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SUMMARY:Gospel Music Week: More than a Song
DESCRIPTION:The BU School of Music presents More than A Song\, a Gospel Music residency featuring Montréal-born singer\, choral conductor\, educator\, researcher and CBC Radio host Frédéricka Petit-Homme and collaborators Myrtle Thomas and Alexandre Paquette. The week will culminate in a musical celebration and final gathering led by our guests and featuring the BU Concert Choir\, Chorale and small jazz ensembles. \nSCHEDULE OF OPEN EVENTS \nMonday\, February 2 \n9:30-10:30AM Opening Session\, Kinsmen 1-20 \n5:15-7:15PM Masterclass/Rehearsal\, Kinsmen 1-20 \nTuesday\, February 3rd \n12:40-1:30PM Out of Bounds Lecture: Looking Back In Order to Move Forward: African American Sacred Music as a Pathway to Resistance\, Resilience\, and Renewal\, 1-57 \n2:00-3:30PM Masterclass/Rehearsal\, Kinsmen 1-20 \n7:00-8:15PM Conservatory Choir Workshop\, 1-57 \nWednesday\, February 4th \n5:15-7:15PM Masterclass/Rehearsal\, Kinsmen 1-20 \nFriday\, February 6th \n10:00-11:00AM Coffee Meet & Greet\, Faculty Lounge \n7:30PM Musical Celebration & Gathering\, Kinsmen 1-20; $10 tickets at door\, free for BU students \nMusical Celebration and Final Gathering \nFriday\, February 6th @ 7:30PM\, Kinsmen Rehearsal Hall\, Queen Elizabeth Music Building \nTickets: \nAvailable at the door for $10\, free for BU students. \nAdditional info: \nKinsmen Rehearsal Hall (Room 1-20) is located inside the Brandon University School of Music (Queen Elizabeth Music Building)\, with access from 19th street between Princess and Lorne. The space is wheelchair accessible through the main (South) doors to the School of Music\, and the North door to the hall. \n———————- \nFrédéricka Petit-Homme is a Montreal-born singer\, choral conductor\, educator\, and researcher whose work brings together performance\, pedagogy\, and community engagement. She has taught at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music since 2005 and is a PhD candidate in music education focused on gospel choir practice in higher education\, with attention to transformational leadership and the enactment of Black Dignity through collective music-making. \nHer research and teaching inform her approach to building meaningful connections between academic institutions and the communities they serve. She is the founder and artistic director of Ensemble Nigra Sumand the creator of More than a Song\, a gospel music workshop series that invites students\, educators\, and community members into shared musical practice through listening\, singing\, and reflection. \nIn recent years\, Petit-Homme shared her work through an interactive Research Alive lecture at McGill University\, an invited More than a Song workshop at the 4th International Possibility Studies Conference hosted at the University of Cambridge\, and a co-authored paper selected for presentation at the 2024 Social Impact Music Making Symposium in Copenhagen\, Denmark. \nBeyond her academic and community-based work\, she hosts Choral Concert\, a weekly national radio program on CBC Music and CBC Listen\, where she highlights choral music from across the Americas and Europe. Drawing on her experience as a first-generation Canadian\, her work reflects a practice of artistic citizenship grounded in collaboration\, and care. \nMyrtle Thomas is a Montreal-born vocalist\, multi-instrumentalist\, and educator whose work spans performance\, coaching\, and music pedagogy. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Graduate Diploma in Advanced Music Performance Studies in classical flute from Concordia University and a Master of Music in Jazz Performance from McGill University’s Schulich School of Music. Her musical development has been shaped by mentorship in both vocal and instrumental traditions\, including study with vocalist Ranee Lee\, American composer\, vocalist\, and multi-instrumentalist Camille Thurman\, and composer/arrangers Joe Sullivan\, John Hollenbeck\, and Christine Jensen. \nGrounded in classical and jazz traditions and informed by deep roots in gospel music\, Thomas approaches music education as a practice of translation across styles\, communities\, and ways of learning. Her interest in accessible and community-oriented pedagogy has led to collaborations with learner-centered initiatives and to the commissioning and publication of her first article\, How to Improve Singing: The Ultimate Beginners’ Guide\, by Musiprof\, a modern music school serving learners across Canada. Working with students\, she explores learning through listening and imitation\, stylistic translation\, and the body as a rhythmic engine. Her work emphasizes curiosity\, adaptability\, and the development of an integrated musical voice across traditions. \nAlexandre Paquette is a Montreal-based bassist\, musical director\, arranger\, and educator whose work spans performance\, production\, and collaborative music-making. Over the past three decades\, he has built a wide-ranging career as a bassist on television productions\, in recording studios\, and on international tours. His performance and musical direction credits include work with artists such as Corneille\, Lara Fabian\, Oliver Jones\, and Claude Dubois\, as well as leading gospel ensembles including the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir\, Jireh Gospel Choir\, and the Montreal Gospel Choir. \nAlongside his performance work\, Paquette maintains an active practice as an arranger and producer. His projects span more than 50 album releases across diverse musical genres\, reflecting a sustained engagement with collaborative production and music-making across a range of performance contexts. \nGrounded in the gospel tradition\, Paquette’s work is shaped by a commitment to collective music-making and artist development. His leadership and collaborative approach have led to longstanding roles as a musical director within Montreal’s gospel community\, including his current position as musical director at Église Nouvelle Vie\, the largest French-speaking church in Canada. In December 2025\, he led a team of 60 performers\, and production staff for La Symphonie de Noël\, a sold-out Christmas production presented to a 7\,000-seat audience. \n 
URL:https://events.brandonu.ca/event/gospel-music-week-more-than-a-song/
LOCATION:School of Music\, Brandon\, MB\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Graphic Novella Video Premiere - It Happened To Me & It's Not Okay
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Graphic Novella Video Premiere of It Happened to Me & It’s Not Okay\, an innovative visual narrative that brings research on sexual and gendered violence into an accessible\, compelling format. Featuring original artwork by Merissa Mayhew\, the graphic novella is presented as a motion-based video with animated panels\, sound design\, and music. The voice performances are provided by members of the Rural\, Remote\, and Northern Gendered-Violence Research Team\, grounding the work in the collective expertise and commitment of the researchers themselves. \nFollowing the screening will be a Q&A with artist Merissa Mayhew and the research team\, who will speak to their work examining experiences of gendered violence in rural\, remote\, and northern communities\, as well as the role of creative storytelling and visual media in knowledge mobilization and public engagement. \nTuesday\, February 3\, 2026\n12:00–12:30 p.m.\nGathering Space\, John E. Robbins Library \nThis event offers an opportunity to experience research through a creative lens and to engage directly with the team behind the project.
URL:https://events.brandonu.ca/event/graphic-novella-video-premiere-it-happened-to-me-its-not-okay/
LOCATION:Gathering Space\, John E. Robbins Library\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Brandon University,Faculty of Health Studies
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SUMMARY:OUT OF BOUNDS LECTURE: "Looking Back in Order to Move Forward: African American Sacred Music is a Pathway to Resistance\, Resilience\, and Renewal"
DESCRIPTION:We are very excited to host Frédéricka Petit-Homme and collaborators Myrtle Thomas and Alexandre Paquette in the School of Music\,” said Professor Marika Galea. “As the host of CBC’s Choral Concert\, a versatile performer\, educator and researcher\, the scope of Frédéricka’s work is unique and captivating. Dr. Andrée Dagenais and I have been working on cultivating this hands-on learning opportunity for our students for quite some time. I am looking to Tuesday afternoon’s Out of Bounds research presentation on African American Sacred Music in particular\, which will hold special significance for us in the jazz and contemporary popular music area.” \nNo admission charge. All are welcome!
URL:https://events.brandonu.ca/event/out-of-bounds-lecture-looking-back-in-order-to-move-forward-african-american-sacred-music-is-a-pathway-to-resistance-resilience-and-renewal/
LOCATION:R.D. Bell Hall\, QEII Music Building\, Room 1-57\, 270-18th Street\, Brandon\, MB\, R7A 6A9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:BU Queer Lunch and Learn: Unsettling Trans Rights with Dr. Leon Laidlaw
DESCRIPTION:BU Queer is hosting our next Lunch and Learn on February 3\, 2026 at 12:40pm at the Gathering Space in the John E. Robbins Library. \nThe event will feature guest speaker Dr. Leon Laidlaw with his talk\, Unsettling Trans Rights: Gender as a Basis of Indigenous Solidarity. This talk explores how settler-Indigenous solidarity can be pursued on the basis of gender. This talk begins by contextualizing the roots of gender oppression and gendered colonialism in the Western gender binary and reflects on the different pathways that Two-Spirit and trans resistance movements may take. This talk concludes with a conversation about decolonizing trans rights to better align with Indigenous struggles for sovereignty and self-determination. \nDr. Leon Laidlaw (he/they) is an assistant professor in Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies at Brandon University. They are a white settler trans scholar who does intersectional and decolonizing work on the topics of gender\, rights\, and justice.
URL:https://events.brandonu.ca/event/bu-queer-lunch-and-learn-unsettling-trans-rights-with-dr-leon-laidlaw-2/
LOCATION:Gathering Space\, John E. Robbins Library\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Brandon University,Faculty of Arts
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