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  • Visa Instructor part of two new exhibitions.

    Wednesday, September 30, 2015 | By

    Visa Instructor Donna Akrey is part of two upcoming exhibitions:

    Nuit Blanche in Toronto:
    http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/project.html?project_id=1561

    and

    Disfigureitout
    Andrew McPhail and Donna Akrey

    hundred dollar gallery
    4 cannon street east
    Hamilton

    oct 9-nov 9 2015
    Opening October 9
    7-10pm

    http://www.hundreddollargallery.com
    https://www.facebook.com/events/1671987623023261/

    Disfigureitout

    Andrew McPhail
    and
    Donna Akrey

    hundred dollar gallery
    4 cannon street east
    Hamilton

    oct 9-nov 9 2015

    Opening October 9
    7-10pm

    http://www.hundreddollargallery.com

     

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  • Visa Instrutor announces performance.

    Tuesday, September 29, 2015 | By

    VISA Instructor Irene Loughlin presents work at Nuit Blanche with Workman Arts.

    Saturday – Sunday, October 3 – 4, 2015, 7 pm – 7 am
    Admission: Free
    Venue: Gladstone Hotel, 2nd Floor Public Gallery 1214 Queen Street West

    Double Take
    Live Performances: 7 pm – 1 am

    Under the theme of Memory Lane, established performance artist Irene Loughlin and six Workman Arts artists create site specific performances responding to individual artworks presented at the 15th annual Being Scene exhibition installed in the 2nd floor public gallery at the Gladstone Hotel. The hotel is more than 125 years old and its walls have been witness to several transformations over the years. This theme has particular resonance to the Gladstone as we remember some of the building’s past tenants, some who struggled with mental health and addiction issues and it reflects the hotel’s relationship to the changing neighbourhood as it continues to negotiate ways of sharing public and private spaces. Through this project we collectively aim to look back and perform new modes of moving forward that are informed by inclusivity, questioning, creative response, and well-being in its myriad forms.

    Co-presented by Workman Arts, FADO Performance Art Centre, and the Gladstone Hotel

     

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  • Looking for a Humanities Context Credit? DART 1F95

    Tuesday, July 28, 2015 | By

    Drama in Education & Applied Theatre I
    Releasing your Creative Side

    Through collective creation and collaboration with classmates students learn how drama can be used for social change, team building, and as a learning tool. Students can experience the meaning of social commitment through dramatic creations that provoke, inform, celebrate, and respond to local and global events.

    DART 1F95
    9:00-­?10:00
    Seminar
    +
    10:00-­?1:00
    Studio/Lab
    (W or R)
    (see calendar for details: http://www.brocku.ca/webcal/2015/undergrad/dart.html )

    contact dramatic.arts@brocku.ca for more information

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  • Employment Opportunities for Visual Arts Students.

    Monday, July 27, 2015 | By

    JOB OPPORTUNITY: VISUAL ARTS STUDENT MONITORS FOR MIWSFPA
    The following student positions are available:

    4th Floor Student Monitor(s): for Studio Clean-Up 4-5 pm, Art Store Assistance 5-6 pm and Workshop monitoring 6-8 pm. These positions will run approximately from mid-August to mid-May.

    Gallery Student Monitor(s): for Fall/Winter, gallery attendant duties and will run Tuesday – Saturdays from 12 noon – 5:00 pm approximately from mid-August to end of May.

    Gallery Student Monitor for Spring/Summer: gallery attendant duties available for both VISA and STAC students. Will run Tuesday – Saturday from 12 noon – 6:00 pm from June – August.

    Kiosk Student Monitor Kiosk personnel / student monitor(s): to sign out and sign in equipment for faculty, instructors and students and related duties. Will run Monday – Friday 10:00 am – 3:00 pm and Saturdays 12 noon – 5:00 pm.

    Digital Student Monitor(s): monitoring the Digital Media Lab, IT Computer Lab, Computer Commons and Learning Commons. Performing related duties. Will run Monday – Friday 4:00 – 8:00 pm and Saturday 12 noon – 5:00 pm.

    Students interested in any of the positions please email mlederich@brocku.ca for more information on these positions.
    To apply for any of these positions send a cover letter indicating which positions you are applying for, your resume, and a detailed list of the days/times you are available to work to Monika Lederich.

     

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  • Class blog takes centre stage with theatre criticism

    Sunday, July 05, 2015 | By

    Posted by tmayer on Jul 3rd, 2015 and filed under Top stories. See the original article here: http://www.brocku.ca/brock-news/?p=34262

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    They call themselves critics with class.

    But more than being clever, the student writers behind the DARTcritics website are providing theatrephiles with thoughtful, arts criticism about performances in Niagara and beyond.

    That wasn’t always its purpose, however. The two-year-old theatre review website, which was recently relaunched with a new look, started as a forum for Dramatic Arts Prof. Karen Fricker to post standout assignments by students in her theatre criticism class. But it soon became apparent the site served a larger purpose.

    DARTcritics picked up where slashed and shrunken newsrooms left off with their arts coverage. Other than a handful of metro and national dailies, few newsrooms boast a dedicated arts and entertainment reporter anymore, leaving a void to be filled.

    “What we discovered was that in some instances, the reviews that we published were among the only, if not the only, review response that productions would receive, because there is so little arts criticism in Niagara,” Fricker said. “This was a startling and empowering realization for the students — that they were in dialogue with art and artists in a privileged way.”

    Of course, seeing their names in print was nothing short of thrilling, too. Hayley Malouin was hooked the moment she got her first byline for her review of London Road, a musical about an English town coping with the murders of five of its women.

    “I thought ‘OK, we’ll see some shows,’” said Malouin, who signed up for Fricker’s class in her third year. “I wrote the first review and got it up on the blog and was ‘This is like crack.’”

    Being published was an incentive, but writing reviews for posting was ultimately a way for Malouin to use what she had learned from Fricker about articulating her opinions of a production beyond saying whether or not she like it.

    “I hated (London Road) and finding out why I hated it was so fun,” she explained. “It really changed my view of what happens in theatre. There’s this critical side to it – this analytical side to it…. I think you can be analytical and creative and that’s a really special thing.”

    Fricker, a former critic with The Guardian in the U.K., capitalized on the opportunity to turn DARTCritics into a bona fide source of arts criticism last April when Malouin and fellow student Nick Leno landed funding from BUSU to cover St. Catharines’ In the Soil Arts Festival.

    She also coached the duo to be editors and social media curators. This summer, they’re running the site like a newsroom with two staff writers, fourth-year DART students Elizabeth Amos and Alex Jackson. Together, they cover theatre in Hamilton, Niagara, Toronto and Stratford, thanks to support from the Match of Minds program run by the Office of Research Services and BUSU.

    The relaunch of the DARTcritics site coincides with this summer’s move of Dramatic Arts to the new home of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts in downtown St. Catharines, Fricker noted.

    “It’s such an exciting moment for the arts at Brock and in St. Catharines more broadly, with the new First Ontario Performing Arts Centre opening in the autumn, as well as our own building,” she said. “This seemed the perfect occasion for us to take DARTcritics to a new level with a new look, and more reviews.”

    Fricker will resume the editor’s post when classes resume in the fall, but for summer, the site is “Nick and Hayley’s baby.”

    “It’s a great experience of entrepreneurialism and leadership for them.”

    It has also carved out a potential career path for Malouin. Theatre criticism has become something she would like to pursue further, either as a freelance writer or by developing her own theatre review site.

    Still, there has been one downside to being a DARTcritic: it’s tough to shut off and watch a show for pleasure.

    “I see theatre and can’t not be critical now,” Malouin said. “People see that as a negative but it’s not. I’m always on now when I see a show. I do wish I could go see a Mirvish show and say ‘That’s great!’”

    Visit DARTcritics

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  • Dramatic Arts welcomes the new Foster Festival to St. Catharines

    Tuesday, June 16, 2015 | By

    The Department of Dramatic Arts is excited to be part of the new Foster Festival and their inaugural 2016 season at the new First Ontario Performing Arts Centre in St. Catharines, Ontario.  Celebrated Canadian playwright Norm Foster recently joined festival executive director Emily Oriold and artistic director Patricia Vanstone (see photo, at left) for the launch of the festival – which is the first in Canada to celebrate the work of a living playwright. 

    Mike Zettel recently wrote about the festival launch in Niagara This Week:

    Vanstone said one of the first partnerships they formed was with Brock’s dramatic arts department, which will be housed in the Marilyn I Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts right behind the performing arts centre. The Foster Festival will have access to a state-of-the-art production facility and will offer summer employment and educational opportunities to the department’s brightest and best current and graduating students, giving them their first crucial work experience in a professional environment.

    "It’s a tremendous partnership," Vanstone said, adding it’s an example of welcoming atmosphere across the city and the willingness of groups to band together for a common cause. "This is a community that understands a great work ethic and the ability to pull together."      

    Professors Gyllian Raby and David Vivian (Chair) were present for the launch along with Alesia Dane (Coop Programs) and Jana Boniferro (Development and Communications Officer for the Faculty of Humanities) from Brock University and Sara Palmieri and Steve Solski of the First Ontario Performing Arts Centre, among others.  To read about the launch see the articles in Niagara This Week and the St. Catharines Standard and visit the Festival website.                  

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  • Visa Professor Launches New Collaborative Project

    Thursday, June 04, 2015 | By

    Dr. Keri Cronin, Associate Professor in Visual Arts, has announced a new interdisciplinary project with renowned photographer Jo-Anne McArthur (We Animals). The project is called Unbound: Women on the Front Lines of Animal Advocacy, and it will be a celebration of women who have worked tirelessly to make the world a better place for animals. The project received initial funding from the Culture & Animals Foundation. The project also received a "Match of Minds" grant from Brock’s Office of Research Services which is funding a research assistant position this summer. Katie Mazi, a Visual Arts major and Critical Animal Studies minor, has been hired in this position.

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  • FACULTY – Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) August 31- September 2

    Wednesday, June 03, 2015 | By

    The Instructional Skills Workshop is a peer-based experiential instructional development program. Held over 3 days, the ISW is designed to enhance the teaching effectiveness through teaching pracatice and feedback in small groups.

    The Aug 31- Sept 2, 3 day certificate program is open to Brock University faculty and sessional instructors.

    Online registration is now open.

    Questions? Contact CPI at cpi@brocku.ca or X3933.

     

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  • Almost ready for the big move!

    Monday, June 01, 2015 | By

    The four programs of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts:  Dramatic Arts, Music, Studies in Arts and Culture, and Visual Arts are counting down to the big move to the new facility at 198 St. Paul in downtown St. Catharines.  The trucks start rolling at the end of this month.  To say we are excited would be an understatement!

    On May 29, 2015 we invited student and media to join us for a tour of the new facilities. 

    Take a look at these reports from CHCH Television, Cogeco "The Source", the St. Catharines Standard, the Brock News, and a slide show of photos taken by the Chair of Dramatic Arts, David Vivian.

    For more information please contact Marie Balsom at mbalsom at brocku.ca

     

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  • Trio of awards for dramatic arts professor

    Tuesday, May 19, 2015 | By

    It has been a busy spring for Joe Norris.

    In the midst of packing up his office to transfer to the new Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, the dramatic arts professor added three newly acquired items to take with him: two awards from the American Educational Research Association and one from Brock University.

    Norris and Richard D. Sawyer from Washington State University captured the association’s Significant Contribution to Educational Measurement and Research Methodology Award.

    They were recognized for their book, Understanding Qualitative Research: Duoethnography, which Norris and Sawyer co-wrote. The book details the duo’s new research methodology called “duoethnography.”

    This involves two people conversing with one another on the same subject from very different viewpoints. As they gain insights and knowledge through the course of the conversation, the two people begin to change their perspectives. These changes in viewpoints become the research data.

    This differs from traditional information-gathering methods, such as using questionnaires, surveys, interviews, observations and other methods.

    Norris’s second American Educational Research Association recognition is the 2015 Tom Barone Award for Distinguished Contributions to Arts-Based Educational Research, which is given every three years for a lifetime of dedicated research.

    “It is rewarding to know that something you’ve created supports the work of a large number of people,” says Norris of his recognitions and his focus on creating and developing unique research methodologies. “People have come up to me and said I’ve been able to provide a rationale that gives them justification for what they want or need to do.”

    Among his many activities, Norris is credited with

    transforming playbuilding into a research methodology

    that uses theatrical devices to create performance/workshops that deepen our understanding of the social world.

    Here, the participatory research “data” includes audience members’ responses to what they see on the stage or video. The audience addresses the problems they see being acted out, teaching themselves about the topic in the process.

    To add to his collection, Norris also won the Faculty of Humanities’ 2015 Humanities Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity.

    “Professor Norris’s accumulated record of work in theatre and social issues has certainly earned him this award,” says Carol Merriam, Interim Dean of the Faculty of Humanities.

    “His use of his skills and talents in the exploration of social issues, including mental health issues, violence in the workplace and the negative impacts of alcohol, and the involvement of his students in this work, is especially impressive.”

    Norris says he is heartened by the “generosity, playfulness and rigour” of students involved in his research projects, particularly Mirror Theatre, which he co-ordinates. Norris is currently exploring the pros and cons of the written word compared to other media, such as visual work, performances, dance, music and video.

    posted by tmayer on May 19th, 2015 see the original article posted here

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