Arts, Literature and Communication Festival 2016 – May 2 to May 12
Monday, May 2
Live Painting with Jimmy Baptiste
10:00-2:00
Upper Atrium and Theatre
Youth facilitator, curator and graphic artist Jimmy Baptiste will collaborate with selected Dawson students and will paint LIVE with them—the sketch will focus on the festival’s theme: PEACE ATTACKS.
Jimmy is inspired by the world of tattoos, graffiti, anime, and comic books. He has worked as a graphic designer for international fashion companies such as Workshop Denim in New Zealand, Buffalo David Bitton, and the Sid Lee/Adidas Creative offices in Montreal.
Odd Man Black, Hip Hop Live Performance
2:00-3:00
Lower Atrium
Odd Man Black is a poet and music artist who hosted Big Bang Montreal and, as part of the Sovereign Music Movement, believes that “Poetry gives one the power and authority to make new thoughts and ideas manifest,“ and that “Music is the medium in which the creator investigates the possibilities of his or her influence over the listener. It is also the medium in which the listener investigates the possibilities of the ideas presented by the Creator.”
Sync
Afternoon & evening
Oliver’s
Phil Vitone and Jesse Hunter’s combined Multimedia Production classes will be shooting a production called SYNC. Modeled after TV shows like the Daily Show with John Stewart, it focuses on the lives of generation Z (our students). It will be taped in front of a live audience in Oliver’s on the afternoon/evening of May 2nd. Then it will be screened in Oliver’s on May 9th at noon and subsequently posted on the Mediaactiv.org website.
Looper: The Sample Orchestra
6:00 – 9:00
Hallway between A and B wings, third floor
The Looping Orchestra is a fun, interactive musical installation that allows users to create ‘loops’ of their voices and body sounds and play them over an array of speakers creating an evolving, crowdsourced and collaborative sonic experience/soundscape.
The piece consists of an array of speakers connected to a central console equipped with a microphone. The conductor records a sound and upon flashing a light at a sensor, one of the speakers will loop the sound. As each memory bank is filled and each speaker activated, users can conduct the “looping orchestra” creating complex layers of sound from an easy-to-use interface.
(Instructor: Shawn Bell)
Light Tone
3:00 – 9:00 (10 min demos at 3:00 and 6:00 pm)
The CoLab (3F.43)
Light Tone is a musical instrument and ambient light installation that creates an ethereal environment in which anyone can collaborate with friends or strangers to produce dynamic and evolving soundscapes.
(Instructor: Shawn Bell)
Tuesday, May 3
Stories Of Dawson Life: Real Stories Told By Real Students
8:30
Oliver’s (2C.17)
(instructors: Amanda Cockburn and Merrianne Couture)
Highway of Tears, Film Screening
11:30
Oliver’s (2C.17)
Talk back with Orenda Boucher-Curotte, coordinator of Dawson’s First Peoples Centre. This documentary film directed by Dawson graduate, Matt Smiley looks into the missing and murdered women along 724 kilometer stretch of highway in northern British Columbia. Not to be missed!
Last CALL, Studio Arts Graduating Exhibition
Vernissage: 5:30
Corridor West (5C)
The exhibition will continue until May 12, 2015.
(instructors: Antonietta Grassi & Michael Smith)
Literature Profile Academic Conference
4:00-6:00
5B.13
Literature Profile graduating students in Liana Bellon’s Integrating Activity course present their major, end-of-term projects in a series of four panels.
Thursday, May 5
Barb Moser’s Poetry Class
12:00-2:00 PM
The Rose Lounge (7C.5)
Students present original work.
From the Streets to the Internet: Graffiti, Street Art and Photography, a presentation by Gwen Baddeley
1:00-2:15
Oliver’s (2C.17)
Photographs of graffiti and street art are vital to the survival and development of the movement. Those who have photographed this art form have not only documented the phenomenon but have also likely influenced its development. Meanwhile, digital and communication technologies have changed the way we take and look at photographs, enabling street art to develop locally, nationally and internationally at an astonishing speed. This talk will examine the relationship between graffiti, street art and photography within the context art history.
(organized by Amanda Beattie, instructor of History of Contemporary Art)
Crash Sight!
3:00-7:00 PM
Interactive Media Workshop (3B.2)
You finally made it to space cadet! Unfortunately, you’ve just crashed landed on an alien planet, inhabited by strange creatures, some harmless, some hungry. You’ve survived the crash, but you have lost your eyesight. Fortunately, your connection to mission control is working… sometimes… and an escape pod is not too far away. Can you find the escape pod using only your ears, cadet?
If you think you have what it takes, then come on down to Interactive Media Arts workshop (3B.2) and playtest “Crash Sight!” an audio game for Android phones and tablets. The first player to escape from the planet will win the official “Crash Site” blindfold!
(instructor: Shawn Bell)
Literature Profile Academic Conference
4:00-6:00
5B.13
Literature Profile graduating students in Liana Bellon’s Integrating Activity course present their major, end-of-term projects in a series of four panels.
Barb Moser’s Poetry Class
4:00-6:00 PM
The Rose Lounge (7C.5)
Students present original work.
Launching Of Creations
5:30
5B.13
Collection of original student work: Literary Journal
Arts And Culture Gala
doors open at 6:30 pm
5B.16
Performances and screenings begin at 7pm. There will be installations in the lobby.
(instructors: Johanne Rabbat and Chery Simon)
Friday, May 6
Literary Reading, Live Performance
10:00
Oliver’s (2C.17)
(instructor: Sue Elmslie)
Looper: The Sample Orchestra
11:00 – 6:00
Hallway between A and B wings, third floor
The looping orchestra is a fun, interactive musical installation that allows users to create ‘loops’ of their voices and body sounds, and play them over an array of speakers, creating an evolving, crowdsourced and collaborative sonic experience/soundscape.
The piece consists of an array of speakers connected to a central console equipped with a microphone. The conductor records a sound into memory, and upon flashing a light at a sensor, one of the speakers will loop the sound. As each memory bank is filled and each speaker activated, users can conduct the “looping orchestra” creating complex layers of sound from an easy to use interface.
(instructor: Shawn Bell)
End of Eden
2:00-6:00 PM
Interactive Media Arts Workshop (3B.2)
Experience not only the death of nature, but also the corruption of its remnants for your own entertainment or horror. Featuring a twisted garden of horrific mimicry, we aim to show technology imitating nature, controlling it, and you in the center, witnessing the End of Eden.
Featuring a veritable garden of life/not life, of technology mimicking nature, with you in the center, enjoying/not enjoying the macabre show and controlling/not controlling it.
(instructor: Shawn Bell)
A Shift in Perspective
2:00–9:00 PM
Interactive Media Arts Lab (3B.4)
This installation is a fun way to experience drastic changes in scale firsthand. It aims to change the way that we see ourselves in relation to the objects around us.
Experience a dramatic shift of perspective and tone when a chess set, played in the real world, towers over the players by being projected from a virtual, parallel world. It aims to change the way that we see ourselves in relation to the objects around us.
(instructor: Shawn Bell)
Crash Sight!
3:00-7:00 PM
Interactive Media Workshop (3B.2)
You finally made it to space cadet! Unfortunately, you’ve just crashed landed on an alien planet, inhabited by strange creatures, some harmless, some hungry. You’ve survived the crash, but you have lost your eyesight. Fortunately, your connection to mission control is working… sometimes… and an escape pod is not too far away. Can you find the escape pod using only your ears, cadet?
If you think you have what it takes, then come on down to Interactive Media Arts workshop (3B.2) and playtest “Crash Sight!” an audio game for Android phones and tablets. The first player to escape from the planet will win the official “Crash Site” blindfold!
Light Tone
3:00 – 9:00 (10 min demos at 3 and 6 pm)
The CoLab (3F.43)
Light Tone is a musical instrument and ambient light installation that creates an ethereal environment in which anyone can collaborate with friends or strangers to produce dynamic and evolving soundscapes.
Open Mic
5:30
Oliver’s (2C.17)
Open to all kinds of acts. Come one, come all. ($100 1st prize, $75 2nd price, $50 3rd prize.)
Monday, May 9
Spoken Word Presentation And Workshop With Ian Ferrier
1:00
The Rose Lounge (7C.5)
Ian Ferrier is a haunting and moving musician, poet and spoken word artist who has performed across the country and abroad. He has run the Words and Music series at the Casa del popolo for over a decade and is the organizer of the Mile End Poets Festival. Mr. Ferrier will perform and conduct a workshop.
After Juliet, Play
4:00
3A.13 (workshop production)
The Arts, Literature and Communications class in Theatre Performance will present their workshop production of “After Juliet” on Monday, May 9th at 4pm in 3A.13. Directed by Adam Kelly Morton, this contemporary spinoff of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is a touching, funny, poignant play about teenage love and violence.
Theatre Performance class, directed by Adam Kelly Morton.
Paul Serralheiro’s Writing Class Presents Original Work
4:00
The Rose Lounge (7C.5)
Students read their original work.
Media Night
7:00-10:00 PM
Dawson Theatre
Media Night gathers approximately 250 audience members from the Montreal community at an evening event screening showcasing student video work from various courses offered through the Cinema-Communications department. Along with screening work from the 24 movie completion, prizes are given, students host the event along with live performances, art installations in the lobby and food/beverages are offered.
Tuesday, May 10
HomoSimian (DTC PLAY)
8:00
Dawson Theatre, 2000 Atwater
Amid the ruins of post-apocalyptic Montreal, stalwart survivors live day-to-day in a refugee colony on Mount Royal. It is 2035, climate change has left the landscape unrecognizable, and food and clean water are hard to find. But for the women forced to live and serve in the segregated colony, toiling under the rule of the tyrannical Alpha men is far worse than facing the ills of the dying planet. When the Alphas suddenly fall victim to their own greed, the women seize the opportunity to usher in a regime change, and take their revenge. With a precious chance to start anew, the women must learn what it takes to lead and how far they are willing to go to secure their supremacy… before they too become their own worst enemies.
Is history doomed to repeat itself? HomoSimian offers a startling mirror on our own world, and the worlds yet to come, and promises to be our most provocative production to date.
General admission $15, Students and Seniors $10
Wednesday, May 11
Showtime presents a New School creation: Down the Rabbit Hole, Up a Tree
8:00
5B.16
Directed by Laura Mitchell. General admission $10, Students and Seniors $5
HomoSimian (DTC PLAY)
8:00
Dawson Theatre, 2000 Atwater
Amid the ruins of post-apocalyptic Montreal, stalwart survivors live day-to-day in a refugee colony on Mount Royal. It is 2035, climate change has left the landscape unrecognizable, and food and clean water are hard to find. But for the women forced to live and serve in the segregated colony, toiling under the rule of the tyrannical Alpha men is far worse than facing the ills of the dying planet. When the Alphas suddenly fall victim to their own greed, the women seize the opportunity to usher in a regime change, and take their revenge. With a precious chance to start anew, the women must learn what it takes to lead and how far they are willing to go to secure their supremacy… before they too become their own worst enemies.
Is history doomed to repeat itself? HomoSimian offers a startling mirror on our own world, and the worlds yet to come, and promises to be our most provocative production to date.
General admission $15, Students and Seniors $10
Thursday, May 12
Showtime presents a New School creation: Down the Rabbit Hole, Up a Tree
8:00
5B.16
Directed by Laura Mitchell. General admission $10, Students and Seniors $5
HomoSimian (DTC PLAY)
8:00
Dawson Theatre, 2000 Atwater
Amid the ruins of post-apocalyptic Montreal, stalwart survivors live day-to-day in a refugee colony on Mount Royal. It is 2035, climate change has left the landscape unrecognizable, and food and clean water are hard to find. But for the women forced to live and serve in the segregated colony, toiling under the rule of the tyrannical Alpha men is far worse than facing the ills of the dying planet. When the Alphas suddenly fall victim to their own greed, the women seize the opportunity to usher in a regime change, and take their revenge. With a precious chance to start anew, the women must learn what it takes to lead and how far they are willing to go to secure their supremacy… before they too become their own worst enemies.
Is history doomed to repeat itself? HomoSimian offers a startling mirror on our own world, and the worlds yet to come, and promises to be our most provocative production to date.
General admission $15, Students and Seniors $10
Friday, May 13
HomoSimian (DTC PLAY)
8:00
Dawson Theatre, 2000 Atwater
Amid the ruins of post-apocalyptic Montreal, stalwart survivors live day-to-day in a refugee colony on Mount Royal. It is 2035, climate change has left the landscape unrecognizable, and food and clean water are hard to find. But for the women forced to live and serve in the segregated colony, toiling under the rule of the tyrannical Alpha men is far worse than facing the ills of the dying planet. When the Alphas suddenly fall victim to their own greed, the women seize the opportunity to usher in a regime change, and take their revenge. With a precious chance to start anew, the women must learn what it takes to lead and how far they are willing to go to secure their supremacy… before they too become their own worst enemies.
Is history doomed to repeat itself? HomoSimian offers a startling mirror on our own world, and the worlds yet to come, and promises to be our most provocative production to date.
General admission $15, Students and Seniors $10
