{"id":74358,"date":"2021-09-29T10:45:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T14:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=74358"},"modified":"2021-10-05T11:48:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T15:48:53","slug":"busu-hosting-virtual-qa-with-dan-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/09\/busu-hosting-virtual-qa-with-dan-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSU hosting virtual Q&#038;A with Dan Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">B<\/span>rock University Students&#8217; Union (BUSU) is hosting a free event for students with actor Dan Levy.<\/p>\n<p>Students can register for one of 600 spots at the Q&amp;A event, which will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5 via Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>Levy received critical acclaim for starring as\u00a0David Rose\u00a0in the\u00a0CBC\u00a0sitcom\u00a0<em>Schitt&#8217;s Creek<\/em>. He was also the co-creator and executive producer of the show and is the only person to win Emmy awards for acting, directing, writing and producing in a single year. <em>Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em> has also been applauded for its representation of queer characters and romance.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2020, Levy enrolled in and began to promote the 12-week self-paced Massive Open Online Course, \u201cIndigenous Canada,\u201d hosted by Tracy Bear (Montreal Lake First Nation) and Paul Gareau (M\u00e9tis and French Canadian) of the University of Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur event with Dan Levy came about in an effort to provide a fun experience for students,\u201d said BUSU Vice-President, Student Services Faten Darbaj. \u201cHowever, we will also be chatting about personal stories on bullying and creating positive spaces in the LGBTQ+ community, learning more about the Canada Indigenous course he is currently promoting, and what is next for Dan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This event is hosted in collaboration with student unions at Brock University, Niagara College, Algonquin College, McMaster University, Carleton University, Fanshawe College, University of Ottawa, Cambrian College, George Brown College, St. Clair College and Conestoga College.<\/p>\n<p>Students can register for the event <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brockbusu.ca\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brockbusu.ca\/events<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From those students who register, one will be selected to ask Levy a question live on screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University Students&#8217; Union (BUSU) is hosting a free event for students with actor Dan Levy on Tuesday, Oct. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":74359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2203,133,10779],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74362,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74358\/revisions\/74362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}