Concerts, Guest Artists, Exhibitions, Talks and Recitals
Thank you to all who came to our SoCA Live on Nov. 21, 2025!
Next exhibition and performance:
Monster Draw - Gallery exhibition - A large-scale, collaborative drawing installation that invites participants to create a single hybrid creature through collective invention.
Recital Nov. 28 - Open gallery with performances by: Tyron Kornelsen, Elijah Martin, Christelle El Khoury, Nick Worth, Hunter Baribeau, Colin Comartin, Liah Howard, Rose Malinowski, David Paniccia, Emma Pace, Miles Walker, Aubrey Zerbin
Monster Draw is a large-scale, collaborative drawing installation that invites participants to create a single, hybrid creature through collective invention. Inspired by the Surrealist drawing game exquisite corpse [cadavre exquis], the project builds on unpredictability and the plurality of collective imagination. Each contributor adds a section without seeing the whole, resulting in emergent forms that fuse human, nonhuman, and fantastical elements.
The “monster” driving this project is a living metaphor for hybridity, excess, and the blurring of boundaries. These unstable forms resist fixed categories, dispersing authorship and opening space for new, entangled ways of making. As drawings accumulate on the gallery walls, individual styles collide, overlap, and merge into a growing, evolving creature. This process embodies the articulation of creative multiplicity: many visions stitched together into a single, shifting body.
Students, artists, and community members are invited to add their own marks to the work. Visitors are not passive observers but active contributors, expanding the monster into layers of convergent imagination. Through this open, evolving installation, Monster Draw explores uncertainty as a generative and transformative force.
Love music AND visual arts?
Nicholas Papador, director
Join us for an exciting evening of concert band and percussion music by the University Wind and Percussion Ensembles conducted by Dr. Nick Papador. Our program features the compositions of Omar Thomas including his powerful A Mother of a Revolution!, the composer’s tribute to the bravery of trans women and the 1969 Stonewall uprising. The program also features Thomas’s stellar arrangement of Radiohead’s Sail to the Moon. As well as works by John Mackey, Jordon Nobles, and Robert Spittal. The University Percussion Ensemble will open the show with fiery and sonically profound pieces by Nathan Daughtrey and Lou Harrison.
Come join with the University Singers and University of Windsor Chamber Choir in their annual Sounds of the Season. This year we are in a new location, the beautiful Capitol Theatre in downtown Windsor. The choirs will be joined by special guests the University of Windsor’s school of Dramatic Arts in John Rutter’s A Brother Heinrich’s Christmas. The University Singers will be premiering a work by Prof. Jason Grossi, Ita Divina Lux with violinist, Lillian Scheirich. Besides seasonal favorites, the combined choirs will be performing selections from Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. Ticket may be purchased in advance through the Capitol box office for this Windsor Family Holiday Tradition.
Purchase tickets on the Capital theatre website
We'll be presenting a short film on Monday, Dec. 1st created by students enrolled in VSAR-2430: Intro to Time-based Art. The film will be screened in the Multimedia Room at 10:00 AM and everyone is welcome!
[10:00 - 10:25] (ten to ten twenty-five) is a 25-minute film created by students enrolled in VSAR2430: Introduction to Time-based Art. The film is inspired by Christian Marclay's The Clock and presents a series of short clips that collapse the distinction between screen time and real time.