Sound and Sense: Jewish Music @ York – Lenka Lichtenberg’s Thieves of Dreams

Celebrated vocalist and composer, Lenka Lichtenberg presents her 2023 JUNO-Award Winning project Thieves of Dreams The Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies and the Department of Music in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design are proud to present 2023 Juno Award winner Lenka Lichtenberg and her deeply personal magnum opus Thieves of Dreams. […]

Outer-Space Filipino Worker: Artist Talk with Leeroy New

Tuesday, September 26, 2023 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Vari Hall – Lecture Hall D 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 FREE REGISTER HERE Leeroy New (b. 1986, General Santos City) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice manifests in large-scale immersive environments, costuming, collaborative performances and video works driven by concepts of world building, […]

Goldfarb Summer Institute 2023: BORDER FORMS: (RE)DRAWING LINES

15th Annual Goldfarb Summer Institute 2023 PROFESSORS: Natasha Bissonauth & Tammer El-Sheikh Many key art historians, artists, curators, and others thinking with the visual do so through anti-colonial discourse and critical race theory to disturb the White, colonial, Eurocentric roots that undergird the field and the residues that remain in the discipline. Consider for example, […]

Not a Checkbox: Engaging in a Culture of Equitable Teaching (Decolonization, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in Teaching & Learning Community of Practice 2023 Conference)

As academic institutions move towards post-pandemic teaching and learning, the return to “normal” has reinforced and reproduced issues of power and privilege in the academy, such as ableism, racism, and classism. In this call for collaborators, we ask learning communities at York to consider how we can engage in a culture of equitable teaching that […]

The Queer Comics Symposium

York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and the Departments of English and Humanities proudly present The Queer Comics Symposium Featuring: Professor Michelle Ann Abate (Ohio State University), author of Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History (Temple University Press) Professor Justin Hall (California College of the Arts), cartoonist and editor of No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer […]

Wendy Michener Memorial Lecture – Queer Feminism and Comedy: A Serious Talk

Delivered by Carolyn Taylor Award-winning comedian, actor, writer, director, and artist Co-creator and showrunner of CBC’s Baroness von Sketch Show The Wendy Michener Memorial Lecture, named in commemoration of the Canadian arts critic and journalist, was established at York University in 1986 to provide a forum for discussion of vital issues and developments in culture […]

Black Ice at York U: A Community Film Screening and Q&A

Join a special community screening and Q&A of the film Black Ice. Produced by York alumnus, Vinay Virmani (BA Hons. ’08), directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Hubert Davis, and executive produced by Lebron James, Drake, and Maverick Carter, Black Ice is a documentary that examines the history of anti-black racism in hockey. The film premiered at TIFF […]

2023 Goldfarb Lecture in Visual Arts: Meryl McMaster

The McMichael is pleased to present a special artist’s talk by Meryl McMaster, Canadian artist of nehiyaw (Plains Cree), British and Dutch Ancestry, who explores the self in relation to land, lineage, history, culture and more-than-human world. McMaster’s work is predominantly photograph based, incorporating the production of props, sculptural garments and performance forming a synergy […]

York Dance Ensemble: Cardinal Points

Cardinal Points is a rich collection of dance works created and performed by members of the Department of Dance and guests that reflect the diversity of perspectives from around the globe, as well as from within the multiplicity of intersecting cultural, philosophical and personal imperatives. Guest Artists: Bayanihan, the National Dance Company of the Philippines […]

Intersectional Futures: PERIPHERY – Resilience and Power on the Margins

Session Description: Periphery is an evocative film about ethnic diversity in the Jewish community of Toronto, Canada. Through dance, poetry, and personal narratives, 10 Jews of Black/African, Korean, Iraqi, Indian, and South American ancestry challenge perceptions of who is a Jew. Periphery invites us to appreciate the richness of Jewish identity and cultural expression while […]