The Digital Haptic Lab, a CFI-funded joint project between the School of Fine Art and Music and the School of Engineering, is a unique initiative allowing researchers to realize public projects that have very real effects on communities. Working in the wide realm of public sculpture is exciting and frightening because it affords a chance to assert aesthetic desires into a public discourse that can have a real impact on people's daily lives. These works will be assessed for years to come by communities that can't be fully
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1967-2011 (Celebrating over 40 years)When the Department of Music was established in 1965 as part of Wellington College of Arts and Science, Ralph Kidd was appointed Chair of this small but important academic unit. For many years Ralph and Edith Kidd were in effect the "musicians in residence" for the Federated Colleges of the Department of Agriculture which included the Ontario Agricultural College, the Ontario Veterinary College, and MacDonald Institute.
In their capacity as musicians in residence, Ralph and Edith provided music for every occasion, playing for convocations, University church services, alumni reunions, 4H group
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Exhibition of works from Jerrard Smith (SETS) and Diana Smith
Jerrard Smith (of the School of English and Theatre Studies) and his wife, Diana, are internationally renowned theatre designers. The Design Gallery of W
Congratulations to University of Guelph Chamber Singers
The group has accepted an invitation from the Mosbach International Competition for Chamber Choirs to perform on April 27th in Mosbach, Germany.
History: Farm Life Not Always So Idyllic: Dr. Wilson on Ontario Rural History
Quilting bees. Threshing bees. Barn-raisings. Friendly, hard-working neighbours gathering together to get things done. It’s one of those rural traditions that we tend to look back on nostalgically. But there’s another side to these “bees,” says history professor Catharine Wilson. Sometimes, everything went wrong. “There were serious, sometimes fatal, accidents and fights frequently broke out. Some turned into major brawls. I even found information about 16 cases of murder at the bees or right afterwards. She calls them “bees-gone-wrong.”
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History: Undergraduate Research Assistantships: now accepting applications
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