Dawson College’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education will be hosting Entrepreneurship Week (Eweek) coinciding with Global Entrepreneurship Week, November 13 to 16, 2017. This week is all about creativity, innovation, resources and networking, the early stages of starting a new enterprise whether a social project or in business. Students and faculty will be inspired...

The Visual Arts Program is organizing a pizza party with the intention of bringing together our 1st and 2nd year Visual Arts Program students, along with the Fine Arts Department faculty. We did this last year and it was so successful that this year’s 2nd year students have requested that we do it again because...

The students from first year Illustration Fall 2017 semester will be visiting a serigraphy (silkscreen) printing studio. It will introduce them to the principles of serigraphy, printing techniques on different surfaces such as paper, material t-shirts, etc. They will apply the knowledge gained from this workshop given to them and then apply on of their...

Students will visit the Old Prison of Trois-Rivières which was built in 1822-1823 and is now part of the musée québécois de culture populaire. The visit also includes a group session with an ex-convict who will describe the harsh reality of prison life in the 1970s and 1980s, just before the prison closed its doors. The visit...

In the Warren Flowers Gallery from October 12th until the 28th, 2017 there will be an exhibition of alumni work that will show the various components of the design process that led to a finished project. When only photographs of completed work are seen on-line and in design magazines, there is no evidence of all...

The KAIROS blanket exercise is a teaching tool to share the historic and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. Vicky Boldo, a Métis scholar and activist, will lead this exercise for History students. This activity will help students to better understand this history, and to understand their place within it.

CINEMA POLITICA is a Montreal-based media arts, non-profit network of community and campus locals that screen independent political film and video by Canadian and international artists throughout Canada and abroad. Cinema Politica – Dawson will promote documentaries and engage students in discussions on political cinema by independent artists, with an emphasis on Canadian works. The main...

The students of the learning communities class Counting the Cost: Social Justice in Canada? will have the opportunity to visit the community of Kahnawake – including guided visits to the cultural centre, the village itself, and a longhouse. This field trip has been designed and organized by Kahnawake tourism officer Wakenhnhiiohstha Montour.

Effects Montreal has 70 speakers, 1200+ attendees, 266 participating companies; it is the largest international VFX and 3D Animation conference on the East Coast.  For students and professionals alike, it is an opportunity to learn and to grow, to be exposed to the latest trends in the industry, and to network with companies and with...

The design and production of an exhibition catalogue is a learning activity within the Studio Arts Integrating Activity course. The Comprehensive Assessment takes place in this course for the students registered in the Studio Arts Profile