Faculty of Arts & Science

At the University of Lethbridge, we enjoy promoting the projects and achievements of our very active students, staff, faculty, and alumni.  This past month, representatives of our Fine Arts departments were hard at work... and some winning awards for their efforts!

ART 

• Amornthep Jaidee’s (BFA Art ‘10) installation A Room at the End of the World is at H Project Space in Bangkok Thailand from July 11 – Aug. 18.

H Project Space is very pleased to announce an installation by an emergent artist based between Thailand and Canada. Probing discomforting but revelatory ideas about sexuality, desire and identity, Amornthep Jaidee has recreated H Project Space as a surreal bedroom where the weird juxtaposition of found objects antagonizes the serenity and grandeur of this colonial-style room. …

Amornthep Jaidee was born in Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand. He has been living in Canada for over a decade, where he received his BFA from University of Lethbridge, Alberta, and is currently completing a MFA at Concordia University in Montreal. His exhibitions include Eponymous (2012) at Fuaye Galerie in Ayvalik, Turkey, Cabinet of Queer-iosities (2012) at Bowman Art Center, Alberta, and the solo exhibition Piggies (2010) at Ashland Gallery, Alberta. Amornthep has held residencies at the Goyang National Art Studio Gallery in Korea and The Banff Center in Canada. This project is generously supported by Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Concordia University.

Read the full statement at the Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/events/343771489084774/) or check out H Project Space directly (http://www.hgallerybkk.com/Exhibitions/index.php).

MUSIC

• Members of the U of L Global Drums Steel Band have been hard at work overseas.

First, they headed to England, giving a performance and workshop at the Royal College of Music in London, then jetting to the Netherlands to participate in the International Steel Band Festival on June 21.  Check them out as they bring a smile and a dance to their audience in this Youtube clip: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX-XBzODBe8

Check out the full details for the festival here: http://www.steelbandfestival.nl/index.php 

While on this performance tour, Graduate Assistant Joe Porter (MMus Candidate, BMus '10) and Director Adam Mason will also give a World Drumming clinic at the Birmingham Conservatoire in England.

DRAMA

• Ryan Reese (BFA Dramatic Arts ‘13) has just won the Discovery Prize for Alberta Playwrights Network Alberta Playwriting Competition 2013 for his play Ascending the Blue, which also took second place in the 2013 U of L Play Right Prize.
  

This is the second win in a row for University of Lethbridge students.  In 2012, Makambe Simamba won the same category.

• Sean Guist (MFA Dramatic Arts '12, BFA Dramatic Arts '07) is working at Intrepid Theatre in Victoria as the Marketing & Development Coordinator. Intrepid Theatre produces three annual theatre festivals, including The Victoria Fringe.

In addition he is a freelance director on the side.   Current project is directing Michel Marc Bouchard's Down Dangerous Passes Road on June 22 & 23, partnering with Intrepid Theatre and The Victoria Pride Society.

“It’s great, I love having an arts job!,” he says.

If you know of any U of L alumni, student, staff, or faculty member with research, creative works, or achievements that deserve recognition, please forward any article or release to Katherine Wasiak at katherine.wasiak@uleth.ca