Open to staff, faculty, students and the general public, PERFORM’s Healthy Cooking classes are a fun, hands-on experience meant to equip participants with nutritious, simple and affordable meal ideas. These sessions offer practical tips on how to add variety to meal planning and provide participants with engaging and delicious recipes. 

Outline:
Educational Session: 4:30 to 5 p.m.
Cooking and Clean up: 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Dining and Discussion: 6:30 to 7:15 p.m.
Food for Thought: 7:15 to 7:30 p.m.

When:  Tuesday, June 18, 2013, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Where: Room PC-S1.223, PERFORM Centre, (7200 Sherbrooke St. W.), Loyola Campus
Cost:    $75 + tax
Cancellation fee: 50 per cent cancellation fee without 48-hour notice ($37.50)

For more information and dates contact dietitian Théa Demmers at 514-848-2424, ext. 4018, thea.demmers@concordia.ca.

Related links:
•    PERFORM Centre
•    “Cooking mindfully at the PERFORM Centre” — NOW, February 6, 2013

Dayna Danger, Derby Girls, 2011. Chromogenic print. | Photo courtesy of the artist.

Eugénie Cliche creates unconventional scenarios that walk the line between playful and disturbing in what she terms photobroderies where she embroiders over Photoshopped digital images of family members. In her photographic series, Bad Girls, Dayna Danger reworks archetypal female figures often linked to scandal and shame as empowered protagonists who boldly embrace their sexuality and stray from society’s mores. Rosika Desnoyers delves into the material history of needlepoint, looking at this often disregarded amateur art form that was once widely practiced by many European women.

Jinyoung Kim photographs her father’s return to South Korea after over a decade’s absence, posing him against various backdrops that subtly hint at the intensity of the experience. In his multifaceted project Kaval, Bogdan Stoica mines the traditional Eastern European flute as a complex metaphor for immigrant experience and cultural identity in flux.

Drawing from artist Robert Smithson’s text, “A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey,” about a trip taken from Manhattan to the suburbs in 1966, David Butler uses Google Street View to retrace this iconic voyage, morphing elements of time and space. Using the gaze as a focal point in her video, Outlook, Sandra Smirle explores the impact of mediated reality in an era of constant surveillance.

Andrea Szilasi juxtaposes photographs of weight-training equipment with paintings cut and pasted from Western art history books, generating unexpected environments from these differing aesthetics and forms. Véronique Chagnon-Côté builds on the landscape painting genre, depicting lush gardens and foliage that draw attention to the human desire to control and contain the natural world.

What:     Meet the artists
When:    Wednesday, May 1, 2013, at 4:30 p.m.

What:     Opening reception
When:    Wednesday, May 1 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

What:     Exhibition IGNITION 9
When:    Thursday, May 2 to Saturday, June 8

All events are held at the Ellen Art Gallery:
Room LB-165, J.W. McConnell LIbrary Building (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.), SIr George Williams Campus (Guy-Concordia metro)

Admission is free of charge and open to the public.

Related links:
•    Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery 
•    IGNITION 9 
•    Concordia’s Department of Studio Arts 
•    PhD in Humanities 

Open to staff, faculty, students and the general public, PERFORM’s Healthy Cooking classes are a fun, hands-on experience meant to equip participants with nutritious, simple and affordable meal ideas. These sessions offer practical tips on how to add variety to meal planning and provide participants with engaging and delicious recipes. 

Outline:
Educational Session: 4:30 to 5 p.m.
Cooking and Clean up: 5 to 6:30 p.m.
Dining and Discussion: 6:30 to 7:15 p.m.
Food for Thought: 7:15 to 7:30 p.m.

When:    Tuesday, June 4, 2013, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Where:   Room PC-S1.223, PERFORM Centre (7200 Sherbrooke St. W.), Loyola Campus
Cost:      $75 + tax
Cancellation fee: 50 per cent cancellation fee without 48-hour notice ($37.50)

For more information and dates contact dietitian Théa Demmers at 514-848-2424, ext. 4018, thea.demmers@concordia.ca

Upcoming classes:

Occupation double - Protein combinations
June 14, 2013
Whether you are vegetarian, pescatarian, or you eat meat occasionally, if you are interested in sustainable food habits, saving money and eating well, then this session is for you! Learn why rice and lentils makes a complete protein combination and why barley and almonds do not.

Related links:
•    PERFORM Centre
•    “Cooking mindfully at the PERFORM Centre” — NOW, February 6, 2013

This event will address an issue that has been widely discussed in the media. The acquisition offers made for RONA and PotashCorp made headlines across the country.  Globalization is driving Asian capital to resource-rich North America. The government already plays a protectionist role in certain industries, but what should the boundaries of that role be?

A panel of high-profile speakers from the province’s business community will discuss the major challenges facing corporate ownership in Canada and Quebec. Some of the participating panelists will be Yvon Bolduc, president and CEO, Fonds de solidarité FTQ, Andrew Molson, chairman of the board, Molson Coors Brewing Company and Michael Sabia, president and CEO, Caisse de dépot et placement du Québec.

A luncheon, at which Nicolas Marceau, Quebec’s minister of finance and the economy is to speak, will follow the colloquium.

The event is open to the public.

When:    Friday, May 31, 2013   
               Colloquium: 7:30 a.m. to noon $139 (table of eight: $950)
               Lunch with the minister: noon to 2 p.m. $195 (table of eight: $1,325)
Where:   Hôtel Omni Mont-Royal, Salle Pierre Coubertin (1050 Sherbrooke St, W.)

Click here to register.

Concordia’s John Molson School of Business is a founding member of the Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations (IGOPP), an organization committed to the improvement of corporate governance in the public and private sectors.

Related links:
•    John Molson Executive Centre
•    John Molson School of Business
•    Institute for Governance of Private and Public Organizations (IGOPP)

For complete event details, visit the Spring Shows 2013 website.

What:    Time Machine: Pavitra Wickramasinghe, 2011 Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art recipient
When:    On view until Friday, May 24, 2013
Where:  Room EV 1.715, FOFA Gallery, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex, (1515 Ste-Catherine St. W.), Sir George Williams Campus

What:    Concordia student film festival
When:   Wednesday, May 1 to Saturday, May 4, 2013 (complete screening schedule at concordiafilmfest.ca)
Where:  Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1380 Sherbrooke St. W.

What:    Ignition 9: graduate student exhibition
When:   Thursday, May 2 to Saturday, June 8, 2013
Where:  Room LB-165, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, J. W. McConnell Building (Library Building, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.), Sir George Williams Campus

What:    WRAPT/EMBALLÉ: Design and Computation Arts student exhibition
When:   Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5, 2013 from 12 to 5 p.m. (part of the Design Montréal Portes Ouvertes/Open House event)
Where:  EV-6th and 7th floors, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex, (1515 Ste-Catherine St. W.), Sir George Williams Campus

Related links:
• It’s about time … time travel
• Concordia student film festival
• Ignition 9
• Design Montréal Portes Ouvertes/Open House
• Faculty of Fine Arts

The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) invites Concordia employees to take this workshop at no cost.

This seminar features the latest research findings from the fields of Psychology, Management and Neuroscience to help you understand how apply the “happiness advantage” to one's life.

When:  Tuesday, May 28, 2013, from 12 to 1:15 p.m.
Where:  Room H-760, Henry F. Hall Building (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.), Sir George Williams Campus.
Facilitator: Gillian Leithman, Shepell-fgi

The EAP is a voluntary, confidential counselling and information service available at no cost to all employees eligible for Concordia Health Benefits, including their immediate family. This service offers employees help with personal and professional issues, tensions and stress before they become more serious difficulties.

Related link:
•   Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Pavitra Wickramasinghe
Time Machine
Main Gallery and Black Box

Richard Kerr
snap,crack,pop...(less about meaning than being)
York Corridor and Ste-Catherine St. W. vitrines

In Time Machine, multidisciplinary artist Pavitra Wickramasinghe explores the concept of time-travel and its implication of longing, regret and hope. She was inspired by the work of physicist Ronald L. Mallett and his theories of time-travel based on laser technology – in a sense using light as a time machine. For this project, she worked with imagery that provokes notions of traveling (in time and space) and the fluidity of place, using shadow as a stand-in for these notions.

“Shadows provide an opportunity for illusion, trickery and exploring perception as an integral part of understanding,” she writes. “It is proof that not all meaning can be created or displayed in light and indicates the absolute consistency of change and the impossibility of fixed meaning.” 

Wickramasinghe is the 2011 Concordia University recipient of the Stephen and Claudine Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art. The exhibition and publication of her catalogue The Book of Light and Shadows mark the conclusion of her two-year fellowship term.

The vitrines will show snap,crack,pop...(less about meaning than being) from experimental filmmaker and Concordia faculty member Richard Kerr. It will consist of several of his signature works from the series motion picture weavings as well as a new body of projections coupled with paint-based objects. This material iteration of the “spinning camera” technique Kerr created to present hypnotic and deeply formal concerns evoke Marcel Duchamp’s rotary reliefs and early machinist modernists like Jean Tinguely and his metamechanics. 
 

Richard Kerr, video still, Staggered Loops, 2012

The exhibition and a conversation with Pittsburgh-based filmmaker, curator and writer Brett Kashmere, will unpack Kerr’s particular path of constant production, described by Kashmere as a mix of aesthetic intensity/energy and patient observation/restraint that results in a fusion of abstraction and documentary styles.

Exhibition:  Monday, April 15, to Thursday, May 24, 2013

Vernissage: Thursday, April 18, 2013, 5 to 7 p.m.

Catalogue launch:  Thursday, May 9, 2013, at 4:30 p.m.

Conversation, Brett Kashmere with Richard Kerr: Thursday, May 16, 2013 (location to be confirmed)

Where:    FOFA Gallery, Room EV 1.715, Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex, Sir George Williams Campus (1515 Ste-Catherine St. W.) 

Admission is free of charge and everyone is welcome.

Related links:
•    FOFA Gallery
•    Department of Studio Arts
•    Pavitra Wickramasinghe’s website
•    Richard Kerr’s faculty profile (Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema)
•    Richard Kerr’s website
 

Image by Tamara Martín Sánchez

The Cosmonaut is a Sci-Fi movie that takes place during the space race. But it is also something else than a movie: The Cosmonaut is a transmedia project. Apart form the movie there are at least 32 additional episodes related with the story of The Cosmonaut. In an intriguing experiment, this film, directed by a young Spanish filmmaker, raised over 400.000€ in financing through crowdfunding; that will be distributed through the Internet for free at the same time as DVD, TV and cinema; and that will be available under a Creative Commons license, allowing anyone to copy, remix and distribute the film.

The Cosmonaut will be screened on Friday, May 24, at 5 p.m. Director Nicolas Alcalá will join the audience via Google Hangout to answer questions about his experience with this amazing project.

Stephane Blais, Transmedia Creative Director at SAGA, will introduce The Cosmonaut before the screening. Blais is a veteran from the gaming industry who spent most of the last 12 years as a lead game designer at Ubisoft Montreal, but his main passion has always been storytelling. From his role as head of content on the Assassin's Creed brand to his current position as Transmedia Creative Director, and discovering new ways to explore narrative universes, he continues to be on the forefront of his creative process.

When:    Friday, May 24, at 5 p.m.
Where:    VA-114, Visual Arts Building (1395 René Lévesque Blvd. W.), Sir George Williams Campus

Sponsored by TAG (Technoculture, Arts and Games) lab.

Related links:
•    Join the FB event
•    The Cosmonaut site
•    The Cosmonaut on Wikipedia
 

Sacred Sites is an opportunity to explore and experience different holy places in Montreal. Concordia students and staff are invited to learn about their neighbours' faith in a safe and welcoming atmosphere.

On this occasion, the group will visit the Mount Royal Cemetery.

When:    Thursday, May 23, 2013 from 1 to 3 p.m.
Where:    Multi-faith Chaplaincy, Room Z-105, Annex Z (2090 Mackay St.), Sir George Williams Campus

The guided tour will be primarily in French.  Participants should be in decent physical form.

For more info or to register, contact Laura.Gallo@concordia.ca

Related links:
•    Multi-faith Chaplaincy
•    Mount Royal Cemetery

RSVP by May 17. You can purchase tickets online or by calling 514-848-2424, ext. 4397, or 1-888-777-3330

For more Information please contact alumni@concordia.ca, 514 848-2424, ext. 8946

Related links:
22nd Annual Alumni Recognition Awards Banquet
Alumni recognition awards