Verge Art Series

Posted by admin on Oct 20, 2009 in News | 0 comments

On October 29-30th Trinity Western University’s Verge Art Series will host a broad range of events and speakers from the many different faculties represented in the professional studies and performing arts programs.

Jeff Warren, the Verge’s artistic director, hopes the event will “spark interest across disciplines about how art converges the traditional boundaries of disciplines to feature emerging thought and work in the arts.”

One way Warren hopes to spark interest across the disciplines is to attract an array of speakers and presenters from many different disciplines. Etop Akwing, a lecturer from Nigeria, will be speaking on the use of theatre to help spread education in Nigeria regarding
HIV/AIDS.

Sky Burns is the executive director of the Flow Project, which explores how art can be integrated into the practice of leadership. Burns will be speaking on what art offers leadership, and how business education can leverage the power of art to teach leadership.

Warren is excited to attend one lecture in particular, given by the head of Carleton University’s Philosophy Program, Geraldine Finn. According to Warren, Finn’s lectures are “half performance, half philosophy – she’s interested in exploring the space between music and philosophy by creating an oral presentation that is as much music as it is philosophy.”

Although the Verge Arts series will be hosting many world class scholars, Warren hopes students won’t “feel intimidated by the event,” but that they will “take advantage of being in a room with 10-30 world class scholars in order to soak it up.”

The Verge Arts series will run from October 29-30th. For a complete listing of speakers and their abstracts
visit www.vergearts.com