Past Events

Co-Founder of The Making-Box, Jay Reid will join Ajay Heble, Director of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation and Founding Artistic Director of The Guelph Jazz Festival, in a dynamic conversation focusing on improvisation across disciplines. Whether in practice or theory, in music or theatre, in classrooms or performance, themes of agility, responsiveness, community, and compassion emerge whenever improvisational methods are central. Join us for this “out of the box” dialogue between two community leaders. Free and Open to the Public

In this special session of Philosophy in the Dark, we explore ‘occulted knowledge’ – that knowledge which is obscured, hidden and (at times) infernal. Drawing on the film Hereditary’s invocation of the demon Paimon, we will explore three tasks: [1] the philosophical understanding of demonology (with aid from Eugene Thacker), [2] an appraisal of the tomes (e.g. The Lesser Keys of Solomon) where one might know of demons and [3] an ‘occulted epistemology’ of past, present and future – knowledge of all secret things.

Maya Goldenberg is giving an invited talk at the University of Toronto Centre for Faculty Development’s Education Research Community’s Annual Colloquium.

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?

Dave Dyment is a Toronto-based artist whose practice includes audio, video, photography, performance, writing and curating, and the production of artists' books and multiples. His research-based practice employs found materials to investigate tropes and memes from popular culture.

Gryphon wears a hard hat Open House January 25, 2019: All are invited! On behalf of the Dean of Arts, Samantha Brennan, I invite you to come and share in our excitement about the vision for the north end MacKinnon renovations including the new ImprovLab design. Diamond Schmitt Architects will present on Friday, January 25th, 2019 at 2 pm in MacKinnon 107 to discuss the project and provide updates.

This will be a panel discussion of John Russon's Sites of Exposure. Panel participants: John Hacker-Wright and Laura McMahon.