Subjects that Matter
Faculty of Arts, Mount Royal University
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Phoenix Rising — Subjects that Matter Launch Schedule of Day
Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts
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10:00 - 10:15 |
Welcome and Opening Remarks, TransAlta Pavilion |
| 10:15 - 11:45 | Rising Arts Faculty: Subjects that Matter, Panel I, TransAlta Pavilion. Registration not required |
| 1:45 - 3:15 |
Rising Arts Faculty: Subjects that Matter, Panel II, TransAlta Pavilion. |
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3:30 - 5:30 |
Phoenix Rising – Subjects that Matter Reception, TransAlta Pavilion. Reception Programme: - Phoenix Launch Opening remarks, Elder Miiksika’am - Liberal Arts at MRU Video Public Launch - “RUN TO THE STACKS” - a poem for Phoenix by Calgary poet-laureate and MRU Professor Dr. Natalie Meisner - periodic performances by students of the MRU Conservatory - scholarship highlights of MRU Arts Faculty
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Environmental (De)Evolutions and Recoveries
Speakers: Dr. Rob Boschman, Dr. Ranjan Datta, Dr. Tim Haney, Dr. Emily Hutchison; Dr. Caroline McDonald-Harker
This panel of five MRU Faculty of Arts experts will explore the human-environment impact in the twenty-first century. As we face the uncertainty and chaos of our destabilised environment, and the traumas that ensue, how do we respond and strive for resilience and stability?
Details: 25 January 2023
4:00-5:30 pm, Ideas Lounge, Riddell Library and Learning Centre, (EL1270)
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Pandemics: Self and Community
Speakers: Dr. Dan Devoe, Dr. Janet Miller, Dr. Duane Bratt, Dr. Nathaniel Wagenaar, Dr. Corinne Mason, Dr. Kenna L. Olsen
This panel of six MRU Faculty of Arts experts will explore the conceptions of, and intersections between, the self and community in response to expectations, policies, and experiences related to pandemics and the societies that experience them.
Details: 16 February 2023
4:00-5:30 pm, Ideas Lounge, Riddell Library and Learning Centre, (EL1270)
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Phoenix (Up)Rising: A New Play about Mount Royal Theatre
In the spring of 2013, it was announced MRU would be losing its theatre program along with several other diploma and certificate programs. Ten years later, an audience will return to one of Mount Royal’s beloved performance spaces. For one night only, the proverbial curtain will be raised, a spotlight will return to the Dramatic Arts, and an audience will journey in time and space to reflect on one of the oldest forms of storytelling.
As part of MRU’s Phoenix Rising Engagement Series, Mount Royal theatre alumni, patrons, and supporters of the dramatic arts on campus are encouraged to reach out if they would like to contribute to the piece.
Contact: Dr. Christopher Grignard, Assistant Professor of English, Languages, and Cultures (cgrignard@mtroyal.ca); Dr. Natalie Meisner, Professor of English, Languages, and Cultures (nmeisner@mtroyal.ca)
Details: 23 March 2023
4:00-5:30 pm, Theatre Space, MRU
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Phoenix Co-Convenors
Prof. Kenna Olsen
Dr. David Clemis
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