Notice Board

Dr. Heather Ladd (Department of English) will present "Georgian Stage Celebrity and the Theatrical Anecdote" on October 6th at 7:00 p.m. (Galt Museum, 502 - 1st Street South).

Discover and explore the development of celebrity culture in eighteenth century Britain.

The Centre for Oral History and Tradition Community Oral History will present an Intermediate community oral history workshop (October 21st; 9:30 - 4:15 p.m.; Galt Museum & Archives - 502 - 1st Street S) that will provide participants the opportunity to further develop their own oral history projects.   Topics covered will include: analyzing oral history interviews, ethical conduct in human subject research, First Nations oral history and funding community projects.  This workshop builds upon the beginner community oral history workshops that were offered throughout the spring and summe

Admission is free. All are welcome.

Echo + Seashell was founded in 2011 by artists Henna Hyvärinen (Finland) and Susan Kooi (Netherlands) when they met at an art-student residency in Germany. Performing in venues ranging from concert halls to art spaces, the duo is interested in how they can fit into the existing locales they come to occupy through their creative practice. Utilizing film screening paired with live performance, echo + seashell seek to create site-specific experiences for viewers around the world and have performed at various locations across Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany.

Join Daniel Poliquin for a discussion of The Angel’s Jig, a novel which revisits an all-but-forgotten era, when orphaned children and the elderly poor were auctioned into a form of indentured servitude.

Pianist Terence Dawson has firmly established himself as one of BC's most respected and versatile musicians.

Join soprano Elizabeth McDonald, baritone Cory Renbarger, and pianist Deanna Oye as they explore the roots of Canadian & American Art Song and connected heritage of our two countries.

Hyang Cho was born and grew up in Seoul, Korea, and studied history at Sogang University in Seoul. After moving to Canada in 2002, she enrolled in the Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary. She also completed a Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Guelph. Recent exhibitions include Counterpoint, Modern Fuel in Kingston, Ephemeral Frontiers, Design at Riverside in Cambridge, Nothing Much, Georgia Scherman Projects in Toronto, and In the Making, Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Calgary.Cho currently lives and works in Guelph, Ontario.

Chris Fritton is the former Studio Director of the Western New York Book Arts Center. A poet, printer, and fine artist, Fritton has over a decade of experience writing, printing, and making his own books, in addition to collaborative efforts with other authors and artists. Recently (2014) he was selected as a panelist to judge the New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship in Drawing, Printmaking, and Book Arts. He co-founded the highly-acclaimed Buffalo Small Press Book Fair with Kevin Thurston in 2007, and has been organizing the fair solo since 2009 (the Fair is now in its 10th year).