the more obvious perturbations brought on by the Great Depression.

John Raeburn is the author of A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography (2006). Professor of American studies and English at the University of Iowa, John Raeburn has been writing and lecturing on documentary photography, racial representations, and photographic culture since the 1980s. His concurrent literary and cinematic interests have generated a monograph, Fame Became of Him: Hemingway as a Public Writer (1984) and a collection co-edited with Richard Glatzer, Frank Capra: The Man and His Films (1975). He has recently completed a book-length study of Ben Shahn, concluding that Shahn?s surprising assessment of modernity’s impact had at least as much to do with his leftist political commitments in the late thirties as his dedication to documentary truth.

Speaking of Photography is organized by the Department of Art History and made possible by the generosity of an anonymous donor. The 2008-9 series is also supported by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art; the Special Individualized Programs, School of Graduate Studies, Concordia University; Ciel Variable magazine; and Château Versailles Hotel.

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January 24, 2009

Portfolio Day

Sat., Jan. 24
11:00 a.m to 4:00 p.m.
Concordia University’s EV Building
1515 St. Catherine Street West (at Guy)

Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts is pleased to host national art schools for a full day of portfolio review and information about undergraduate and graduate programs.

Meet professors from Alberta College of Art & Design (Calgary) NSCAD University (Halifax) and Emily Carr University of Art & Design (Vancouver). Don’t forget to bring your portfolio!

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January 29, 2009

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies presents two events:

Thurs., Jan. 29
J.W. McConnell Building / Library Building (LB 612), 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West

Science and Religion (12 noon to 1 p.m.)
Faculty and students are invited to participate in a seminar where Dr. Paul Allen from the Department of Theology will present his most recent book, Catholicism and Science, published by Greenwood Press as part of its Guides to Science and Religion series.

Economics, Systems Theory, and Philosophy (7 p.m.)
Dr. Niklas Damiris, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, will present a lecture entitled “Performing Value: Money, Markets, and Alchemy.” Dr. Damiris is a theoretical physicist turned eco-economist and social entrepreneur. For many years, Dr. Damiris was a research affiliate in research institutions around Silicon Valley: Stanford University, Xerox PARC, Apple's Advanced Technology Group, and more recently at IBM'S Almaden Research Center. At Stanford University, he was a member of the philosophy of quantum mechanics seminar, and has been one of the long-standing members of the Philosophical Reading Group. He was a special advisor to the Dean of Humanities at UC Santa Cruz for the Knowledge Societies project. Currently, in addition to being a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, and a consulting lecturer at the Swiss Center for Banking Studies. He is co-founder of the start-up Capitalizing Communities which helps transform social networks into economically sustainable practices. He has co-written a monograph with Helga Wild and Stefano Franchi called The Passion of Life, and is now working on a book about money, virtuality, and ecology.

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February 06, 2009

Opening Up a Closed Door: Feminist Artists as Historians

Artist Talk by Helena Reckitt. Presented by the Department of Studio Arts. Fri., Feb. 6 12:30 pm EV - 3-645 1515 Ste. Catherine Street West

Helena Reckitt is Senior Curator of Programs at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto. She has worked as a curator, education director, talks organizer, and commissioning editor at institutions including the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Georgia, ICA, London, and Routledge, London.

Reckitt’s group exhibitions include Not Quite How I Remember It, 2008, Auto Emotion: Autobiography, Emotion and Self-Fashioning (co-curated with Gregory Burke), 2007, and What Business Are You In?, 2005. She has organized solo shows with artists including Yael Bartana, Manon de Boer, Hew Locke, and Carey Young.

Reckitt has contributed to publications including C magazine, Art Papers, The Guardian and n.paradoxa. Co-editor of Acting on AIDS: Sex, drugs and politics (Serpent’s Tail, 1997), she is the editor of Art and Feminism (Phaidon Press, 2001), a sourcebook introduced by Peggy Phelan which has appeared, in abridged form, in Italian, French, Korean, and Spanish

Sponsored by Studio Arts Visiting Arts Program (SAVAP) in conjunction with the Photography Program.

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Hair Follies by Leisure Projects / Accrétion by Angela Silver and Amélie Brisson Darveau

Presented by the Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery

Jan. 5 – Feb. 6, 2009
Vernissage:  Thurs., Jan. 15, 6 – 8 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
1515 Ste Catherine Street W., EV 1-715, Metro Guy-Concordia
Free of charge.  Everyone welcome
For further information: http://fofagallery.concordia.ca or 514-848-2424 ext.7962

Gallery: Hair Follies by Leisure Projects
Sometimes beautiful and ornamental, other times abject and grotesque, hair is an unassuming yet powerful personal agent. The exhibition Hair Follies explores the subtle transformative power of the “perruque.” Loaded with double meaning, the word “perruque” refers on one hand to wigs and the altering effects of decorative hair, but also to a more transgressive anti-establishment action of using official work time to slyly work on one’s own projects - a pervasive practice which results in a quiet socio-cultural rebellion from within. The exhibition Hair Follies weaves these two definitions of “perruque” together, presenting work that explores the disquieting transformative power of hair. Curated by the artist-curator collaboration Leisure Projects (Meredith Carruthers & Susannah Wesley) the exhibition will feature work by de Io Palmer, Maya Hayuk, Fabienne Laserre, Ken Smith and Matthieu Gauvin. Special thanks to the Musée d’art de Joliette and Art Solution.

Special Event: Jan. 15, 2009, 4 – 6 p.m.
Concordia Students present a Wig Creation Workshop
Free of charge, advance sign-up required (space for 20 participants)
To register contact Raina at olivanella@gmail.com

Join fashion designer and art educator, Raina-Clair Gillis for a two-hour wig creation workshop immediately preceding the official opening of Hair Follies. Raina will take you on a journey in wig styling techniques and will ignite your creative potential. Add an object to a wig, curl it, crimp it, dye it, tease it, dread it—anything goes (materials will be provided but feel free to bring your own). Participants are invited to attend the opening for the Hair Follies exhibition following the event, and will have a chance to show-off their creations!

Vitrines: Accrétion by Angela Silver and Amélie Brisson Darveau
Performance and its residue are explored in the FOFA Gallery vitrines. Brisson Darveau transforms articles of clothing into instruments of measure, the twisted cloth behaving equally in the role of border and social net. Silver’s work is archeological in nature, investigating the material culture we use to communicate. Obsolete artifacts are seized from moribund writing systems and refashioned and reordered for contemporary usage. Hand-holding a typewriter ball, she will create a typed drawing that will seep across the surface of the wall.

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February 09, 2009

Fine Arts Students join Arts and Science Students in Unique Collaboration

ASFA and FASA – two of Concordia’s most loved Student Associations, have decided to join forces and create a first-ever series of speakers, exhibitions, and conferences.

The festival is presented in three themes:

* Identity, Gender, & Sexuality
* Environmental Issues & Sustainability
* Post-colonialism & Multiculturalism

Everyone is welcome to the following events:

Let's Come Together!
ASFASA Identity, Gender and Sexuality exhibition

Feb. 9 – 20
Vernissage/Conference Feb. 9, 6 p.m., EV 1.605
The conference will feature student presentations on related themes.

Exhibition hours at the Simone de Beavoir Institute (2170 Bishop)
Monday 9 – 10 a.m., 2 – 6 p.m.
Tuesday 9 – 11 a.m., 1:30 – 4 p.m.
Wednesday 9 a.m. – 1 p.m., 2:30 – 5 p.m.
Thursday  9 - 11:30 a.m., 4 – 6 p.m.

Invaded
ASFASA Cultural Identity and Post-Colonialism exhibition

Feb. 9 - 20
Vernissage/Conference Feb. 16, 6pm, EV 1.605
The conference will feature student presentations on related themes

11th floor Hall Building (display windows)
Sociology and Anthropology reading room (H1132)

Whereabouts

Vernissage Feb. 11, 6 p.m., The Hive

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February 12, 2009

The Spatialization of Time: Software and Its Effects

A lecture by N. Katherine Hayles,
Professor of Literature and English at Duke University
Presented by The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture.

Thurs., Feb.12
7 p.m.
Atrium of the Samuel Bronfman Building, 1590 Docteur Penfield (corner of Côte-des-Neiges).

Her lecture will be followed by a reception to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the PhD in Humanities program.

Professor Hayles will also lead an advanced seminar for faculty and students on Friday, February 13 at 2 p.m. in LB 659.0