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Senior Colloquium to Showcase Brightest Minds on Campus

besharaa — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:12:59 +0000

Friday, April 20 | all day | Health Studies Building, Room 141 (Ceremony Room).
Join us as our upper-year arts and science students present research and projects to colleagues, friends, family members, and the wider BU community.

The full schedule can be found online at brandonu.ca/colloquium

The Drawer Boy, A Contemporary Canadian Play

besharaa — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:20:23 +0000

Friday, April 20 | 8 p.m. | Evans Theatre
Professor James Forsythe and sessional instructor Gordon Portman are collaborating with two community actors — Blair Bolduc and Connor Lavell — in the Contemporary Canadian Play “The Drawer Boy”. Other performances will be held on Saturday, April 21 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 22 at 2 p.m. Tickets will be available at the door.

“Grown Over: Stages of Reclamation”: A BFA Thesis Exhibition by Erin Wells

besharaa — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:12:47 +0000

Thursday, April 5 | 6 p.m. | Glen P. Sutherland Gallery of Art — The Visual and Aboriginal Art Department presents a BFA Thesis Exhibition by Erin Wells, entitled “Grown Over: Stages of Reclamation”.

Opening reception: April 5 – 6 to 9 p.m. Admission is free.

Regular Gallery hours: April 6 to 14 – noon to 4 p.m.; April 12 – noon to 8 p.m. Admission is free.

Performance/Multi-media Artist to Give Talk in Sutherland Gallery of Art

Joanne Villeneuve — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:05:32 +0000

Thursday, March 29, 2012 • 7:30p.m.

Glen P. Sutherland Gallery of Art (2021 Victoria Ave, Brandon)

Rebecca Belmore is one of Canada’s foremost performance and multi-media artists. Often working with her own body as site for unraveling collective history and memory, Belmore’s work revisits cultural stereotype with insight, pays tribute to those rendered invisible and critiques the power balance of racial difference.

She has exhibited extensively in North America and Europe and represented Canada at the 51st Venice Biennale.

Imagining Southwestern Manitoba: A Literary Film Festival

Joanne Villeneuve — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:29:44 +0000

Film portraits of two internationally renowned Manitoba literary superstars

• 1 to 2 p.m. First Lady of Manawaka: Margaret Laurence (1979) dir. Robert Duncan, prod. William Weintraub, narr. Jayne Eastwood

• 2:30 to 4 p.m. Gabrielle Roy (1998) dir. Lea Pool, prod. Buffalo Gals (Winnipeg), narr. Sylvie Malo, et al

NFB short film of a famous short story by celebrated MB/SK writer Sinclair Ross

• 5 to 5:15 p.m. Cornet at Night (1963) dir. Stanley Jackson, prod. Peter Jones, National Film Board

Film adaptations of renowned novels by Neepawa author Margaret Laurence

• 5:30 to 7 p.m. The Stone Angel (2007) dir. Kari Skogland, prod. Buffalo Gals (Wpg), starring Ellen Burstyn & Christine Horne,

• 7:30 to 9:15 Rachel, Rachel (1968) prod. & dir. Paul Newman, starring Joanne Woodward, James Olson & Kate Harrington (based on the novel A Jest of God)

• 9:30 – 11:30 The Diviners (1993) *** contingent on availability dir. Anne Wheeler, prod. Atlantis (Winnipeg), screenplay Linda Svendsen, music Randolph Peters (Wpg), starring Doreen Brownstone (Wpg), Evelyne Anderson, Sonja Smits, Tom Jackson (Wpg)

FREE ADMISSION!! EVERYONE WELCOME!! REFRESHMENTS!!