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• New Certificate in Arts Management at the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture

  Monday, July 12, 2021 | By dvivian

  

  Beginning in 2021 is the new Certificate in Arts Management at the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture. This is an ideal choice for non-degree students who wish to acquire an interdisciplinary background in arts and culture, and who are interested in applying such knowledge to their initial field of study or in their career.

  It’s also a great way to try out university-level studies as a part-time student and complete a program in less than two years.  An applicant may request to complete the program as a full-time student.  The successfully completed courses may be counted towards completion of a degree program.

  The certificate includes courses from the Centre, the Departments of Dramatic Arts, Music and Visual Arts, the Faculty of Social Science, and the Goodman School of Business.

  University admission standards apply. For more information see the academic calendar.

  Interested students should contact the academic advisor, Mike Gicante at mgicante@brocku.ca

  Categories: Announcements, Current Students, Future Students, News, STAC Courses, Uncategorised

• Soft Walls – Virtual exhibit opening at City Hall

  Tuesday, June 22, 2021 | By gminaker

  

  VIRTUAL EXHBIT OPENING
  Soft Walls
  Originally aired: Friday, June 18, 7 p.m.

  Watch the Soft Walls Opening Reception on the City of St. Catharines YouTube channel.

  The Corresponding Visual and Literary Arts Exhibit On View: June 17 to July 22, 2021
  Third Floor, St. Catharines City Hall, 50 Church St.

  Please note that in-person viewing of the exhibit may be impacted due to facility access. Please visit our exhibits web page (linked below) for details.

  The hallways of City Hall lead us from busy streets to busy meeting rooms and offices. This exhibition imagines that they also offer visitors a restful transitional space.

  Paintings using soft floral and figurative patterns that are both complex and soothing create a relaxed, pleasant atmosphere. Inspired by decorative art practices, they are intended to suggest a meditative and carefree environment and are accompanied by soft-spoken fragments of text. In a place where important, at times difficult decisions are made and where city life is shaped, the “Soft Walls” in the hallway invite visitors to enjoy a quiet, introspective moment while letting their eyes linger on delicate structures and engaging colour associations.

  Presented by Studies in Arts and Culture, and Visual Arts, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts, Brock University in Partnership with the City of St. Catharines Cultural Services Office (Community, Recreation, and Culture Department).

  Curated By: Catherine Paryare and Shawn Serfas
  Opening reception hosted By: Olivia Hope, St. Catharines Culture Coordinator

  Participating Artists: Hannah Holmes and Lindsay Liboiron.
  Written Works: Alicia Armacinski, Janelle Barretto, Alyssa Campbell, Sarah Cecchini, Iris Ciu, Justin Co, David Figueroa, Malcolm Gear, Giuliana Gervasio, Clive Green, Dominik Hekiert, Jim Kershaw, Kiera King, Kalista Mackisey, Maria Maletta, Emma McLachlan, Maya Meyerman, Ariana Mota, Quinn O’Brien, Sarah Pastore, Tony Payment, Vanessa Pereira, Emily Purkis, Jessie Richard, Jessica Smith, Jamie Tomao-Martin, Charlotte Vann, Blake Wilson and Simon Xu.

  For the most up-do-date information on viewing this exhibit please visit: www.stcatharines.ca/exhibits

  Tags: Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, Humanities, Soft Walls., St. Catharines City Hall, STAC, visa, Visual Arts
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• Fall/Winter 2021 timetable is live, undergrad registration starts July 6

  Wednesday, May 26, 2021 | By gminaker

  

  Originally published in The Brock News |  TUESDAY, MAY 25, 2021 

  Brock University last week reiterated its hope that students will be welcomed back onto campus starting this fall and today, Tuesday, May 25, the Fall/Winter 2021 timetable went live.

  In it, students will see a course calendar that reflects a significant return to on-campus instruction with a majority of classes being offered in person, while still having many classes offered in a hybrid online format.

  This is the fall scenario Brock is working towards, but the University will be ready to quickly pivot, should the public health situation require it.

  Course registration opens on the student portal at my.brocku.ca on Tuesday, July 6 for first-year undergraduates. Those with 15 or more credits may register starting July 9; 10 or more credits on July 12; five or more credits on July 14; fewer than five credits on July 15. There are a number of other key registration dates that can be found at brocku.ca/guides-and-timetables/dates

  The University realizes students will have questions as they prepare for registration to open on Tuesday, July 6. More information and the answers to many of these questions can be found at brocku.ca/fall and brocku.ca/coronavirus

  These websites are regularly updated with the latest information about the 2021-22 academic plans and the University’s pandemic response.

  Brock is preparing for the upcoming academic year with cautious optimism and with the knowledge all adults in Ontario who wish to be vaccinated against COVID-19 are now eligible to receive their first shot.

  Today’s release of the Fall/Winter 2021 timetable is the next step in that preparation.

  Tags: 2021-22 Academic Year, brock international, course registration, Fall 2021, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, MIWSFPA, Welcome Week 2020
  Categories: Announcements, Current Students, Events, Future Students, News, STAC Courses, Uncategorised

• Small Walker Press launches publications exploring music, choreography

  Wednesday, May 05, 2021 | By gminaker

  

  Image caption: The Small Walker Press has announced two new spring publications: Arc, a choreographed poem and Improvising Places / Improvising Time.

  Originally published in The Brock News on TUESDAY, MAY 04, 2021 | by Gillian Minaker

  The Small Walker Press (SWP) is announcing two new spring publications with an online book launch page.

  With in-person book launches still on hold due to public health restrictions, the innovative publishing house within Brock’s Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts (MIWSFPA) opted for a virtual celebration.

  The online launch page features two new books: Arc, a choreographed poem written by Paul Savoie with accompanying choreography by Mélanie Mesager, and Improvising Places / Improvising Time with music notation by Devon Fornelli, creative writing by Thomas Ayouti and essays by Derek Knight and Matthew Royal. Graphic design for both publications was done by Bernhard Cella.

  The concept for the books, “music and choreography,” was outlined by Small Walker Press editors Catherine Parayre, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, and Derek Knight, Associate Professor of Visual Arts. The creative texts were inspired by these themes, drawing on inspiration from participating artists incorporating dance, music and creative writing.

  The book launch page features excerpts from the publications as well as notes from both SWP editors.

  To learn more about The Small Walker Press, please visit the website.

  Tags: Catherine Parayre, Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, Derek Knight, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, MIWSFPA, Small Walker Press, STAC, swp
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• Art residency “A River Rises” now on view

  Friday, January 15, 2021 | By gminaker

  

  Caption: Brown Homestead (Photo by Shawn Serfas)

  STAC’s Research Centre in Interdisciplinary Arts and Creative Culture presents “A River Rises,” a collective investigation of a creative-writing piece, resulting in the creation of photography work, a recorded performance, an inverted sculpture, an experimental book, and more fiction writing. The project also documents the Brown Homestead, in close proximity of Short Hills Provincial Park and the oldest building in St. Catharines.

  View A River Rises here.

  To learn more about the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, please visit the STAC website.

  Tags: Catherine Parayre, Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, Derek Knight, Humanities, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, MIWSFPA, Nicholas Hauck, Shawn Serfas, STAC, STAC Research Centre
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• STAC’s journal ti< listed on Mir@bel

  Monday, December 21, 2020 | By dvivian

  

  STAC’s online, free-access journal ti< A JOURNAL OF TEXT-AND-IMAGE CRITICISM/CREATION – UN JOURNAL DE CRITIQUE/CREATION TEXTE-ET-IMAGE publishes creative work by students, their instructors, as well as by artists and writers whose work combines literature and the visual arts.

  All languages are welcome, including endangered languages. No translation is needed.

  ti< has recently been included in the Mir@bel database, an initiative by top higher-education institutions in France and Europe, such as Sciences Po and ENA.

  To submit work, please consult the website of the journal: https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/ti/index

  Tags: journal, Mir@bel, submission, ti<
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• Join Studies in Arts and Culture for virtual open office hours

  Monday, November 30, 2020 | By gminaker

  

  Catherine Parayre, Director of the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture (STAC) will be hosting virtual open office hours on:

  Wednesday, Dec. 2 2020, 1-2 p.m.

  Wanting to know more about arts and culture, arts management, careers in the field? Do you have questions about our STAC courses? For any question, or just to say hello, don’t hesitate to join Catherine Parayre, Director of the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture on Wednesday 2 December 2020 from 1 to 2 pm.

  You are invited to call STAC Virtual Hour 2 Dec 2020 1-2 pm on Lifesize.

  Join the meeting: https://call.lifesizecloud.com/6623799
  Join the Lifesize meeting using Skype for Business: https://skype.lifesizecloud.com/6623799

  Click to call from Mobile (audio only)
  Canada: +1 (844) 572-5683,, 6623799#
  United States: +1 (877) 422-8614,, 6623799#
  United States: +1 (833) 881-5208,, 6623799#

  Call in by Phone (audio only)
  Canada: +1 (844) 572-5683
  United States: +1 (877) 422-8614
  United States: +1 (833) 881-5208

  Meeting extension: 6623799#
  Additional phone numbers: https://call.lifesize.com/numbers
  Other ways to call: https://call.lifesize.com/otherways/6623799

  Tags: Catherine Parayre, Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, STAC
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• Interiors, a new online exhibit from the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, now on view virtually

  Monday, September 21, 2020 | By gminaker

  

  (Image: Trieste 2, Derek J.J. Knight.)

  As part of its 2020-2021 programming, the Research Centre in Interdisciplinary Arts and Creative Culture opens a virtual space on the theme of interiors, interiority, and confinement, the role they play in collective life and/or how they may be contested. The exhibit seeks to explore the shifting boundaries of intimacy and domesticity in a dynamic virtual space, presenting multi-disciplinary content and critical engagement.

  Interiors features the work of various artists, authors and musicians, and invites viewers to participate in creative activities.

  Curatorial Team: Alexandra Fraser, Marcie Bronson, Derek Knight, Catherine Parayre, Nicholas Hauck

  https://exhibits.library.brocku.ca/s/interiors/page/welcome

  Research Centre in Interdisciplinary Arts and Creative Culture / Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture

  Categories: Alumni, Announcements, Current Students, Events, Faculty & Instructors, Future Students, In the Media, Media Releases, News, Uncategorised

• Join Studies in Arts and Culture for virtual open office hours!

  Thursday, September 10, 2020 | By dvivian

  

  Catherine Parayre, Director of the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture will be hosting virtual open office hours on:

  Tuesday 15 September, 2020 (3-4:00 pm, EST)

  She will be available for:

  • advising and support;
  • course and program opportunities;
  • outreach, experiential activities, and professionalization;
  • or just to say hello and have a chat.

  Join the meeting on Lifesize: https://call.lifesizecloud.com/5312972

  Join the Lifesize meeting using Skype for Business: https://skype.lifesizecloud.com/5312972

  Click to call from Mobile (audio only):
  Canada: +1 (844) 572-5683,, 5312972#
  United States: +1 (877) 422-8614,, 5312972#
  United States: +1 (833) 881-5208,, 5312972#

  Call in by Phone (audio only)
  Canada: +1 (844) 572-5683
  United States: +1 (877) 422-8614
  United States: +1 (833) 881-5208
  Meeting extension: 5312972#

  Additional phone numbers: https://call.lifesize.com/numbers

  Other ways to call: https://call.lifesize.com/otherways/5312972

  Tags: advising, Catherine Parayre, office hours, STAC
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• Welcome to the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture: Orientation for 2020!

  Monday, September 07, 2020 | By dvivian

  

  (a screen shot from the welcome by STAC Major student, Maya Meyerman. Watch the video below.)

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  Brock University is launching the first-ever Virtual Welcome Week.
  During this year of the pandemic the Orientation activities are all online.
  Watch the welcome below and visit the official Orientation page for all the details!

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  The Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture (STAC)

  STAC Major student, Maya Meyerman has prepared this welcome message for you:

  Dr. Catherine Parayre, Director of the Centre, will be holding office hours on September 8th from 2-3 pm on Lifesize.
  Drop-in and say hi! (click here)

  Additional Office hours will be:

  • Tuesday 15 September, 3-4 pm
  • Wednesday 7 October, 2-3 pm
  • Tuesday 17 November, 3-4 pm
  • Wednesday 2 December, 1-2 pm

  Interiors, a curated virtual platform has been launched!  Interiors is the home of various creative projects by Affiliates of STAC’s Research Centre in Interdisciplinary Arts and Creative Culture, also with student exhibitions. Check out our Outreach Activities: participate and be published on the site!

  ti< is an online journal (ISSN 1929-4336) that publishes creative work combining text and image. It is primarily interested in creative work by students, their instructors, as well as by artists and writers whose work combines literature and the visual arts. All languages are welcome, including endangered languages. No translation is needed. Next issue: March 2021. Submissions accepted until 15 February 2020. Please send to cparayre@brocku.ca https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/ti

  Check out the Advising Letter for more news about exciting opportunities at the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture!

  STAC Majors: more info and regular updates are available on Sakai on the tab titled… ‘STAC Majors’.  Add this tab to your Sakai courses.

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  The Department of Dramatic Arts, Music, Visual Arts, and the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture are all part of the Faculty of Humanities.

  The Associate Dean, Dr. Neta Gordon, Professor of English, welcomes you to Brock University! She’s prepared an 11 minute video to introduce to you to the Faculty of Humanities:

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  Michael Gicante is your Academic Advisor for studies at the MIWSFPA.
  He prepared this video for the April open House:

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  Koreen McCullough is the Experiential Education Coordinator for the Faculty of Humanities.
  Watch her 3 minute presentation about Experiential Education opportunities at Brock University:

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  The Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts

  Located at 15 Artists’ Common in downtown St. Catharines, the MIWSFPA is home to four academic programs. We are right next door to the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre on the main street of St. Catharines, St. Paul.

  Each program at the MIWSFPA is offering a special welcome to their students.  For example, if you are a beginning your studies as a major in Dramatic Arts, check out what that Department has scheduled for you and plan to join in the fun.  You are also welcome to join the activities of each program at the School even if you are only taking one course or beginning a minor program.  The activities and welcome messages from each program are listed below.

  Professor David Vivian, of the Department of Dramatic Arts (he teaches design and production for theatre), is the Director of the School:

  David will be hosting office hours on September 8, 2020, from 12-3:00 pm,on Teams.
  Drop in and say hi! (click here)

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  We all wish you a very successful year at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts.

  Tags: 2020, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, MIWSFPA, ORIENTATION, STAC, studies in arts and culture
  Categories: Announcements, Current Students, Events, Faculty & Instructors, Future Students, In the Media, News, Uncategorised