Professional Theatre students attended a production of L’Homme Invisible at the Theatre La Licorne. This performance was a dramatic setting of Franco-Ontarian poet Patrice Desbiens’ bilingual prose poem of 1981, which dealt with the ambiguous heritage and identity of a man “whose mother tongue was bilingualism”. The role of the eponymous “Invisible Man” (Desbiens’ nod...

McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine hosts an annual conference that entices young aspiring students to learn from the experience of those practicing in the field. This year’s lectures were centered around epidemiology; with specific topics involving disease, medication and childbirth. This provides a wonderful opportunity for aspiring medical doctors to find out about the realities...

“Life of Socrates”, an original play arranged by Dawson students and faculty for the Humanities Public Life Conference. The play features scenes from the life of Socrates, the famous ancient Greek philosopher and one of the first great critical thinkers in western civilization. The play opens with a scene from Plato’s dialogue the Phaedrus, in...

The Humanities department puts on the annual Humanities and Public Life Conference, this past year speakers examined the theme of world views, the conceptual frameworks that helps us understand, from a variety of historical and ideological viewpoints, how the world is structured, functions and develops. The conference dealt with concepts such as an understanding of...

Fine Arts Students attended a lecture by Dr. Clarence Epstein of Concordia University, Senior Director of Urban and Cultural Affairs. Dr. Epstein spoke about his direct involvement with the Diniacopoulos Collection of Antiquities. Archaeologists and art collectors Vincent & Olga Diniacopoulos arrived in Montreal from Alexandria in 1951 bringing with them the largest privately owned...

Professional theatre students visited the Musée des Beaux Arts, visiting several different exhibits. Students visited the pernament exhibitions, the Faberge exhibit and the Dreamscapes based on the 4D work of Michael Lemieux-Victor Pilon dealing with combining visual and media arts with live theatre. Their avant-garde work based on techniques applied at Theatre du Nouveau Monde,...

In the 2014/2015 academic year, S.P.A.C.E. hosted and participated in twenty two live events as well as publishing three editions of the webzine. The events were well attended with over 1,500 students, faculty and staff present and 725 students and faculty actively engaged in one or more projects. Most of these events related to this...

The students in the Integrating Activity course have designed and produced a catalogue for their exhibition: 24/7. This was a learning activity within the Studio Arts Integrating Activity course. The Comprehensive Examination took place in this course for the students registered in the Studio Arts profile. This catalogue demonstrates that the students have successfully acquired...

The Open Studio Live Model project is an essential part of our students’ life drawing practice. It provides all visual arts students with an opportunity to practice their drawing skills and refine their observational abilities while drawing from live models. These weekly drawing sessions are offered after school one day per week and are highly...

Each year the students come together to create the Dawson College English Journal. This is available both in print and online. This project brings together students from a diversity of programs and provides a creative outlet for many people. The editors came from various programs, from Health Science to Literature to Social Service. This year,...