Our 2024 Season continues to demonstrate the vitality, vibrancy and impact of the Arts at Brock University. Learn more about our upcoming events, performances, exhibits and workshops.
What’s on this week at the Marilyn
Department of Music RBC Foundation Music@Noon Series
Class Recital
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 from 12 to 1 p.m.
Recital Hall, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
250 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines. Free event, please reserve your tickets through the PAC Box Office.
Niagara Francophonies Book Salon at the MIWSFPA
March 21 to 24, 2024
Beginning with the presentation of two puppet performances on the evening of Wednesday, March 20 (in collaboration with Maison de la culture francophone du Niagara), the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures and SOFIFRAN invite you to the Salon du Livre des Francophonies du Niagara (SAFRAN). The four-day program includes readings, workshops, roundtable discussions, and presentations by publishers and small presses, including the Small Walker Press of Brock University.
All events are free to attend, some events require registration to participate.
For more information see http://www.brocku.ca/artsandculture/ and https://www.sofifran-safran.com/
Department of Visual Arts presents: Compound Interest
An exhibition of work from VISA 3F91 Advanced Art Practice
March 15 – 27, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, March 22 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Visual Arts Gallery & Student Exhibition Space, MIWSFPA
15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines
Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture presents
Nostalgia and the Desire for Authenticity
Christy Mitchell, Honours Thesis exhibition
STAC graduand Christy Mitchell presents a creative and critical response to the problem of the ephemeral contemporary image. Found and original photographs that provoke an inquiry into our connections to the photographic medium will be presented in an installation.
March 22 – April 13, 2024
Opening reception: Friday, March 22 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Museum in the Hallway/Boîte-en-valise
(2nd floor by the Theatre entrance) at MIWSFPA.
The Brock University Choir presents Nearer the Stars
Shawn Grenke, conductor
Julie Broomer, collaborative pianist
Nick Braun, percussion
Ameera Razek, percussion
Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 4 p.m.
Recital Hall, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
250 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines. Please reserve your tickets through the PAC Box Office.
Upcoming at the Marilyn
Visual Arts and Walker Cultural Leaders present
Artist talk, Odette England
Monday, March 25, 2024 from 12 to 1 p.m.
Foundation Studio, Room 151, MIWSFPA
15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines
Odette England is a visual artist, writer, and scholar. She is a 2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and has received grants and awards from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Puffin Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman, among many others. She has exhibited her work in more than 110 museums and galleries worldwide, published four award-winning photo books, and will release two more in 2024.
Department of Dramatic Arts and Patchwork Productions (DART 4F56) present
Truth & Other Things: A Journey Through Alitheia
March 28, 29 & 30 at 7:30 p.m.
March 30 at 2 p.m.
Marilyn I. Walker Theatre, MIWSFPA
15 Artists’ Common, St. Catharines
Tickets can be purchased through Brock University Tickets.
Hugh and Marie Logan Jazz series
Brock Big Band – Dizzy Fingers
Zoltan Kalman, conductor
featuring Emilio Geremia, piano, Graeme Hambleton, alto saxophone,
and Keith Woodend, vocal
Monday, April 1, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
Recital Hall, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
250 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines. Please reserve your tickets through the PAC Box Office.
The Brock University Wind Ensemble presents
Musical Extravaganza
Zoltan Kalman, conductor
featuring Emilio Geremia, piano, Graeme Hambleton, alto saxophone,
and Keith Woodend, vocal
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
Partridge Hall, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
250 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines. Please reserve your tickets through the PAC Box Office.
The Brock University String Orchestra presents
Welcome to Spring!
George Cleland, conductor
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
Partridge Hall, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre
250 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines. Please reserve your tickets through the PAC Box Office.
Department of Music
Student Solo Recitals, Spring 2024
Saturday, April 6, 2 p.m.
Andrew Hayes, organ*
*Andrew Hayes’ recital takes place at St. Thomas Anglican Church, 99 Ontario Street, St. Catharines All other recitals take place in Recital Hall at the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre. Free events, please reserve your tickets through the PAC Box Office.
The BUSU Drive Home Program is available once again to students at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, getting everyone home safely. Starting Sunday, March 31 and running to April 22, 2024, students who are studying late in the building can request a free ride home with Zoom Zoom. The service runs 11 p.m. to 4 a.m., Sunday to Thursday, and requests can be made through the Zoom Zoom app using “BADGERS.” Pick up is from the lobby entrance at MIW; students studying at the library can also use this program. Visit the BUSU website for all the details.
Ongoing at the Marilyn
Department of Visual Arts presents: 2024 Annual Juried Exhibition
in collaboration with Dispatch Restaurant
March 1 to April 28, 2024
Dispatch Restaurant, 386 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines
All are welcome. Cash bar. Canapés will be served.
In the news
Annual Brock Visual Arts exhibition opens at local culinary hot spot
Brock’s Department of Visual Art (VISA) is inviting the community to enjoy its Annual Juried Exhibition in a unique new home this year.
In partnership with Dispatch Restaurant, the exhibition will showcase selected artwork of VISA students, faculty and staff until Sunday, April 28 in downtown St. Catharines.
Sonya Marie de Lazzer, Gallery Co-ordinator and Instructor at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts (MIWSFPA), said collaborating with the team at Dispatch was a valuable experience for the Department, especially the students.
Read the full story in The Brock News.
