Events

The Department of Drama and Speech Communication’s 2016 Distinguished Lecturer, Professor Kishonna Gray, will lead a roundtable discussion on the subject of gender and race in video games and game cultures.

The participants are undergraduate students in the Theatre and Performance, Speech Communication, Women’s Studies, and Global Business and Digital Arts programs. All are welcome to attend and to join in the discussion. 

The Department of Drama and Speech Communication, along with campus partners, presents this distinguished lecture event featuring Professor Kishonna Gray.

Join us for the Department of Drama and Speech Communication's 3rd annual Pop-Up art show. Take a walk through a student created exhibition that tests the lines between art institutions and everyday life.  Part museum, part gallery, part intervention -- this years pop up artists create a hybrid space for thinking about our virtual lives, our cross-cultural practices, how we interact with one another and the vital role art can play in shaping our world.
 

As part of their final project, students DAC 329/SPCOM 329 Digital Presentations course are mounting an evening of scintillating talks with stunning visuals.  Called Ignite Waterloo 329, the event will be run as a ‘lightening’ Ignite (TedTalk-style) event.

Ignite 329: Enlighten us, but make it quick!

Ignite329 is a fast-paced evening of 5-minute, wide-ranging talks by passionate student speakers from the DAC/SPCOM 329 course. 

Think of this event as a really fast set of TedTalks: 5 minutes long, with beautiful slide decks that auto-advance every 15 seconds, and speakers without notes and a lot of energy. 

The Silversides Theatre Artists Series 2016 presents American playwright and executive director Neil Wechsler in a talk, “The Dramalogue Series: A Glimpse Backstage."

Join award-winning playwright, Neil Wechsler (Yale Drama Award winner for Grenadine) for an intriguing exploration of how the opening lines of a play set the tone, themes, and rhythm for the entire work.Through the exploration of several play openings, Wechsler will demonstrate ways in which opening lines reveal the depth and nuance that unfold throughout the plays.

Integrating Knowledges Summit

October 14, 15, and 16, 2016

Waterloo Aboriginal Education Centre and University of Waterloo

The Silversides Theatre Artists Series 2016 presents Canadian actor and playwright Monique Mojica in a talk, "Inscripted Earth: embodiment of place as research, process and performance."

Monique Mojica will describe her evolving process of creating an Indigenous dramaturgy rooted in land-based embodied research. This presentation looks specifically at work begun in 2011 (along with a collaborative team of Indigenous artists) and focuses on effigy mounds and earthworks as the first literary structures on this land. 

The Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is a sad tale of lost love and the power of music. After his love Eurydice is killed by snakebite, a grief-stricken Orpheus journeys to the land of the dead in an attempt to bring her back.