Media Advisory: Personal and Cultural Enrichment at McGill
香蕉视频's Centre for Continuing Education is pleased to introduce PACE:聽 Personal and Cultural Enrichment, a new area designed to provide the local community with culturally enriched programming. PACE events will showcase art, writing, religion and film, performance and more.
The inaugural event, Writing Minds: Culture Matters at McGill, is a series of six conversations featuring well-known authors from McGill, starting May 4.
What: Writing Minds: Culture Matters at McGill
When: Series begins May 4 and ends June 14
Topics: May 4 -Writing Wild: My Wilderness
Palette
David Lank | 7-9 pm
How does an aspiring author/artist get started? What are some of
tricks of the trade? What should a discerning reader or observer
look for? What is the role of "the public"? Do we all have the
potential to be an author or illustrator, to share our thoughts and
visions with a larger world? Prof. David Lank will talk about his
writing career and specifically his major book on the art and life
of John James Audubon, Audubon's Wilderness Palette,
recommended by Time Magazine as one of the "must read" books of
1998.
May 11
Writing CuiZine: Ghosts of Dinners Past
Nathalie Cooke | 7-9 pm
Cooke will prepare a feast of sight and sound, sharing the bounty
of CuiZine, Canada's Journal of Canadian Food Cultures. Read by
more than 6800 people in 11 countries in its first year of
production, CuiZine will launch its third issue in May 2010, once
again serving up poetry, interviews, commentary about Canadians'
food choices. Through discussion of CuiZine, Cooke will also invite
you to explore the exciting possibilities of an online journal, one
that has never and will never be bound to the printed page.
May 18
Script Writing: Fathers and Lovers
Antonio D'Alfonso | 7-9 pm
D'Alfonso discusses the process of writing, shooting and editing
through his award-winning film BRUCO. All his works of art contain
the hidden meaning: "I love you."聽 The public is invited to
view D'Alfonso's independent film about how a man changes his life
at the peak of his career.
June 1
Writing Buddhist: Wild Geese Over Water
Victor S艒gen Hori | 7-9 pm
"The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection
upon the water,
The water has no mind to receive their image."
Buddhism came to Canada more than 100 years ago, but was confined
to the Asian communities until the 1960s. Since then, Buddhism has
experienced dramatic growth as Asian immigration increased and as
more and more native-born Canadians converted to Buddhism. Victor
Hori's talk presents a short history of Buddhism in Canada,
illustrated with images of the great range of Buddhist communities
in Canada stressing their global connections, and biographies of
leaders of Buddhist communities.
June 8
Page to Stage: Performing the Text
Myrna Wyatt Selkirk, Catherine Bradley, Erin Hurley | 7-9 pm
German playwright and director Bertolt Brecht sought to create a
theatre that would illuminate social conditions and foster social
change. How do we respond to the challenges of Brecht's plays from
the unique perspective of the director and the costume designer?
What techniques does Brecht use to encourage social change? What is
the role of emotion in his theatre? We use the example of our
recent Main Stage production of The Good Person of
Sichuan to illuminate the talk by Theatre Professor
Erin Hurley, Director Myrna Wyatt Selkirk and Costume Designer
Catherine Bradley.
June 14
Writing Geopolitics: A Perfect Storm
Cleo Paskal | 7-9 pm
Pascal's book Global Warring looks beyond climate change
to environmental change, questioning how different economic
societies work. The changing environment now has the attention of
military establishments around the world. The CIA and U.S.
Department of Defence are both researching and tracking the
security implications of climate change. China has been on it for
decades. India is not far behind. This talk will look at some of
the existing challenges to security caused by environmental change,
including the disruption of energy supplies, undermining of
international law, a looming crisis in emergency management, and,
of course, the Arctic.
Free admission, please register online at www.mcgill.ca/conted/pace