by mhuston | Apr 8, 2020 | Alumni, Art History & Visual Studies, Graduate, News, School of Music, Theatre, Undergraduate, Visual Arts, Writing
Art for our time
Welcome to week three of The Fine Arts Connector, your weekly listing of news, resources, activities and other shareable content from the Faculty of Fine Arts, specifically compiled for distribution during the current health crisis.
As well as the stories listed below, a number of people in the Fine Arts community made news this week, including:
Please enjoy—and circulate—this collection of material featuring our faculty, students, alumni, staff and guests as a way of both sharing what our creative community is up to and keeping us connected in this difficult moment in history. You can also help by keeping us in the loop if you’re working on a live-streaming project, have online material to share or are involved in something you’d like people to know about: just email either fineartsevents@uvic.ca or johnt@uvic.ca. Finally, you can sign up here to receive automatic notice of The Connector each week.
Current Writing student, Martlet staff writer and Vikes athlete Josh Kozelj penned an op-ed for CBC this week on the differences between physical and social distancing
News
New CBC Creative Relief Fund
CBC has launched a new Creative Relief Fund to provide immediate, urgent support to Canadian creators. This unprecedented new fund will provide $2 million in development & production funding for a diverse range of innovative, original Canadian storytelling—including scripted comedies and dramas, unscripted entertainment, kids & young adult programming, podcasts, play adaptations and short documentaries.
“In this time of challenge and change, we are working as quickly as we can to provide much-needed support to Canadian creators with this initiative that will immediately open up new funding across a range of storytelling,” says CBC Executive Vice-President Barbara Williams. “As we all look for programming to inspire, entertain and connect us during this period of physical distancing, we want to recognize the incredibly important role our artistic and creative communities serve and provide them with urgent funding to innovate and tell their stories in entirely new ways.”
The application period runs April 9-24, with eligible applicants being notified of their project’s status starting on May 8. Full details at this link.
Latest #CanadaPerforms update
Add another $100,000 to the National Arts Centre’s short-term relief fund series #CanadaPerforms, which grew to $700,000 this past week. They’ve also announced they are now continuing their scheduled performance series through to May 31, and are extending the application period to April 20, so there’s still time to apply with your 45-to-60-minute online performance concept and join the likes of current Writing MFA candidate Kim Senklip Harvey, Music alum Clare Yuan (as half of the Meeks Duo) and Theatre alum Charles Ross, who will be offering a livestream production of his One-Man Pride & Prejudice on April 18.
You can see a list of all upcoming #CanadaPerforms events here.
The Great Indoors project
As individuals we’re confined to our own spaces these days. But as a community we can exchange ideas, start conversations, and be there for one another online. With that very thought, UVic launched The Great Indoors on April 6 as a place to experience the vibrancy of UVic’s active academic community from the safety of home.
As the project description notes, The Great Indoors “reflects what happens when we bring together a diverse mix of faculty, staff, students and alumni in a labour of community-love. We hope our content and conversation educates, entertains, inspires and connects.”
Following the format of an online magazine, The Great Indoors offers different sections with different content. You’ll find three pieces involving members of the Fine Arts community in the “Culture Club” section, two of which are drawn from UVic’s Research Reels archive:
If you have something you’d like to share on The Great Indoors, they’re adding content regularly and looking for new posts to share from the UVic community. Email thegreatindoors@uvic.ca with your ideas.
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YYJ Arts United
Much like this blog, YYJ Arts United is another initiative of Acting Dean of Fine Arts, Allana Lindgren. This new Facebook group is conceived as a convenient, one-stop online option to help fill the cultural gap during the current health crisis by sharing online and livestream content from across Victoria’s diverse arts community.
An intentionally cross-discipline initiative, YYJ Arts welcomes posts from any Victoria-based cultural organization or individual artist interested in sharing their creative practice with the general public during these difficult times. Theatre, music, dance, film, opera, literary arts, visual arts, performance art, museum exhibitions . . . all are welcome, as all of Victoria’s arts organizations must stand united.
Micro-loans for artists
If—like so many artists at this time—you’re feeling financially stretched thin, you can explore this option for micro-loan for artists. “Artists of any discipline can request a one-time, no-questions-asked, micro grant of $75 for groceries, food and other essentials,” notes Toronto-based performance company Bad New Days. “Grants will be first come, first served and we’ll keep giving them out as long as the money lasts.”
To apply, simply email Bad New Days and identify that you are an artist in the message. That’s it! No further info is required. They do ask, however, that if you’re in a position to donate anything—no matter how small—please do. “This is a very small action we can do as a community to immediately offer some aid to those who need it,” says BDN’s Adam Paolozza and Victor Pokinko. “If you can give, please do! If you’re in need, please ask!”
Mental health resources
As we look ahead to at least another month of physical distancing, the BC Alliance for Arts & Culture offers an extensive list of mental health resources for artists, ranging from the very specific (“A Guide to Caring for your Coronavirus Anxiety”) to the general (a collection of calm meditations).
And remember, it’s normal to feel stressed, sad, confused, scared or angry in a time of uncertainty and unpredictability. If you’ve noticed an increase in anxiety, be kind to yourself—you’e not alone. All UVic faculty and staff can find support through the employee and family assistance program, while Counselling Services offers free support to current UVic students over the phone at 250-721-8341. You can also call Multifaith Services at 250-721-8338.
Podcast start-ups
While there’s no shortage of free content to peruse right now, why not make time work for you? If you’ve ever thought about starting a podcast, Medium.com offers this fantastic guide to quickly creating a podcast specifically for museums and galleries, big or small.
All’s quiet at the Phoenix Theatre these days
Master of Music Performance candidate Jorge Eduardo Flores Carrizales
“Dream” recital offers echoes of Mexico
Nothing is more stressful for a student musician than a graduation recital—but having your recital upended by a global health crisis adds a whole other level of stress to the process. Consider international Master of Music Performance candidate Jorge Eduardo Flores Carrizales, who was scheduled to present his live performance to his grad committee on March 30, headed by his supervising School of Music professor Arthur Rowe.
“As you know, the School of Music was closed weeks before students were expecting classes to end,” explains Rowe. “A number of students worked especially hard to move their recital dates up for completion. The School in all cases provided an audio technician to record the recitals, which took place in our recital hall with no one else but the technician there.”
Those audio-only files were then sent to the various committees for evaluation, but Carrizales—who Rowe describes as “a wonderful person, and personality, [who] has contributed a great deal to the School of Music”—was eager to take things a step further.
“Since the end of his first year he has been excited about planning his graduating recital, in which he wanted to focus on music and composers of his native Mexico,” explains Rowe. “Fully a year ago, he showed me a map of the country as well as where the composers whom he would chose had lived. Along with this, he planned to display artwork that was representative of the place and time by means of a screen and computer; he had even planned to bring his guitar to play a song that one of the composers used.”
But despite everything changing so dramatically over the past few weeks, Carrizales was reluctant to give up his dream of presenting “this complete picture of his program”. Instead, he hired a videographer at his own expense to record alongside Music’s audio technician on March 30, and then spent his own time editing the recital together.
The resulting concert “Echoes of Mexico” offers, as Carrizales notes in his program, “an anthology of works by Mexican composers that synthesizes more than a century of the history of piano music in the country. The variety of styles presented in this program takes us from Porfirio Díaz’s pre-revolutionary Eurocentric Mexico, to a country in search of a national identity, and finally to the variety of modern styles of the present. [This] program invites you to travel through the diverse landscapes of Mexico, giving you not only a musical perspective, but also broader cultural experience.”
Jorge Carrizales was born in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. At 17 he met the pianist Sergio Peña, with whom he started to study music. Seven months after initiating his piano lessons, Jorge performed his first piano recital at the Ted Sadlowski Music Hall. In 2010, and after the passing of Peña, Carrizales was given a special award to pursue a formal music education in the interior of Mexico. In 2016, he obtained a Bachelor of Music with honours from the University of Guanajuato, where he studied with Elena Podzharova. During his career, Carrizales has given recitals in Mexico, Canada and the United States.
“I think his program is unusual and beautifully presented,” concludes Rowe. “It is also a wonderful representation of the spirit of so many of our students in the face of this enormous difficulty and disruption.”
If you’re moved by his performance (watch to the end for a final flourish), you can reach Jorge Carrizales directly via email.
AHVS grad student challenges isolation
Current Art History & Visual Studies graduate student Ashley Riddett is currently working with Oak Bay’s Gage Gallery Arts Collective to create an online artwork sharing platform and blog series called Challenging Crisis with Creativity.
“We are encouraging anyone from the Greater Victoria area to send along an image of their works,” says Riddett. “These could be painting, drawings, poems, or however one expresses their reactions within our new reality. The goal is to create a space where we can share our works with others and help to foster community outreach and help all of us to realize that we are not alone in this new time.”
Challenging Crisis with Creativity offers shifting weekly themes like “Social Distancing” and “Reconnecting with Nature”, and offer a place for local artists to connect, reflect and share their current work.
“This is essential to my well being, and for other people as well to have that connection,” says Riddett in this April 11 Times Colonist story about the community-building project, which she says, is aimed at inspiring non-artists, “people who aren’t normally asked to participate in gallery exhibitions.” The project was also covered by the Oak Bay News.
You can contact Ashley Riddett via email.
Laughter is still the best medicine
Like most authors launching books this spring, award-winning writer, playwright and Writing/Theatre alum Mark Leiren-Young has had his schedule upended. But while the author of two recent books on orcas—The Killer Whale Who Changed the World and the children’s book Orcas Everywhere: The History and Mystery of Killer Whales—plus two brand-new kids books (Orcas of the Salish Sea, Big Whales, Small World) has had to put his promotional plans on hold, he is continuing to produce his popular podcast Skaana: Orcas and Oceans.
But Leiren-Young is also well known as a humourist: winner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour for his memoir Never Shoot A Stampede Queen: A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo and one-half of the long-running satirical comedy duo Local Anxiety, he was also the 2014 Harvey Stevenson Southam Lecturer in the Writing department, offering a course titled “Finding the Funny”.
In addition to delivering a public lecture in his role as the Southam Lecturer (“You Can’t Say That!? Comedy, Censorship and Sensitivity in the 21st Century”), Leiren-Young also adapted his course for this episode of CBC Radio’s Ideas, which features excerpts from that public lecture as well as a conversation with host Paul Kennedy.
And while the whole idea of comedy right now seems both dangerous and necessary, Leiren-Young was clearly ahead of his time in exploring what happens when a joke goes too far and actually cross “the line”? But what defines “the line”: individual taste, or social convention? Clearly, he’s got the right idea, as he continues to teach courses in both humour writing and TV writing at UVic.
You can also enjoy this separate pre-show talk about the Phoenix Theatre’s 2019 mainstage production of 7 Stories. In this talk from March 15, 2019, he discusses the significance, history and secret origins of Morris Panych’s modern masterpiece 7 Stories in celebration of the play’s 30th anniversary.
by Mark Leiren-
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The world of today, tomorrow
Join us for an informative lecture prior to our performances on the first Friday. For Comic Potential, we welcome Dr. Edwin Hodge who will discuss the importance of sci-fi and other speculative fiction in exploring the human condition.
Dr. Edwin Hodge is an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at the UVic and a research fellow at the Centre for Global Studies. In his role as an educator, Edwin has produced several special topics courses, including ones that examine extremist social movements in North America, but his most enjoyable course has been his course on the Sociology of Star Trek, which examined the cultural impact of the Star Trek franchise.
by Edwin Hodge
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Last year, Visual Arts professor Daniel Laskarin was selected to participate in the City of Victoria’s juried Storefronts Victoria Exhibition Program, which tasked local artists with animating six vacant downtown storefronts with dynamic art installations. These site-specific works—all located within the 700 block of Douglas Street—were installed with the intent to engage the public both during the day and at night. Four of the six chosen projects involved members of the Visual Arts community, including Laskarin. His installation—titled “to see again”—comes from an interest in how we see and how we construct ideas from our perception.
“Things are known as images more than as the things themselves,” explains Laskarin. “Here, the public will have both: original sculptures and a fragmented video image of them as they are revealed and hidden by the moving camera. The work provides a dualistic experience: a thing (actually two) and an image of the thing, or the real, and its representation. At the same time, from around the corners of the video panels the mechanism for creating this dualism will also be visible.”
With a background as a helicopter pilot and an MFA from UCLA, Laskarin has produced and exhibited his work across Canada and internationally. Recent projects are evolving into work that finds possibilities for reclamation within conditions of collapse, decay or ruin; alongside his studio practice, Laskarin has been involved with set design, public image projections and large scale public art commissions in the Pacific Northwest.
In addition to Laskain, three Visual Arts alumni were also involved in the Storefronts exhibition: Libby Oliver, Maddy Knott and Laura Gildner.
Daniel Laskarin’s “to see again”
More to come weekly
We’ll be posting more content from our faculty, students and alumni each week—be sure to check back!
2020 BFA Show
Online-only grad exhibit
Eden Robinson
Celebrated Writing alum
Nathan Medd
Distinguished Alumni talk
Urban Regalia
Part 2: Westshore Stories
by mhuston | Mar 31, 2020 | Alumni, Art History & Visual Studies, Faculty, Graduate, indigenous, News, School of Music, Theatre, Undergraduate, Visual Arts, Writing
A creative community
Welcome to week two of The Fine Arts Connector, your weekly listing of news, resources, activities and other shareable content from the Faculty of Fine Arts, specifically compiled for distribution during the current health crisis.
One thing we’re all increasingly aware of these days is the vital importance of the arts when it comes to a sense of community. While a vast and varied range of socially distant arts options continue to flourish online, and people are discovering the quirky joys of things like choir practices via Zoom, we are still being rocked by news of event cancellations now stretching into the summer—like the TD Toronto Jazz Festival, originally scheduled for June 18-28, and all of Edinburgh’s festivals through to the end of August . . . including the fabled Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
But we’re continually heartened by the collective outreach efforts of our Fine Arts community—consider recording stars and School of Music Distinguished Alumni Twin Kennedy, who have pivoted #TheHomeboundTour they had planned for this spring into a series of Facebook live performances from their living room.
Please enjoy—and circulate—this collection of material featuring our faculty, students, alumni, staff and guests as a way of both sharing what our creative community is up to and keeping us connected in this difficult moment in history. You can also help by keeping us in the loop if you’re working on a live-streaming project, have online material to share or are involved in something you’d like people to know about: just email either fineartsevents@uvic.ca or johnt@uvic.ca. Finally, you can sign up here to receive automatic notice of The Connector each week.
Catch alumni recording stars Twin Kennedy live from their living room
News
#CanadaPerforms update
The funding for the National Arts Centre’s admirable short-term relief fund series #CanadaPerforms is now up to $600,000, thanks to additional donations of $200,000 each from the RBC Foundation and SiriusXM Canada. They’re currently scheduling content by professional Canadian performing artists through to April 30, so you’ve still got until April 13 to apply with your 45-to-60-minute online performance concept. #CanadaPerforms was originally launched with a pair of $100K donations by each Facebook Canada and Slaight Music, as a way for the NAC to ease the financial strain for Canadian artists impacted by the closure of performance venues across Canada related to COVID-19, and to lift the spirits of Canadians during the crisis.
In related news, the Hollywood Reporter is reporting that “Netflix has donated $1 million to the Toronto-based Actors Fund of Canada for emergency financial relief to reach out-of-work artists in Canadian film, TV, music, theatre and dance. Netflix also gave another $500,000 to The Fondation des Artistes, which supports Quebec artists in need.”
Germany invests in their artists
Looking for an inspiring national story during these trying times? As noted in this story on ArtNet.com, Germany’s federal government has announced a €50 billion aid package for the country’s creative and cultural sectors. The €50 billion will be provided specifically to small businesses and freelancers, including those from the cultural, creative, and media sectors. “Artists are not only indispensable, but also vital, especially now,” says Germany’s culture minister, Monika Grütters.
Compare that to the $300 million US the American government is giving to arts organizations—a small fraction of the overall $2 trillion recently approved bailout package, which saw $500 billion going to big business—or the £160 million earmarked by Arts Council England for arts relief efforts.
Resources
Heads-up for Phoenix students and recent grads
Canada’s National Theatre School is earmarking $60,000 in financial help for theatre school students and recent graduates during the current health crisis—regardless of what theatrical institution they attended. NTS will award 80 Art Apart bursaries of $750 each to young and emerging actors, playwrights, directors and designers, who will present a piece of art online. Selected applicants will also get their work disseminated through the school’s social networks with the hashtag #ArtApart.
“There are a lot of folks in theatre programs with cancelled plays, readings, end-of-year performances,” says Gideon Arthurs, the chief executive officer of NTS, said in this Globe and Mail interview. “Our fund also is open to students who have graduated in the last five years . . . . All those part-time jobs [many emerging artists] rely on are evaporating as well.”
BC Arts Council administers $3 million relief fund
Recent news that BC’s provincial government is setting up a $3 million fund comes as a bit of relief for eligible arts organizations, who will receive up to $15,000 to help pay their bills during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Times Colonist is reporting. Administered by the BC Arts Council, the fund will provide 50 percent advances on 2020-21 funding for arts groups. Workers in the arts sector who have lost income because of COVID-19 are also eligible to apply for a one-time payment of $1,000 under the B.C. Emergency Benefit for Workers.
For more information, see the BC Arts Council’s COVID-19 FAQs for Arts and Culture Grant Recipients & Applicants—where you can also find answers to questions about travel, performance gatherings, cancellations, pending applications and more.
CBC Arts a key resource
If you’re not subscribed to the weekly CBC Arts newsletter, you really should be. Each week it offers an invaluable roundup of specifically arts-related news, profiles and funding options for these difficult times. Their latest issue lists over 22 arts advocacy groups and more than a dozen emergency funding sources for writers, musicians, LGBTQ2S artists, technicians and others.
All’s quiet at the Phoenix Theatre these days
A scene from the 2014 Phoenix Theatre production of Unity (1918), written and directed by Kevin Kerr (photo: David Lowes)
Kevin Kerr’s Unity (1918)
Inspired as it was by the global Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, Department of Writing professor Kevin Kerr‘s 2001 play Unity (1918) is an apt example of the oft-repeated phrase “art imitates life”—but, as we’re seeing with the current health crisis, it’s also a good example of how life sometimes imitates art, now that we’re faced with another flu pandemic just a century later.
Set during the final few weeks of World War I, Unity (1918) sees the Spanish Flu spreading across the country and has the entire town of Unity, Saskatchewan, under siege from an invisible enemy . . . more horrifying and deadly than the war. Seen through the lives of the charming, eccentric townsfolk—including several young women driven by their dreams of finding true passion—this gothic romance explores human needs of love, sex and faith, during their desperate embrace of life at the edge of death.
While Kerr’s play won the 2002 Governor General’s Award for its touching, intensely human and darkly comic portrayal of a forgotten chapter in Canadian history, the 2014 Phoenix Theatre mounting was ironically rocked by a flu outbreak during its run, with a number of cast and crew falling ill—to the point that Kerr, who also directed this production, had to step in and act in some performances.
Developed as part of Touchstone Theatre’s Playwright-in-Residence Program during the 1999/2000 season, and originally produced in March 2001 at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Unity (1918) has since become a staple in the Canadian theatre scene. Most recently, it was presented by our colleagues at the Canadian College of Performing Arts in November 2019, where it was directed by Distinguished Alumni Glynis Leyshon. The leads of that production were interviewed in this March 28 Victoria News article about the show’s parallels to the COVID-19 outbreak.
“Basically, all fun things were canceled then too,” said actor Darren Saretsky. “The town people were quarrelling with one another, not because of illness, but because of fear of illness.”
Listen to Kevin Kerr’s 35-minute pre-show lecture about the play.
Unity (1918) writer & director Kevin Kerr backstage at the Phoenix production
Short films by Writing students
While UVic’s Department of Writing is well-known for producing outstanding authors, poets, playwrights and journalists, it has also been producing some fantastic filmmakers over the past decade. Case in point? Connor Gaston, who completed both his BFA and MFA with Writing and is currently building a name for himself as a feature film director (The Devout) while helping to develop the next-generation of talent as a sessional instructor in Writing. We’re happy to present here a pair of short films Gaston directed, featuring the talents of Writing students.
The first, 2013’s ‘Til Death, was penned by Writing alumni Ryan Bright, produced by Writing professor Maureen Bradley and created with the talents of the Writing 420 film production and screenwriting class. After losing his soul mate in a fatal bicycle accident, 10-year-old Zachary sets out on a journey to bring Samantha back to life in this magical, modern fairytale.
Til Death won a number of awards, including “Best Student Short” at the Montreal World Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival and Vancouver Short Film Festival, plus “Audience Choice” at the Victoria Film Festival and “Best Screenplay” at the Vancouver Short Film Festival.
The second, 2012’s Bardo Light, was written, directed and edited by Gaston, and features the talents of a number of UVic alumni, including actors Shaan Rahman (Phoenix Theatre) and Chris Mackie (Law), and producer Sandi Barrett (Writing). Accused of murdering his father, a young inventor maintains his innocence, claiming the real culprit was a modified television set.
Bardo Light was an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival and film festivals in Newport Beach, Sedona, Victoria and the Short Circuit festival.
Jazz up your day
Looking for some new sounds to liven up your day? School of Music professor Patrick Boyle has a brand new album out: Swivel features 10 solid tracks with Boyle on trumpet and flugel, plus Lorne Lofsky on electric guitar and Sean Drabitt on double bass. A chance meeting between the three musicians at one of the most famous recording studios in the world—Vancouver’s fabled The Warehouse—led to Boyle inviting Lofsky and Drabbit to spend an afternoon together playing a few originals and standards.
Listen to Swivel now at this Bandcamp link—where you can also pick up a digital or physical copy of it. And if you buy the CD, it features album art representing both the old and new blue bridges here in Victoria, with photography by Boyle as well. That same link also features a link where you can buy all six of Boyle’s releases on Bandcamp and save a whopping 50 percent. (“Almost all my records are on Spotify, too,” Boyle reminds us.)
Also, you can get a taste of Boyle’s talent in the classroom via this archived performance of the UVic Jazz Ensemble, of which he is the director (far right in the picture below). This concert was recorded on March 16, 2019. This concert features music by Horace Silver, Jimmy Giuffree, Wayne Shorter, Clifford Brown and more.
This version of the UVic Jazz Ensemble includes students Baylie Adams, Karsten Brewka, Matthew Gannon, Adam Jaseniuk, Todd Morgan & Michael Vielguth (saxophones); Espen Lyngberg, Sophia Olim, Ben Pakosz, Darius Pomeroy & Will Quinn (trombones); Anthony Shackell (trumpet); Taya Haldane (flute); Dante Andre-Kahan, Lachlan Barry, Cole Burns, Rachel Burtman, Owen Chernikhowsky, Will Lynch & Isley Owens (percussion).
by Jimmy Giuffre, as performed by the UVic Jazz Ensemble
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by Horace Silver, as performed by the UVic Jazz Ensemble
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by Charlie Parker, as performed by the UVic Jazz Ensemble
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by Wayne Shorter, as performed by the UVic Jazz Ensemble
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by Roy Hargrove, as performed by the UVic Jazz Ensemble
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by Jerome Kern, as performed by the UVic Jazz Ensemble
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by Freddie Hubbard, as performed by the UVic Jazz Ensemble
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by Sonny Stitt, as performed by the UVic Jazz Ensemble
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Step inside this student art project
One of the most fascinating aspects of the Department of Visual Arts is simply walking through the building and discovering what students are working on. One of the busiest undergrads this past year has to be Josh Franklin, whose various projects were remarkable in both scale and concept. As well as being the recipient of a Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award (JCURA) for his project, “Holon Inc: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Holistic Process Based Art”, Franklin was also recently named the recipient of the $1000 Pat Martin Bates Legacy Award at the 2020 Victoria Visual Arts Legacy Society Awards.
Working under the supervision of Visual Arts professor Rick Leong, Franklin describes his JCURA project “Holon Inc” as “a durational, multimedia, performance-based, installation project where I will live within a self-built and site-specific structure for seven days and while in it, complete a finite number of pre-dictated tasks. The main objective and or explorative aspect of this performance are to present an unadulterated experience of viewing what occurs from a projects genesis to its dynamic resolution.”
Franklin feels that by exhibiting his my own body in the action of building an environment, the viewer will be given the opportunity to watch and contemplate the work that must be undertaken to actualize the project.
Now the fun part—you can take a self-guided 360-degree walking tour of “Holon Inc” simply by clicking on the image on the right and then using your mouse or keyboard to navigate your way around it.
And once you’ve gotten the hang of that, you can take the same kind of virtual tour of Franklin’s 2019 project, “A Paradox in Connection (Walk-In Structure)”.
Take a self-guided 360-degree walking tour of Franklin’s “Holon Inc”
A glimpse inside Urban Regalia
Last fall, the first part of Urban Regalia: An Exhibition in Two Movements opened at UVic’s downtown Legacy Gallery. Curated by Art History & Visual Studies professor Carolyn Butler Palmer, it offered a stunning collection of Indigenous couture by Gitxsan designer Yolonda Skelton, whose Sug-ii-t Lukxs Designs mixes the aesthetics of Gitxsan button blanket robes with a twist of Audrey Hepburn’s style.
“I started to make different things, because you can’t wear your regalia out,” Skelton explains in this CBC article about the exhibition. “It’s [the regalia] for the feast. It is for special ceremonial purposes . . . you don’t walk around town wearing it. So, I start to think, OK well, I need to start to make things that can show who I am and where I come from.”
Skelton grew up learning her Indigenous culture from her relations in Haida Gwaii, but her designs have since appeared on fashion runways in both Paris and Vancouver.
“Colonialism had and continues to have a devastating impact on indigenous peoples all over the world,” says Skelton. “My hope is that a step towards de-colonization is possible, by learning about each other’s cultures through the medium of art. Peoples of the world want to glimpse the true essence of other cultures and to respect the people they are learning about. They want to understand the impact of colonization and do their part to change it—and I would like to do my part and help them.”
As the name suggests, Urban Regalia was conceived as a two-part Legacy Gallery exhibit; the first part, featuring Skelton’s designs, ran September 28-December 21 2019, while the second part—Urban Regalia: Westshore Stories—opened on January 18 and was still up when the COVID-19 health crisis closed the galleries. Curated by Butler Palmer’s AHVS students and featuring button blankets by Skelton’s students at the Westshore Centre for Learning and Training-Colwood Campus, Westshore Stories offered a dynamic pairing of students on both sides of the gallery process. (Watch for a gallery of images of that exhibit next week in this space.)
Enjoy these images of the first part of Urban Regalia, taken by current Fine Arts student photographer Leon Fei.
Gitxsan designer Yolonda Skelton’s artist talk at Legacy Gallery on October 10
More to come weekly
We’ll be posting more content from our faculty, students and alumni each week—be sure to check back!
Daniel Laskarin’s “Storefront” project
Explore local public art
Funny business with Mark Leiren Young
Is laughter the best medicine?
AI & pop culture (photo: Dean Kalyan)
Edwin Hodge explores speculative fiction (photo: Dean Kalyan)
Wind Symphony
Listen to a performance by UVic’s Wind Symphony (photo: Leon Fei)
by mhuston | Mar 25, 2020 | Alumni, Art History & Visual Studies, Faculty, Graduate, indigenous, News, School of Music, Theatre, Undergraduate, Visual Arts, Writing
The show can go on
When the Phoenix Theatre’s season-ending production of The Children’s Hour closed on its March 12 opening night due to the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic, it signalled the swift cancellation of all public programming in the Faculty of Fine Arts. End-of-the-year performances by our School of Music ensembles and the annual graduating BFA exhibit in Visual Arts matched the closure of performance venues and galleries around the city and across the world.
Yet we’ve also started to see a remarkable flourishing of online content and sharable resources while we practice social distancing and self-isolation. And while our Fine Arts faculty and students have been shifting to completing the academic year online—a particularly challenging scenario for a faculty rooted in hands-on learning—our greater Fine Arts community is already helping to bridge the cultural gap.
“The wonderful accomplishments of our colleagues and students in the Faculty of Fine Arts remind us that the arts can raise our spirits during uncertain times,” says Acting Dean, Allana Lindgren. “Creativity is always an assertion of hope.”
With that in mind, we will now be offering the Fine Arts Connector—a weekly update of activities, resources and archival material featuring our faculty, students, alumni, staff and guests as a way of both sharing what our creative community is up to and keeping us connected in this difficult moment in history. You can help us by keeping faculty communications officer John Threlfall in the loop if you’re working on a live-streaming project, have archival material to share or are involved in something you’d like people to know about. You can also sign up here to receive automatic notice of The Connector each week.
“During this time, I am reminded of the important role that universities play in the lives of individuals and communities through education, research and public engagement,” says UVic president Jamie Cassels. “Despite the extraordinary circumstances in which we find ourselves, we continue to play that role. We have offered our facilities, resources and capabilities to others, and we continue to challenge ourselves to find new, creative ways to continue to serve our students and communities.”
Theatre student Emily Friesen’s set of the “The Children’s Hour”
Resources
While our colleagues across the arts spectrum continue to create and offer innovative solutions to fill the cultural gap during the current health crisis — like the Social Distancing Festival started by Toronto theatre artist Nick Green, which offers an incredible number of daily viewing options — we are also starting to see valuable information-sharing happening.
This CBC Arts page list a wide range of resources for artists and cultural workers during the current shutdown, ranging from emergency funding and advocacy groups to online resource for training, health & mental health, and temporary/remote job listings.
The BC Alliance for Arts & Culture’s resource list is a treasure trove of links leading to arts-specific resources (including the likes of the Canada Council and the BC Arts Council), digital tools for the arts sector (live streaming options), data (COVID-19 impact surveys) and general resources during the health crisis (“care for your coronavirus anxiety”).
#CanadaPerforms
The National Arts Centre has also launched the $200,000 relief fund #CanadaPerforms, a short-term relief fund that pays Canadian artists for their online performances. Launched via a pair of $100K donations by each Facebook Canada and Slaight Music, the NAC is looking to ease the financial strain for Canadian artists impacted by the closure of performance venues across Canada related to COVID-19, and to lift the spirits of Canadians during the crisis.
You can apply until April 13, 2020, if you’re a Canadian performing artists interested in streaming 45 to 60-minute performances from home— including musicians, comedians, dancers, singers, theatre artists and ensembles of less than 10 people. Selected artists will receive $1,000 and their online performance will be broadcast on the NAC’s Facebook page. You can apply by email to the NAC at CanadaPerforms@nac-cna.ca with a description of your performance, when you wish to share and on what platform.
Follow #CanadaPerforms or the NAC’s social media channels to find out what’s coming up—including the award-winning play Kamloopa by current Writing MFA candidate Kim Senklip Harvey on March 27 and a live reading of Theatre alum Meg Braem‘s play Flight Risk on March 29 (see below for details on both).
The monumental installation The Witness Blanket, by Carey Newman
While the original version of Visual Arts Audain Professor Carey Newman’s heartfelt and emotionally powerful installation The Witness Blanket is being restored at its new permanent home at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg, a high-end reproduction is currently touring around Canada.
You can learn more about the creation and intention of The Witness Blanket via this short curated online narration with Newman and Alberta’s CKUA radio, done during the Blanket’s current appearance at Calgary’s Mount Royal university, where it is on view until April 30.
The tour is also scheduled to include stops at the Winnipeg Airport (June 1–Aug 31), the Simcoe County Museum in Minesing, Ontario (Sept 28-Nov 30) and Brantford’s Woodland Cultural Centre (Dec 21-Feb 26, 2021), with future appearances at Ontario’s Nipissing University in North Bay (2021), BC’s Fraser Fort-George Regional Museum (2022) and Whitehorse’s Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre (2022).
Kamloopa on #CanadaPerforms
Have a laugh on the ride to Kamloopa—the largest powwow on the west coast—as you hang with the matriarchs of Kamloopa at 4pm PST Friday, March 27, as part of the new #CanadaPerforms partnership with the National Arts Centre and Facebook Live.
Written by current Writing MFA candidate Kim Senklip Harvey, this high-energy Indigenous matriarchal story follows two urban Indigenous sisters and a lawless trickster who face the world head-on as they battle to come to terms with what it means to honour who they are and where they come from.
As Harvey describes, “Kamloopa is not restricted to the four walls of theatre but instead invokes our ancestors to embody their true selves throughout the story. In developing matriarchal relationships and shared Indigenous values,Kamloopa explores the fearless love and passion of Indigenous women reconnecting with their homelands, ancestors and stories. This boundary-blurring adventure will remind you to always dance like the ancestors are watching.”
The March 27 livestream will feature excerpts from the play and a romping good chat with members from the creative team, the Fire Company: Kim Senklip Harvey, Yolanda Bonnell, Samantha Brown, Kaitlyn Yott and Emily Soussana.
Nominated for eight Jessie Richardson Awards and four SATAwards, Kamloopa won the 2019 Jessie for Significant Artistic Achievement for Decolonizing Theatre Practices and Spaces, and was also the first Indigenous play in the award’s history to win Best Production. Kamloopa is also the recipient of the Sydney J Risk Prize, a SATAward and was published by Talonbooks.
Livestreaming recitals
While all year-end performances by the School of Music‘s large ensembles have been cancelled—including the UVic Orchestra, Wind Symphony, Chamber Singers, Sonic Lab, Don Wright Symphonic Winds and Vocal Jazz Ensemble—alongside final concerts by faculty and guests, there are still some graduating recitals scheduled to be livestreamed via Music’s website.
Upcoming livestream recitals can be heard at 8pm Thursday, March 26 (BMus Jeanel Liang, violin) and at 3pm Friday, March 27 (BMus Todd Morgan, saxophone).
While much of the world is just tuning into the idea of livestreaming, the School of Music has actually been doing it for years now as a way of connecting our performers with audiences who can’t always make the concerts. You can also listen to any previous livestreamed events for up to 30 days on Music’s dedicated Listen Live! site—including a number of recent degree recitals, faculty pianist Bruce Vogt‘s recent Steinway concert, the Emerging Steinway Stars student concert, and our annual Thank You Concert, which features a range of students showcasing their talents.
The Canadian Play Thing
Celebrated playwright, Theatre alum and current Writing sessional Janet Munsil has put her years of experience as the former artistic director of the Victoria Fringe Festival to use by creating The Canadian Play Thing—a virtual theatre that seats 100 and offers live readings of new and under-performed Canadian plays online.
Designed to fill the void of empty theatres, The Canadian Play Thing launched on March 22 with Dave Deveau’s Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. The idea, writes Munsil, is to “celebrate the work of playwrights and to stay in touch with our theatre family . . . artists and audiences around the world welcome.”
Performed for free on Zoom Webinar, the “seating” is limited to 100 people and is offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Next up is local playwright David Elendune’s The Loved One, running at 7pm on Thursday, March 26. “Bring your drink, your crinkly wrappers, your cat, wear your pjs, leave your phone on . . . say hi to your friends and chat in the comment box,” says Munsil.
Follow their Facebook page to keep up to date with what’s coming next.
Meg Braem on #CanadaPerforms
Also happening this week, Governor General’s Award-nominated playwright and Phoenix Theatre alum Meg Braem is presenting a live reading of her play Flight Risk at 6pm PST Sunday, March 29, as part of the National Arts Centre’s #CanadaPerforms series.
Flight Risk explores aging, grief and death through the unlikely friendship between Hank, a WWII tail gunner, and Sarah, a nursing student completing course requirements in his nursing home. Seemingly opposites, Hank and Sarah find common ground in navigating personal tragedies that have kept them isolated from the world. Told through humour and honesty, Flight Risk is the story of finding exactly who you need when you least expect it.
Braem—currently the Lee Playwright in Residence at the University of Alberta and Artist-in-Residence at the Calgary Arts Academy—was featured in Phoenix’s Spotlight on Alumni back in 2009 with her play, The Josephine Knot.
Exploring artifacts
While you won’t be able to sit in on a class with him right now, you can still learn about the material research of Art History & Visual Studies chair Marcus Milwright via this short video exploring the history of a late 19th/early 20th century Syrian slipper (or clog).
A world-renowned expert and author of a number of books, Milwright’s research focuses upon the archaeology of the Islamic period, the art and architecture of the Islamic Middle East, cross-cultural interaction in the Medieval and early Modern Mediterranean, the history of medicine, traditional craft practices, and the architecture and civil engineering of southern Greece during the Ottoman sultanate.
This particular video was shot while he was in residence at the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design in Hawaii.
More to come weekly
We’ll be posting more content from our faculty, students and alumni each week—be sure to check back!
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by John Threlfall | Mar 13, 2020 | Alumni, Art History & Visual Studies, Events, Faculty, Graduate, News, School of Music, Theatre, Undergraduate, Visual Arts, Writing
In response to the ongoing and global spread of the COVID-19 virus and the advice of the Provincial Health Officer, the University of Victoria is following provincial guidelines regarding large gatherings.
These actions have been taken in consideration of the recent declaration of a pandemic by the World Health Organization, confirming that the virus is likely to spread to all countries with a corresponding rise in the risk level of all international travel. It also supports our commitment to the safety and well-being of our campus community and the health of our broader community.
As part of our response to the evolving COVID-19 situation, UVic has created a COVID-19 response website to provide the university community with the most up-to-date information — including tips for staying healthy, information for travellers, and other resources for students, faculty and staff.
Cancelled events
Following the advice of the Provincial Health Officer, gatherings of more than 50 people are now cancelled. These events involving Fine Arts faculty, students and alumni have been cancelled:
- The Children’s Hour, Phoenix Theatre
- Belfry Theatre’s SPARK Festival
- MFA Connect: Floatation Devices exhibit
- Legacy Gallery downtown (including Urban Regalia & FLUID exhibits)
- Yvonne Blomer book launch (March 18)
- Heng Wu guest lecture (March 19)
- Sonic Lab (March 20)
- Betsy Tumasonis AGGV guest lecture (March 22)
- Vocal Jazz Ensemble (March 22)
- Visiting Artist: Chantal Gibson (March 25)
- Chamber Singers (March 28)
- Faculty Concert: Connie Gitlin (March 29)
- Gendered Threads of Globalization symposium (March 27-29)
- UVic Wind Symphony (March 27)
- Don Wright Symphonic Winds (April 2)
- UVic Orchestra (April 3)
- Middle East & Islamic Studies Consortium conference, UVic (April 4)
- Mallory Tater reading, Munro’s Books (April 9)
Livestreaming events
The School of Music will be live-streaming a limited number of degree recitals in the coming weeks: please see their events calendar for specific details.
Stay up to date
Please see UVic’s COVID-19 website for all the latest information on UVic’s response to this health crisis.
by John Threlfall | Feb 28, 2020 | Alumni, Faculty, Graduate, Theatre, Undergraduate, Writing
Each year, our friends and colleagues at the Belfry Theatre present their SPARK Festival, which offers some of the best small theatrical touring productions in Canada, as well as workshops, staged readings and other events. Now in its 11th year, Fine Arts faculty, students and alumni are once again heavily involved with the SPARK Festival.
In addition to Between Breaths, Busted Up: A Yukon Story, and KISMET, things have changed, one of the featured plays this year is Destiny, USA by Theatre alumni Laura Anne Harris. Also on tap are workshops, staged readings and mini-plays by the likes of Theatre faculty Jan Wood, Michael Elliott and Michael Shamata, Mercedes Bátiz-Benét (Writing), Tobin Stokes (Music), Celine Stubel (Theatre), Erin Ormond (Theatre) and former student KP Dennis (formerly known as Writing/Theatre student Ann-Bernice Thomas), PhD Theatre candidate Taiwo Afolabi, and a collaborative reading night featuring current Writing & Theatre students.
Whatever your theatrical tastes, you’re sure to find something to enjoy at SPARK Festival!
Here’s the lineup of our contributions:
Mercedes Bátiz-Benét (photo: Peter Pokorny)
Insomniacs: The Far Side of the Accordion – 2pm March 7
Distinguished Alumni Mercedes Bátiz-Benét directs this staged reading by Romanian playwright Mimi Branescu. The Man and The Other Man meet in the middle of the night and go on a philosophical journey together to explore the nature of living. Nothing is what it seems; towards the end they meet The Wreck and realize the repetitive and inescapable nature of things.
Stick around for the talkback after the reading!
Jan Wood
Same Old – 7:30pm March 9
Co-written & performed by Theatre professor Jan Wood & James Fagan Tait, this new two-person play-in-development focuses on an ageing married couple. Through a series of short vignettes, the play is equal parts celebration and lament of ageing and love.
Laura Anne Harris in “Destiny USA”
Destiny, USA – March 10-14
Written & performed by Theatre alum Laura Anne Harris, Destiny, USA chronicles Laura’s experience moving from Toronto to Syracuse, New York, at the dawn of Trump’s America. Gaining her first job as a relay operator for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing causes her to question whether she can discover the hidden humanity of the American people. Destiny, USA weaves together three stories: Laura moving to the US for the first time and working as a relay operator for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, romantically meeting her husband, and dealing with her mother’s illness in Canada while she has to live in America. All are told through storytelling and poetry.
Destiny, USA was a hit at the 2019 Victoria Fringe Festival, where critics called it “funny, poignant, cleverly crafted and well-acted . . . tightly written, overall a fine show” (Times Colonist), with “vivid characterizations . . . a strong show” (Check the Program).
Mini plays – 7, 7:20, 7:40 Wed-Sat, March 11-14 + 18-21
Every year the SPARK Festival’s mini plays push the envelope in new and intriguing ways: you might be seeing them in a staircase, office or hallway, with an audience of 2 or 10 or 15. You never what you’ll get! This year you can see three 10-minute plays created by Tobin Stokes, K.P. Dennis, Krystal Cook and others.
Acting Shakespeare – 10am-5pm March 14 & 15
Michael Elliott
This two-day workshop will be taught by Theatre professor Michael Elliott and sessional instructor Michael Shamata (also the Belfry’s Artistic Director), offering two different—yet complementary— approaches to acting Shakespeare. The two Michaels will work together and separately, providing the participants with practical tools that will open up and reveal the text in all its glory. Participants are requested to bring a Shakespeare monologue of their choice—written in verse—and preferably committed to memory. To register or learn more about the professional development workshops, call 250-385-6815. ($80/adults, $40/students for both days.)
Motswana: Africa, Dream Again – 2pm March 14
Taiwo Afolabi
Theatre PhD candidate Taiwo Afolabi directs this piece by Botswana playwright Donald Molosi. Motswana simply means “citizen of Botswana.” The Republic of Botswana is one of Africa’s wealthiest countries. This intimate multilingual show satirically questions who exactly can claim to be a Motswana. What unexpected revelations come up once we acknowledge that African borders were drawn as a fiction fabricated to serve European greed? Is “Motswana” perhaps a misnomer given the migratory nature of African peoples before borders?
New Play Cabaret 2019
New Play Cabaret – 7:30pm March 15
This annual collaboration between the Belfry and UVic’s Faculty of Fine Arts sees actors and directors from UVic’s Theatre department bring to life scenes from plays-in-progress by graduate and undergraduate playwrights in UVic’s Writing department. Hear work by emerging playwrights Amy Dechka, Jay Guo, Ira Adilman and Ariel Glidden, as performed by Paul Cridge, Tabatha Hamilton, Sivert Das and Madeleine el Baroudi, directed by Carter Gulseth (note: more names to come).
One of last year’s new plays—Ellery Lamm’s Summer Bucket List—went on to win multiple awards at the 2019 Victoria Fringe Festival, so come prepared to be impressed!
Celine Stubel
Women In Clothes – 7:30pm March 16
Based on the work by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton, this reading is adapted by Michael Shamata and Paula Wing, and features Theatre alumni Erin Ormond and Celine Stubel, plus KP Dennis and Tennyjah Mckenna. Just as women use clothes to strengthen and express themselves, so too, this play uses clothes to address some of the larger issues of society and life—while celebrating daughters, mothers and the “sisterhood.”
The Belfry’s SPARK Festival runs March 7 to 22 at 1291 Gladstone.
by John Threlfall | Feb 21, 2020 | Art History & Visual Studies, Events, Faculty, Graduate, indigenous, School of Music, Theatre, Undergraduate, Visual Arts, Writing
From issues in contemporary Indigenous arts to plastic waste, fake news and comic books about very serious topics, UVic’s annual Ideafest always offers one of the most fascinating weeks of the year!
Running March 2-7 at locations both on- and off-campus, Ideafest 2020 is UVic’s week-long festival of research, art and innovation. There are over 35 free events to capture your imagination, and tickets are not required (unless otherwise stated in the event description).
While you can peruse the full list of Ideafest events here, we’ve rounded up the Fine Arts offerings for your quick reference.
Luff: An Exploration of Kites
Take a stroll through UVic’s Fine Arts courtyard for an outdoor exhibit on kites from third-year drawing students in our Visual Arts department and other contributors. With a history dating back more than 10,000 years, the kite has entranced inventors and creative thinkers from Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Graham Bell and the Wright Brothers. This exhibit seeks inter-disciplinary connections and philosophical insights grounded in a fundamental truth: Without good design and careful construction, nothing flies.
Luff runs March 2-7 in the Fine Arts Courtyard
JCURA Student Research Fair
A recent installation by JCURA student Josh Franklin
Nine different students from all five of our departments are presenting their work in the annual Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards fair, including:
- Josh Franklin (Visual Arts): “Holon Inc.: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Holistic Process Based Art”
- Megan Ingram (AHVS): “Police, Prejudice, and Film: Contemporary Perspectives on Filmic Representations of Law Enforcement”
- Emily Markwart (Music): “Florence B. Price: An Antidote to the Whitewashed Classical Music Canon”
- Hana Mason (Writing): “Re-coming of Age: Themes, Motifs and Conventions in New Adult Fiction”
- Hannah Moore (AHVS): “Revisiting the Anarchist Politics of Barnett Newman’s ‘Zip’ Paintings”
- Benjamin Parker (Music): “Post-War Art in Europe: Stravinsky, Sibelius, Vaughn Williams and Schoenberg in the wake of WW1”
- Christian Tervo (Theatre): “Representing War on the Canadian Stage”
- Olivia Wheeler (Theatre): “EVOKE: An Exploration of Theatrical Designs Emotional Stimulus”
- Keren Xu (Music): “The flute solo repertoire ‘Reflections 1’ and reception of female composer Diane Berry”
JCURA runs 11:30am-3pm Wednesday, March 4, in the SUB
Where are the Women Composers?
Even in 2020 there are significant challenges and barriers to women who are composing music. How did a patriarchal concept of art music routinely ignore historical and contemporary achievements by women in the classical music industry? Through performances of four solo flute works by female composers and a discussion with the performers and scholars, this session will explore the reasons why female composers have been excluded, ignored or sidelined.
Presenters include School of Music professor Suzanne Snizek with Sikata Banerjee (Department of Gender Studies) and flute students Emily Morse, Lisa Matsugu, Charlie Mason and Rhiannon Jones.
Where are the Women Composers? runs 12:30-2:20pm Wednesday, March 4, in Mac B037
Artistic Alliances: Indigeneity & Fine Arts
The District of Saanich along with the artist, Carey Newman, officially welcomes Earth Drums to Cedar Hill Park in September 2019 (photo: Kevin Light)
Indigenous arts engage people in multiple ways. Some works are more visible than others for some audiences and for different reasons. What is the social impact of Indigenous arts?
The research and creative activity happening in the Faculty of Fine Arts reflects the dynamic range of contemporary work being created, Indigenous knowledge and both the written and spoken word. Join fine arts teaching faculty and graduate students at this timely interactive session to learn about some of the surprising and engaging approaches to contemporary practices.
Presenters include Gregory Scofield (Writing), Carey Newman (Visual Arts), Lauren Jerke (Theatre) and Lindsay Delaronde (Indigenous Resurgence Coordinator). Hosted and moderated by Allana Lindgren (Acting Dean, Fine Arts).
Artistic Alliances runs 4-6pm Wednesday, March 4, in ECS 116
All Lit Up
Meet the next generation of Canadian literature as Master’s of Fine Arts students from UVic’s legendary Department of Writing read (and perform) groundbreaking graduating manuscripts in fiction, poetry, screenwriting, playwriting and creative non-fiction in this lively literary cabaret.
Hosted by Writing professor Kevin Kerr, readers include MFA candidates Martin Bauman, Daniel Hogg, Ellery Lamm, Troy Sebastian / nupquʔ ak·ǂam̓ and Guochen (Chen) Wang.
All Lit Up runs 7-8pm Thursday, March 5, at the Intrepid Theatre Club, 1609 Blanshard
And while Ideafest offers over 35 events, members of the Fine Arts community may also be interested in some of these other Ideafest offerings:
UVic’s annual Ideafest runs March 2-7. UVic is accessible by sustainable travel options including transit and cycling. For those arriving by car, hourly pay parking is in effect. Evening parking is $3.50. Click here for parking info and campus maps.
