Past Events

Niel Scobie of Western University will demonstrate how the turntable and mixer, Roland TR-808 drum machine, and digital samplers helped hip-hop develop from a Bronx-based sub-culture to a global phenomenon creating reverberating effects on popular music around the globe. Live Preview 12:00 – 1:00pm Post-Concert Lecture 2:30-4:00pm

We all use Wikipedia. Either when clicking on the first result when questioning our favourite search engine, or as a starting place for seeking information on a new topic. But many of us aren’t aware of the biases behind this massive collectively-written encyclopedia. Did you know, for example, that less than 20% of the editors of Wikipedia are women?

SOFAM faculty member Jim Harley presents on the efforts of internal refugees affected by the years-long conflict in Northern Uganda who have formed an association for traditional music and dance, which has become an important part of their trauma recovery. Free and Open to the Public Thinking Spaces considers the ways in which improvisation can provide us with new ways of thinking and acting. Throughout the year, this group organizes public talks and workshops, as well as reading sessions based around critical thinking on improvisation.

We will be welcoming prospective graduate students with various events in the Philosophy Department. Stay tuned for details.

The University of Guelph, College of Arts and the School of Fine Art and Music present the 13th annual Dasha Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art.

The MFA students in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph are pleased to welcome the public to their annual Open Studios, offering a rare inside look at the development of new work within the environment of an art program and a chance to chat with artists about their work in progress. Open Studio buildings are available between 2:00 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.  Volunteers will be available to provide directions and assistance.  Volunteers will be wearing kelly green toques.

In this seminar, Leif Isaksen of the University of Exet

The 3-hour workshop is designed to train educators in the techniques of Forum Theatre so they can utilize it as one of their pedagogical tools to explore polemical issues incorporated in their curriculum, rendering the subject matter memorable and meaningful.  By using Forum Theatre in the classroom, educators become facilitators that help students learn experientially and engage authentically while opening them to new and diverse perspectives. Instructor Amir Al-Azraki will facilitate the workshop.