Department of Theatre
presents
Class of 2020
Gradzoomation Celebration
The Class of 2020 Gradzoomation Celebration is now available on YouTube.
YouTube: http://youtu.be/7MTW7FdyNeA
The YSDN 2020 Grad show is now live!
The Department of Design presents the class of 2020 Graduate Design show online.
We are proud to finally present the hard work of our design graduates through our online graduation showcase at YSDN2020.com. We hope you will take some time to view the diverse selection of projects and encourage you to contact the students to support their work.
Thank you all for your support and encouragement. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to use the live chat feature on the site!
Learn more about our graduates
Want a more personal look into the journey of our graduates? The Medium articles feature conversations with a handful of students from YSDN. In these interviews, they discuss their experience in the YSDN program and reflect on their growth as designers. Click here for more.
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Peripheral Vision Speaker Series: Online
Did you know that the 2019 Peripheral Visions Speaker Series lectures are available online? Check out the Peripheral Visions Speaker Series website for more information regarding the series, featured speakers and ongoing work!
Running from January 2019 to March 2019, the Peripheral Vision Speaker Series presented scholars/artists working within critical disability and Indigenous frameworks to address vision, blind epistemology and art, crip technoscience, and Indigenous visioning practices. The series explored and critiqued the primacy of vision, problematizing the normalcy of ‘perfect’ vision, and worked to innovate blind and multi-sensory ways of knowing.
Curated by Mary Bunch, Laura Levin and Lauren Sergio the Peripheral Vision Speaker Series was hosted by York University’s Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology in the School of Art, Media, Performance and Design. The series was sponsored by SSHRC, CREF, VISTA -Vision: Science to Applications, The Departments of Theatre and Cinema and Media Arts, the Performance Studies (Canada) Speaker Series and the Graduate Program in Critical Disability Studies. Other partners included Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Access to Life, Tangled Art + Disability, and the New College Disability Studies Speaker Series at the University of Toronto.
THE LLANDOVERY CASTLE
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Watch the first fully-staged production of The Llandovery Castle on YouTube.
The opera brings to life an important an important but little-known part of Canadian history. It is a beautifully-expressed tribute to Canadian nurses in particular, and healers in general who for millennia have put themselves in harm’s way to serve their communities and humankind.
Grab your favourite snacks, find a comfy seat, and get ready to experience York University Department of Music Professor, Stephanie Martin & York University Alumni, Paul Ciufo’s joyous and inspiring music drama.
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The opera centres on the 14 nurses of the hospital ship Llandovery Castle who served in harrowing circumstances throughout the war, their care and compassion contrasting with the chaos and violence surrounding them.
With music by Stephanie Martin and libretto by Paul Ciufo, the opera spotlights in particular the lives of Minnie ‘Kate’ Gallaher and Rena ‘Bird’ McLean, the latter traumatized by earlier battlefield-area nursing, and her quest to prove herself ready to return to the Front. Bird seeks to convince her superior, Matron Margaret ‘Pearl’ Fraser, that she is strong enough to serve close to the action once more, little imagining the fatal turn their assignment would take.
The music of The Llandovery Castle skirts boundaries of genre and style. Scored for a sonorous classical chamber orchestra and nine singers, it has been described as “a modern flirtation between baroque, classical, traditional and popular genres.” Composer Stephanie Martin describes this operatic style as “21st-century bel canto”, focused on the narrative and expressive power of the human voice.
Mixed Reality Performance Symposium: York
If you were unable to attend the November 5, 2019 Toasterlab Mixed Reality Performance Symposium at York University you can now view recordings of live webcast presentations and panel discussions here.
The Mixed Reality Performance Symposium: York is the first of six symposiums hosted by mixed reality producers Toasterlab, and will explore extended and mixed reality performance. Artists and new media creators will share modes of working and recent successes in VR, AR, and immersive theatre.
Projects include:
- TrailOff – Swim Pony, Adrienne Mackey, Artistic Director (Philadelphia)
- The Stranger 2.0 – Dopolavoro Teatrale (DLT), Daniele Bartolini, Artistic Director (Toronto)
- Public2 – Jane Gotch Dance, Jane Gotch, Choreographer (Toronto/Kansas City)
- Blue Hour/36Q – Blue Hour/36Q, Paul Cegys, Project Leader (Prague)
- Parkway Forest VR – Friends of Parkway Forest Park, Toasterlab (Toronto)
- Jacqueiries – Jacob Niedzwiecki (Toronto/Calgary)
- Groundworks – Dancing Earth Creations: Groundworks (San Francisco)
- HistArch3D – Harrison Forsyth, York University (Toronto)
- After Dan Graham – David Han, York University (Toronto)
Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, Toasterlab’s Mixed Reality Performance Atelier is a two-year deep dive into the current mixed reality methods used by theatre and performance makers across Canada and the U.S. Every four months, an Atelier cohort will present progress on their projects at a symposium hosted by Toasterlab in partnership with a university and the Atelier’s advisory board. When the Atelier concludes in June 2021, Toasterlab will share open source tools, guidelines, and instructional material for the creation of immersive media in an arts context.
Toasterlab creates place-based extended reality experiences that promote deeper engagement with history, community, and imagination. Toasterlab combines expertise in storytelling, theatrical and media production, and the development of new technology to produce both original work and partnerships. Our work ranges from live site-specific live performance to bespoke mobile applications and VR films, and often combines a variety of approaches to collapse time and space for the delivery of impactful narratives. From the largest festivals to community youth workshops, we build accessible ways to understand places in whole new ways.
Sponsored/Supported by:
Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology
Canada Council for the Arts
The Knowledge Mobilization Unit is pleased to announce a new 8-week self-directed online version of our MobilizeYU course!
Participants will learn about knowledge mobilization planning, effective ways to share academic research with society and how to measure and communicate the impacts of their research.
Knowledge Mobilization Unit staff, along with guest speakers will be covering topics such as, Knowledge Mobilization Planning; Clear Language Writing and Design; Impact and Evaluation; and Building Partnerships.
The course will take place from June 22 to August 14 using a private online platform and is free for all York faculty, graduate students and staff.
To learn more, please visit http://bit.ly/MobilizeYU
Looking to connect with members of the YorkU community and have fun? Attend our Virtual Coffee Breaks on Zoom — Students, Staff & Faculty are welcome!
Today’s Topic: As school starts back again, get a jump start by planning your semester ahead of time, as we talk about tips and tricks that can help us stay organized!
Guest: Student Counselling and Development (SCD)
Additional Information
What is a Virtual Coffee Break?
Student Leaders will be on Zoom Monday to Friday with different fun and interesting topics. When you sign up, a confirmation email with the zoom link will be sent to you upon registration. You can stay for as long or as short as you please!
View our Calendar for the full Virtual Coffee Break weekly schedule.
Topics Covered This Week
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| Monday, July 13, 2020 | Getting Organized from the Start of the Semester |
| Tuesday, July 14, 2020 | Paint Night |
| Wednesday, July 15, 2020 | Workout Wednesday: Yoga |
| Thursday, July 16, 2020 | Arts & Crafts Night |
| Friday, July 17, 2020 | Be Kind to Yourself and Others |
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Our Career Peer Educator will be online on zoom to help with:
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Today’s topic is Career chats with York International Students!
Are you an international student and feeling a little lost career-wise or do you have career-related questions?
Join us in the Career Corner: Ask the Pros on Zoom:
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No registration required. Career Corner gives you an opportunity to connect with Career Professionals virtually. Chat with our in-house experts in a group setting to answer your general career questions or find the right services and resources to help you with your career journey.
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