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trevor.kenney — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:51:13 +0000

Shelley Scott (Theatre & Dramatic Arts) is presenting a paper called Asian Canadian Women Playwrights: The Ties that Bind at the GENesis Asian-Canadian Theatre Conference, May 3-9 in Toronto. The conference is the first of its kind in Canada.

Three U of L alumni have made the long list (Prairies and North region) for the 2010 Sobey Art Award. Daniel Wong (BFA '03) and Mary-Anne McTrowe (BFA '98), as The Cedar Tavern Singers AKA Les Phonorealistes, and Robyn Moody (BFA '00) are all in the running for this prestigious award.

Deric Olsen (New Media) has been invited to be an artist/filmmaker-in-residence at the New Media Studio Laboratory (NMSL) at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Regina, July 5-9. While there he will work on high definition post-production and delivery methods, and present New Format, New Challenges: Exploring Techniques in High Definition Disc Authoring and Design.

Alumnus Zoran Rajcic (BMgt '94) won the Western Hockey League's 2009-10 Marketing/Public Relations Award. Rajcic is the director of business operations for the Everett Silvertips.

The Faculty of Fine Arts video site (www.lethbridgefinearts.ca) is a finalist in the Best Non-Commercial Website category of Digital Alberta's Media Fresh awards. The web designer was New Media major Jesse Johnston and the advisory committee included:
Dr. Desmond Rochfort, Emily Luce, Chris Morris, Venkat Mahadevan and Katherine Wasiak.

Dr. Ed Jurkowski (Music) presented a paper entitled, How Formal Function Theory can inform Nineteenth-Century Deformed Sonata Designs: A Case Study using Bruckner's Symphonies, at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.) during the annual joint meeting of the Rocky Mountain Societies for Music Theory and Musicology.

Dr. Arlan Schultz (Music) had his composition Ikos-kun tu 'bar ba premiered by The Rubbing Stone Ensemble at a concert at the Rozsa Centre in Calgary.

Karen Mahar (dean's office) received a $3,000 scholarship from Alberta Advanced Education in recognition of her exceptional work in her first year as a graduate student. Mahar is now in her second year of an MA in English.

Deanna Oye (Music) and Peter Visentin (Music) presented recitals of solo and duo music at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Manitoba and Canadian Mennonite ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ in Winnipeg last month. They also conducted master's classes and lessons in the areas of collaborative piano and violin. Visentin gave a lecture on his research into musicians' injuries to the Medical Rehabilitation Faculty of the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Manitoba, and Oye also played a solo recital in Brandon, Man. following a week as senior piano adjudicator at the Brandon Festival of the Arts.

Events Calendar - March

trevor.kenney — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:30:36 +0000

Lectures

Mar. 11 | Art Now: Lani Maestro
12 p.m., ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall, W570

Mar. 12 | Women Scholars Speaker Series
Dr. Robin Gibb, assistant professor of neuroscience at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge, presents Early Experience and the Developing Brain.
12 p.m., Students' Union Building, Ballroom A

Mar. 12 | Department of Physics and Astronomy
Dr. James Taylor presents What is Dark Matter, and Why Should We Care? 1:40 p.m., C640

Mar. 13 | Art Now: Curator Jen Budney
12 p.m., ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall, W570

Mar. 16 | Architecture & Design Now: American architect Bryan Bell
6 p.m., C610

Mar. 18 | Art Now: Montreal photographer Adad Hannah
12 p.m., ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall, W570

Mar. 20 | Art Now: Painter Laurel Smith
12 p.m., ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall, W570

Mar. 20 | Women Scholars Speaker Series
Dr. Nicole Rosen, assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Lethbridge, presents Reviving a 19th Century Language in the 21st Century: Michif Language Revitalization.
3 p.m., Students' Union Building, Ballroom A

Mar. 23 | Architecture & Design Now: Jason MacIsaac, owner of Ministry of the Interior
6 p.m., C610

Mar. 25 | Art Now: Installation artist Robert Wise
12 p.m., ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall, W570

Mar. 30 | Art Now: Rod Sayer
12 p.m., ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall, W570

Mar. 31 | Colloquium Speaker Series
Dr. Julita Vassileva presents Girls and Science: in the World and on the Prairies.
12:20 p.m., TH201

Apr. 1 | Women Scholars Speaker Series
Dr. Adele Reinhartz, professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Ottawa, presents Mary Magdalene Goes to Hollywood. 12 p.m., AH100

Apr. 3 | Art Now: Montreal artist Mirko Sabatini
12 p.m., ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall, W570

Performances

Mar. 17 | Music at Noon
John Wooton (percussion), Southern ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Mississippi
12:15 p.m., ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall, W570

Mar. 20
It Takes Two: Collaborative Piano/Guitar
7 pm, Gem of the West Museum, Coaldale
Tickets at the door.

Mar. 21 | Day of Percussion
Clinics, workshops and concerts with leading percussionists and U of L Global Drums.

Mar. 23 | Stars to Love
Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra, with guest artists Vox Musica, performs overtures, choruses and arias.
8 p.m., Southminster United Church

Mar. 24 | Music at Noon
Peter Visentin (violin) and Deanna Oye (piano) 12:15 p.m., ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall, W570

Mar. 28 | U of L Singers Spring Concert
8 p.m., Southminster United Church

Mar. 31 | Music at Noon
Cheryl Pauls (piano), Canadian Mennonite ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ
12:15 p.m., ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall, W570

Mar. 31 to Apr. 4 | Arcadia
This Tom Stoppard offering is part detective story, love story and farcical comedy.
Nightly, 8 p.m. in the ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Theatre

Apr. 3 | U of L Wind Orchestra Concert
8 p.m., Southminster United Church

Apr. 4 | Homage to Stravinsky
A Stravinsky extravaganza featuring an array of his masterpieces.
8 p.m., ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall, W570

Apr. 7 | Music at Noon
George Amorim (double bass), ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ of Texas – Pan American, and Stacy Kwak (piano) 12:15 p.m., ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Recital Hall, W570

Apr. 8 | U of L Jazz Ensemble Concert
8 p.m., ��Ѹ��Դ��߿�Ƭ Theatre

Miscellaneous

Mar. 7 to Apr. 18 | Serendipity
See the range of work produced by Art Department faculty and staff, as well as U of L Art Gallery staff.
Daily, Trianon Gallery (2nd floor, 104 5th St. S)

Mar. 13
U of L Plays and Prose Competition Winners
Public reading
7 p.m., David Spinks Theatre

Mar. 13 to Apr. 9
Annual Juried Student Exhibition
Prominent Canadian art professional Jen Budney juries an exhibition of undergraduate student work. U of L Main Art Gallery

Mar. 20
Health and Wellness Career Trade Fair
Networking opportunity and information from organizations and recruiters in the health and wellness industry.
Foyer of the 1st Choice Savings Centre

Mar. 20 to May 29 | First Faculty
Contributions to the development of Lethbridge's art community by the founding and early faculty in the Art Department.
Helen Christou Gallery

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