Thinking with Black Ecologies: Creative interruptions and anticolonial refusals Talk by Dr. Fikile Nxumalo  

The Goldfarb Summer Institute presents a Talk by Dr. Fikile Nxumalo Date: Tuesday, May 19 Time: 2:30 – 3:30 PM Location: The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery Free Register HERE Black ecologies are filled with possibilities for affirmative inquiry. This talk engages with potentials for creative engagements with situated Black ecologies that are anti-colonial, affirm […]

I ❤️ Lunaapahkiing: Vanessa Dion Fletcher Artist Talk 

The Goldfarb Summer Institute presents an Artist Talk by Vanessa Dion Fletcher. Date: Thursday, May 7, 2026 Time: 2:30 – 3:30 PM Location: The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery Free Admission Register HERE Taking Milton Glaser’s 1976, I ❤️ NY logo as an example, Vanessa Dion Fletcher will discuss land, language, obscured histories, and ancestral […]

Transforming Interdisciplinary Collaboration Through Game Design Workshop

Join Gillian Smith (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and Anne Sullivan (York U) for two days of conversation, hands-on activities, and meals! Interdisciplinary collaboration is essential—but often challenging. Institutional structures, disciplinary boundaries, and competing systems cause ongoing friction in partnerships. Game design, however, is fundamentally about orchestrating complex systems to work together in meaningful and constructive ways. […]

Visual Art & Art History Showcase 2026 – Where to Next?

  This exhibition celebrates the culmination of years of work for the Visual Art & Art History’s class of 2026. Showcasing media from sculpture, painting, drawing, photography and print; we embrace the end of a chapter and stumble our way onto the next. We now come together one last time as a collective. Through our […]

Vertical Studio Lab Final Showcase: SYMPOIETICS

Vertical Studio Lab Final Showcase (DIGM 5020/6020) Date: Thursday, April 2, 2026 Schedule 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. – Vladimir Kanic Immersive Installation 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. – Group Demo / Installations 4:30 p.m. – Performance by Jingwen Zhang Location: DisPerSion Lab (CFA 334) FEATURING Ian Heyward & Gianluca Sabatini – Creatures in the Machine Kushi […]

Yes! Digital Media Year End Showcase

Dates: April 10 – 11, 2026 Location: InterAccess Gallery (32 Lisgar Street) Timing of Events Exhibition Open: April 10 (11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.) Opening Party: April 10 (5:00 – 8:00 p.m.) Exhibition Open: April 11 (10:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.)

Media Arts Spring Showcase

Please join us for our Annual Media Arts Open House Spring Showcase! Featuring fourth year projects and faculty curated works from first, second, and third year courses. April 20 – 24, 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Location: BetaSpace – Centre for the Arts (CFA) 024 – 026 Free Admission  

Radiate: DESN Grad Exhibition Show 2026

The DESN Class of 2026 at York University invites friends, family, designers, and industry professionals to their Grad Exhibition, Radiate. We are a team of 44 designers united in creativity – refining pixels, perfecting typography, and bringing this exhibition to life from the ground up. Date | Time: April 24, 2025 (3:00 – 9:00 p.m.) […]

Unsafe Space Roundtable + Motion Capture Workshop

Former Connected Minds Artist-in-Residence Ar Ducao and research collaborator Bryné Hadnott will be back at York to host a roundtable and workshop on Thursday, April 2 presented by Sensorium: Centre for Digital Art and Technology. Unsafe Space Roundtable April 2, 2026 Sensorium Loft (326 CFA) 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Sensorium and Connected Minds researchers […]

York University: Artie Roth Jazz Workshop

Join Artie Roth and his York U music students as they perform live at The Rex. Come and support emerging talent from the York University Jazz program. Sunday, March 22, 2026 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. The Rex Hotel Jazz and Blues Bar Free Admission (pay what you can)