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Attendees planted flags on the lawn outside Memorial Hall following Tuesday’s ceremony marking Remembrance Day.
Attendees planted flags on the lawn outside Memorial Hall following Tuesday’s ceremony marking Remembrance Day.
The Inspired Acting Lab at the School of Dramatic Art presents a free public demonstration of acting exercises in Fantastic Realism on Sunday.
President Alan Wildeman provided the campus community with an initial projection for fiscal 2015-16 in an update Friday.
Performances of Brave Hearts, by playwright Harry Rintoul, will give Windsor audiences a chance to see the production before it hits the New York stage.
The play tells the compelling story of the relationship between two gay men, GW and Rafe. With touches of humor, Brave Hearts uses irony to confront issues of pain and loneliness, and the need for comfort and love in an era when a diagnosis of HIV meant certain death.
Jennifer Rocheleau, secretary to then history department, made a most deserving recipient of an award recognizing staff service in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, professor Miriam Wright told attendees at the faculty’s end-of-year celebration, Wednesday in Vanier Hall.
With displays and literature on everything from nutrition to sexual health, the Faculty and Staff Wellness Fair in the CAW Student Centre on Tuesday was an educational affair—but the learning wasn’t just on the client side.
Fourth-year nursing student Lisa Lee, one of the event’s organizers, said she learned a lot, too.
Friends, family and colleagues honoured drama professor Tedfred Myers, who died in February, with a memorial tree planting Friday on the northwest side of the Jackman Dramatic Art Centre.
Myers joined the University of Windsor in 1981 as a technical director in the School of Dramatic Art, became its technical coordinator and lighting designer in 1984, and became an assistant professor in 2003 after many years of teaching as a sessional instructor.
Friday’s ceremony included the installation of a memorial plaque and the scattering of Myers’ cremains on the site.
University Players has announced an “exciting and fun-filled” lineup of plays for 2012/13, says Lionel Walsh, director of the School of Dramatic Art.
“This season has a focus on comedy,” he says. “We’re positive you will laugh, giggle, and guffaw through a series of outstanding plays from the world of theatre.”
A UWindsor history professor says that a staged reading of his new play, The Metropolitan, combines his own area of research with nursing, drama and social justice.
“It’s a great University of Windsor story where you can get these inter-disciplinary collaborations that are products of a close-knit campus,” says Steven Palmer, who holds the Canada Research Chair in History of International Health.