Guelph Cultural Arts Festival
The Guelph Cultural Arts Festival is a one-day event that fosters and showcases creative writing, music, theatre, performance, and other cultural arts within the Guelph community. It is also a provocation to start more active and dynamic arts collaborations in the City of Guelph. Created through the collaborative efforts of University of Guelph students, faculty, local businesses, arts organizations, and the City, it aims to truly reflect the richness and diversity of the arts community as well as to encourage dialogue between these sectors.
Events, held at downtown venues, include workshops, live performances, round table discussions, music, and opportunities for networking between artists, interested community members, and academics. Click on the Schedule tab for a detailed description of all festival events.
The entire festival is free and open to the public, which is made possible through the generous support of many organizations. See the Organizers and Partners tab for more details.
The Writer's Workshop
This annual event features writers from across the University of Guelph who join us to share their experience and advice about writing. The sessions provide hands-on, practical tips and instruction related to a wide variety of writing projects and tasks. From writing scientific articles to penning fictional stories to managing your online profile, this conference has lots to offer both budding and experienced writers.
Disability and Work: Toward Re-conceptualizing the 'Burden' of Disability
Over the years conceptualizations of the health-disease continuum and its relationship to disability have frequently led to conclusions that equate disease and disability.
The ultimate goal of this one day conference is to examine, and identify conditions needed to change or least augment world views that see disability as a burden.
Indigenous Research and Learning Network Conference
This conference will launch the Indigenous Research and Learning Network at the University of Guelph. Researchers involved in work either with or for indigenous communities, as well as researchers who study issues that these communities face, are welcome to attend. This includes professors, graduate students, research associates, and local research partners.
Fourth International Shaw Society Conference
THE INTERNATIONAL SHAW SOCIETY IN COLLABORATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH AND THE SHAW FESTIVAL
Papers presented at this conference will address Shaw's broad international interests as expressed in his novels, plays, prefaces, speeches, and travels; productions of Shaw's plays in a variety of languages and countries; "boundary-free" internet Shaw; and "copyright-free" Shaw (in Canada since 2000, and in most other countries from 2020).
The conference schedule will include a visit to the renowned Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, to see the Festival's fiftieth anniversary productions of at least two Shaw plays.
A major exhibit of materials from the extensive Shaw collections in the University of Guelph's Archival and Special Collections will be mounted for the conference.
It is anticipated that conference participants will come from many parts of the world. Some financial support will be available to assist with travel costs.
Improvisation, Community and Social Practice
Improvisation, Community and Social Practice (ICASP) is a collaborative research initiative out of the University of Guelph in partnership with McGill University and the University of British Columbia, focusing on the role of musical improvisation.
CU Expo
CU Expo 2011 will showcase the exemplars in Community-University partnerships worldwide, and explore and introduce creative ways of strengthening our local communities. Complex social issues require global perspectives to inform local action. Community-University partnerships can be an effective way to stimulate innovative solutions for the pressing concerns within our communities. The potential for such solutions is maximized when diverse partners come together to re-imagine the relationship between the academy and the community, and in the process create new possibilities.