2019-2020 Faculty Project
T.L Cowan
Cabaret Methods Inside Out: Practice, Pedagogy, Publishing, Protest Description
Conference participation funding. A major research-creation undertaking in the summer of 2019 at the 11th Encuentro (meeting) of the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics in the Americas (NYU) on the gathering theme of The World Inside Out: Humor, Noise, and Performance to be held in Mexico City from June 9–15, 2019. The “Hemi Encuentro” is the *major* gathering of performance artists, activists, scholars and research-creation practitioners in the Americas.
2019-2020 Faculty Project
Sherri Helwig
Community-Engaged Planning for Curriculum- and Arts-Based Research Initiatives
Guest speaker funding: exploration of field-based or hybrid courses, experiential education placements, and student research opportunities as an elemental piece of a larger project entitled Story of Our Stories. In collaboration with Robin Sutherland, the Founding Artistic Director of Thinking Rock Community Arts.
2019-2020 Faculty Project
Elliot Leffler
Research on Cape Town's Baxter Theatre's "South African Waiting for Godot"
Research assistant funding: “During the 1970s and 1980s, many South African theatrical productions toured internationally, showcasing the abuses of apartheid. It is generally assumed that these productions bolstered the international anti-apartheid movement, though it is always difficult to assess the impact of theatre on international geopolitics. I am conducting research that hopes to elucidate under what circumstances these touring productions may have fueled the movement, and under what circumstances they may have actually run at cross-purposes. To do so, I'm conducting a detailed history of a little-known and highly unusual production of Cape Town's Baxter Theatre. The production – a South African Waiting for Godot – was understood in some places as a critique of apartheid, and in other places, it was deemed "part and parcel of the South African propaganda machine" (Shulman, Etlin).
2019-2020 Faculty Project
Ann MacDonald
Jalani Morgan, Doris McCarthy Gallery Artist-in-Residence (Summer 2019)
Non-EDA artist-in-residence funding: Support for an artist’s residency and exhibition by Scarborough-raised, Toronto-based photographer Jalani Morgan. Morgan will be using the DMG as a summer work & studio space toward the development of his fall 2019 exhibition, The Black Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame at the DMG. This is the second time DMG has offered a summer residency in the gallery.
Jalani Morgan is an established Toronto based photographer, visual historian and photo editor who is known for his editorial, documentary, and gallery work both nationally and internationally. Over the past 15 years, Jalani has built an impressive portfolio creating pieces for the National Film Board of Canada, The Fader, Nike, Sportsnet Magazine, TVO, National Screen Institute, Converse, Manifesto, ArtReach,TEDxToronto, Daniel Spectrum and Nia Centre for the Arts, and has contributed to exhibits for Photoville New York, The Wedge Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Windsor and CONTACT Photography Festival. Born in Etobicoke and raised in Scarborough, Jalani has been dedicated to giving back to his community through mentorship and community empowerment programs.
2019-2020 Faculty Project
Sasha Rapaport
Barbara Croall at UTSC Winter 2020
Funding for workshop, concert, and master-class: Barbara Croall is Founder and Director of Women of the Four Directions (WFD) an organization devoted to promoting indigenous women's artistic and cultural activities.She is also a leading composer of her generation in North America. Barbara is of Odawa First Nation Heritage. She has also done extensive research on indigenous North American music. She is also a distinguished practitioner of European based music, an excellent pianist and teacher.
2018-2019 Faculty Project
Will Kwan
Chinese-language research for Demos
Research assistant funding: Support to build a team of 3 undergraduate research assistants to complete Chinese-language online research for a Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) funded research project and artwork Demos that I have been developing over the past several years. The research and eventual installation piece attempts to reconstruct the architectural and domestic details of a number of demolished “nail houses” (钉子户) in China—real estate holdouts where residents refuse to give vacate a property that a developer and/or local government seeks to develop—through fragmented accounts captured from Chinese and international media sources.
2018-2019 Faculty Project
Roger Mantie and Lynn Tucker
A Chance to Say ‘Yes!’: A Community Music Workshop
Workshop funding: Lee Higgins, Past-President of the International Society for Music Education and Director of the International Centre for Community Music, has been a lifelong leading voice for inclusive practices in music making. Serendipitously, professor Higgins will be in Ontario in early March as a scholar-in-residence at Western University. Given his relationship with Roger Mantie, Lee is willing to extend his stay in Canada for a couple of extra days. This is an incredible opportunity to bring a world authority to UTSC at a very affordable price.