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Live Events
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Creations Live Zoom Launch
The Creations Journal editing team invites you
to a launch with live readings from contributors.May 29th @ 5pm
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Media Night
The Cinema-Communications Profile presents
media works by ALC StudentsMay 29th @ 8pm
Emergent celebrates and shares the achievements of graduating students in the Arts Literature and Communication Program as they present their work to their peers and the broader Dawson Community. The theme for this year’s ALC festival was imagined pre-pandemic. Initially the title Emergent was intended to reference our graduating students as ‘emergent’ and also to recognize our urgent need for political action: last fall’s global “Strike for Climate Change” was foremost on our minds. The pandemic has added another layer of meaning, as it now also describes our students’ work as emerging from Covid isolation. By exhibiting the works of ALC students in their respective fields, our festival showcases their accomplishments, hard work and talent, and also speaks to their commitment to make change in their worlds, to be present and to make their voices matter.
We would like to offer our gratitude to staff, students, teachers, administrators and community members for making this festival possible.
Literature
Under more "normal" circumstances, as part of their Integrating Activity course, graduating students of the Literature Profile write a 10-page paper and deliver these major, end-of-term projects at the Literature Profile Conference during the ALC Festival. Sadly, no such conference is being held this year due to the pandemic. The 2020 graduating cohort of Literature Profile students have all worked hard at completing their end of term projects for Liana Bellon's IA class despite the distancing, and we are proud to present a selection of students' excellent papers in the 2020 edition of the Creations Journal.
This year's group of indefatigable student editors of Creations also brings you a beautiful selection of creative writing in all shapes and sizes, some composed for their Creative Writing classes. They invite you to join them at 5pm on Friday the 29th as they launch the journal with live readings from contributors on Zoom! Please also visit the instagram account of Andrea Strudensky's Creative Writing class for a collection of micro-essays straight from the heart.
We hope you emerge from these readings inspired!
Pauline Morel, profile coordinator, Literature
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Live Event
Creations Live Zoom Launch
The Creations Journal editing team invites you
to a launch with live readings from contributors.Join MeetingMay 29th at 5pm
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Creations Journal 2020 edition
Edited by a very dynamic team of graduating Literature students, and featuring creative writing from ALC students as well as the crème de la crème of IA papers from Liana Bellon's graduating class.
View Creation Journal
Dawson English Journal 2020 edition
Check out the amazing new student academic writing from 2019-2020 in this latest edition of the Dawson English Journal, an academic journal edited by Dawson students.
View English Journal
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Instagram Micro-Essay project
Andrea Strudensky’s Creative Writing WorkshopLeap off the page and into the "gram" for personal poetic prose pieces accompanied by visual inspiration from the students’ own camera rolls. These graduating students from the Literature profile were directed to tease out the emotional complexity involved in reminiscing and relate the feelings they discovered, all in the space of 200 words. They were asked to see the writing more as play because micro-essays privilege discovery - you arrive at them instead of whittling away at them. The instagram page morphed into a place where students shared their "stories" (24 hour videos that disappear) about their experiences during the pandemic and isolation. The stories connected the students and made them feel less alone.
View Micro-Essay project
Cinema & Communications
Languages
Interactive Media Arts
Studio Arts
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No Lunch in Class
Students explore various modes of expression
through a diverse array of methods and materials
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Twenty Twenty
As artists, we want to express our reaction
to this blizzard start of the year and our expectations for the future.
Here's our 20/20 vision of Twenty-twenty.