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AMPD community takes the stage at Prague Quadrennial’s 2024 Technology Symposium
York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) had a notable presence at the Prague Quadrennial's 2024 Technology Symposium, an international event...
Embodying the Body Electric
Award-winning PhD student reimagines what dance can be
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CineSiege 2021 Nominees Announced
CineSiege 2021 Nominees Announced CineSiege features a juried selection of shorts chosen by program alumni and leading practitioners in film and media culture. Professors’ shortlist nominated films from all 200 films produced by students from all level ...
My Secret Life: AMPD facilities co-ordinator finds balance on his family farm
My Secret Life: AMPD facilities co-ordinator finds balance on his family farm Joey Vander Kooi Joey Vander Kooi has worked as the facilities co-ordinator in York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design since completing his unde ...
Music Professor Ron Westray to release autobiography this fall
Music Professor Ron Westray to Release Autobiography this Fall Ron Westray Originally featured on York YFile York University Associate Professor Ron Westray, in the Department of Music, School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, is releasing an ...
Luis Ramirez to Premiere with Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Music PhD Student to Premiere with Toronto Symphony Orchestra Luis Ramirez The Toronto Symphony Orchestra has announced that Luis Ramirez, a York University PhD candidate in Music, has received a commission for an original composition in their 2022 sea ...
Message to the AMPD community
A Message from the Dean To the community of AMPD: A rainbow flag at half-mast: perhaps no image better captures the painful mood of this June. The revelation of the 215 Indigenous children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School on Tk’emlups te Secwé ...
Political and Personal: Images of Gay Identity
Eric Birkle is a Doctoral Student in the Department of Visual Art & Art History at York University. As part of his research, Birkle curated a museum exhibition at the Flint Institute of Arts called Political and Personal: Images of Gay Identity. Th ...
The Identity of Pleasure
Nikolas Papastathopoulos just completed his 3rd year in the Cinema & Media Studies program at York University. In one of his courses, FILM 3812: Queer Cinema, Papastathopoulos teamed up with his roommates Natalia Morales Caceres & Emily Ishikaw ...
Finding Balance Through Our Roots
Sophie Dow (BFA 2019) is a queer and indigenous dance and music artist. Inspired by their Métis-Assiniboine roots, and in dialogue with Elders and Knowledge Keepers, Dow created Medicine Duets, a dance film that will screen at Buddies in Bad Times on J ...
Spreading Self-Love in the Visual Arts
Sonia Cara just graduated York University with a Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts. She has a background in Early Childhood Education, and will be furthering her education at Brock University this fall to complete her Bachelor of Education. We spoke wit ...