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
Students in the Department of Music’s Wind Masterclass perform works under the direction of Professor Patricia Wait.
Free admission. All welcome.
We are excited to bring you a new tradition to celebrate the end of a semester, and another year. The first ever “Winters Frolic” at Winters College, with a theme of “Havana Nights”! A formal dinner party event where Cuban-inspired dinner and drinks will be served along with exciting performances by both musicians and dancers. We will be raffling away fantastic prizes, with all proceeds going towards our Winters College student scholarships and funds. Follow us on Instagram: @WintersCollege for a sneak peek of the big day and the prizes we will be raffling off!
Fifth year Visual Art student Eszter Rosta’s solo show Woven, explores materiality, physicality, and objecthood in a number of large-scale raw canvas works.
“I want to play with the prominence of the shape through the materials in question and natural pigmentations such as teas, coffee grounds, plants, etc. Furthermore, I also intend to represent the objecthood of the canvas, by showing them for the canvas that it is – the actual fabrication of the material, the complexity of its weaving, and its natural reference to plants, through processes of manipulation and human imprint.
IMAGE: Eszter Rosta’s Substance (a) – 2018
Gallery Hours:
Mon. – Thurs. 10am – 4pm.
Admission is free and all are welcome
York University music students showcase their talent.
Free admission. Everyone welcome.
Welcome to Winters College and AMPD!
AMPD Winter Orientation is an event for all new students affiliated with the School of AMPD and Winters College. Our unique and spirited community has so much to offer throughout the school year. Please join us on January 11th to meet our enthusiastic community, and to learn about: The Winters College Office, Winters College Council, the York International team, your Peer Leaders and Academic Support!
Want to study music at York?
Our Music Audition Prep Workshop is for you!
In this 90-minute session, you will:
- learn how to prepare for all the elements of our music audition: sight reading, performance and interview
- get tips on how to choose your audition pieces
- find out more about our music program and admission process
You’ll also have the opportunity to:
- chat with professors
- meet current students in the program
- enjoy live performances by our faculty members
Following the workshop, take a tour of the state-of-the-art facilities and equipment available to York music students. Check out the classrooms, studios, labs, informal study spaces and concert venues where you’ll learn, compose, conduct research, rehearse and perform as a music student at York.
Bring your questions! Friends and family are welcome.
Admission to the Music Audition Prep Workshop is free but pre-registration is required.
Reserve your spot now by emailing musicprg@yorku.ca. Please let us know how many people will be in your party.
We look forward to meeting you!
Themed yoga classes to help you stay active and healthy in body and mind. Don’t forget to bring a water bottle and yoga mat!
Every Monday : 10:00am – 11:00am, and Thursday : 1:00pm – 2:00pm
No classes on Feb 14th, 18th and 21st.
The York University New Music Ensemble directed by Matt Brubeck performs an eclectic mix of new music.
Free admission. Everyone welcome.
Kleege explores the ways blindness and visual art are linked in many facets of the culture, speaking from her position as the blind daughter of two visual artists. Due to this background, she claims to know something about art, but recognizes that this claim challenges cultural notions that conflate seeing with knowing. She examines the ways blindness has been represented in philosophy, visual culture, and cognitive science, showing how these traditional understandings of blindness rely on an over-determined, one-to-one correspondence between touch in the blind and sight in the sighted, as if the other senses and other forms of cognition play no role in perception. Unfortunately, this reductive image of blindness often influences the design of museum access programs for the blind, including touch tours and verbal description of art. Kleege places these representations in conversation with autobiographical accounts by blind people, especially blind and visually impaired artists.
Georgina Kleege is a Professor of English, University of California. Her collection of personal essays, Sight Unseen (1999) is a classic in the field of disability studies. Essays include an autobiographical account of Kleege’s own blindness, and cultural critique of depictions of blindness in literature, film, and language. Many of these essays are required reading for students in disability studies, as well as visual culture, education, public health, psychology, philosophy and ophthalmology. Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller (2006) transcends the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction to re-imagine the life and legacy of this celebrated disability icon. Kleege’s latest book, More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art (2018) is concerned with blindness and visual art: how blindness is represented in art, how blindness affects the lives of visual artists, how museums can make visual art accessible to people who are blind and visually impaired. She has lectured and served as consultant to art institutions around the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Tate Modern in London.
Faculty and graduate Students are also welcome to participate in a Master Class at the Sensorium Loft January 17, 2019 | 11 am-1 pm Please RSVP pvl@yorku.ca
Co-sponsored by Peripheral Vision Lab, Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology, VISTA, The Departments of Theatre and Cinema and Media Arts, the Canada Research Excellence Fund, the Performance Studies (Canada) Speaker Series, and the Graduate Program in Critical Disability Studies.
Gareth Burgess has refined his talents over the past 15 years while playing in some of Toronto’s top steelbands including, Silhouettes, Panatics, and Earl La Pierre’s famed ensemble Afropan.
Please join us as Gareth and his ensemble take us on a musical journey around the globe with an exciting mix musical fusion that will leave you enthralled.
Gareth Burgess – steelpan
Andrew Stewart – bass guitar
Rico Anthony – Drums
Eric St.Laurent – Guitar
Admission is free.
The Media Music Concert (MMC:VIII) is a showcase of film, television and video game music arranged and performed by York music students.
This year’s arrangements include music from Zelda, Harry Potter, Star Trek, Superman, Pirates of the Caribbean and more.
The Music Media Concert is in its seventh consecutive year and is organized by the Music Students Association at York University and the School of the Arts, Media Performance & Design.
Admission: $15 | $10 for students & seniors.
Box Office: Purchase tickets online or phone 416-736-5888
For the past two decades, Jennifer and Nick have collaborated on an extraordinary series of films, from their award-winning feature documentaries (Let it Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles, Manufactured Landscapes, Payback, Watermark) and concert films (Long Time Running) to complex gallery installations in collaboration with photographer Edward Burtynsky.
Collaboration – with each other and with a dizzying range of diverse thinkers and artists – is often both fulcrum and dialectic for their project of making unforgettable images and ideas, ones that have captivated and challenged audiences around the world. With Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, their epic 2018 gallery exhibition/documentary co-production with Burtynsky, they explore radical new ways to co-author work, even as they bear unflinching witness to our global climate-change disaster.
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
Third year Visual Art students Ellen Soule and Liv Paul team up to create and present Just the Wind, a mixed-media exhibition that invites viewers to ask questions about the way they experience fear and trauma.
“It is a well-known expression that most people have encountered when hearing a strange noise that it was “just the wind” rather than an intruder – human, or spectral. Our joint exhibition focuses on the experience of our fears or traumas and how we process them. We want people to connect with a moment they remember hearing the phrase so that they immediately recognize their connection to the works. We hope that people will see their own fears represented in the visualizations of our personal fears, which are common in many people but create different reactions individually. ”
IMAGE: Liv Paul – Portrait of Ellen, ink drawing
Gallery Hours:
Mon. – Thurs. 10am – 4pm.
Admission is free and all are welcome