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The Jean Berger Project

2012-04-30T14:33:30Z

Renee Dunk
Presented by the Department of Art History, the Gail & Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and the FOFA Gallery

In 1704, painter Jean Berger was tried and convicted of forgery, assault and robbery. The legal documents from the trial paint a picture of an accomplished artist with a shady past of drunken nights and debauchery. Over three hundred years later, Art History faculty member François-Marc Gagnon wrote Jean Berger, peintre et complice? a book that attempts to re-create Berger's life and art while offering a unique look at life in Montreal in the 18th century.

But even Gagnon's book cannot replicate the absent works of this artist. The graduate students in the Department of Art History have called on artists in all media to imagine the kinds of works that Berger might have produced, and to conjure up the experience of living in Montreal in the 18th century: a city of bored soldiers, secret affairs, crime and robbery... nothing like the ecclesiastical images of Montreal.

When:
April 30 to May 25, 2012 | Monday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Where:
FOFA Gallery (EV Building, SGW Campus, Concordia University)
1515 Ste. Catherine St. W.
Montreal (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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Design and Computation Arts 2012

2012-04-19T14:57:56Z

Renee Dunk
FORMATION: Undergraduate and graduate student exhibition

GAIA: Henk Boom, Karen Lee, Nicolás Muñoz and Peter Rockwell

When:
April 19 to 22, 2012
(Vernissage: Thursday, April 19 at 6 p.m.)

Where:
Atrium lobby, 6th and 7th floors, (EV Building, SGW Campus, Concordia University)
1515 Ste. Catherine St. W.
Montreal (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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Department of Design and Computation Arts

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Student furniture projects:
Salon international du design intérieur de Montréal (SIDIM)

When:
May 24 to 26, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on May 25)

Where:
Place Bonaventure, 800 de la Gauchetière St. W.
Montreal, Metro Bonaventure

Cost:
$15 regular price, $10 for seniors and students. Tickets available at the door.

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SIDIM 2012

Contemporary Dance, April 2012 performances

2012-04-15T19:40:57Z

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Dance/Danse Spring 2012

2012-04-12T14:44:42Z

Renee Dunk
Contemporary Dance students present original end-of term performances

Dancer: Joachim Yensen-Martin. Photo by Yves Gigon.

When:
April 12 and 13, 2012 at 8 p.m.
April 14 and 15 at 3:30 and 8:30 p.m.

Where:
D. B. Clarke Theatre (H Building, SGW Campus, Concordia University)
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Montreal (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Cost:
$15 regular, $10 for seniors and students. Tickets available at the door.

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Department of Contemporary Dance

Spring 2012 concert series

2012-03-28T17:44:07Z

Presented by the Department of Music
March to May 2012
Presented by the Department of Music

Unless otherwise indicated (*):

Concerts take place at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall
(PT Building, Loyola Campus, Concordia University, Montreal, Metro Vendôme)
Admission fees are $5 general admission, free for students with ID

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March 8 at 7:30 p.m.
Gohar Manvelyan, piano
Student of Gregory Chaverdian

Mar. 28 at 8 p.m.
Voice Recital
Directed by Jeri Brown
* D. B. Clarke Theatre (H Building, SGW Campus, Concordia University, Montreal, Metro Guy-Concordia), 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Mar. 30 at 8 p.m.
Jazz Studies Scholarship Laureates Concert
Produced by Charles Ellison

Apr. 4 at 8 p.m.
Jazz Choir
Directed by Jeri Brown

Apr. 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Concordia University Chorus
Conducted by Jean-Sébastien Allaire
Chamber Choir
Conducted by Christopher Jackson

Apr. 11 at 8 p.m.
Chamber Music Ensembles
Directed by Liselyn Adams

Apr. 12 at 8 p.m.
Jazz Improvisation I
Directed by Charles Ellison

Apr. 17 at 8 p.m.
Jazz Improvisation II
Directed by Gary Schwartz

Apr. 18 at 8 p.m.
Piano Recital
Students of Gregory Chaverdian

Apr. 19 at 8 p.m.
Jazz Ensemble Eclectic
Directed by Gary Schwartz

Apr. 20 at 8 p.m.
Big Band
Directed by Dave Turner

Apr. 23 at 4 and 7 p.m.
Philippe Battikha, trumpet
Student of Amy Horvey

April 24 at 7 p.m.
Caroline Rivasplata, piano
Student of Lauretta Milkman

April 30 at 4 p.m.
Ae Ree Lee, piano
Student of Lauretta Milkman

April 30 at 7 p.m.
Graeme Wilkinson, piano
Student of Lauretta Milkman

May 1 at 4 p.m.
Annie Jacques, voice
Student of Julie Daoust and Marie-Annick Béliveau

May 1 at 7 p.m.
Isabelle Rozycki, piano
Student of Anna Szpilberg

May 28 at 4 p.m.
Solmaz Shakerifard, piano
Student of Gregory Chaverdian

May 28 at 7 p.m.
Fella Lagha, piano
Student of Gregory Chaverdian

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Creative Arts Therapies Workshops

2012-03-24T18:34:16Z

Mar. 24, 2012
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Registration required
The Department of Creative Arts Therapies will be holding workshops for those interested in learning more about drama therapy or music therapy.

When:
Saturday, March 24, 2012
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Registration is required. Visit the following websites for details on the events and to register.

Annual Art Education Graduate Symposium

2012-03-23T14:56:40Z

Mar. 23 and 24, 2012
On the Edge: Taking Risks in Art Education / Sortir des sentiers battus: se risquer en pedagogie artistique

The 3rd Annual Art Education Graduate Symposium provides a space for graduate and undergraduate students in the fields of art education, studio arts, performing arts, art history, cultural studies, humanities, creative art therapies, educational technologies and other fields of knowledge to address art and education as a site in which risk can be taken and used as a means for transformation.

When:
March 23, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
March 24, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Where:
Concordia University, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex
1515 Ste. Catherine St. W., Montreal

Cost:
Admission is free of charge but registration is required.

For more information:
Send an email to symposium.art.education@gmail.com

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Intersections: Artists and Educators 2012

2012-03-23T14:29:10Z

Renee Dunk
Art Education Graduating Student Exhibition 2012

When:
March 23 to 25, 2012,
12 to 6 p.m.
(Vernissage: Thursday, March 22,
5 to 9 p.m.)

Where:
Espace Fibre, 2665 Augustin-Cantin St., 2nd floor
Montreal (Metro Charlevoix)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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Department of Art Education

Katrina Ochsenbein Feracini: Planes

Music Faculty Research Lecture Series 2011-12

2012-03-22T19:28:54Z

Next lecture by Sandeep Bhagwati
Mar. 22, 2012 at 5:45 in MB 8.255
Music Faculty Research Series 2011-12

Lecture 1:
Perception, production, and parsing of Irish Jigs, Christine Beckett, Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Music
When:
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 5:45 to 6:30 p.m.
Where:
Department of Music, Concordia University
Molson Building, 8th floor
1450 Guy St., corner De Maisonneuve Blvd.
Event description

Lecture 2:
Chord Relationships: a structural harmonic organization system in a non-tonal context, Georges Dimitrov, Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Integrative Music Studies, Department of Music
When:
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 5:45 to 6:30 p.m.
Where:
Department of Music, Concordia University
Molson Building, 8.255
1450 Guy St., corner De Maisonneuve Blvd.
Event description

Lecture 3:
How does early music training affect performance and brain structure?, Virginia Penhune, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Concordia Unviersity, International Laboratory for Brain, Music & Sound (BRAMS lab)
When:
Thursday, December 1, 2011, 5:45 to 6:30 p.m.
Where:
Department of Music, Concordia University
Molson Building, 8.255
1450 Guy St., corner De Maisonneuve Blvd.
Event description

Lecture 4:
What is the Playroom - and WHY?, Rosemary Mountain, Associate Professor, Department of Music
When:
Thursday, January 26, 2012, 5:45 to 6:30 p.m.
Where:
Department of Music, Concordia University
Molson Building, 8.255
1450 Guy St., corner De Maisonneuve Blvd.
Event description

Lecture 5:
Culture vs. Nature: Harmony revisited, Ricardo Dal Farra, Associate Professor, Department of Music
When:
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 5:45 to 6:30 p.m.
Where:
Department of Music, Concordia University
Molson Building, 8.255
1450 Guy St., corner De Maisonneuve Blvd.
Event description

Lecture 6:
Comprovisation for humans and computers, Sandeep Bhagwati, Associate Professor, Department of Music
When:
Thursday, March 22, 2012, 5:45 to 6:30 p.m.
Where:
Department of Music, Concordia University
Molson Building, 8.255
1450 Guy St., corner De Maisonneuve Blvd.
Event description

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Department of Music

Creative Arts Therapies events 2012

2012-03-19T14:49:34Z

Renee Dunk
Creative Arts Therapies week: Film presentations, workshops and lectures

When:
March 17 to 26, 2012

Where:
VA Building (SGW Campus, Concordia University)
1395 René-Lévesque Blvd. W.
Montreal (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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Department of Creative Arts Therapies

Centre for the Arts in Human Development: Cultural Ethnodrama

A unique original drama based on the lives of Centre for the Arts in Human Development participants and the importance of culture in their lives. Directed by Drama Therapy associate professor Stephen Snow.

When:
June 14, 2012 at 8 p.m. (gala performance)
June 15 and 16 at 7:30 p.m.

Where:
F. C. Smith Auditorium (FC Building, Loyola Campus, Concordia University)
7141 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal (Metro Vendôme)

Cost:
$50 for gala performance, $20 for regular performances

Reservations:
Tel: 514-848-2424 ext. 8616

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Contemporary Dance's Studio 7

2012-03-16T14:29:06Z

Mar. 16, 2012 at 8 p.m.
MB 7.265 In an effort to bring together artists, friends, strangers, and potential collaborators, Concordia's Contemporary Dance department is hosting five editions of Studio 7 in 2011-12.

When:

Friday, October 28 at 8 p.m.
Friday, November 25 at 8 p.m.
Friday, January 27 at 8 p.m. (rescheduled from Jan. 20)
Friday, February 17 at 8 p.m.
Friday, March 16 at 8 p.m.

Where:
Department of Contemporary Dance
Molson Building, Concordia University
1450 Guy Street, 7th floor (MB 7.265)

A live broadcast will be available on the Dance website.

Cost:
Free of charge. Everyone welcome.

Event description:
Studio 7 is a monthly performance series, and an opportunity for all Concordia fine arts students to present works-in-progress in a casual, intimate setting.

For more information:
Contact Michaela Gerussi at studio7.concordia@gmail.com

Studio Arts Exhibitions 2012

2012-03-14T15:18:34Z

Renee Dunk
Studio Arts exhibitions

Collision 8: MFA Thesis Exhibition

When:
March 14 to 24, 2012 | Tues. to Sat. from 12 to 6 p.m.

Where:
Parisian Laundry
3550 St. Antoine St. W.
Montreal (Metro Lionel-Groulx)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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MFA in Studio Arts Exhibition

When:
March 23 to April 6, 2012
(Vernissage: Friday, March 23)

Where:
3450 Saint Urbain St.
Montreal (Metro Place-des-arts)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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Steve Bates: 2010 Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art Laureate

When:
April 30 to May 25, 2012 | Mon. to Fri. from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Where:
FOFA Gallery (EV Building, SGW Campus, Concordia University)
1515 Ste. Catherine St. W.
Montreal (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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Ignition: Graduate Student Exhibition

When:
May 18 to June 16, 2012 | Tues. to Fri. from 12 to 6 p.m., Sat. from 12 to 5 p.m.
(Vernissage: Thursday, May 17 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.)

Where:
Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery
(LB Building, SGW Campus, Concordia University)
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
Montreal (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery

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Graduating Student Exhibition

When:
June 18 to July 6, 2012
(Vernissage: Wednesday, June 20)

Where:
FOFA Gallery (EV Building, SGW Campus, Concordia University)
1515 Ste. Catherine St. W. | Mon. to Fri. from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
VAV Gallery (VA Building, SGW Campus, Concordia University)
1395 René Lévesque Blvd W. | Mon. to Fri. from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Montreal (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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ARTX

Undergraduate Student Exhibition - WORK

WORK is a collaborative exhibition of artwork by students in the yearlong ARTX 480 Integrated Studio In Contemporary Practices course. ARTX students' diverse practices engage experimental and interdisciplinary forms, working with sound, video, painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, electronics, and installation to create work in dialogue with the political, cultural, and social structures that surround us. Uniting such a diverse group of artists and practices are the many concepts of work that we all engage in: obsessive labour and questionable function; culturalindustries and value economies; productive deployment and awkward employment; linguistic sustainability; cultural performance; mechanics, process and thebasic question of use.

When:
March 18 to April 1, 2012
(Vernissage: March 17 at 6 p.m.)

Where:
2065 Parthenais St.
Montreal (Metro Frontenac)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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Ceramics

Undergraduate Student Exhibition

When:
April 23 to 28, 2012 | Wed. to Fri. from 12 to 5:30 p.m., Sat. from 12 to 5 p.m.

Where:
Lilian Rodriguez Gallery
372 Ste. Catherine St. W., Espace 405
Montreal (Metro Place-des-arts)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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Fibres

Graduating student exhibition and catalogue launch - Out of Place

Featuring graduating students Sabrina Dufour, Florence Boivin, Sophie Jaillet and Stephanie Coleman, Out of Place exhibition consists of multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary body of works presented along with a publication of writings by Fine Arts students Felicity Hamer (Art History), Maya Cardin (Studio Art), Maryse Morin (Intermedia/Cyberarts) and Joanna Long (Art History). The accompanying catalogue marks dialogue and collaboration around cross disciplinary praxis.

When:
March 29 to April 9, 2012 | 12 to 5 p.m. (gallery closed on Apr. 2)
(Vernissage: Thursday March 29, 2012, from 6 to 9 p.m.)

Where:
Yellow Fish Art Gallery, 3623 St. Laurent Blvd.
Montreal (Metro St-Laurent)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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Intermedia/Cyberarts

Undergraduate Student Exhibition

When:
April 13 to 19, 2012

Where:
Eastern Bloc, 7240 Clarke St., 2nd floor
Montreal (Metro Jean-Talon)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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Painting and Drawing

Undergraduate Student Exhibition

When:
March 26 to April 5, 2012 | Mon. to Fri. from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sat. from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Where:
Galerie Onze, Cégep du Vieux Montréal, Département d'arts plastiques
255 Ontario St. E., 11th floor
Montreal (Metro Berri-UQAM)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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Photography

Graduating Student Exhibition

When:
April 3 to 13, 2012 | Mon. to Fri. from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
(Vernissage: Thursday, April 5 at 7 p.m.)

Where:
VAV Gallery (VA Building, SGW Campus, Concordia University)
1395 René-Lévesque Blvd W.
Montreal (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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Image credit: Sophia Burke, Sweet Love

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Print Media

Graduating Student Exhibition: High Rollers 2012

A print media graduating exhibition that will feature
the diverse and multi-disciplinary practice of contemporary print.

When:
March 20 to 24 | 12 to 7 p.m.
(Vernissage: Tuesday, March 20 at 7 p.m.)

Where:
Studio Beluga, 160 St. Viateur E., Suite 508A
Montreal (Metro Laurier)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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Undergraduate Student Exhibition

When:
March 27 to April 7 | Tues. to Fri. from 1 to 8 p.m.
(Vernissage: Thursday, March 29 at 5:30 p.m.)

Where:
Atelier Galerie Alain Piroir, 5333 Casgrain Avenue, Suite 802
Montreal (Metro Laurier)

Cost:
Free admission. Everyone welcome.

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Local Space/Global Visions: Archives, Networks, and Visual Geography Around 1900

2012-03-09T16:26:54Z

A Speaking of Photography lecture
Mar. 9, 2012 at 6:30 p.m.
York Amphitheatre (EV 1.605)

Lecture 5 in the 2011-2012 Speaking of Photography series
Organized by the Department of Art History

With Shelley Rice, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Detroit Publishing Company, View from the bridge, Constantinople, Turkey, photochrom, c.1890-1900.

When:
Friday, March 9, 2012 at 6:30 p.m.

Where:
York Amphitheatre (EV 1.605), Concordia University
Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex
1515 Ste-Catherine St. W., Metro Guy-Concordia

Cost:
Free of charge. Everyone welcome.

Description:
Local Space/Global Visions explores the "visual geography" of the year 1900, the moment when amateur cameras, half-tone reproduction processes, and multinational corporations expanded photographic production and distribution exponentially, and quite literally set the stage for a "world culture" of imagery. Shelley Rice's lecture will highlight three separate projects: Alfred Stieglitz's magazine Camera Notes; Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet; and the PhotoGlob AG collection of scenic views. She will show how the image economy of this historical period - with its emphasis on networks, franchises, portability, and outreach, and its inherent tension between the domestic and the international, the artistic and the commercial, the elite and the mass - laid the foundations for our contemporary visual environment.

Shelley Rice is an Arts Professor, Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, and Department of Art History, College of Arts and Science, at New York University. She is the author of Parisian Views and Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman, and the co-author of numerous books and catalogues, including The Book of 101 Books: The Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century and Paris et le Daguerréotype. Her essays have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, The Village Voice, Tate Papers, French Studies, and Études photographiques, among others. Shelley Rice has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Fulbright Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities and the Arts Awards, a Hasselblad Research Fellowship, and the PEN/Jerard Award for Non-Fiction Essay. In 2009 she was named a Chevalier in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Speaking of Photography is made possible by the generosity of an anonymous donor, with additional support from the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art; members of the Art History Graduate Students Association; Ciel Variable magazine; and Château Versailles Hotel.

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Spring Shows 2012

2012-03-08T19:06:40Z

March to June 2012
Step into a world of creative energy in the heart of Montreal at Concordia University's Faculty of Fine Arts

Discover what our talented students have to offer in the disciplines of visual, performing, design, cinematic and electronic arts. Enjoy concerts, exhibitions and plays from all of our nine departments.

Schedules are subject to change. Please consult listings for up-to-the-minute listings prior to attending a show.

For a print copy of the Spring Shows 2012 brochure, send an email to renee.dunk@concordia.ca.
Pour recevoir une copie du dépliant Spectacles à l'affiche au printemps 2012, envoyez un courriel à renee.dunk@concordia.ca.

To download a PDF copy of the brochure, click here.
Pour télécharger une copie PDF du dépliant, cliquez ici.

Updated on February 27, 2012

Theatre Shows Spring 2012

2012-03-08T16:12:56Z

Renee Dunk
Short Works Festival

A showcase of plays written, directed and produced by students.

When:
March 8 to 11, 2012

Where:
Cazalet Studio (FC Building, Loyola Campus, Concordia University)
7141 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal (Metro Vendôme)

Cost:
$2 per performance. Tickets available at the door.

Schedule:

Thursday, March 8

7 p.m. - In Memoriam

8 p.m. - Naomi in the Living Room

8:45 p.m. - Anonymous Sin

9:45 p.m. - Greedy Graffiti

Friday, March 9

7 p.m. - Naomi in the Living Room

7:45 p.m. - In Memoriam

8:45 p.m. - Greedy Graffiti

9: 45 p.m. - Anonymous Sin

Saturday, March 10

5:30 p.m. - Greedy Graffiti

6:30 p.m. - Anonymous Sin

7:20 p.m. - Naomi in the Living Room

8:00 p.m. - In Memoriam

Sunday, March 11

2:30 p.m. - Anonymous Sin

3:20 p.m. - Greedy Graffiti

4:20 p.m. - In Memoriam

5:20 p.m. - Naomi in the Living Room

SIPA Supervisor:

Marija Djordjevic

Assistant SIPA Supervisor:

Tara Miller

Lighting Designer:

Allison Kelly

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Last Days of Judas Isacariot

Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by Sarah Garton Stanley.

A contemporary courtroom drama set in a Purgatory that feels like New York City, in a scenario that retries Judas Iscariot today for his betrayal of Jesus Christ.

When:
April 12 and 13, 2012 at 8 p.m.
April 14 at 2 and 8 p.m
April 15 at 1 p.m.

Where:
Loyola Chapel (FC Building, Loyola Campus, Concordia University)
7141 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal (Metro Vendôme)

Cost:
$10 regular, $5 for seniors and students. Tickets available at the door.

Related link:

Department of Theatre