Owen Eric Wood

Performance art to grace gallery Thursday

An exhibition of student works in the LeBel Building is here today, but will be gone tomorrow.

HERE / NOW is an exhibition of time-based and ephemeral artworks, curated by MFA candidates Bruce Thompson and Owen Eric Wood. More than 60 visual arts students are participating in the show, which has evolved over the course of the week.

The public is invited to an evening of performance tonight—Thursday, November 22—from 7 to 10 p.m. in the SoVA Projects Gallery.

Students get chance to screen films at WIFF

As a young boy, Josh Mellanby recalls being glued to the television, fascinated by the old episodes of The Twilight Zone that his mother had turned him on to.

“It was one of the biggest influences in my life,” the 30-year-old filmmaker says of the old Rod Serling-directed mind-bending science fiction television series. “I loved the twists of fate and the way they could craft these complex stories in such a short amount of time.”