What's on
February 8 to February 22
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Music for the sonic soul
Vocal music from Georgia, Persian solo and ensemble music, Chinese Buddhist music, and traditional and new music for Chinese instruments will comprise a concert of “diverse sound experiences from the Black Sea to China” on Saturday, Feb. 10, in the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall.
It’s sponsored by the concert hall, the Department of Music, EuCuE, Voisa, ADVAAR, and the Canadian Association of Oriental Fine Arts (CAOFA). Tickets are available at the OPCH box office and through Admission ((514) 790-1245, www.admission.com) for $10 and $5, free for Concordia students with ID.
Trudeau, Charkaoui on student panel
A screening of Alexandre Trudeau’s documentary, Secure Freedom, will be shown in Room H-767 of the Hall Building on Feb. 13, followed by a panel on national security and security certificates.
The panelists will include Trudeau and Adil Charkaoui, a Moroccan-born permanent resident of Canada suspected by CSIS of having links to al-Qaeda. John Thompson, president of the Mackenzie Institute and a well-known terrorism expert, and the Hon. Marcel Danis will complete the panel. The screening starts at 5 p.m., and the panel discussion at 6.
Management in outer space
The MBA speaker series presents “The Final Frontier: International Cooperation and Innovative Strategic Management,” a talk by Alain Berinstain, Director of Planetary Exploration and Space Astronomy, at the Canadian Space Agency.
His talk will be given Friday, Feb. 9, in Room H-767 of the Hall Building, from 9 to 10:30 a.m., preceded by a light breakfast. Tickets are $5 for MBA students and $10 for others. They are available from the MBA office, GM-710, or the MBA Society, GM-216-1.
Northern voice
Taqralik Partridge, voted by The Mirror as one of 2007’s people to watch, will perform Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. in GM 407. A throat-singer and storyteller, she is accompanied by DJ Mad Eskimo (a.k.a. Geronimo Inutiq), an emerging artist in his own right.
The Centre for Native Education also invites you to meet elders Dan and Mary Lou Smoke-Asayene, who co-host a news magazine called Smoke Signals First Nations Radio, in Ontario. They work together as spiritual teachers at traditional ceremonies, and will share their wisdom with all who are interested in Room H-760 at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 14.
Nino Ricci at LCC
The author of Lives of the Saints, a successful alumnus of Concordia’s creative writing program, will give a lecture Feb. 15 at Lower Canada College. His talk is co-sponsored by LCC, Blue Metropolis and the Quebec Writers’ Federation’s Writers Out Loud series.
Lecture on Adele Wiseman
“‘This was her punishment’: Jew, Whore, Mother in the Fiction of Adele Wiseman and Lilian Nattel” is the title of talk by Ruth Panofsky, Department of English, Ryerson University, on Feb. 15 in Room EV 001-605 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. It is sponsored by the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies.
Talk on Mass Media
Christopher Sterling, of George Washington University, will give a talk on “The Mass Media in North America: Roles, Power and Responsibilities” in Room H-767 on Feb. 16, starting at 7 p.m.. The event is sponsored by the Hellenic Studies Unit in the Faculty of Arts and Science.
Cree artist at MMFA
Kent Monkman is a painter, filmmaker and performance artist. Through the Studio Arts Visiting Artist program and the Master of Fine Arts program of Concordia, he will speak at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts about his work, including his most recent film, Group of Seven Inches, on Feb. 14 at 6 p.m.
Study Italian in Florence
Alumna Josée Di Sano has organized four-week summer classes for 20 years at the Michaelangelo Language School. There are six levels of language courses, from beginners to advanced, plus cultural excursions and interest courses in cooking, drawing, sculpture and photography.
Students live independently in Florence and take public transit to class. The price of $1,500 includes lessons and accommodation. For more information, contact Ms. Di Sano at (514) 488-1778 or studyitalian@hotmail.com
Margie Gillis in York Amphitheatre
Dancer-choreographer Margie Gillis is speaking on “Dancing From the Inside Out: Imagination, Rebellion, Authenticity” in the Defiant Imagination series co-sponsored by the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The presentation is free and will start at 6 p.m. The York Amphitheatre is in the EV building, Room 1.605, on the main floor.