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November 2020
E-Gre 2020 Competition Winner, Brittany Rae, soprano (live-streamed)
Brittany Rae E-Gré National Music Competition winner Brittany Rae and accompanist Jesse Plessis will conclude their Winner’s Tour with a live-streamed performance on Tuesday, Nov. 17. The concert, beginning at 7:30 p.m. CDT, will be streamed on the Brandon University (BU) School of Music Facebook and YouTube pages. In September Rae won the 43rd E-Gré Competition, which featured singers this year. Raised in Calgary and based in Montreal, Rae is a soprano who has a Graduate Artist Diploma from McGill…
Find out more »January 2021
BU Indigenous New Music Festival — BUNME and Any Enemy (livestream)
Project Lockdown Composing & Performing explores the challenges, opportunities and complexities of creating new compositions for online performance by musicians in geographically separated locations.
Find out more »February 2021
BU Indigenous New Music Festival/Pro Series — Jessica McMann (livestream)
Jessica McMann is a Cree musician, dancer and choreographer from Cowessess, Sask. McMann's recent compositions explore Indigenous identity and history.
Find out more »March 2021
Community Voices: Inclusivity and Anti-Racism
How do we work towards inclusivity in Brandon & Westman? With the rise of hate crimes, racism, and xenophobia in Brandon and communities across Canada, we need to engage with these issues to deepen our collective understanding to make positive change. Individuals, students, educators, groups, businesses, and organizations are invited to join this conversation moderated by Dr. Michelle Lam of BU CARES. Together, we can engage in a meaningful discussion about the opportunities for inclusion and the barriers that are…
Find out more »April 2021
Eklektikos Band in Concert
The Eklektikos Band, directed by Diogo Peixoto, will stream their year-end concert on the Brandon University School of Music YouTube account this coming Wednesday, April 21st, at 7:30 PM. The Eklektikos Band is eclectic (get it?) in terms of both instrumentation and repertoire so it is sure to be a fun and exciting show! The performance will feature tunes composed by Charles Mingus, Snarky Puppy, and George Gershwin to name just a few, as well as two original compositions BU’s…
Find out more »May 2021
Online Talk — Academic Ableism and its Alternatives
Dr. Jay Dolmage will speak to a Brandon University audience on May 12, 2021. A leading expert in the field of disability rights in post-secondary education will speak to a Brandon University (BU) audience next month. Dr. Jay Dolmage’s online talk, “Academic Ableism and its Alternatives,” is open to all members of the BU community, as well as others interested in learning more about the topic. Presented by BU’s Employment Equity Working Group, the event will take place from noon…
Find out more »June 2021
Online Talk: Health Research at BU
On Wednesday, June 16, from noon to 1 p.m., six research projects will be presented in short talks on topics related to mental health, including access to service in rural areas, psychological problems in young adults, and the use of art in therapy. The presentations will follow the PechaKucha or 3MT formats. PechaKucha, which translates to chit chat in Japanese, involves a presentation of 20 slides for 20 seconds each. The 3MT, or three-minute thesis, format involves the use of…
Find out more »July 2021
Online Talk: Unlearning the Gender Binary and Affirming Gender Diversity on Campus
In this online session, Dr. Corinne L. Mason will explain how the gender binary functions and how it impacts all genders on campus.
Find out more »Crazy Canadians Virtual Concert with Amy Hillis
In this 45-minute concert, Amy Hillis will highlight works for violin by Canadian composers including Métis, female, BIPOC and prairie composers.
Find out more »August 2021
Clear Lake Chamber Music Festival 2021
Clear Lake Chamber Music Festival Celebrates Manitoba's 150th Anniversary of Confederation Alexander Tselyakov and Daniel Tselyakov, Artistic Directors A VIRTUAL MUSIC EXPERIENCE The 2021 Clear Lake Chamber Music Festival has a program full of incredible music planned for you, and we can't wait to get started. Six concerts and a movie night starting August 8th and running until August 21st. On Sunday, August 8th, we will launch our Manitoba 150 festival with a special virtual concert. World Premiere:…
Find out more »September 2021
Co-op Info Session
Join us for an online session to learn more about the Brandon University Co-op Program from a panel of current co-op students and get your questions answered. Register for the ZOOM event at https://www.brandonu.ca/co-op/about-co-op/. The link to the session will be emailed on the day of the event.
Find out more »E-Gré National Music Competition
The 44th Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition 2021 in Strings is taking place online September 17 to 19, 2021. All events will be streamed on the Competition’s website E-Gre.ca. Commonly known as the E-Gré Competition, this annual event focuses on the exceptional performance of Canadian and contemporary music by Canada’s top emerging artists. The six selected finalists are: Ariel Carrabré, Brandon, MB, pianist Michel-Alexandre Broekaert; Christopher Hwang, Toronto, ON, pianist Younggun Kim; Julia Mirzoev, Toronto, ON, pianist Meaghan Milatz; Isabella Perron,…
Find out more »Doc Talks Public Lecture Series: Decolonizing Stories of Autism
BU’s Centre for Aboriginal and Rural Education Studies invites faculty, staff and students to join featured speakers Dr. Patricia Douglas, Dezarae Bodnar and Tyler Huff for a public lecture and discussion on the topic of Decolonizing Stories of Autism. The lecture will involve a brief presentation of the research, and sharing of several short films from the project, followed by an open discussion. All are welcome to attend. Thursday, September 22, 2021 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Register at: BUCares.ca/events-2/doc-talks A…
Find out more »Canadian Association of Geographers Prairie Conference
The Department of Geography and Environment at Brandon University (BU) is excited to host the 44th annual conference of the Prairie Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG). The event will take place virtually, on Friday, Sept. 24 and Saturday, Sept. 25.
Find out more »October 2021
Artist Talk: Pj Anderson
Pj Anderson is an emerging ceramic artist from Thompson, Manitoba. Her practice explores the relationship between craft, identity and culture, specifically her kinship with Indigenous and African traditional crafts.
Find out more »Artist Talk: Simon Hughes
Simon Hughes is a Winnipeg-based artist whose body of work includes painting, drawing and video.
Find out more »November 2021
Artist Talk: Dylan Miner
Dylan Miner is an artist, activist and scholar. As an artist, Miner has hung 29 solo exhibitions, as well as participated in more than 115 group shows.
Find out more »Harm Reduction 101
What is harm reduction? Why is it important? What does it look like in Brandon? Harm Reduction is a best-practice model supporting people who use substances. Harm Reduction is more than needle distribution — it refers to policies, programs and practices that aim to minimize negative health, social and legal impacts associated with drug use, drug policies and drug laws. Rather than focus on individual behaviour the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network (MHRN) approach to harm reduction focuses on how systems…
Find out more »Pro Series: E-Gré winner Julien Siino
Cellist Julien Siino, winner of the 2021 E-Gré National Music Competition, will be joined by collaborative pianist Edward Liddall as they conclude their Winner’s Tour with a live-streamed performance on Tuesday, Nov. 23.
Find out more »January 2022
Naloxone Training with Manitoba Harm Reduction Network
Learn how to spot an overdose or drug poisoning and administer Naloxone. MHRN will provide 40 training kits (syringes, water, alcohol wipes, oranges) for interactive demonstration. Kits will be made available for pick up at an accessible location on campus (TBA). Once participants have completed this training, they are welcome to pick up Naloxone kits from the MHRN Brandon office (details provided in workshop). Registration is limited to 40 people.
Find out more »Volunteer Recruitment Sessions
Child and Family Services of Western Manitoba will be hosting their Volunteer Recruitment Forums via Zoom (pre-registration required) on: Session 1) Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 - 10- 11 a.m. Session 2) Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 - Noon – 1 p.m. They are once again recruiting BU student volunteers to support a variety of programs for children and families. Their primary focus for the Winter and Spring will be the Parent Child+ Program as well as programs at the Elspeth Reid…
Find out more »March 2022
Artist Talk — Eliza Griffiths
VISITING ARTIST ZOOM TALKS – WINTER 2022 ISHKAABATENS WAASA GAA INAABATEG DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ART Eliza Griffiths is a Canadian artist whose work involves the creation of fictitious characters in open-ended narrative tableaux. Character-driven, her paintings foreground issues of gender, identity, sexuality, mental and emotional states, as well as interrelationship between self and other. Recent themes include notions of recovery, compassion, neurodiversity and social need. Griffiths was born in in 1965 in London, UK and immigrated to Canada at the…
Find out more »Artist Talk — Aganetha Dyck
Aganetha Dyck is an internationally acclaimed Canadian sculptor. Since the late seventies her work has been shown in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions across Canada, in the U.S., England, France and in the Netherlands.
Find out more »Artist Talk — Katherine Boyer
Katherine Boyer is a multidisciplinary artist, whose work is focused on methods bound to textile arts and the handmade - primarily woodworking and beadwork.
Find out more »She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms Production
Dive into a world of adventure and comedy with this production from BU theatre! In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and five-headed dragons, acclaimed playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek within us all. Two years after the death of her teenage sister Tilly, Agnes Evans discovers a mysterious notebook containing her sister's home-brewed Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Newly born hero, Agnes the Ass-hatted, undertakes an epic quest to save Tilly's soul…
Find out more »April 2022
One New Thing April 26, 27, 28
What one new thing are you thinking of trying in your teaching next term? One New Thing is a free online conference on teaching and learning organized by Brandon University's Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology. This year we offer a range of sessions from creating a more equitably inclusive learning environment to what the new Peer Review of Teaching will look like. Register for the whole event and list those you will not be attending please.
Find out more »May 2022
Equity Talk: Chancellor Mary Jane McCallum
Brandon University (BU) Chancellor Dr. Mary Jane McCallum will give an online public talk on equity on Monday, May 16. The talk will take place on Zoom from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Chancellor McCallum is a First Nations woman of Cree heritage and has been lauded for her work as a dentist in northern and Indigenous communities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. She was appointed to the Senate of Canada to represent Manitoba in 2017. In 2021 she became the first…
Find out more »June 2022
March 2023
Visiting Artist Talk — Ed Pien
Ed Pien is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. His multi-media practice pushes the limits of drawing as a 2D form.
Find out more »Artist Talk: Tomas Jonsson
Tomas Jonsson is a curator, writer and visual artist whose diverse practice focuses on the socially engaged, collaborative nature of the artmaking process.
Find out more »March 2024
Women’s Week Virtual Award Ceremony
Please join the Status of Women Review Committee and Student Services at Brandon University in recognizing 10 exceptional women who have been nominated for making outstanding contributions as student leaders in our community and beyond.
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