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鈥淚f you鈥檙e all about bold ideas, then here鈥檚 mine: Let me be your first,鈥 says JuliaFedorin, a fourth year Communication Arts and Design Practice student, in a video pitched to Shopify. Since it was posted two weeks ago, the video has racked up over one million views and seven thousand engagements onX.

Every year, the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) elects new cohorts for outstanding artistic, scientific and scholarly achievements. 蓝莓视频 is hosting this year's RSC听2023 Celebration of Excellence and Engagement conference in November.

Several 蓝莓视频 researchers have been nominated this year and will be joining听the incoming cohorts of the RSC fellows and the new members of the RSC College. One of which is from the Communication Arts department! Professor Naila Keleta-Mae.

Vershawn Young is many things:听a professor in the department of Communication Arts and English Language and Literature;听the director of the new Black Studies program, a program in which he led in the development; a solo performance artist, translating all of his academic work into stage productions; and a writer of听books and articles.

He is now participating in the leading role of Sir Robert Chiltern, in the production of by at .

The Theatre and Performance program is excited to announce that Award-winning Canadian director and actor, Tanja Jacobs is directing the Fall Production,听

EVERYBODY by Black American playwright, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

EVERYBODY is a fourth wall defying contemporary adaptation of the 15th-century morality play, EVERYMAN.听Jacobs-Jenkins鈥 secular take on the idea of morality and the journey to one鈥檚 demise is brilliantly written as a comedic adventure to the afterlife, where the protagonist, EVERYBODY, must answer to DEATH and bring a presentation of their life to GOD. EVERYBODY, terrified of completing this endeavour alone, seeks out the help of various figures in their life to accompany them into the unknown potential afterlife.

Friday, December 17, 2021

Humanities Theatre Upgrades

Over the lockdown(s), the Humanities Theatre in Hagey Hall quietly changed hands from being centrally managed for all its years of operation to Faculty of Arts management. Given its location and name, many might have assumed the theatre had always lived under the administrative umbrella of Arts, but that鈥檚 not the case 鈥 until now.