Participants in the Changing the Odds youth program perform during a public presentation Thursday in the Jackman Dramatic Art Centre.
A donation of more than $175,000 from the Windsor Endowment for the Arts will secure the future of the Changing the Odds program.
A free public event Thursday will showcase participants in “Changing the Odds: Community Transformation through the Arts.”
Justin Caruana and Michael Tabet-Graham enact a scene as part of Changing the Odds, a six-week program providing theatre and arts skills to vulnerable youth.
A program aimed at local youths is a safe environment where participants can express themselves, explore their hopes and beliefs, and nurture their creativity, says a UWindsor student helping to lead its daily sessions on campus.
Changing the Odds: Community Transformation through the Arts provides vulnerable youth with six weeks of training in theatre and related skills, but it’s about more than the arts, says senior drama leader Ashley Baez Abreu.
BFA acting grad Marina Gomes is one of the featured performers during an entry in the Afternoons in the Alley series, Saturday in downtown Windsor.
School of Creative Arts students and alumni will take to Maiden Lane on Saturday, July 16, for an afternoon of free public performances.
Drama professor Esther Van Eek designed these costumes for a production this summer by Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts, of a comedy loosely based on The Taming of the Shrew. Photo by Enrico Spada, Shakespeare & Co.
Professor Esther Van Eek finds herself crossing paths with drama grads making their way into professional theatre.
Acting grads David Hudyma and Billy Chandler have paired one-man character studies for the London Fringe Festival.
Acting grads David Hudyma and Billy Chandler have paired one-man character studies for the London Fringe Festival.
Professor Lionel Walsh is directing a cast and crew of drama students and grads in the Canadian premiere of the Irish drama “Choking the Butterfly.”
Professor Lionel Walsh is directing a cast and crew of drama students and grads in the Canadian premiere of the Irish drama “Choking the Butterfly.”
UWindsor professor emeritus Richard Householder accepts congratulations from his wife Sheelagh Householder and Bruce Kotowich, his successor as choir director who nominated him for an arts leadership award.
UWindsor grads, faculty and students are well-represented among 2016 winners of awards from the Windsor Endowment for the Arts.
Drama grad Tamlynn Bryson’s one-woman comedy “(in)decision” continues its run this week at the Windsor-Walkerville Fringe Festival.
Drama grad Tamlynn Bryson’s one-woman comedy (in)decision continues its run this week at the Windsor-Walkerville Fringe Festival.
Public presentations by drama students will begin at 12:30 p.m. in the Jackman Dramatic Art Centre and proceed to locations within walking distance.
