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Vershawn Young has published Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow. The official U.S. publication date is set for March 12, 2018.

The year was 1997. I sat in the Blyth Festival theatre in anticipation of seeing my very first production of a Norm Foster play, The Melville Boys. I was in my last year of high school preparing to attend the University of Waterloo Dramatic Arts program that coming fall. The house lights dimmed and I felt that familiar sense of excitement as I settled in to be entertained.

Dr. Vershawn Young has just been elected to the position of Assistant Chair for the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

When the politics and histories that shape students’ lives emerge in class, Naila Keleta-Mae sees an opportunity for deep learning - not an interruption to her lecture notes.

The Theatre and Performance program is excited to announce that Toronto-based director-designer-producer, Vikki Anderson, has been contracted to direct the fall production of Concord Floral by Jordan Tannahill.  This is Vikki's first time working with the program.

And So, We Unravel: Standing In & Against Rape Culture

SPCOM 4^th Annual Pop-Up Art Exhibit

EXTENDED!  NOW OPEN: March 20^th 11-1pm

Theatre of the Arts Gallery, Modern Languages Building

In conjunction with the performance the students of DRAMA/SPCOM 440 will create a series of collaborative installations in the Theatre of the Arts Gallery between March 14 -19.  Students will provide creative reflections on the prevalence of gender-based violence within contemporary North American society. These installations will feature multi-disciplinary art works that critically examine how the rhetoric of rape culture is supported and circulated throughout institutions, social interactions and popular channels of communication.

POP UP Zine Fair

You are invited to check out the POP UP Zine Fair put on by the students of SPCOM/DRAMA 440!  

Thursday January 26^th

11:30-12:30pm

ML Foyer

What is a Zine? Come find out for yourself and collect some fine handcrafted Zines for FREE.

Already a zine maker? Bring some zines of your own to trade and share.

Want to make one and don't know how? Visit our on-site zine making workshop at the fair.

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Announcing a New Book by Frankie Condon and Vershawn Young: Performing Anti-Racist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication

From: Dr. Michael A. Pemberton, Professor, Editor, Across the Disciplines