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Feb 22 - Visiting artist: Daniel Barrow

Feb 21-22 – Visiting writer: Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti

Tuesday, February 21, 7:30 p.m.
Open Space, 510 Fort Street
By donation

Wednesday, February 22, 3:00 p.m.
MacLaurin Building, Rm. D107
Free

Back in 2008, writer Sheila Heti tapped into the American zeitgeist by creating The Metaphysical Poll, a headline-making blog that collected actual sleeping dreams people were having about then-presidential candidates Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. But that’s only one of the many quirky DIY projects that keep this Toronto-based author of five books busy. Learn what’s true and what’s just popular when Sheila Heti appears at the latest round of the “Open Word: Readings and Ideas”

Perhaps best known for her novel Ticknor and the book of “conversational philosophy” The Chairs Are Where the People Go, Heti also made her mark by creating Toronto’s popular Trampoline Hall lecture series, where people lecture on topics outside their areas of expertise—which has been running monthly since its 2001 inception, and has sold out every time. An editor, playwright and artistic collaborator, Heti is currently writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario. Following her Open Space reading on Feb. 21, Heti will do a live interview with UVic writing prof, Lee Henderson.

Feb 23 - Faculty Concert: The Suite

Faculty Concert: The Suite

Thursday, February 23, 8:00 p.m.
Faculty Concert Series
The Suite

Featuring Ajtony Csaba, Joanna Hood, Jonathan Goldman, & Daniel Peter Biro

Phillip T. Young Recital Hall
Adults: $17.50 / Students & seniors: $13.50
Ticket Info

Performing transcriptions of traditional and modern dances, from tango and sarabande to sirtaki and dub.

Feb 25 - Conflict & Compromise: The 4th Annual Undergraduate Conference

Friday, February 25, 11:30am - 4:30pm
Harry Hickman Building, Room 105
Free

Join the History in Art Student Association and other undergraduate students at this annual interdisciplinary presentation of papers. This year's theme is "Conflict & Compromise," and the exploration of the issues this dichotomy encompasses. Topics range from the nature of street art to the life of Roman mathematician Hypatia, Boromini's Baroque and holocaust memorials, among others, as well as a keynote speech by English professor, Dr. Joseph Grassi.

Feb 28-29 - Guest Artist: Chaya Czernowin

Guest Artist: Chaya Czernowin

Chaya Czernowin
Composer, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Harvard University

Tuesday, February 28, 3:00 p.m.
Composer Masterclass
Czernowin will coach School of Music composition students on their works in progress.
MacLaurin Building, Rm. B120

Wednesday, February 29, 4:30 p.m.
Guest Lecture: Chaya Czernowin
Czernowin will talk about her recent work including Zohar Iver (Blind Radiance)

• Both events are free and open to the public.

Chaya Czernowin is one of the most prominent composers of new music working today.  Born in Israel, she has lived in Germany, Japan and the U.S and her teachers have included Dieter Schnebel, Joan Tower, Brian Ferneyhough and Roger Reynolds.  Czernowin’s chamber and orchestral music has been played at more than forty festivals all over the world and include commissions by major ensembles, orchestras, and festivals. Characteristic of her work are attempts to find alternative temporalities, changing perspectives and scale, fragmentation, examination, and stretching of identity; all coupled with a strong physical imprint and high emotional intensity. She has been awarded numerous international prizes including: Gaudeamus Composer's Workshop, DAAD Scholarship (Berlin), Stipendium Preis and Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (Darmstadt), Asahi Shimbum Fellowship (Tokyo), NEA Composition Commission Grant, ISCM and IRCAM commissions.

Czernowin is a Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University and a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.

Feb 29 - Visiting artist: Lee Henderson

Wednesday February 29, 8pm, Visual Arts Building, Room A 162

Prior to joining UVic's Department of Writing last year, Lee Henderson lived in Vancouver, where he made a living writing on the visual arts, publishing fiction and teaching creative writing at UBC. He has also lead writing workshops for the Summer Literary Seminar in Montreal as well as at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and with U of T's online writing program.

Lee was raised on the prairies in Saskatoon and Calgary but settled out west shortly after high school. Before making books and stories, Lee made cookies, hamburgers, invoices, ad copy, and once, long ago, made the animation for artist Tony Oursler's video for Sonic Youth's song 'Tunic;' and once, even longer ago than that, played in a John Cage 'happening' at the Banff Centre. Lee has published two award-winning books with Penguin Canada — the story collection The Broken Record Technique and the novel The Man Game, which won the BC Book Prize and the Vancouver Book Prize in 2009. His essay on language extinction and corporate English was published in the anthology Finding the Words, edited by Jared Bland. Lee's fiction and art writing is regularly published in The Walrus and Border Crossings magazine, and other short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and journals. He has curated exhibitions of contemporary art and experimental music.

Mar 2 — UVic Orchestra with Ensemble Nikel

UVic Orchestra with Ensemble Nikel

Friday, March 2, 8:00 p.m.
University of Victoria Orchestra
with guests Ensemble Nikel (Belgium/Switzerland/Israel)
Ajtony Csaba, conductor

University Centre Farquhar Auditorium
Adults: $17.50 / Students & Seniors: $13.50
Ticket Info

Performing

*World Premiere* of Lovely Monster Reloaded by Bernhard Gander (Austria)
*North American Premiere* of Zohar Iver (Blind Radiance) by Chaya Czernowin (Harvard University)
J.S. Bach – Suite in B-minor BWV 1067
Benjamin Britten – The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Innovative, edgy, and at the forefront of new music in Europe and beyond, Ensemble Nikel will join forces with the University of Victoria Orchestra for an extraordinary evening of classical and contemporary music.  Under the direction of Ajtony Csaba, the orchestra will present the world premiere of Lovely Monster Reloaded by Bernhard Gander and the North American premiere of Chaya Czernowin’s Zohar Iver (Blind Radiance) – a concerto for Ensemble Nikel (saxophone, electric guitar, piano and percussion) and orchestra.  Czernowin, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University, will be present for the performance and will take part in a pre-performance talk.

SALT Festival

This concert is included in the second annual SALT Festival, an exciting and innovative two-day festival of contemporary music that brings together Canadian and international artists.  On Saturday, March 3, the festival will feature Tsilumos Ensemble (UVic’s Joanna Hood, Ajtony Csaba and Dániel Péter Biró, as well as Kris Covlin), Ensemble Nikel, celebrated Victoria pianist, Tzenka Dianova, and Olaf Tzschoppe (Germany), member of Les Percussions de Strassburg and one of the greatest percussionists in the world.  Starting at 4pm at Open Space (510 Fort Street) and continuing late into the evening, the Tsilumos Ensemble will present world premieres of new works by Chaya Czernowin and Israeli composer Ruben Seroussi. 

• For further details about this event, visit http://www.openspace.ca/SALT.

Mar 6 — Guest Lecture: Monique Mojica

Monique Mojica

Tuesday, March 6, 7pm
Room C122 of UVic's David Strong Building
Free and open to the public

“Scoring the Body Through Guna Aesthetic Principles: Indigenous Dramatic Arts in Theory, Process and Practice”

Acclaimed Toronto-based Guna and Rappahannock actor and playwright Monique Mojica offers a free public lecture focussing on the five-year process of creating the play Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way, a headliner at the 2012 Talking Stick Festival in Vancouver. Dedicated to theatrical practice as healing, as reclamation of historical/cultural memory, and as an act of resistance, Mojica practices a creative process that privileges Indigenous Knowledges, cultural aesthetics and performance principles.

An acclaimed stage and film actor (nominated for best supporting actress by Native Americans in the Arts for her role in Smoke Signals), Mojica is the former artist director of Native Earth Performing Arts, Canada’s most prominent aboriginal theatre company, and a co-founder of Toronto's Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble. She has taught at McMaster University and at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fé, was the editor of a special issue of Canadian Theatre Review on Native Theatre and was seen as Caesar in Death of a Chief, Native Earth’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

This is a rare opportunity to hear one of Canada's most noted aboriginal performance voices.

Mar 10 - Faculty Chamber Music Series

Faculty Chamber Music Series

Friday, March 10, 8:00 p.m.
Faculty Chamber Music Series

Lafayette String Quartet celebrates 20 years at UVic with their School of Music Colleagues

 

 

 

Program will include:
Saint-Saëns – Septet, Op. 65
Prokofiev  – Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34
David Baker – Sonata for Tuba and String Quartet
…and some surprises

Phillip T. Young Recital Hall
Adults: $17.50 / Students & seniors: $13.50
Ticket Info

Mar 21 - Visiting artist: Allan McCollum

40 Plaster Surrogates

Allan McCollum

Wednesday March 21st, 8pm, Visual Arts Building Room A 162

Allan McCollum has spent over 40 years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world constituted in mass production. His first solo exhibition was in 1970, and his first New York showing was in an exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1972. In 1975, his work was included in the Whitney Biennial, and he moved to New York City that same year. In the late '70s he became known for his series, Surrogate Paintings.

McCollum has had over 100 solo exhibitions, including international retrospectives in France, Germany, England, Sweden, Spain and The Netherlands. He has produced numerous public art projects in the United States and Europe, and his works are held in over 70 art museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. McCollum lives and works in New York City.

Guest Lecture: Monique Mojica
Tuesday, March 6, 7pm
Room C122 of UVic's David Strong Building
Free and open to the public

“Scoring the Body Through Guna Aesthetic Principles: Indigenous Dramatic Arts in Theory, Process and Practice”

Acclaimed Toronto-based Guna and Rappahannock actor and playwright Monique Mojica offers a free public lecture focussing on the five-year process of creating the play Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way, a headliner at the 2012 Talking Stick Festival in Vancouver. Dedicated to theatrical practice as healing, as reclamation of historical/cultural memory, and as an act of resistance, Mojica practices a creative process that privileges Indigenous Knowledges, cultural aesthetics and performance principles.

An acclaimed stage and film actor (nominated for best supporting actress by Native Americans in the Arts for her role in Smoke Signals), Mojica is the former artist director of Native Earth Performing Arts, Canada’s most prominent aboriginal theatre company, and a co-founder of Toronto's Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble. She has taught at McMaster University and at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fé, was the editor of a special issue of Canadian Theatre Review on Native Theatre and was seen as Caesar in Death of a Chief, Native Earth’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

This is a rare opportunity to hear one of Canada's most noted aboriginal performance voices.

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