SMArt Communications Masterclasses

Drama Masterclass

When: March 4 & 6

Where: Acting Studio (Room 100) in the Jackman Dramatic Art Centre

Instructor: Lionel Walsh

Description:

The Drama Masterclass will deploy imagination and creativity to teach students in science, engineering, social science, and the arts effective communication skills that they can apply in their respective fields. Students will learn concepts of non-verbal communication and put them into practice through a series of short acting exercises. This masterclass will be interactive and will focus on the joy of communication via body language, speaking, movement, and the experiential.

Participants should come in comfortable, loose-fitting clothing and soft-soled shoes with a grip.

No drama or theatre experience necessary!

Registration maximum is 24 students.

 

Meet the Professor - Dr. Walsh

Lionel Walsh is an actor and director who teaches acting in the BFA in Acting programme. He is a Certified Teacher of the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique (Michael Chekhov Association) and is founding Director of The Inspired Acting Lab, in which he and his Lab Assistants develop new exercises in Fantastic Realism. He has trained at the Moscow Art Theatre School, Russia. Lionel is founding Artistic Director Northern Bruce Theatre and of the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium. He is a recipient of the Alumni Award for Distinguished Contributions to University Teaching and the Alumni Association Mentorship Award.

Creative Writing Masterclass

When: March 21, 2024, 1-4pm

Where: TBD

Instructor: Susan Holbrook

Public Presentation: In development

 

Description:

In this Creative Writing Masterclass, students in science, engineering, social science, and the arts will learn about a number of contemporary poetic practices and engage in writing experiments and procedures that will free up and spark creative innovation as it relates to the development of communication skills within their fields. Discovering compositional adventures in, among others, the constrained writings of Oulipo, Golden Shovels, and erasures, we will explore and play and produce some fabulous work.

No creative writing experience necessary! No need to bring any prior work!

Registration maximum is 25 students.

 

Meet the Professor - Dr. Holbrook

Susan Holbrook’s poetry books are ink earl (Coach House, 2021), Throaty Wipes (Coach House 2016), Joy Is So Exhausting (Coach House 2009), and misled (Red Deer 1999). She has also written a textbook, How to Read (and Write About) Poetry (Broadview Press, 2021), and edited Intertidal: Daphne Marlatt--The Collected Earlier Poems (Talonbooks) and The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation (Oxford UP). Her work has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award, the Trillium Book Award, and the Pat Lowther Award. She teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor.  

DATE: May 16, 2024

TIME: 5:00-9:00pm

LOCATION: Art Windsor-Essex, Second Floor Education Studio

The Creative Ecologies Workshop, sponsored by the SMArt Communications initiative at the University of Windsor invites students and members of the community to explore how drawing can build new relationships with local ecosystems and ecological interactions. In partnership with Art Windsor-Essex, participants will create circular drawings of subjects found on the gallery’s Green Roof Terrace using handheld microscopes. Through observational drawing, participants will exemplify the inherent fragility and subjectivity of our local ecology as it relates to the degrees of change in species abundance, composition, and environmental disturbances.

 

About the Instructor:

Garvin Chinnia is a larval Bioartist of mixed Ukrainian and Trinidadian ancestry. His practice attempts to engage creatively with ecologies through the various mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation. Through the interfaces of terraria, aquaria, gardening, and an insatiable need to collect samples biological that he finds interesting, he seeks to effect change within a dynamic biosphere, under anthropogenic pressures, struggling to exist and salvage what remains and intensely curious of what is to come. He wishes to plant the seeds of a paradigm shift that will leave our species more fully aware of, integrated with, and responsible to its ecosystem.

 

Drawer, Painter, Gardener, Bioartist, Garvin seeks to blend the blend the knowledges of his diverse background into a sustainable and growable alloy for an unknown future. He wishes to abandon the path that generations of capitalism, exploitation, imperialism and slavery our species holds to. In so doing, he wishes to if not start a garden in space, then to inspire that dream in others.

Stay tuned for more information.

Stay tuned for more information.

Dr. Papador’s SMArt Masterclass will consist of two 120-minute sessions that explore creative and expressive sonification of scientific data and environmental concepts.  The first 50 minutes of each session will consist of a brief tutorial on select experimental and minimalist musical concepts and their relationships to scientific practices.  The second hour of each session will consist of a music performance in which all attendees will participate.  The performances will consist of music by experimental artists such as John Cage and/or members of the ‘Wandelweiser’ school as well as sound installations devised by Dr. Papador and the participants.  No musical training is required and any required musical ‘instruments’ will be provided.  Bring only your desire to create immersive soundscapes with friends and classmates. 

 

Meet the Professor - Dr. Papador

Nicholas Papador is a Professor of Music at the University of Windsor in Ontario. He is a founding member of the Noiseborder Ensemble and Marassa Duo. He has performed at the Transplanted Roots Research Symposium, Puerto Rico Conservatory International Percussion Festivals, the Open Ears Festival, and the Percussive Arts Society International Convention. Papador’s recordings can be heard on the Centrediscs and Redshift labels. He was an on-screen performer in Matthew Barney’s 2014 film River of Fundament. An Associate Composer with the Canadian Music Centre, his compositions appear with a number of publishers. Papador has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Social Sciences Humanities Research Council, and Canada Foundation for Innovation. Papador is a Yamaha Performing Artist and an artist endorser for Vic Firth Sticks and Mallets, Sabian Cymbals, and Evans Drumheads. Papador’s book, Vessels of Song, is forthcoming from Heartland Marimba Publications.