This event gives talented students from Fine Arts and Illustration & Design an opportunity to paint live for 2 hours, while family, friends, and community members watch their paintings come to life. The paintings are then auctioned off and the money raised this year will support Rosie Animal Adoption.

Field trip to Graphiscan (Lithography Presses) Mirazed Serigraphie (Large Format Silkscreen Presses) printers in the South Shore area. The students will be able to see how silk screening, lithography and large format digital printing is done in our industry.  A survey will be given to the students for them to evaluate their experience.

Students in the Visual Arts program to collectively visit exhibitions at museums and galleries of both historical and contemporary Canadian and International Art in Toronto. This trip to visit Toronto’s museums and art galleries is proposed as an alternative pedagogical incentive to enhance student’s ability “to collect, organize and evaluate information from a variety of sources,...

30 students from 3D Animation, Industrial Design and Photography are going to Japan to visit Polygon Pictures, Square Enix and 21_21 Design Sight. There, they will all take part in design workshops and visiting companies where 2 Dawson Alumni are working in the design field. The group will attend an exhibition at 21_21 Design sight, where they will participate and...

Artist Guillaume Brisson Darveau will give a talk to both 2nd year Visual Art student groups. The talk will focus on the artist’s work created in the context of printmaking residencies, here and abroad. Students will also visit the printmaking studio Atelier Circulaire. Atelier Circulaire occupies a bright 10.000 ft2 space and provides workspaces and specialized...

Dawson Media Night is the prime event for Dawson College’s Cinema-Communications department. Divided into four categories; animation, narrative, experimental and documentary, the screening features the work of students that, throughout the semester, have striven to create creative and professional material. Prizes are given, students host the event along with live performances, art installations in the lobby and food/beverages...

On December 5th, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. in Dawson’s lower atrium, the Communications Design and Practice Course will be holding an eye-opening event in order to bring awareness to environmental issues imminently affecting society as we know it. The goal of this event is to educate Dawson students about the environmental threats we face due...

In exploring alternative ways of learning, New School’s It’s Showtime! Class will perform an original script: From Dio To Dawn: The Bacchae Retold at the Dawson Theater. 20 students from 12 different programs will join together challenging themselves in a dynamic exploration of the Greek classic. 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Dawson Theatre

IIDEX is the largest trade show in Canada for the Interior Design profession. Students will visit the trade show, including lectures and workshops.  They will tour Toronto sites organized by Interior Designers of Canada and will also visit museums and manufacturer’s showrooms with Dawson instructors.

The Resist Violence event will feature works from all of the students involved in the paired Imaging Violence and Nonviolence course. Resist Violence is a two and a half day showcase of work that exposes, subverts, questions and interacts with perceptions and issues related to violence. Exposing victim blaming questions posed to survivors of sexual assault, an...