Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts
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OPENING TODAY: VISA 4F06 Honours Exhibition CODA May 12 to 26, 2021 Curator: Sarah Martin... Featuring work from: RENZ BALUYOT | BRIANNE CASEY | AIDAN FRENETTE REA KELLY | JIM KERSHAW | RACHEL MCCARTNEY | JESS MCCLELLAND | LILLIAN PASQUA | KIRA PRETTY | CURT RICHARDS | KAITLYN ROBERTS TAYLOR SORENSEN | CHARDON TRIMBLE-KIRK | ZACH WHITE CODA is a collaborative exhibition of 14 Brock University Visual Arts (VISA) Honours Studio students and alumni. Through these artists' individual bodies of work, CODA is an overarching contemporary exploration of individual voice and visual languages. This exhibition considers the engagement of traditional material with unconventional installation. Mounted at the Rodman Hall Arts Centre, CODA will be available to view virtually shortly through a 360 gallery tour and virtual exhibition dropping early next week...stay tuned for virtual viewing details! Congratulations to the artists showing their work! Image: "Port Weller" by Aidan Frenette Image description: A faded photograph with a pink hue showing a fence and sign for "4 Welland Canals Pky" and a "do not walk" sign. The exhibition details for CODA are shown at the bottom right of the poster in grey and white type.

Inspiring words from our friends and partners FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre. Thank you for sharing, there will be joy! #TheArtsLiveHere #DowntownSTC #LoveSTC #BrockU #PerformingArts

While the look of a classic Polaroid picture is familiar to most people, interdisciplinary artist Amber Lee Williams (BA ’20) is challenging that standard and garnering international attention with her creative use of the iconic medium. Read more

The Small Walker Press (SWP) is announcing two new spring publications with an online book launch page. Read on for details and how to view! https://brocku.ca//small-walker-press-launches-publicatio/

Brock University will join the Niagara region and the rest of the province in moving into a lockdown under Ontario’s COVID-19 response framework later this week.... These changes will be effective at noon Thursday, Dec. 24 and will impact many areas of Brock until at least Jan. 22, including virtually all classes starting the Winter Term online. For more information about Brock’s COVID-19 measures, please visit brocku.ca/coronavirus

To all the faculty, staff, friends and guests of the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, we wish you a wonderful holiday season and send best wishes for a healthy, Happy New Year! The School will close on Dec. 24 at noon, and resume operations on Jan. 6, 2021. Thank you to all for your dedication and support in 2020! We look forward to connecting in the new year!

Take a "behind-the-screen" look at the making of the #DART fall Mainstage "Scenes from an Execution" by Howard Barker! Visit our #MIWSFPA YouTube channel to watch the video produced by the student cast and crew

Solo recital students from Brock University’s Department of Music perform their class recitals in the new DIY Home Edition virtual concert series. Generously ...sponsored by the RBC Foundation, this free concert series takes place most Tuesdays at noon throughout the academic year. These recitals are open to the public, and feature our performance faculty, special guests, as well as talented students and alumni. For the 2020-21 season, we are getting creative! We are presenting our Tuesday Music@Noon series virtually in partnership with the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre: WATCH LIVE ON YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK OR WWW.FIRSTONTARIOPAC.CA Special thanks to the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre for their continuing collaboration and facilitating safe access to the Recital Hall for Music students. #BrockU #FirstOntPAC #TheArtsLiveHere

Event Reminder: "Rethinking Robert Lepage - The Next Decade of Lepage Studies: An online panel discussion" is this Friday, Nov. 27 at 1 p.m. EST Stay tuned for a 50% discount code for attendees for Karen Fricker’s book "Robert Lepage’s Original Stage Productions: Making Theatre Global." Discount code will be announced during Friday’s panel, generously supported by Manchester University Press. Full webinar details and the Zoom link to join below

The shift to online learning has not stopped Brock Dramatic Arts and Faculty of Education students from connecting with newcomers, educators and theatre makers around the globe. Read the full story below #BrockU #TheArtsLiveHere #OurHomeSTC #DowntownSTC

Thank you to St. Catharines Standard readers for choosing the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts as platinum winner for Best Art School/Instruction the 2020 Readers Choice Awards! A big congratulations as well to Willow Arts Community and The Painted Turtle Pottery Studio for their wins We are honoured to be a part of this amazing arts community! #TheArtsLiveHere #BrockU Brock University Dramatic Arts Brock University Music #BrockUVISA #BrockUSTAC Brock University Brock University Faculty of Humanities

Students from Brock University’s Department of Music perform their class recitals in the new DIY Home Edition virtual concert series. Download the Music@Noon ..."DIY Home Edition" program here: https://brocku.ca///concerts/rbc-foundation-music-at-noon/ Generously sponsored by the RBC Foundation, this free concert series takes place most Tuesdays at noon throughout the academic year. These recitals are open to the public, and feature our performance faculty, special guests, as well as talented students and alumni. For the 2020-21 season, we are getting creative! We are presenting our Tuesday Music@Noon series virtually in partnership with the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre: WATCH LIVE ON YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK OR WWW.FIRSTONTARIOPAC.CA Special thanks to the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre for their continuing collaboration and facilitating safe access to the Recital Hall for Music students. #BrockU #FirstOntPAC #TheArtsLiveHere

EVENT REMINDER - The DART/MIWSFPA 2020-21 BIPOC Speaker Series continues tomorrow night at 7 p.m. on Zoom: "Better relations": A virtual conversation over dinner with Dora-Award-winning Métis playwright, director, and arts leader Keith Barker. In this conversation Barker will talk about his work as artistic director of Native Earth, Canada's oldest professional Indigenous theatre company; about his relation-based practice as an Indigenous theatremaker; and about how he is mo...ving forward as an artist and community leader during the extended COVID-19 crisis. "The best work comes from safe spaces. The only way I know how to create safe space is through good relations. In my artistic career the most impactful experiences always started with food," says Barker. You are invited to bring your evening meal and break bread during the event, along with Keith and interviewer Karen Fricker. Don't miss this unique session, registration is free. Please reserve your spot below.

The RBC Foundation Music@Noon Series kicks off tomorrow in a new virtual format! Solo recital students from the Department of Music at #MIWSFPA perform in the "DIY Home Edition" concert series. A big thank you to our partners at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre for your collaboration and helping us to bring wonderful music to our community! "See" you there tomorrow! #TheArtsLiveHere #BrockUMusic #ourhomestc Brock University Faculty of Humanities Brock University

Next up on the Brock University Music Music@Noon concert series: Voice, strings and guitar students! Tune in tomorrow at noon for the next virtual performance from our talented #BrockU Music students, watch on our Music Facebook page or head over to our #MIWSFPA YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1d5QiJWuudj3tN-TPTaSpA

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Theatre in the Era of Climate Crisis - A weekend of performances and discussion of the intersection between climate change, performing arts and activism Activism and climate change will collide with performing arts over three days of online events held as part of the Walker Cultural Leaders Series. Brock University’s Department of Dramatic Arts (DART) has teamed up with the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre to offer online performances and virtual discussions from Friday, N...Continue reading

Online Event - Tue, November 24, 2020, 7:00-8:00 pm. One of the industries hardest hit by COVID-19 is the performing arts, particularly genres like opera, which... has traditionally involved dozens of performers and artisans presenting shows for hundreds of people per night. In this talk, Professor Nina Penner, Department of Music, will discuss what local opera companies (e.g., the Canadian Opera Company, Opera Atelier, Against the Grain Theatre) are doing to keep the art form alive and speculate about the future of opera in Canada. - Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine & Performing Arts, Brock University Faculty of Humanities, Brock University See more

UPCOMING EVENT: Mark your calendars for one week from today: "Rethinking Robert Lepage - The Next Decade of Lepage Studies: An online panel discussion". Forty years into his career, Robert Lepage remains Québec and Canada’s best-known and most talked-about theatre director, but his impact has been hard to pin down. The scholars on this panel will try to do just that, by considering questions of legacy, influence, and responsibility. What has Lepage contributed to theatre and ...performance, and to what extent did controversies about cultural appropriation in two of his 2018 productions tarnish his reputation and brand? Join panelists Christie Carson (independent scholar, UK), Karen Fricker (Brock University), Melissa Poll (Simon Fraser University), and James Reynolds (freelance writer, UK) and chair Peter Dickinson (Simon Fraser University) for a lively 90 minutes of discussion and debate, with each other and audience members. EVENT DETAILS Friday, Nov. 27 at 1 p.m. EST Webinar Link: https://brocku-ca.zoom.us/j/84957834537 Meeting ID: 849 57834537 Brock University Dramatic Arts #BrockU