Events

Collette “Coco” Murray is a dance educator, cultural arts programmer, mentor, and arts consultant. As part of the Black and Free: New Art series, her exhibition and performance Un ‘loc’ de riddims in meh body, is a visual movement journey where dance photography visually amplifies how a body in geopolitical spaces across the Afrodisapora can exist, claim, and sustain nuances of being Afrodescendant.

Afro- Caribbean Canadian artist Suritah Teresa Wignall is a passionate communicator who uses her exuberant, colorful paintings to pay homage to her cultural roots. As part of the Black and Free: New Art series, her exhibition piece Mai ba da labari (The Storyteller) is a legacy painting of Goggo (Grandma), telling the story of her journey and how she ended up in Jamaica. Goggo’s Soyayya (love) pushes through. We listen, because our freedom is her. Our freedom, depends on us understanding our past.

TAFUI is an educator, designer and painter. Her paintings are inspired by deconstructing cultures into their base elements and symbols, looking for the similarities and relationships they share. As part of the Black and Free: New Art series, she will be sharing the progress on the original typeface design for the Black and Free project that she is creating in collaboration with BAF partner Studio Otherness.

You are invited to participate in Bridge: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People. Working with the Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC), the Office of Indigenous Relations (OIR), and 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence, the annual installation presents a counter discourse/memorial against the silencing of the historic and continual violence endured by Indigenous communities. https://youtu.be/Zu2t6LifQl0

We’re excited to announce that Professor Samer Al-Saber will be a featured speaker for the 2024 Silversides Theatre Artist Series on March 18, at 3pm.  The lecture will be followed by a reception.

Created by uWaterloo Drama’s own Professor Naila Keleta-Mae in 2008, on love was further developed by uWaterloo Drama students during theirPerformance Creation course with Keleta-Mae in the fall.  on love is a play about love and legacy; it is a Canadian story about the historic site in St. Armand, Quebec called Nigger Rock.

Dates and times

February 6th through 9th at 8pm
February 8th and 9th at 2pm

Tickets

Box Office 519.888.4908
$17 General | $13 Students & Seniors | $5 eyeGo

Prof. Joel Greenberg is this year's speaker at our annual Silversides event. Joel will discuss his work with Studio 180, a theatre company in Toronto founded by Joel and uWaterloo alumni, and the company’s mission of producing socially relevant theatre. Joel will also address how his work with Studio 180 connects to his work with students and his teaching here at uWaterloo. 

Tonight's shows:

Post-its (Notes on a Marriage)

Written by Paul Dooley and Winnie Holzman

Directed by Tyler Collins

The First

Written & Directed by William Innes

Testimony of Sister Veronica

Written & Directed by Laura McVey