Chantal Adams recalls her first encounter with Sandrina de Finney, an associate professor at UVic's School of Child and Youth Care. Adams was a first-year student when De Finney and a master's student visited one of Adams' classes. They spoke about their work with Indigenous children and families, sang and drummed and discussed the concept of intersectionality.
Biodegradable light wands, citizen science scuba divers, the Holocaust, and killer whales鈥攖hese were the winning topics among 17 juried videos featured at the second annual Research Reels competition on March 6, 2018.
Ever wanted to have an intimate, interactive moment with a baby orca? A new student-created sculpture allows viewers to have just that, while also learning something about the threats currently facing our local killer whale population.
Kelly Richardson, a new UVic visual arts professor, is bringing the old-growth forests near Port Renfrew sharply into focus with a new project. The Ontario-born artist, who'd lived in the UK since 2003, cites proximity to the ancient stands as one of the reasons she accepted the position at UVic.
A new documentary, The Thinking Garden, about a unique farming collective in a small South African village carries lessons of hope and resilience. It was written and produced by UVic scholars Christine Welsh and Elizabeth Vibert and it officially launches on March 1.
鈥婾Vic is home to a leading scholar of vampire myth in literature and film. Peter Golz, on the 15th anniversary of his popular course, is available to media for comment on the use of critical tools and theory on this 'spooky' topic.
Call it learning 360. When writing professor Maureen Bradley teaches digital media for storytellers, her venue is a departure from the typical university lecture hall: no podium, desk seating or front of the classroom. Instead, tables with roller-wheel chairs line the room, with a multi-media teaching island in the centre. Each table serves as a five-student pod, equipped with a 48-inch wireless video screen, audio speakers, laptop plug-ins and writable white board. Bradley displays video or broadcasts audio to any or all dozen screens in the room, or shows individual or group projects to every screen.
The force is definitely with UVic PhD candidate David Christopher (art history & cultural studies). One might even say it is his destiny. And when Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens hits theatres next month, you can count on Christopher to be in line for the new movie.
When it comes to the original Star Wars trilogy, the force is definitely with 番茄社区 PhD candidate David Christopher. An instructor of cinema and cultural theory in the Department of Art History and Visual Studies, he is not only dev鈥�
Canadian drama instructors gather at UVic to make sure they're giving students far more than just their next few lines. If you鈥檝e ever seen actors at work鈥攐n stage, on screen, on the street or on television鈥攜ou鈥檝e seen the results of the kind of pedagogy happening daily in the Department of Theatre. But now a first-of-its-kind national symposium co-organized by theatre professor Conrad Alexandrowicz is questioning and examining traditional acting methods, as it addresses what鈥檚 been described as 鈥渢he crisis of actor training in Canada.鈥�
After 25 years of queer activism, writing professor and filmmaker Maureen Bradley is still changing the world鈥攕he鈥檚 just having more fun doing it now, thanks to her debut feature film, Two 4 One. Billed as the first transgendered romantic comedy, Two 4 One offers a bittersweet look at a couple in an unimaginable predicament: after an ill-advised one-night stand, Miriam and Adam both wind up pregnant.
Longtime and much-loved instructor, filmmaker and writer Brian Hendricks passed away on August 11 at the age of 57. An alumnus of UVic鈥檚 Creative Writing program (he won the Petch Prize on his 1979 graduation), Brian taught at UVic as a Continuing Sessional from 1992 to 2011 in the Department of Writing and in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies.
The Latin American and Spanish Film Week returns in mid September to Victoria for a fifth year. The event will take place from Sept. 16鈥�21 at the 番茄社区鈥檚 Cinecenta theatre.
UVic film production class takes experiential learning to a whole new level The tools writing professor Maureen Bradley uses with her students may not immediately leap to mind when most people think about research at the 番茄社区. But for Bradley, lights and cameras are very much the focus of the action when it comes to film production.
A short story turned short film turned out to be the shortest route to the Cannes International Film Festival for Fine Arts staff member Dan Hogg. A digital media technician who specializes in film production, Hogg鈥攁lso a UVic alumnus鈥攚as invited to Cannes in May when his 10-minute film, Floodplain, was included in Telefilm Canada鈥檚 annual Not Short on Talent showcase.
Christine Willes has been a doctor, a demon and a DC Comics super-villain鈥攁nd this year she can add 鈥渄irector鈥� to the list. Willes, an actor well-known for her appearances on shows like Smallville, Dead Like Me and Emily Owens MD, came to UVic last year for her master鈥檚 in fine arts in directing. Now, as part of her final thesis, Willes is directing her fellow students of the UVic theatre department in Reasons to Be Pretty (Feb. 14鈥�23).
