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• Brock event to discuss what sustainability reporting standards mean for investors

  Wednesday, October 20, 2021 | By Brock University

  MEDIA RELEASE: 19 October 2021 – R0110

  At a time when stakeholders are increasingly concerned about companies’ business practices, corporations have been rapidly adopting the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards to report the impact they have on society and the environment.

  To discuss what this means for investors, the Goodman School of Business’ CPA Ontario Centre for Public Policy and Innovation in Accounting will host a webinar next week to take a deep dive into environmental, social and governance reporting.

  The live event will take place Tuesday, Oct. 26 from 10 to 11 a.m. This session builds on the conversation started in May on sustainability reporting standards that became Brock’s largest-ever online event, with more than 1,800 participants viewing the discussion live.

  “Stakeholders are increasingly holding corporations accountable for sustainability and social values,” said Interim Centre Director Kareen Brown. “The CPA Ontario Centre for Public Policy and Innovation in Accounting, together with the Goodman School, is honoured to foster dialogue that demonstrates how these standards can help investors more effectively integrate environmental, social and governance data into their decision-making process.”

  The event will be moderated by Goodman Accounting Professor Samir Trabelsi and feature Robert Hirth, Senior Managing Director of Proviti and Co-Vice Chair of the SASB Standards Board, and Neil Stewart, Value Reporting Foundation’s New York-based Director of Corporate Outreach and the SASB Standards Board’s Director of Corporate Outreach.

  “Our eminent panelists will focus on the latest developments in the fast-changing world of environmental, social and governance reporting for investors,” Trabelsi said. “We will hear a briefing on the rapid corporate adoption of SASB Standards based on industry-specific, financially material environmental, social and governance issues.”

  The free event is open to the public and interested participants can register here to receive a link to the livestream. A video recording will be made available for those not able to attend the event live.

  For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:

  * Dan Dakin, Manager Communications and Media Relations, Brock University ddakin@brocku.ca or 905-347-1970

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• Brock’s fall mainstage returns in person to explore fate of Judas Iscariot

  Monday, October 18, 2021 | By Brock University

  MEDIA RELEASE: 18 October 2021 – R0109

  Brock University’s fall mainstage production will make its much-anticipated return next week for the first live, in-person performance on the stage of the Marilyn I. Walker Theatre in more than a year and a half.

  Although the Department of Dramatic Arts (DART) did not let the COVID-19 pandemic stifle its creativity, hosting virtual mainstage productions when public health restrictions prevented in-person performances, the cast and crew of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is eager to welcome their first live audience Friday, Oct. 29.  

  Written by award-winning American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, the play is an exploration of sin and unconditional love and speaks to all about guilt, regret and redemption.

  Set in a satirical version of a contemporary American courtroom, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot sees a host of saints and villains (including Mother Theresa and Satan) convene to determine the fate of Judas Iscariot after he has been stuck in purgatory for a few thousand years.

  Emerging Ontario director Leighton Alexander Williams is the Brock production’s Guest Director, with assistant direction by DART student Michael Cicchini.

  Based in Toronto, Williams is a stage and screen actor, writer, director and producer and is co-founder of Big Dreamers Brotherhood Productions Inc., a company of seven black male artists committed to telling provocative stories. With an academic background in drama and English and an interest in education, Williams is thrilled to be guest directing the production.

  “It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has made a lot of us experience feelings of isolation and being ‘stuck’ — two things Judas experiences throughout this story,” Williams said. “I felt it was important to set this play in the here and now.”

  Williams added that because of a recent boost in the popularity of the science fiction genre, the production’s version of purgatory is set in a cosmic void.

  “The intersectionality of religion and science makes for a fresh take on a classic tale,” he said.

  The show runs Oct. 29, 30 and Nov. 5 and 6 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 31 at 2 p.m. There will be a matinee performance on Nov. 5 at 11:30 a.m. for DART students and faculty.

  The MIW Theatre, in the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts (MIWSFPA) in downtown St. Catharines, is operating at a reduced capacity, with 100 seats available for each performance in the interest of student and audience member safety.

  Tickets are $20 for the general public and $16 for youth and seniors. Tickets may be purchased through Brock University Tickets. All provincial and Brock University COVID-19 protocols are in effect for the performances, including mandatory vaccination and masks for all audience members visiting the MIWSFPA.

  For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:

  * Gillian Minaker, Marketing & Communications Officer, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Brock University gminaker@brocku.ca 905-688-5550 x4765 or 289-696-0805

  * Dan Dakin, Manager Communications and Media Relations, Brock University ddakin@brocku.ca or 905-347-1970

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