For further information contact Dr. Katharine Rollwagen, [email protected] ah.viu.ca/colloquium-series Support for the Colloquium is provided by Ros Davies and by the Interim Dean of Arts and Humanities, Dr. Marni Stanley Join us for a reflective and intellectually engaging series of faculty presentations followed by discussion and accompanied by refreshments. map: viu.ca/map/index.asp The Arts & Humanities Cooium Series Malaspina Theatre | Building 310 | Nanaimo Campus All Presentations 10 am – 11:30 am SPRING 2019 VIUArtsandHumanities @VIUTalkingArts Talking Arts, Seeing Ideas. January 25 Justin McGrail, Art and Design Heritage Graffiti: Conserving Victoria’s Anti-Preservationist Art Graffiti is not meant to last. In the name of urban beautification and property rights, cities paint over graffiti and use fencing to make access to walls difficult. In the City of Victoria, fences have inadvertently preserved some graffiti in less visible places, creating a contemporary, urban paradox: heritage graffiti. February 15 Ravindra Mohabeer, Media Studies I Was Never Here: Stories about Media and Belonging Our lives are increasingly digitized. Yet a wise elementary principal once told a gym full of parents, “for those whose focus is on recording the event, do not get in the way of those who want to actually be here.” An exercise in critical life-skills, this playful, visual storytelling experience considers what it means to be present while living with and through media. March 15 Sasha Koerbler, Music John Lepage, English Mendelssohn’s Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Fantasy as the Bottom Line A Midsummer Night’s Dream is Shakespeare’s most magical play. In 1826, it enchanted seventeen-year-old German composer Felix Mendelssohn and inspired him to compose a concert overture. Mendelssohn’s masterly crafted music infuses the narrative with fantasy and intrigue: it conjures up the kingdom of the fairies, while following humans, high and low, into the magic wood. Is there a donkey in this overture? Most definitely yes! FREE PUBLIC LECTURES

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Page 1: FREE PUBLIC LECTURES The Arts Humanities Colloquium Series · ah.viu.ca/colloquium-series Support for the Colloquium is provided by Ros Davies and by the Interim Dean of Arts and

For further information contact

Dr. Katharine Rollwagen, [email protected] ah.viu.ca/colloquium-series

Support for the Colloquium is provided by Ros Davies and by the Interim Dean of Arts and Humanities, Dr. Marni Stanley

Join us for a reflective and intellectually engaging series of faculty presentations followed by discussion and accompanied by refreshments. map: viu.ca/map/index.asp

The Arts & Humanities Colloquium Series

Malaspina Theatre | Building 310 | Nanaimo CampusAll Presentations 10 am – 11:30 am

SPRING 2019

VIUArtsandHumanities @VIUTalkingArts

Talking Arts, Seeing Ideas.

January 25Justin McGrail, Art and Design

Heritage Graffiti: Conserving Victoria’s Anti-Preservationist ArtGraffiti is not meant to last. In the name of urban beautification and property rights, cities paint over graffiti and use fencing to make access to walls difficult. In the City of Victoria, fences have inadvertently preserved some graffiti in less visible places, creating a contemporary, urban paradox: heritage graffiti.

February 15Ravindra Mohabeer, Media Studies

I Was Never Here: Stories about Media and BelongingOur lives are increasingly digitized. Yet a wise elementary principal once told a gym full of parents, “for those whose focus is on recording the event, do not get in the way of those who want to actually be here.” An exercise in critical life-skills, this playful, visual storytelling experience considers what it means to be present while living with and through media.

March 15 Sasha Koerbler, MusicJohn Lepage, English

Mendelssohn’s Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Fantasy as the Bottom LineA Midsummer Night’s Dream is Shakespeare’s most magical play. In 1826, it enchanted seventeen-year-old German composer Felix Mendelssohn and inspired him to compose a concert overture. Mendelssohn’s masterly crafted music infuses the narrative with fantasy and intrigue: it conjures up the kingdom of the fairies, while following humans, high and low, into the magic wood. Is there a donkey in this overture? Most definitely yes!

FREE PUBLIC LECTURES