Concerts, Guest Artists, Exhibitions, Talks and Recitals
Thank you to all who came to our SoCA Live on Oct. 24, 2025!
Next exhibition and performance:
Gallery exhibition:
ReBirth
featuring work by students in the VSAR 3130 Painting class
Recital
Performances by:
Will Chandler
Charlie Bennett
Mason Beauvais
Tessara Cecil
Chase Farrand
Luna Long
Jamal Sghaier
As an ode to abstract expressionism’s inherent intensity and charged emotional tones, Dr. Jaclyn Meloche’s 3rd year painting class presents the group exhibition ReBirth. Inspired by Lee Krasner’s abstract expressionist painting Birth and its formal deconstruction of humanity, ReBirth highlights the ways in which abstract painting can signal a material and metaphorical response to living. Engaged with non-referentiality, the artists in the exhibition offer unique approaches to contemplating the aesthetics of activism and storytelling. Through bold brushstrokes, vivid colours, and powerful compositions, ReBirth pushes the boundaries of representation by asking audiences instead to feel and connect on an emotional level with the world around them.
Curated by Izzy Quinones, Maya Rice, Amber Sabzwari, and Arpad Trajlovic.
Monster Draw - Gallery exhibition - A large-scale, collaborative drawing installation that invites participants to create a single hybrid creature through collective invention.
Recital Nov. 21 - Open gallery with jazz performances by the vocal, guitar and instrumental jazz combos.
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?
Baroque Dance with Anh Nguyen
Wednesday November 19 at 1 pm
Ensemble Room
Anh Nguyen is a classical-contemporary choreographer and composer. He’s currently the artistic director for HNM Dance. Nguyen makes regular appearances with other progressive dance companies, orchestras, galleries, festivals, and universities; including American Ballet Theatre, Dancetheatre David Earle (France, Canada), Eisenhower Dance Ensemble, Danny Grossman Dance Company, Peter Sparling Dance Company, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Institute of Arts, Northwood University (Florida, Michigan, Texas), Ball State University, University of Toledo, Western Michigan University, York College (NYC), York University, Dance Teq (National Ballet of Canada), The 509 Collective, CADA/BC (Vancouver), Toronto International Dance Festival... Anh’s choreography and compositions have been commissioned and performed by Wayne State University Dance Company, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, EFA Dance Ensemble, Detroit Dance Collective... In recognition for his contribution to artistic & cultural life Anh was given the Mayor's Award of Excellence for Outstanding Artist. The Globe & Mail describes his creativity as “brilliant”. The Courier-Journal describes Anh's choreography as "PURE PLEASURE”.
Bring your dancing shoes!
Exploring the Pipe Organ
Michael Ricketts
Organist and Choir Director
St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church
85 Park Street East - NOTE LOCATION
Wednesday November 26, 2025 at 1 PM
Michael Ricketts holds a Bachelor Music in organ performance and a Master of Arts in Religious Studies from the University of Windsor. His career in religious music spans more than four decades in the Windsor area. Michael studied organ with Professor David Palmer.
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.
Ticket links will be posted soon!