Events
Embodied Thought is a duo-exhibition featuring fourth year Visual Art Studio students Esther Kim and Rebecca Garcia in the Samuel J. Zacks Gallery in Stong College. Using photography to experience time, sculpture to encapsulate the human form, and figure drawings to draw parallels, the two artists aim to create a dialogue through their respective media about the rawness of being human. By integrating sculpture with photography and illustration, the exhibit allows viewers to immerse themselves through the different layers of physical stress and psychological foundations as well as the emotional and mental burdens of the embodied thought.
Esther Kim is a Canadian born Korean artist that explores her obsession about the human body through the materialization of her work. Her practice involves metal fabrication, woodworking, and mould making; creating an indefinite permanence in a tangible form, emphasized through the juxtaposition in medium and scale. Inspired by the philosophy of the mind and body, her research becomes the grounding element from where her work stems.
Rebecca Garcia is a Toronto born Hispanic artist exploring identity through an androgynous perspective. As part of her groundwork, she uses her respective artistic media to project intense and dramatic emotions as repercussions of unstable thought. As part of her research, the artist tries to unravel the various feminine and masculine forms of expression and finding ways to homogenize them. By means of sculptural practices, figure drawing and black and white film photography, Rebecca is continuously sculpting ideas of a superficial beauty laden with dark and even unexpected emotional charge.
Where: Samuel J. Zacks Gallery, Stong College Room 109
When: Nov 5-30, 2018
Hours: 11:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Reception: Thurs Nov 15, 6:30pm
50 years since its founding, Theatre @ York opens the 2018-2019 season with the premiere of rochdale, a new play by David Yee under the direction of Nina Lee Aquino, featuring the fourth-year acting ensemble.
Opened in 1968, Rochdale College was an experiment in student-run alternative education and co-operative living. The project ultimately failed when it could not cover its financing and neighbours complained that it had become a haven for drugs and crime.
“We are delighted to open our season with a new Canadian play that embraces the same spirit of experimentation and social advocacy that guided the founding of the Department of Theatre at York 50 years ago,” commented department chair Marlis Schweitzer. David Yee and Nina Lee Aquino have collaborated on a play that not only gives voice to the youth, energy, and passion of the 1960s but also resonates with students today. We are incredibly fortunate to have such Canadian innovators kick off this season, as we reflect on the past 50 years and look ahead to the future.”
David Yee is a Canadian actor, playwright and the artistic director of fu-Gen Theatre Company. His play carried away on the crest of a wave won the 2015 Governor General Award.
Nina Lee Aquino is an award-winning director and dramaturge, and the Artistic Director of Factory Theatre. She is committed to the development of new works, and to the manifestation of interculturalism in theatre.
Performance Schedule:
7:30 p.m. on November 17, 19-23
1:00 p.m. on November 21 & 23
2 p.m. on November 24
Tickets $7- 20
Online Box Office or call 416-736-5888
The Department of Dance Presents
dance innovations
Fierce – Powerful new works by the next generation of dance makers
Artistic Director Julia Sasso & Performance Course Director Freya Bjorg Olafson
Stage Manager York Dance alumna Kiera Shaw
PERFORMANCES Nov 21-23
Program A – 6:30 pm
Program B – 7:45 pm
Program C – 9pm
Admission:
$18 per program
($12 advance purchase until Sun. Nov. 18)
Box Office: 416. 736.5888 | ampd.yorku.ca/boxoffice
The Department of Dance Presents
dance innovations
Fierce – Powerful new works by the next generation of dance makers
Artistic Director Julia Sasso & Performance Course Director Freya Bjorg Olafson
Stage Manager York Dance alumna Kiera Shaw
PERFORMANCES Nov 21-23
Program A – 6:30 pm
Program B – 7:45 pm
Program C – 9pm
Admission:
$18 per program
($12 advance purchase until Sun. Nov. 18)
Box Office: 416. 736.5888 | ampd.yorku.ca/boxoffice
Join the legendary Abenaki filmmaker, singer, artist and activist Alanis Obomsawin for a riveting journey through her career and life, viewing clips and talking with award-winning filmmaker/curator Ariel Smith. A veteran of the National Film Board since 1971, when she made Christmas at Moose Factory, Obomsawin has made over 50 films, including Incident at Restigouche, Our People Will Be Healed, Trick or Treaty and Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Metis Child. Her extraordinary feature documentary Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance takes viewers inside the barricades of the Mohawk 78-day uprising at Oka. Among her countless awards and honours, the Cinema Politica Alanis Obomsawin Award is named for her “awe-inspiring and unstoppable dedication to social justice and political documentary.”
Presented by the School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) Department of Cinema & Media Arts (CMA) and Shan & Jaya Chandrasekar Visiting Artist/Scholar Residency
Free to Cinema & Media Arts students and alumni. Registration is required by email: johngreyzone@gmail.com
A shuttle bus is available from the Keele campus, leaving at 11:30 and returning at 5pm. Contact johngreyzone@gmail.com for location details as part of your RSVP.
Mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó leads a masterclass with young singers from the classical vocal performance studios of York music faculty members Catherine Robbin, Stephanie Bogle, Norma Burrowes and Karen Rymal.
Observers are welcome at the masterclass, but please use discretion when entering and exiting the hall.
Hungarian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó has become highly sought after in both North America and Europe as an artist of supreme musicianship and stagecraft. The Chicago Tribune exclaimed, “Krisztina Szabó stole her every scene with her powerful, mahogany voice and deeply poignant immersion in the empress’ plight” after her performance of Ottavia in L’incoronazione di Poppea. She made her Lincoln Center début as Dorabella in Così fan tutte at the Mostly Mozart Festival where she was praised in the New York Times for being “clear, strong, stately and an endearingly vulnerable Dorabella.” In her hometown of Toronto, Canada, she has been nominated twice for a Dora Award for Outstanding Female Performance.
In the 2017-18 season, Krisztina Szabó will make her Royal Opera and Netherlands Opera débuts in George Benjamin’s new opera, Lessons in Love and Violence. She will also appear as Angel/Marie in Benjamin’s Written on Skin for both Opera Philadelphia and the Holland Festival, and as Dido in both Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) and Aeneas and Dido (James Rolfe) with Toronto Masque Theatre, Toronto. She will appear in concert with Pax Christi Chorale (Bruckner’s Te Deum), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder), Arion Baroque Orchestra (Bach Mass in A Major), Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal (Sokolovic’s Pesma), and she will be soloist in Händel’s Messiah with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra , Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra and Vancouver Early Music. In March 2018, she will début a new song cycle by Jeffrey Ryan with Canadian Art Song Project in recital with pianist, Steven Philcox.
Photo by: Bo Huang
The York University Concert and Chamber Choirs
Dr. Lisette Canton, Conductor
Matthew Larkin, Organ
Join the York University Concert and Chamber Choirs as they perform Fauré’s Requiem and
Langlais’ Messe solennelle.
Advance Ticket Admission: $20 | $10 students & seniors (advance purchase before Friday, November 23
, 2018)
Box Office: Purchase tickets online or call 416-736-5888
Tickets at Door: Tickets (advance and at door): 20 adults, $10 students/seniors
Location: Christ Church Deer Park
1570 Yonge St,, Toronto, ON M4T 1Z8
Toronto-based artist Julia Dault has been the subject of solo exhibitions at 3:e Våningen, Gothenburg, Sweden; the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; and The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto. Her paintings and sculptures were featured in the New Museum’s triennial and the Marrakesh and Gwangju Biennales as well as group exhibitions at such institutions as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston; and the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, and are in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, among others. Dault’s work will be included in “Hinge Picture, Memory Images” at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans in spring 2019.Admission is free. All welcome.
The Visual Art Speaker Series is organized by the Department of Visual Art & Art History in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design.
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Disrupters, This is Disrupter X. Pamela Phatsimo Suntrum in collaboration with Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. Germany, 2014.[/caption]
CLAUDIA SICONDOLFO
IN CONVERSATION WITH PAMELA PHATSIMO SUNSTRUM
on
THE DISRUPTER X PROJECT
Thursday, November 29, 2018
7:00 PM
Join us at the home of Sensorium Director Laura Levin for an evening of conversation between Sensorium Graduate Student Caucus member Claudia Sicondolfo (PhD student, Cinema & Media Arts) and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum (Visual Art & Art History faculty member). Following a screening of a short introductory video-documentary created by Pamela and her collaborator, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Claudia and Pamela will be discussing THE DISRUPTER X PROJECT.
THE DISRUPTER X PROJECT is an ongoing collaboration between Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum and Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. The artists liberally describe this multimedia performance work as an ‘anti-opera’. The world of the anti-opera is created by video projections, live internet streaming, dioramas, holograms, handmade replicas of archival objects, original music created from archival instruments and live performers. ‘IF YOU DO IT RIGHT’ was the first iteration of the project and was performed in Nantes, France in 2013. In 2014 they presented ‘DISRUPTERS, THIS IS DISRUPTER X’ in Bayreuth, Germany. In 2015 they installed ‘NOTES FROM THE ANCIENTS’ in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Claudia Sicondolfo is a Vanier Scholar and doctoral candidate at York University (Cinema & Media Arts). Her doctoral research project examines educational and community outreach building within Canadian digital screen institutions, collectives, and film festivals. Claudia has worked extensively with educational communities across Canada and has published companion curriculum for interactive and traditional documentaries, including Highrise and Offshore. Her writing has also been published in Public Journal and is forthcoming in Senses of Cinema. She is co-chair of the Toronto Film and Media Seminar.
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum is Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Visual Art & Art History. Her multidisciplinary work encompasses drawing and animation, and alludes to mythology, geology and theories on the nature of the universe. Her drawings, narrative landscapes that appear simultaneously futuristic and ancient, shift between representational and fantastical depictions of volcanic, subterranean, cosmological and precipitous landscapes.
Classical piano students from the studio of Professor Christina Petrowska Quilico showcase their talent.
Free admission. Everyone welcome.
Professor Mark Chambers conducts the York University Symphony Orchestra.
Admission: $15 | $10 for students & seniors.
Box Office: Purchase tickets online or phone
The York University Gospel Choir directed by Professor Karen Burke presents a rafter-raising concert of works by Hezekiah Walker, Edwin Hawkins, Kirk Franklin and other Gospel greats.
The 100+ voice choir is backed by a rhythm section directed by Corey Butler:
Karen Burke is a pre-eminent singer, music director, choral conductor and composer in the field of African-American vocal music. An authority on the history and performance practices of Gospel music, she has worked with many major choral ensembles and organizations including the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Youth Choir, Toronto Choral Society and Ontario Choral Federation, as well as numerous schools and church congregations. In 1988, she co-founded the Juno Award-winning Toronto Mass Choir and continues to serve as its principal director, touring nationally and internationally.
Fri. November 30, 7:30 – 9pm
Sat. December 1, 7:30 – 9pm
Admission: $15 | $10 students & seniors
Box Office: ampd.yorku.ca/perform/boxoffice | 416-736-5888
The York University Wind Symphony presents a concert featuring various classical works.
William Thomas, conductor
Admission: $15 | $10 students & seniors
Box Office: Purchase tickets online or phone 416-736-5888
Fourth year Visual Arts student Karice Mitchell solo photography show Heatwave manipulates black and white film with heat to produce abstract images.
The mediums all of the work will be photo based and digitally printed allowing the artist to curate the pieces physically within the gallery space with sculptural approach. By manipulating these large images into different forms her intent is to engage viewers with each piece as an object but also acknowledge how all the pieces work together to fully create an immersive space.
Gallery Hours:
Monday to Friday, 10:30am – 4pm
Admission is free and all are welcome.
Upper year visual art student Courtney Fairweather’s solo exhibition When I Grow Up … is a critical examination of “traditional” gender roles.
Gallery Hours:
Mon. – Thurs. 10am – 4pm.
Admission is free and all are welcome