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  • The passing of the late Poet, Terrance Cox

    Monday, January 19, 2015 | By

    We are very saddened to learn of the passing of our dear colleague and friend, the late poet Terrance Cox.

    Terrance taught for almost thirty years in Music and Dramatic Arts and helmed the first year course DART 1F93 for many, many years. Though he had not been well for a few years and was no longer teaching for the Department and the University we have always kept a very big place in our hearts for him.

    Our colleague Gyllian Raby remembers that "Terrance was special and his larger than life persona was a gift. I feel a big Terrance shaped hole in the air of St. Catharines."
     
    We are sharing our memories here. Please share with us. 

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  • Visa Instructor screens new video in Matheson Learning Commons.

    Thursday, January 01, 2015 | By

    Visual Arts Instructor Arnold McBay will be screening a video (his first such work) titled Presencia 2 on the Digital Art Wall of the Matheson Learning Commons in the James A. Gibson Library between February 2 to March 27. Click HERE to see a working clip or read more information about this work. This video is an addendum/response to his work featured in a two-person exhibition at the Grimsby Public Art Gallery with Visual Arts Associate Professor and Chair Duncan MacDonald that will be on view February 7 through March 22, 2015.

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  • Winter 2014 TA Workshops Online Registration – NOW OPEN!

    Monday, December 15, 2014 | By

    Online registration is now open for the TA workshops commencing January 10 through March 21. Open to all Brock University teaching assistants, lab demonstrators, tutorial leaders, and marker graders. Eleven new topics to choose from. Build your skill set and confidence, earn TA credits towards 3 different TA certificate programs. Register at www.brocku.ca/cpi Questions? Contact Lianne Fisher at cpita@brocku.ca, X 5329.

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  • Voix plurielles 11.2 (2014), now available

    Monday, December 08, 2014 | By

    Voix plurielles, the journal of the Association of Professors of French at Canadian Universities and Colleges (APFUCC), has just published its December issue (11.2).

     
    Bonne lecture ! 
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  • New! Book Club

    Tuesday, November 25, 2014 | By

    Are you interested in reading about issues and interests in post-secondary education? If so, please come and share your thoughts. We will be discussing Book#1: Appreciative Inquiry in Higher Education: A Transformative Force
    by Jeanie Cockell and Joan McArthur-Blair. This is available as an e-book in the James A. Gibson Library.

    Friday December 12, 10:00 am, TH 253

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  • Celebrate Teaching at Brock!

    Tuesday, November 18, 2014 | By

    Join us at the… 10th annual Tribute to Teaching reception to commemorate Brock’s award winning instructors.

    Thursday December 4, 12:00 pm, at Alphie’s Trough

    This will include a Celebration of Teaching Awards with the recipients of the 2014 Brock University Award for Excellence in Teaching for Early Career Faculty, the Don Ursino Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Large Classes and a public address by Marilyn Cottrell, Department of Economics, the 2014 Brock University Award for Distinguished Teaching recipient.

    CHEER, APPLAUD and CELEBRATE teaching at Brock University!

    RSVP online or contactl Wanda at wgilmore@brocku.ca or call X 3933.

     

     

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  • Rodman Hall Art Centre wins at OAAG awards

    Thursday, November 06, 2014 | By

    Brock University’s Rodman Hall Art Centre was recognized with two prestigious prizes this week at the 37th annual Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) Awards, presented at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto Nov. 5.

    Jimmy Limit: Recent Advancements, curated by Marcie Bronson, was recognized as Exhibition of the Year, Monographic.

    The exhibition catalogue Milutin Gubash – co-published by Rodman Hall Art Centre, Carleton University Art Gallery, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Southern Alberta Art Gallery and Mus_e d’art de Joliette – received an Honourable Mention in the category of Art Publication of the Year.

    Find the Full Story HERE on the Brock News Page.

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  • Dramatic Arts students make their mark at (CODE) conference in Ottawa

    Monday, November 03, 2014 | By

    Seven students from DART attended the Council of Ontario Drama and Dance Educators (CODE) conference in Ottawa from October 17th until October 19th, 2014. The title of the conference was “Mirrors in Drama and Dance: A Journey to Identities.”

    DART instructor Helen Zdriluk, in collaboration with Faculty of Education Professor Kari-Lynn Winters, first thought to organize DART DIE/AT students to help at the 40th annual CODE conference, in 2010, held at Niagara on the Lake. It has been an annual tradition for our students to attend CODE since then.

    At the conference the students’ tasks varied.  They helped presenters set up and tear down their workshops, thanked workshop leaders, assisted attendees, and participated at the book fair. When they were not helping out the organizers, DART students attended workshops and keynote presentations.

    DART instructors Helen Zdriluk, Suzanne Burchell, and recently retired Professor Glenys McQueen-Fuentes were all presenters at CODE.  Their topics were (respectively): “Through the Looking Glass: reflections for Primary/Junior teachers,” “Shakespeare: Mirror to the Soul,” and “Movement and Music based on Le Coq’s Structures Approach.”

    Our students applied for the Student Initiative Grant from the Brock Student Union, which helped cover their transportation and accommodation fees. Upon their return, the students were asked to do class presentations about their experiences, what they had learned, and what inspired them at CODE this year. Here are some of the responses they shared with their professor:

    Being at the CODE conference around many drama and dance teachers enhanced my excitement to begin teaching in the near future.
    Michelle Sundborg

    Being at CODE was an incredibly inspirational experience. Not only have I become excited for my future as a drama teacher, but I also feel that by attending workshops my drama tool belt has grown substantially.
    Allyson Yates

    The CODE conference was an incredible experience that allowed me to experience and interact with teachers of a very diverse age range and hear their thoughts and opinions on the way drama and dance is taught and current issues that have emerged in our society today.
    Keith Childs

    The Code Conference was an amazing experience. Being able to interact with and experience the workshops of so many amazing, brilliant dance and drama professionals is something that I will never forget.
    Amber Hussey

    Volunteering at the CODE conference was so valuable for me as a future drama teacher. Such great opportunities to interact with and learn from professionals in the field. An unforgettable experience!
    Charlotte Ristich

    Going to CODE was an amazing experience. It felt great to be surrounded by professionals working in our field. It was also nice knowing that in that space we were all equal and we could share our experiences and ideas. It didn’t matter what training, education, or degree you had: we were all there to collaborate, learn and enjoy the arts.
    Rory Vandenbrink

    DART students Amber Hussey, Rory Vandenbrink,
    and Charlotte Ristich with renowned dancer Luca “lazylegs” Patuelli.

    prepared by Dr. Yasmine Kandil with content from the particpants.

    for more information about the Drama in Education and Applied Theatre Concentration in the Department of Dramatic Arts please contact Dr. Joe Norris jnorris@brocku.ca or Dr. Yasmine Kandil ykandil@brocku.ca

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  • Visa Instructor’s exhibition reviewed in current issue of Canadian Art.

    Monday, November 03, 2014 | By

    Associate Professor Duncan MacDonald’s recent group exhibition in Cambridge, Ontario entitled ‘5 over 4’ has recently been reviewed in Canadian Art’s 30th year edition. The exhibition featured artworks by artists working with sound in a variety of mediums. Artists included: Eleanor King, Christof Migone, Marla Hlady, Duncan MacDonald and Ursula Nistrup.

    For more info click HERE.

     

     

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  • The Avanti Chamber Singers celebrate the release of their new CD ‘Beauty is Before Me’ with their concert Viva La Musica!

    Saturday, November 01, 2014 | By

    Saturday, November 15, 2014, marks the release of the Avanti Chamber Singers’ third CD “Beauty is Before Me,” the fifth installment in the “Voices of Niagara” CD series, featuring works by local composers.
     
    The release will occur in conjunction with the Avanti Chamber Singers’ (ACS) season-opening concert, Viva La Musica!  Presenting compositions from 1600 to the present day, this concert is a celebration of the joy and power of music. Rising Toronto oboist Aidan Dugan will perform as the featured guest artist.
     
    The CD is a collaborative project by ACS, Brock University’s student choirs, and the former Niagara Vocal Ensemble, all conducted by Harris Loewen.  The sequence of works on the album flows through a variety of themes: the beauty of nature, the patron saint of music (St. Cecilia), the War of 1812, elegiac reflections, and a group of spirituals.
     
    The occasion also marks the re-release of the first two CDs in the series, recorded by the Niagara Vocal Ensemble, an all-women’s ensemble that was active in the Niagara Region between 1991 and 2011.  All CDs are available through ACS and the Department of Music at Brock University.
     
    As with all five recordings in the "Voices of Niagara" CD series, the music on every track is written or arranged by composers with a Niagara connection, most recorded for the first time.  Composers represented on this latest recording include Penny Blake, John Butler, the famous Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943), Erik Gero, Brock professors Peter Landey and Harris Loewen, Gail Poulsen, folk singer Stan Rogers, Matthew Tran-Adams, and Ronald Tremain (1923-98), Brock’s first Professor of Music.
     
    The concert opens with a rousing fanfare written especially for the occasion, based on the familiar round "Viva La Musica."  The program includes works by the great Renaissance composers, Jacob Handl and Orlandus Lassus, as well as a variety of more modern pieces.  Canadian composers (e.g. Stephen Chatman, Eleanor Daley, Ruth Watson Henderson) are well represented, and the concert also provides samples of works from the latest CD.  Oboist Aidan Dugan will perform lyrical pieces by familiar 19th century composers Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann.
     
    Conductor Harris Loewen states, “This latest album marks an exciting milestone in this multi-choir CD project that has been developed and released to the public over the last few years.  I’m so extremely grateful for the fine and energetic musicianship that all the singers and instrumentalists have contributed in both concert and recording.  It’s a truly wonderful choral legacy for the region.”
     
    The Viva Voce Choral Series, presented by the Department of Music, is a key part of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts’ mandate in building connections between the community and Brock University.
     
    Come and enjoy this choral celebration and CD release on Saturday, November 15 at 7:30 p.m., held at St. Barnabas Anglican Church, 31 Queenston Street, St. Catharines.  Admission at the door is $25 for adults; $20 for seniors & students; $5 for the eyeGo program for high school students.  A $5 discount is available for advance tickets (excluding eyeGO) and can be purchased at two St. Catharines locations: BookSmart (Scott & Vine Plaza) and Thorold Music (Glendale Avenue).
     
    For more information contact: Marie Balsom, Communications
    Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts
    T: 905-688-5550, ext. 4765 | E: mbalsom@brocku.ca | W: http://www.brocku.ca/finearts
     

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