White Water Gallery

Discussion Panel
with Jordan Bennett, Carla Taunton, Terry Dokis, and Susan Cahill
Friday, 16 March 2012, 5:30-8:30pm
A224, Main Building, Nipissing University

Performance, “How funny was it when…”
by Mi’kmaq Performance Artist Jordan Bennett
Saturday, 17 March 2012, 2:00-2:30pm
Treaty Learning Centre, 4th floor library, Nipissing University

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

EVENTS ARE FREE OF CHARGE.

For more information, please contact Susan Cahill at susanca@nipissingu.ca

Thanks to:
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Centre of Flexible Teaching and Learning
Cultural Affairs
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science

Cosplay-A-Thon: March 12^th – 16^th, 2012

Members from the Youth Arts Initiative (YAI) will be conducting a fundraising event to raise money for their trip to Toronto this May. They will be soliciting donations by gathering pledges towards their arts creation activities each day from 3 – 8pm, Monday – Friday finishing with the Friday Night Film Festival.

Cosplay (コスプレ kosupure?), short for “costume play”, is a type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan, but recent trends have included American cartoons and science fiction. Favourite sources include manga, anime, comic books, graphic novels, video games and fantasy movies. Any entity from the real or virtual world that lends itself to dramatic interpretation may be taken up as a subject. Inanimate objects are given anthropomorphic forms and it is not unusual to see genders switched, with women playing male roles and vice versa. Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture centred around role play. A broader use of the term cosplay applies to any costumed role play in venues apart from the stage, regardless of the cultural context.

The Cosplay-A-Thon is a weeklong arts creation activity where YAI will be building, sewing and construction costumes and showing costume techniques to any who attend. Donation are welcomes and taken on-site.