In collaboration with Wilfrid Laurier University's Faculty of Education and the Office of Aboriginal Initiatives, Sir John A. MacDonald High School (Hamilton, Ontario), and the Métis Women's Circle, the Robert Langen Art Gallery is pleased to present this community outreach initiative which highlights the paintings created by Native high school students and WLU Teacher Education Candidates under the guidance of Ojibwe artist and storyteller, Rene Andre Meshake.
May 22 to May 31
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe Canadian Language Museum was established in 2011 to promote an appreciation of all of the languages spoken in Canada and of their role in the development of this nation. Its first project is the traveling exhibit Canadian English, Eh? which focuses on Canadians' distinctive use of English. This exhibit explores variations in Canadian English across the country, as well as influences from French and Aboriginal languages. The exhibit will be available for public viewing at several locations in 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra presents concerts featuring the Gryphon Trio. Conducted by Edwin Outwater, with music by Beethoven and Canadian composer Michael Oesterle.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetOrganized by the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) and Run for Life, the Crossroads Across the Region Scavenger Hunt involves collecting clues about the educational community and geography of the Kitchener-Waterloo region in teams of two to four people throughout the duration of Congress. The hunt, which will take participants through the two campuses, uptown Waterloo and downtown Kitchener, is self-scheduled, so delegates can complete it at their leisure. All of the locations are accessible on foot or by transit.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThroughout Congress, the University of Waterloo’s newest high-tech accelerator, REAP (Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity) is showcasing some of the latest interactive digital display technologies from its new ‘sandbox for serious play’ – the FELT Lab. Young talent from SSHRC disciplines involved in REAP will be on hand to show and tell.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetAn exploration gallery that features posters, artwork and book displays relating to food and food research. All Congress attendees are invited to drop in and explore.
May 26 to May 28. Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
The Canadian Communication Association and the University of Waterloo Critical Media Lab (CML) invites Congress participants to visit its mobile exhibition (in a truck parked on WLU campus). Delegates can examine and experiment with recent interactive projects completed by the CML collaborators in the field of mobile computing and augmented reality.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
The Canadian Language Museum was established in 2011 to promote an appreciation of all of the languages spoken in Canada and of their role in the development of this nation. Its first project is the traveling exhibit Canadian English, Eh? which focuses on Canadians' distinctive use of English. This exhibit explores variations in Canadian English across the country, as well as influences from French and Aboriginal languages. The exhibit will be available for public viewing at several locations in 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetUptown Waterloo and Downtown Kitchener are walkable city centres within easy access of the Congress location. Over the last few years both city centres have undergone a remarkable transformation of urban revitalization. Participants are invited to explore the excitement of these new urban spaces throughout Congress.
Follow one or more of the walks in the Uptown Loop or one of the self-guided historical walking tours in the City of Waterloo. Participants can also explore Kitchener’s City Hall, Mount Hope Cemetery, or the city’s Victoria Park Heritage District.
Attention Congress 2012 delegates and families!
Visit THEMUSEUM in Kitchener from May 26 to June 2, 2021 and save! Delegates and their families pay $10 per person (regular price is $13). Admission includes all THEMUSEUM’s permanent exhibitions as well as DINOSAURS and ADD COLOUR | A Yoko Ono Exhibition. DINOSAURS is a robotic adventure of dinosaur life and ADD COLOUR invites you to play an active role in the creative process.
http://www.themuseum.ca/main.cfm
Close Add to My Schedule TweetUncertain World is a group exhibition developed in response to the theme of Crossroads: Scholarship in an Uncertain World. The exhibition features the works of four mid- career Canadian artists. Using the landscape as a familiar perceptual backdrop, the artwork addresses themes ranging from environmental degradation to urban sprawl, and from First Nations land claims to the Occupy movement. Uncertain World will be a timely visual complement to Congress 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetMulti-genre writer Marlene NourbeSe Philip reads from such work as She Tries her Tongue… and Zong! followed by a live interview with Veronica Austen and Phanuel Antwi. They explore Philip’s often genre-bending and always politically charged work at the crossroads of law and poetry, archive and memory, racialization and gender.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
Join us for a 30-minute theatrical performance by Kitchener-Waterloo’s MT Space Theatre.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetProminent Hungarian-Canadian and President of The Royal Conservatory of Music, Peter Simon will discuss the powerful influence of Hungarian musicians and music educators on the development of North America’s cultural landscape over the course of the 20th century and into the present day.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetCome see films that focus on the theme of “uncertain worlds” at The Princess Cinema (repertory cinema within walking distance from the Universities). Congress attendees will be given the reduced member’s fee for film screenings.
Admission for Congress attendees: $7.00.
46 King Street North, Waterloo
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe Multicultural Cinema Club will hold its spring film festival during Congress and will showcase international films focusing on the theme of “uncertain worlds.” A local film buff will introduce the films and a short discussion will follow each screening.
Free. The Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick Street, Kitchener.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
The Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra presents concerts featuring the Gryphon Trio. Conducted by Edwin Outwater, with music by Beethoven and Canadian composer Michael Oesterle.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetJoin us for a 30-minute theatrical performance by Kitchener-Waterloo’s MT Space Theatre.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetOrganized by the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) and Run for Life, the Crossroads Across the Region Scavenger Hunt involves collecting clues about the educational community and geography of the Kitchener-Waterloo region in teams of two to four people throughout the duration of Congress. The hunt, which will take participants through the two campuses, uptown Waterloo and downtown Kitchener, is self-scheduled, so delegates can complete it at their leisure. All of the locations are accessible on foot or by transit.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThroughout Congress, the University of Waterloo’s newest high-tech accelerator, REAP (Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity) is showcasing some of the latest interactive digital display technologies from its new ‘sandbox for serious play’ – the FELT Lab. Young talent from SSHRC disciplines involved in REAP will be on hand to show and tell.
www.reapwaterloo.ca
The Canadian Language Museum was established in 2011 to promote an appreciation of all of the languages spoken in Canada and of their role in the development of this nation. Its first project is the traveling exhibit Canadian English, Eh? which focuses on Canadians' distinctive use of English. This exhibit explores variations in Canadian English across the country, as well as influences from French and Aboriginal languages. The exhibit will be available for public viewing at several locations in 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe Canadian Communication Association and the University of Waterloo Critical Media Lab (CML) invites Congress participants to visit its mobile exhibition (in a truck parked on WLU campus). Delegates can examine and experiment with recent interactive projects completed by the CML collaborators in the field of mobile computing and augmented reality.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
An exploration gallery that features posters, artwork and book displays relating to food and food research. All Congress attendees are invited to drop in and explore.
May 26 to May 28. Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
Attention Congress 2012 delegates and families!
Visit THEMUSEUM in Kitchener from May 26 to June 2, 2021 and save! Delegates and their families pay $10 per person (regular price is $13). Admission includes all THEMUSEUM’s permanent exhibitions as well as DINOSAURS and ADD COLOUR | A Yoko Ono Exhibition. DINOSAURS is a robotic adventure of dinosaur life and ADD COLOUR invites you to play an active role in the creative process.
http://www.themuseum.ca/main.cfm
Uncertain World is a group exhibition developed in response to the theme of Crossroads: Scholarship in an Uncertain World. The exhibition features the works of four mid- career Canadian artists. Using the landscape as a familiar perceptual backdrop, the artwork addresses themes ranging from environmental degradation to urban sprawl, and from First Nations land claims to the Occupy movement. Uncertain World will be a timely visual complement to Congress 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetKathryn Finter is an expert on medieval calligraphy. In this interactive workshop, she will demonstrate techniques and offer hands-on instruction to help participants create their own medieval manuscripts. Numbers of participants for the workshop are limited; a fee will apply. Further information will be available on the CSM website.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetOn Sunday, May 27 from 13:00 to 17:00, rain or shine, neighbours along the Iron Horse Trail will welcome the many anticipated guests attending Congress 2012 at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
“Animate the Trail” will open the Iron Horse trail from Vincenzo’s at King and Allen St. in Waterloo to Queen St. in Kitchener (roughly a 3km stretch) to walkers and cyclists. Maps will be available highlighting points of interest. The mix of entertainment and culinary offerings along the trail will be akin to a local potluck including artists, musicians, performers, cultural organizations, neighbourhoods associations, heritage storytellers and schools. Come and experience a unique showcase of Waterloo and Kitchener as we showcase our local talent, culture, history, and our sense of community.
Animate the Trail is a partnership between City of Kitchener, City of Waterloo, and Creative Enterprise Initiative
Engage your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual selves in this participatory celebration featuring Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee traditions. Highlighting the region’s indigenous tastes, sights, and sounds, this gathering showcases dancing and drumming from the Red Tail Hawk Drummers from the Chippewa of the Thames while offering a sampling of food prepared by Six Nations chef, Dennis Robus.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra presents concerts featuring the Gryphon Trio. Conducted by Edwin Outwater, with music by Beethoven and Canadian composer Michael Oesterle.
www.kwsymphony.ca
Come meet members of the Board of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, including our President, Graham Carr, during a wine-and-cheese reception at the Federation’s booth at the Congress Expo.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetFranco-Manitoban writer, poet and novelist Lise Gaboury-Diallo will discuss her writing, which she uses to transcend boundaries between her native Manitoba and her equally beloved West Africa (Senegal, Mali). The meeting will be hosted by critic Lucie Hotte, followed by a question and answer session.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetJoin us for hands-on “Thinkering” (Thinking +Tinkering) with interactive display technologies at the University of Waterloo’s newest high-tech business accelerator REAP (Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity). During the 30-minute session, you will be introduced to – and do some ‘serious play’ with – new interactive displays that may transform the way you teach and the way you present ideas to students. The display’s venue in St. Jacob’s is a 10-minute drive from Waterloo, or you can take the train from Waterloo’s Clay and Glass Gallery and the Perimeter Institute (16:15 departure; $15 round trip).
Please register: http://reapwaterloo.eventbrite.ca
Close Add to My Schedule TweetJoin co-director DietmarRatsch in a screening of the award-winning documentary Neukölln Unlimited. The filmfollowssiblings Lial, Hassan and Maradona in the tough Berlin district of Neukölln. As talented dancers and musicians, theAkkouchsiblings are making their name in the street dance and hip-hop scene. But they have a problem: the family has lived for almost 18 years without a secure residence status in Germany and is constantly threatened with deportation to Lebanon. German with English subtitles.
The Goethe-Institut Toronto is proud to support this event and invites you to a 50th anniversary reception following the podium discussion.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe Multicultural Cinema Club will hold its spring film festival during Congress and will showcase international films focusing on the theme of “uncertain worlds.” A local film buff will introduce the films and a short discussion will follow each screening.
Free. The Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick Street, Kitchener.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
These two nights of literary readings will feature Congress writer-scholars and creative writers from Waterloo region: Amanda Jernigan, Carrie Snyder, Brian Henderson and more! Come and reconnect with literature as the foundation of our scholarship! Food for mind and body available. All those interested in reading, contact Tanis MacDonald at tmacdonald@wlu.ca
Close Add to My Schedule TweetJoin us for hands-on “Thinkering” (Thinking +Tinkering) with interactive display technologies at the University of Waterloo’s newest high-tech business accelerator REAP (Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity). During the 30-minute session, you will be introduced to – and do some ‘serious play’ with – new interactive displays that may transform the way you teach and the way you present ideas to students. The display’s venue in St. Jacob’s is a 10-minute drive from Waterloo, or you can take the train from Waterloo’s Clay and Glass Gallery and the Perimeter Institute (16:15 departure; $15 round trip).
Please register: http://reapwaterloo.eventbrite.ca
Close Add to My Schedule TweetAs part of the very full and rich schedule of concerts for attendees for the duration of Congress, QuartetFest 2012 features concerts and Chamber music workshops. Hosted by the Penderecki String Quartet, QuartetFest brings together two world-renowned members of the Tokyo String Quartet, Martin Beaver (violin) and Clive Greensmith (cello), and young artists from Canada and abroad to perform concerts and participate in Master classes.
Penderecki String Quartet
Program: Ludwig van Beethoven Op. 18 no. 5, Op. 130 (with Op. 133)
Co-produced with the Kitchener Waterloo Chamber Music Society (KWCMS). For tickets, please call 519-886-1673.
Beethoven, Quartet no. 5, in A Major, Opus 18; Quartet no. 13, op. 130 in Bb Major; the alternate finale that Beethoven wrote for op. 130.
Tickets can be purchased at the door, at WordsWorth Books (100 King St South), or online (http://www.ticketscene.ca/kwcms)
More info at www.k-wcms.com
Presented by the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society in association with Wilfred Laurier University’s Faculty of Music
Described by poet Louis Aragon as "What we, from whom Surrealism was born, dreamed would come after us and go beyond us" and by the New York Times as "a towering figure in the world of experimental theatre and an explorer in the uses of time and space onstage," Robert Wilson's productions have decisively shaped the look of theatre and opera for more than 50 years. Through his signature use of light, his investigations into the structure of a simple movement, and the classical rigor of his design aesthetic, Wilson has continuously articulated the force and originality of his vision. His landmark work with Philip Glass—the opera Einstein on the Beach— will be presented at Toronto’s Luminato festival this year. Wilson has also collaborated with Tom Waits and Lou Reed, and is one of the world’s most sought-after opera directors.
This lecture is an illustrated retrospective of Wilson's work that will be followed by a Q & A session.
Ticket prices:
Adult: $30.00
Student (with valid ID): $20.00
Judith Cohen, an ethnomusicologist specializing in Sephardic music, and her daughter Tamar, will perform Sephardic songs from Morocco, the former Ottoman lands and Spain. The songs will be performed in traditional style, either a capella with hand percussion or with traditional string instruments (oud and bowed vielle) and will be accompanied by commentary.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
Organized by the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) and Run for Life, the Crossroads Across the Region Scavenger Hunt involves collecting clues about the educational community and geography of the Kitchener-Waterloo region in teams of two to four people throughout the duration of Congress. The hunt, which will take participants through the two campuses, uptown Waterloo and downtown Kitchener, is self-scheduled, so delegates can complete it at their leisure. All of the locations are accessible on foot or by transit.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThroughout Congress, the University of Waterloo’s newest high-tech accelerator, REAP (Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity) is showcasing some of the latest interactive digital display technologies from its new ‘sandbox for serious play’ – the FELT Lab. Young talent from SSHRC disciplines involved in REAP will be on hand to show and tell.
www.reapwaterloo.ca
The Canadian Language Museum was established in 2011 to promote an appreciation of all of the languages spoken in Canada and of their role in the development of this nation. Its first project is the traveling exhibit Canadian English, Eh? which focuses on Canadians' distinctive use of English. This exhibit explores variations in Canadian English across the country, as well as influences from French and Aboriginal languages. The exhibit will be available for public viewing at several locations in 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetAn exploration gallery that features posters, artwork and book displays relating to food and food research. All Congress attendees are invited to drop in and explore.
May 26 to May 28. Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
The Canadian Communication Association and the University of Waterloo Critical Media Lab (CML) invites Congress participants to visit its mobile exhibition (in a truck parked on WLU campus). Delegates can examine and experiment with recent interactive projects completed by the CML collaborators in the field of mobile computing and augmented reality.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
Get a feel for being “down on the corner, out in the street” while learning about the history and architecture of Uptown Waterloo’s main street and its transformation into a vibrant, albeit sometimes contested, public space.
Departure Location: In front of the Laurier Bookstore, in the Concourse of the Arts Building
Attention Congress 2012 delegates and families!
Visit THEMUSEUM in Kitchener from May 26 to June 2, 2021 and save! Delegates and their families pay $10 per person (regular price is $13). Admission includes all THEMUSEUM’s permanent exhibitions as well as DINOSAURS and ADD COLOUR | A Yoko Ono Exhibition. DINOSAURS is a robotic adventure of dinosaur life and ADD COLOUR invites you to play an active role in the creative process.
http://www.themuseum.ca/main.cfm
Rotten with Perfection is a short filmic exploration of our nature, as symbol-using and symbol-misusing animals. The film will be displayed in a viewing room designed for one: you.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe Laurier Bookstore welcomes Congress delegates for coffee and cake on Monday, May 28, from 11:00 to 13:00. Meet our friendly staff and browse through our selection of general and academic books, stationery, computer supplies, gift items and Laurier clothing. Use your Congress delegate badge to receive 10% off clothing and gifts.
We are located on the second floor of the Fred Nichols Campus Centre, across from Starbucks.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetJoin the Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University as it celebrates Laurier's transition to one of Canada's newest comprehensive universities. Coffee, tea and cake will be served.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetUncertain World is a group exhibition developed in response to the theme of Crossroads: Scholarship in an Uncertain World. The exhibition features the works of four mid- career Canadian artists. Using the landscape as a familiar perceptual backdrop, the artwork addresses themes ranging from environmental degradation to urban sprawl, and from First Nations land claims to the Occupy movement. Uncertain World will be a timely visual complement to Congress 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetBy the mid-1990s the former industrial basin of the Waterloo region located in downtown Kitchener had lost most of its manufacturing activities and left behind acres of abandoned factories and contaminated brownfield sites. On the walking tour of downtown Kitchener’s brownfield redevelopment you will get an inside look the amazing transformation of these spaces into exclusive residential lofts, three university campuses, and the headquarters of Google and other hi-tech firms.
Departure Location: Kitchener City Hall Rotunda
Join us for hands-on “Thinkering” (Thinking +Tinkering) with interactive display technologies at the University of Waterloo’s newest high-tech business accelerator REAP (Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity). During the 30-minute session, you will be introduced to – and do some ‘serious play’ with – new interactive displays that may transform the way you teach and the way you present ideas to students. The display’s venue in St. Jacob’s is a 10-minute drive from Waterloo, or you can take the train from Waterloo’s Clay and Glass Gallery and the Perimeter Institute (16:15 departure; $15 round trip).
Please register: http://reapwaterloo.eventbrite.ca
Close Add to My Schedule TweetDuring Congress 2012, we’re joining the Community, Campus and Congress in the CONNECTENT (at the corner of Father David Bauer Drive & Erb Street) for a celebration of local foods, beverages and entertainment. We invite you to celebrate on three different evenings —May 28th, 29th and 30th— under the same rooftop from 18:30 until 21:30.
Make the connection! Buy your tickets today at http://congress.catertrax.com
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe Multicultural Cinema Club will hold its spring film festival during Congress and will showcase international films focusing on the theme of “uncertain worlds.” A local film buff will introduce the films and a short discussion will follow each screening.
Free. The Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick Street, Kitchener.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
These two nights of literary readings will feature Congress writer-scholars and creative writers from Waterloo region: Amanda Jernigan, Carrie Snyder, Brian Henderson and more! Come and reconnect with literature as the foundation of our scholarship! Food for mind and body available. All those interested in reading, contact Tanis MacDonald at tmacdonald@wlu.ca.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetJoin us for hands-on “Thinkering” (Thinking +Tinkering) with interactive display technologies at the University of Waterloo’s newest high-tech business accelerator REAP (Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity). During the 30-minute session, you will be introduced to – and do some ‘serious play’ with – new interactive displays that may transform the way you teach and the way you present ideas to students. The display’s venue in St. Jacob’s is a 10-minute drive from Waterloo, or you can take the train from Waterloo’s Clay and Glass Gallery and the Perimeter Institute (16:15 departure; $15 round trip).
Please register: http://reapwaterloo.eventbrite.ca
Close Add to My Schedule TweetOrganized by the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) and Run for Life, the Crossroads Across the Region Scavenger Hunt involves collecting clues about the educational community and geography of the Kitchener-Waterloo region in teams of two to four people throughout the duration of Congress. The hunt, which will take participants through the two campuses, uptown Waterloo and downtown Kitchener, is self-scheduled, so delegates can complete it at their leisure. All of the locations are accessible on foot or by transit.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThroughout Congress, the University of Waterloo’s newest high-tech accelerator, REAP (Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity) is showcasing some of the latest interactive digital display technologies from its new ‘sandbox for serious play’ – the FELT Lab. Young talent from SSHRC disciplines involved in REAP will be on hand to show and tell.
www.reapwaterloo.ca
The Canadian Language Museum was established in 2011 to promote an appreciation of all of the languages spoken in Canada and of their role in the development of this nation. Its first project is the traveling exhibit Canadian English, Eh? which focuses on Canadians' distinctive use of English. This exhibit explores variations in Canadian English across the country, as well as influences from French and Aboriginal languages. The exhibit will be available for public viewing at several locations in 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe Canadian Communication Association and the University of Waterloo Critical Media Lab (CML) invites Congress participants to visit its mobile exhibition (in a truck parked on WLU campus). Delegates can examine and experiment with recent interactive projects completed by the CML collaborators in the field of mobile computing and augmented reality.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
Take a tour of Uptown Waterloo’s “Power Corner” and witness how the site of Seagram’s original whiskey distillery and associated barrel works have been transformed into new major academic and research facilities. While you’re there, get an insider look at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
Departure Location: In front of the Laurier Bookstore, in the Concourse of the Arts Building
Attention Congress 2012 delegates and families!
Visit THEMUSEUM in Kitchener from May 26 to June 2, 2021 and save! Delegates and their families pay $10 per person (regular price is $13). Admission includes all THEMUSEUM’s permanent exhibitions as well as DINOSAURS and ADD COLOUR | A Yoko Ono Exhibition. DINOSAURS is a robotic adventure of dinosaur life and ADD COLOUR invites you to play an active role in the creative process.
http://www.themuseum.ca/main.cfm
Rotten with Perfection is a short filmic exploration of our nature, as symbol-using and symbol-misusing animals. The film will be displayed in a viewing room designed for one: you.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetUncertain World is a group exhibition developed in response to the theme of Crossroads: Scholarship in an Uncertain World. The exhibition features the works of four mid- career Canadian artists. Using the landscape as a familiar perceptual backdrop, the artwork addresses themes ranging from environmental degradation to urban sprawl, and from First Nations land claims to the Occupy movement. Uncertain World will be a timely visual complement to Congress 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetGet a feel for being “down on the corner, out in the street” while learning about the history and architecture of Uptown Waterloo’s main street and its transformation into a vibrant, albeit sometimes contested, public space.
Departure Location: In front of the Laurier Bookstore, in the Concourse of the Arts Building
Join Ensemble Polaris for a uniquely Canadian spin on traditional tunes from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and Denmark, and original music inspired by “the idea of North.” Comprised of expert performers from a variety of musical traditions and backgrounds, Polaris incorporates an eclectic palette of musical influences, colours and techniques in their sound.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
During Congress 2012, we’re joining the Community, Campus and Congress in the CONNECTENT (at the corner of Father David Bauer Drive & Erb Street) for a celebration of local foods, beverages and entertainment. We invite you to celebrate on three different evenings —May 28th, 29th and 30th— under the same rooftop from 18:30 until 21:30.
Make the connection! Buy your tickets today at http://congress.catertrax.com
The Multicultural Cinema Club will hold its spring film festival during Congress and will showcase international films focusing on the theme of “uncertain worlds.” A local film buff will introduce the films and a short discussion will follow each screening.
Free. The Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick Street, Kitchener.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
An evening of short plays in the Strindberg tradition honouring the centenary of August Strindberg's death: Strindberg’s The Stronger; Harold Pinter’s Monologue; and a new play by Cape Breton dramatist Lindsay Thompson that brings the conflicts that power Strindberg's and Pinter's plays into the 21st century.
Admission is free.
With generous support from the Swedish Institute.
Organized by the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) and Run for Life, the Crossroads Across the Region Scavenger Hunt involves collecting clues about the educational community and geography of the Kitchener-Waterloo region in teams of two to four people throughout the duration of Congress. The hunt, which will take participants through the two campuses, uptown Waterloo and downtown Kitchener, is self-scheduled, so delegates can complete it at their leisure. All of the locations are accessible on foot or by transit.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThroughout Congress, the University of Waterloo’s newest high-tech accelerator, REAP (Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity) is showcasing some of the latest interactive digital display technologies from its new ‘sandbox for serious play’ – the FELT Lab. Young talent from SSHRC disciplines involved in REAP will be on hand to show and tell.
www.reapwaterloo.ca
The Canadian Language Museum was established in 2011 to promote an appreciation of all of the languages spoken in Canada and of their role in the development of this nation. Its first project is the traveling exhibit Canadian English, Eh? which focuses on Canadians' distinctive use of English. This exhibit explores variations in Canadian English across the country, as well as influences from French and Aboriginal languages. The exhibit will be available for public viewing at several locations in 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe Canadian Communication Association and the University of Waterloo Critical Media Lab (CML) invites Congress participants to visit its mobile exhibition (in a truck parked on WLU campus). Delegates can examine and experiment with recent interactive projects completed by the CML collaborators in the field of mobile computing and augmented reality.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
Get a feel for being “down on the corner, out in the street” while learning about the history and architecture of Uptown Waterloo’s main street and its transformation into a vibrant, albeit sometimes contested, public space.
Departure Location: In front of the Laurier Bookstore, in the Concourse of the Arts Building
Attention Congress 2012 delegates and families!
Visit THEMUSEUM in Kitchener from May 26 to June 2, 2021 and save! Delegates and their families pay $10 per person (regular price is $13). Admission includes all THEMUSEUM’s permanent exhibitions as well as DINOSAURS and ADD COLOUR | A Yoko Ono Exhibition. DINOSAURS is a robotic adventure of dinosaur life and ADD COLOUR invites you to play an active role in the creative process.
http://www.themuseum.ca/main.cfm
Rotten with Perfection is a short filmic exploration of our nature, as symbol-using and symbol-misusing animals. The film will be displayed in a viewing room designed for one: you.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetUncertain World is a group exhibition developed in response to the theme of Crossroads: Scholarship in an Uncertain World. The exhibition features the works of four mid- career Canadian artists. Using the landscape as a familiar perceptual backdrop, the artwork addresses themes ranging from environmental degradation to urban sprawl, and from First Nations land claims to the Occupy movement. Uncertain World will be a timely visual complement to Congress 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetTake a tour of Uptown Waterloo’s “Power Corner” and witness how the site of Seagram’s original whiskey distillery and associated barrel works have been transformed into new major academic and research facilities. While you’re there, get an insider look at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
Departure Location: In front of the Laurier Bookstore, in the Concourse of the Arts Building
In 2012, the City of Kitchener celebrates 100 years as a city. During its first four years (1912–1916) the City of Kitchener was officially the City of Berlin and was widely known as “Busy Berlin” for its wide range of industrial activities. This walk will lead participants through the historical public spaces and neighbourhoods of Busy Berlin while tracing the footsteps of one its citizens on his journey from work to home.
Departure Location: Kitchener City Hall Rotunda
Close Add to My Schedule TweetCome meet members of the Board of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, including our President, Graham Carr, during a wine-and-cheese reception at the Federation’s booth at the Congress Expo.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetDuring Congress 2012, we’re joining the Community, Campus and Congress in the CONNECTENT (at the corner of Father David Bauer Drive & Erb Street) for a celebration of local foods, beverages and entertainment. We invite you to celebrate on three different evenings —May 28th, 29th and 30th— under the same rooftop from 18:30 until 21:30.
Make the connection! Buy your tickets today at http://congress.catertrax.com
The Multicultural Cinema Club will hold its spring film festival during Congress and will showcase international films focusing on the theme of “uncertain worlds.” A local film buff will introduce the films and a short discussion will follow each screening.
Free. The Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick Street, Kitchener.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
Organized by the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) and Run for Life, the Crossroads Across the Region Scavenger Hunt involves collecting clues about the educational community and geography of the Kitchener-Waterloo region in teams of two to four people throughout the duration of Congress. The hunt, which will take participants through the two campuses, uptown Waterloo and downtown Kitchener, is self-scheduled, so delegates can complete it at their leisure. All of the locations are accessible on foot or by transit.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThroughout Congress, the University of Waterloo’s newest high-tech accelerator, REAP (Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity) is showcasing some of the latest interactive digital display technologies from its new ‘sandbox for serious play’ – the FELT Lab. Young talent from SSHRC disciplines involved in REAP will be on hand to show and tell.
www.reapwaterloo.ca
The Canadian Language Museum was established in 2011 to promote an appreciation of all of the languages spoken in Canada and of their role in the development of this nation. Its first project is the traveling exhibit Canadian English, Eh? which focuses on Canadians' distinctive use of English. This exhibit explores variations in Canadian English across the country, as well as influences from French and Aboriginal languages. The exhibit will be available for public viewing at several locations in 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe Canadian Communication Association and the University of Waterloo Critical Media Lab (CML) invites Congress participants to visit its mobile exhibition (in a truck parked on WLU campus). Delegates can examine and experiment with recent interactive projects completed by the CML collaborators in the field of mobile computing and augmented reality.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
Take a tour of Uptown Waterloo’s “Power Corner” and witness how the site of Seagram’s original whiskey distillery and associated barrel works have been transformed into new major academic and research facilities. While you’re there, get an insider look at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
Departure Location: In front of the Laurier Bookstore, in the Concourse of the Arts Building
Attention Congress 2012 delegates and families!
Visit THEMUSEUM in Kitchener from May 26 to June 2, 2021 and save! Delegates and their families pay $10 per person (regular price is $13). Admission includes all THEMUSEUM’s permanent exhibitions as well as DINOSAURS and ADD COLOUR | A Yoko Ono Exhibition. DINOSAURS is a robotic adventure of dinosaur life and ADD COLOUR invites you to play an active role in the creative process.
http://www.themuseum.ca/main.cfm
Rotten with Perfection is a short filmic exploration of our nature, as symbol-using and symbol-misusing animals. The film will be displayed in a viewing room designed for one: you.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetUncertain World is a group exhibition developed in response to the theme of Crossroads: Scholarship in an Uncertain World. The exhibition features the works of four mid- career Canadian artists. Using the landscape as a familiar perceptual backdrop, the artwork addresses themes ranging from environmental degradation to urban sprawl, and from First Nations land claims to the Occupy movement. Uncertain World will be a timely visual complement to Congress 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetGet a feel for being “down on the corner, out in the street” while learning about the history and architecture of Uptown Waterloo’s main street and its transformation into a vibrant, albeit sometimes contested, public space.
Departure Location: In front of the Laurier Bookstore, in the Concourse of the Arts Building
Uncertain World is a group exhibition developed in response to the theme of Crossroads: Scholarship in an Uncertain World. The exhibition features the works of four mid- career Canadian artists. Using the landscape as a familiar perceptual backdrop, the artwork addresses themes ranging from environmental degradation to urban sprawl, and from First Nations land claims to the Occupy movement. Uncertain World will be a timely visual complement to Congress 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetJoin us for hands-on “Thinkering” (Thinking +Tinkering) with interactive display technologies at the University of Waterloo’s newest high-tech business accelerator REAP (Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity). During the 30-minute session, you will be introduced to – and do some ‘serious play’ with – new interactive displays that may transform the way you teach and the way you present ideas to students. The display’s venue in St. Jacob’s is a 10-minute drive from Waterloo, or you can take the train from Waterloo’s Clay and Glass Gallery and the Perimeter Institute (16:15 departure; $15 round trip).
Please register: http://reapwaterloo.eventbrite.ca
Close Add to My Schedule TweetA reception to announce the winner of the 2012 Dalton Camp Award will take place at 6 pm, Thursday, May 31st at the Clay and Glass Gallery, 25 Caroline Street North, Waterloo. The Award consists of a cash prize of $5,000 as well as a bronze cast medal by the late Canadian sculptress Dora de Pédèry-Hunt.
Sponsored by Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, the goal of the Award is to encourage young Canadians to reflect and express themselves through original essays on the link between democracy and the media.
Congress delegates welcome! Cocktails and canapés will be served.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe Multicultural Cinema Club will hold its spring film festival during Congress and will showcase international films focusing on the theme of “uncertain worlds.” A local film buff will introduce the films and a short discussion will follow each screening.
Free. The Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick Street, Kitchener.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
Join us for hands-on “Thinkering” (Thinking +Tinkering) with interactive display technologies at the University of Waterloo’s newest high-tech business accelerator REAP (Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity). During the 30-minute session, you will be introduced to – and do some ‘serious play’ with – new interactive displays that may transform the way you teach and the way you present ideas to students. The display’s venue in St. Jacob’s is a 10-minute drive from Waterloo, or you can take the train from Waterloo’s Clay and Glass Gallery and the Perimeter Institute (16:15 departure; $15 round trip).
Please register: http://reapwaterloo.eventbrite.ca
Close Add to My Schedule TweetAs part of the very full and rich schedule of concerts for attendees for the duration of Congress, QuartetFest 2012 features concerts and Chamber music workshops. Hosted by the Penderecki String Quartet, QuartetFest brings together two world-renowned members of the Tokyo String Quartet, Martin Beaver (violin) and Clive Greensmith (cello), and young artists from Canada and abroad to perform concerts and participate in Master classes.
Penderecki String Quartet with the members of the Tokyo String Quartet, Martin Beaver, violin /viola and Clive Greensmith, cello.
Program: Zoltan Koday, Duo for violin and cello Op. 7 (Beaver/Greensmith)
Reinhold Gliere, String Sextet No. 3, Op. 11
Johannes Brahms, String Sextet No. 2, Op 36 in G
Co-produced with the Kitchener Waterloo Chamber Music Society (KWCMS). For tickets, please call 519-886-1673.
The Canadian University Music Society and QuartetFest present the Penderecki String Quartet with members of the Tokyo String Quartet performing Brahms’ Sextet No. 2 in G, Kodaly’s Duo for Violin and Cello, and Gliere’s String Sextet No. 3.
Reception to follow.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
PENDERECKI QUARTET is joined by Martin Beaver (Violin) and Clive Greensmith (Cello) of THE TOKYO QUARTET.
Together, they play two splendid sextets: Brahms no 2 in G, and Gliere, no. 3; and Kodaly Duo for violin and cello.
Tickets can be purchased at the door, at WordsWorth Books (100 King St South), or online (http://www.ticketscene.ca/kwcms)
More info at www.k-wcms.com
Presented by the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society in association with Wilfred Laurier University’s Faculty of Music
Tickets can be purchased at the door, at WordsWorth Books (100 King St South), or online (http://www.ticketscene.ca/kwcms)
More info at www.k-wcms.com
Presented by the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society in association with Wilfred Laurier University’s Faculty of Music
Organized by the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) and Run for Life, the Crossroads Across the Region Scavenger Hunt involves collecting clues about the educational community and geography of the Kitchener-Waterloo region in teams of two to four people throughout the duration of Congress. The hunt, which will take participants through the two campuses, uptown Waterloo and downtown Kitchener, is self-scheduled, so delegates can complete it at their leisure. All of the locations are accessible on foot or by transit.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThroughout Congress, the University of Waterloo’s newest high-tech accelerator, REAP (Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity) is showcasing some of the latest interactive digital display technologies from its new ‘sandbox for serious play’ – the FELT Lab. Young talent from SSHRC disciplines involved in REAP will be on hand to show and tell.
www.reapwaterloo.ca
The Canadian Communication Association and the University of Waterloo Critical Media Lab (CML) invites Congress participants to visit its mobile exhibition (in a truck parked on WLU campus). Delegates can examine and experiment with recent interactive projects completed by the CML collaborators in the field of mobile computing and augmented reality.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
Take a tour of Uptown Waterloo’s “Power Corner” and witness how the site of Seagram’s original whiskey distillery and associated barrel works have been transformed into new major academic and research facilities. While you’re there, get an insider look at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
Departure Location: In front of the Laurier Bookstore, in the Concourse of the Arts Building
Attention Congress 2012 delegates and families!
Visit THEMUSEUM in Kitchener from May 26 to June 2, 2021 and save! Delegates and their families pay $10 per person (regular price is $13). Admission includes all THEMUSEUM’s permanent exhibitions as well as DINOSAURS and ADD COLOUR | A Yoko Ono Exhibition. DINOSAURS is a robotic adventure of dinosaur life and ADD COLOUR invites you to play an active role in the creative process.
http://www.themuseum.ca/main.cfm
Rotten with Perfection is a short filmic exploration of our nature, as symbol-using and symbol-misusing animals. The film will be displayed in a viewing room designed for one: you.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetMini-concerts and lecture-recitals will be held every noon hour during the conference of the Canadian University Music Society.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetUncertain World is a group exhibition developed in response to the theme of Crossroads: Scholarship in an Uncertain World. The exhibition features the works of four mid- career Canadian artists. Using the landscape as a familiar perceptual backdrop, the artwork addresses themes ranging from environmental degradation to urban sprawl, and from First Nations land claims to the Occupy movement. Uncertain World will be a timely visual complement to Congress 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetMantrap (1926)—starring Clara Bow as an American girl who must adapt to life in rural Canada—will feature live accompaniment to recreate the music of cinema’s silent era. Through the use of live accompaniment, our screening highlights the inseparable nature of film and music even before the “coming of sound.”
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe Multicultural Cinema Club will hold its spring film festival during Congress and will showcase international films focusing on the theme of “uncertain worlds.” A local film buff will introduce the films and a short discussion will follow each screening.
Free. The Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick Street, Kitchener.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
Organized by the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) and Run for Life, the Crossroads Across the Region Scavenger Hunt involves collecting clues about the educational community and geography of the Kitchener-Waterloo region in teams of two to four people throughout the duration of Congress. The hunt, which will take participants through the two campuses, uptown Waterloo and downtown Kitchener, is self-scheduled, so delegates can complete it at their leisure. All of the locations are accessible on foot or by transit.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThroughout Congress, the University of Waterloo’s newest high-tech accelerator, REAP (Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity) is showcasing some of the latest interactive digital display technologies from its new ‘sandbox for serious play’ – the FELT Lab. Young talent from SSHRC disciplines involved in REAP will be on hand to show and tell.
www.reapwaterloo.ca
The Canadian Communication Association and the University of Waterloo Critical Media Lab (CML) invites Congress participants to visit its mobile exhibition (in a truck parked on WLU campus). Delegates can examine and experiment with recent interactive projects completed by the CML collaborators in the field of mobile computing and augmented reality.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
Attention Congress 2012 delegates and families!
Visit THEMUSEUM in Kitchener from May 26 to June 2, 2021 and save! Delegates and their families pay $10 per person (regular price is $13). Admission includes all THEMUSEUM’s permanent exhibitions as well as DINOSAURS and ADD COLOUR | A Yoko Ono Exhibition. DINOSAURS is a robotic adventure of dinosaur life and ADD COLOUR invites you to play an active role in the creative process.
http://www.themuseum.ca/main.cfm
By the mid-1990s the former industrial basin of the Waterloo region located in downtown Kitchener had lost most of its manufacturing activities and left behind acres of abandoned factories and contaminated brownfield sites. On the walking tour of downtown Kitchener’s brownfield redevelopment you will get an inside look the amazing transformation of these spaces into exclusive residential lofts, three university campuses, and the headquarters of Google and other hi-tech firms.
Departure Location: Kitchener City Hall Rotunda
Close Add to My Schedule TweetUncertain World is a group exhibition developed in response to the theme of Crossroads: Scholarship in an Uncertain World. The exhibition features the works of four mid- career Canadian artists. Using the landscape as a familiar perceptual backdrop, the artwork addresses themes ranging from environmental degradation to urban sprawl, and from First Nations land claims to the Occupy movement. Uncertain World will be a timely visual complement to Congress 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetMini-concerts and lecture-recitals will be held every noon hour during the conference of the Canadian University Music Society.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetAs part of the very full and rich schedule of concerts for attendees for the duration of Congress, QuartetFest 2012 features concerts and Chamber music workshops. Hosted by the Penderecki String Quartet, QuartetFest brings together two world-renowned members of the Tokyo String Quartet, Martin Beaver (violin) and Clive Greensmith (cello), and young artists from Canada and abroad to perform concerts and participate in Master classes.
Quartetfest Young Artists Concert
Kitchener Waterloo Chamber Music Society
57 Young ST. W,
Waterloo N2L 2Z4
Co-produced with the Kitchener Waterloo Chamber Music Society (KWCMS). For tickets, please call 519-886-1673.
As Japan's leading audio-visual artist, Ryoji Ikeda is internationally renowned for his immersive environments. His work orchestrates sound, images, physical phenomena, and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations characterized by razor-sharp technique and aesthetics. His work has been featured at major venues throughout the world. For this, his first visit to Ontario, Ikeda will present his Datamatics v2.0, a project that explores the potential to perceive the invisible multi-substance of data that permeates our world.
Ticket prices:
Adult: $40.00
Student (with valid ID): $25.00
Mini-concerts and lecture-recitals will be held every noon hour during the conference of the Canadian University Music Society.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetAs part of the very full and rich schedule of concerts for attendees for the duration of Congress, QuartetFest 2012 features concerts and Chamber music workshops. Hosted by the Penderecki String Quartet, QuartetFest brings together two world-renowned members of the Tokyo String Quartet, Martin Beaver (violin) and Clive Greensmith (cello), and young artists from Canada and abroad to perform concerts and participate in Master classes.
Quartetfest Young Artists Concert
Kitchener Waterloo Chamber Music Society
57 Young ST. W,
Waterloo N2L 2Z4
Co-produced with the Kitchener Waterloo Chamber Music Society (KWCMS). For tickets, please call 519-886-1673.