UWindsor students will continue a campus tradition of more than 50 years Saturday, October 21, when they participate in Shine Day — the annual campaign to raise funds for the fight against cystic fibrosis, a chronic and frequently fatal hereditary disease.

Student volunteers will meet at 9 a.m. for breakfast in Vanier Hall’s Katzman Lounge, then board buses for various points around the city, where they will wash cars and shine shoes. All funds raised will be donated to Cystic Fibrosis Canada to further research and find a cure.

Teams will station themselves outside three locations of Josephs Farm Market and will set up car washes at:

• Jiffy Lube, 2573 Dougall Avenue
• City Market, 1030 Walker Road
• Cystic Fibrosis Canada, 3050 Jefferson Boulevard

Find more information, including how to sign up for a team, on the event Facebook page.

A public reception Friday, October 20, will celebrate the opening of an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Windsor which features artists with ties to the University.

The 2017 Windsor-Essex Triennial of Contemporary Art, entitled “Downtown/s: Urban Renewal Today for Tomorrow,” includes works by UWindsor instructors Michael Darroch, Cyndra MacDowall, Nadja Pelkey, Lee Rodney, and Terry Sefton, and alumni Joshua Bacock, Vince Kogut, Luke Madaford, Joey Stewart, and Julie Rae Tucker.

The show aims to reflect the shifts in Windsor’s economic, agricultural, social, and cultural growth. Curator Jaclyn Meloche considers it an invitation to the public to experience anew the City of Windsor, from its alleyways to its picturesque waterfront.

Friday’s reception starts at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $15, free for gallery members.

A walk through Windsor’s core on the theme “Reconnaissance, Heart + Soul,” led by the Hamilton Perambulatory Unit and the In/Terminus Research Group, will leave the gallery at noon.

Alumnus Chris Edwards (BA 1983, MA 1985) will lead a second walk Sunday, October 22, at 1 p.m.

The exhibition runs through January 28. The Art Gallery of Windsor is located at 401 Riverside Drive West.

A low-tech stage production this weekend in the CAW Student Centre will employ dramatic techniques taught by UWindsor professor Lionel Walsh.

Walsh trains actors and instructors in the fantastic realism style of theatre practitioner Michael Chekhov in his classes at the School of Dramatic Art and through an Ohio-based consortium. Two grads of that program, Bevin Bell-Hall and Tim Welsh, founded the Name of Bird ensemble, which will present Constellations by Nick Payne on Sunday, October 22.

The story of Marianne and Roland — two people drawn irresistibly together by time and space — the play will send audiences on a journey of infinite possibilities, love, loss, and laughter.

The figurative curtain will rise at 3 p.m. in the Ambassador Auditorium. Admission is on a pay-what-you-can basis.

The Canadian premiere of a seven-song cycle based on Norwegian poetry is featured on the program of a concert Friday, October 20, in Assumption Hall’s Heritage Auditorium.

Soprano Jennifer Swanson will join clarinetist Trevor Pittman and pianist Michael Karloff of the University of Windsor in performing Nattsanger (Night Songs), composed for her by Abbie Betinis with texts by Rolf Jacobsen.

In keeping with the texts in Nattsanger, the evening’s program revolves around subjects associated with night and darkness: dreams, stars, mystery, secrets, etc.

“Luckily, there is no shortage of songs on these topics,” says Dr. Swanson. “So I chose works representing a variety of styles, languages, and moods. We have songs about the beauty of the night sky and the power of darkness to conceal our emotions and our enterprises. We have a lullaby, songs to the moon, and a final group guaranteed to alter your perspective on one of the major food groups.”

The recital will begin at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $20; $5 for students.

Find more information, including program notes and a brief profile of Swanson, on the event webpage.

Windsor Fashion Festival, a fashion show to benefit the UWindsor Addolorata DeLuca Leadership Scholarship, will take place on November 3 at Water’s Edge Event Centre beginning at 6 p.m.

Scholarship founder, School of Social Work alumnus, and current Odette School of Business student Cessidia DeBiasio says the show will feature a collection of men’s and women’s fall fashions and accessories. All proceeds will benefit the scholarship, provided annually to a first- or second-generation Canadian student in their second, third or fourth year of study who maintains a minimum cumulative average of at least 80 per cent.

DeBiasio established the scholarship — which she says is based on the principles of integrity, determination, ambition, and strength — in honour of her grandmother as a way to acknowledge the efforts of her family and other newcomers to Windsor and Essex County.

Scholarship applicants are asked to include a short description of their family’s story of origin and a statement outlining their outstanding leadership abilities and community contributions. More information on the scholarship is available at: http://www.adlscholarship.com.

For fashion show tickets, visit: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/windsor-fashion-festival-2017-tickets-36044248317 or e-mail windsorwomeninbusiness@gmail.com.