A Visual Music Exquisite Corpse features a chain of live feeds, one influencing the other, and looping in on itself. Friday, March 31, 2023 5:30 PM Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts Atrium FREE This project started as an online experiment during the pandemic as a way to build community within the lab. Lab members would […]
The York University School of the Arts, Media Performance & Design (AMPD) Dean, Dr. Sarah Bay-Cheng, sits down with York alumni Amanda Cordner (Actor, HBO Max’s Sort Of), Laura Friedmann (Producer, Wrapped Productions inc.), Jennifer Holness (Founder, Hungry Eyes Media), Beth Janson (Chief Operating Officer, TIFF) and Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu (Artistic Director, Obsidian Theatre) to talk […]
Come hear the Department of Music’s Improvisation faculty members (Team Improv) create glorious music live! How do they do it? The mysteries of how to create fluid, coherent, open improvisations will be revealed during the session. The concert will be augmented with some on-stage discussion concerning the improvisational process, and how it relates to composition, […]
playGround Festival is York’s annual student-run theatre festival dedicated to giving emerging artists within the York community the opportunity to conceptualize, develop, and present new and original work. For 31 years, the playGround Festival has served as a creative outlet for hundreds of participants to take on all the roles that go into organizing the […]
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 […]
Professor Mark Chambers conducts the York University Symphony Orchestra in a concert featuring 2022 Concerto Competition winners. The concert will feature works by Mozart, Donizetti, Walton and Lalo. 2022 Winners Kay Tozawa, Violin Jesse Tamang, Violin Joseph Ernest, Tenor Samantha Unger, Soprano Admission: $20 | $15 students & seniors. Box Office: Purchase tickets online HERE […]
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 The Amos Hoffman & Noam Lemish Quartet as part of the year-long performance series “Sound and Sense: Jewish Music @ York”. The Hoffman/Lemish Quartet offers an inspired blend of jazz […]
Acclaimed jazz composer, bassist, arranger and York University music Professor Al Henderson leads his ensemble as part of the Department of Music’s Faculty Concert Series. The Al Henderson Quintet brings a collection of original compositions to the Tribute Communities Recital Hall at York’s Keele campus February 14. Joining Henderson onstage are Nic Vasiliou (piano), Sam […]
Join us for an evening of improvisation in a participatory “open mike” set-up, hosted by Matt Brubeck. Performers and observers welcome. Free Sterling Beckwith Studio 235 Accolade East
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 […]