Join us next week for a final Senior Fellows Lunch on Afghanistan on Monday, May 9th from 11:45am-2:00pm with Afghan Journalist and prominent figure of TV news Lotfullah Najafizada. He will speak to what the future holds for Afghanistan.
RSVP Required: https://masseycollege.ca/events/senior-fellow-luncheon-with-afghan-journalist-lotfullah-najafizada
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I am happy to announce a series of lectures to accompany the fascinating exhibit at the Aga Khan Museum on the power of image. Join us at the Aga Khan Museum on:
- May 15th Image and Identity
- June 12th Image,Values and Nation Building
- July 17th Image and Spirituality
- August 7th Image and Power
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On May 16th you’re invited to the launch of Senior Fellow Paul Gooch’s book Paul and Religion: Unfinished Conversations, Cambridge University Press, 2022. Happening at 5pm in Alumni Hall at Victoria College. Brief remarks by Senior Fellows, Ann Jervis and Robert Gibbs, at 5.30 pm.
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On May 19th you are invited to celebrate internationally acclaimed writer and film director Deepa Mehta who will be in conversation with Senior Fellow Raji Aujla. Deepa Mehta is an Oscar-nominated (Water), transnational filmmaker whose work is celebrated on an international scale. Her emotionally resonating, award-winning films have played every major film festival, and many remain audience favourites. She is best known for her Elemental Trilogy: Earth, Fire, Water. Join us from 6:00-7:30pm. Refreshments to be served.
The TV version for the screen adaptation of Esi Edugyan’s CBC Massey Lecture, Out of the Sun premiered last Saturday on CBC TV and CBC Gem, and is now available here . The one-hour special delivers a time-traversing cultural critique of the way Black people are represented in art and storytelling. This adaptation of the Lectures brings viewers on an artful and socially urgent journey from eighteenth century portraiture to contemporary pop culture, from medieval Japan to Hollywood movies, intertwined with personal reflections of a life growing up in Canada as a child of immigrants from Ghana. Visual projections and music bring this all to life.
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A reminder that formal dinners have ended for term, but the College remains open for breakfast seven days a week (8– 10:00 am) , and lunch (12:15 –1:30 pm) Monday to Friday (except holidays) from May through July. Massey is also available for spring/summer room rentals to the community, visiting academics and friends by the day, week or month. If you are hosting someone or holding an event, consider Massey College as your venue. Email Sam Little, Summer Residence Coordinator
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I am including below some photos from the end of year BBQ last Friday. The College also participated in a special event on printing during the weekend, the Grimsby Wayzgoose. Thank you to our College Printer and Printing Apprentices who represented us well!
COMMUNITY NEWS
Massey is Lunch
I am pleased to invite Senior Fellows, Members of the Quadrangle Society, Journalism Fellows to participate in a new initiative to connect with Junior Fellows. If you haven’t yet, please follow this link and sign up for a lunch date You will then be paired with one or two Junior Fellows to dine with on the indicated day. It is a way to make up for all this lost time in building intergenerational exchanges.
- Senior Fellow Tom Axworthy has published an article in the Winnipeg Free Press. Read it here.
- Maria Ressa’s travel restrictions and our gala was featured in the Toronto Star last week
- Junior Fellow Lola Ajao has been selected as a 2022 Doc Accelerator Fellow by Hot Docs Festival. Read about the program here. https://hotdocs.ca/industry/professional-development/doc-accelerator
- Journalism Fellow Michael Barclay’s book Hearts on Fire: Six Years that Changed Canadian Music 2000–2005 was officially released last week. Read about it in the Toronto Star.
The 2021-2022 William Southam Journalism Fellows organized two informative workshops on book publishing in March and April. You can watch both now on YouTube.
Workshop 1. Editors and Publishers shared guidance on where to start the process
Workshop 2. Four writers shared what they wish they’d known before embarking on their first book
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On May 19th the Massey Community is invited to attend The Future of Money event starting at 4:00pm at Koerner Hall. Senior Fellow Peter Loewen will host and moderate the discussion which will centre around the reinvention of currency Members of the Massey Community will receive complimentary tickets to the panel discussion and networking event. Use the code “FOM22” when registering for tickets.
Take care,
Nathalie
