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Christine Dewar
PEFA Liaison
Email: dewarc@douglascollege.ca
Phone: 604-527-5690
Monica Kim
Performing Arts Assistant
Email: performingarts@douglascollege.ca
Phone: 604-527-5495
Mailing address:
Performing and Fine Arts Certificate
Douglas College
Room 3200C
PO Box 2503
New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2
Street Address:
Room 3200C
700 Royal Avenue
New Westminster, BC V3M 5Z5
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Christine Dewar
Phone: 604-527-5690
Email: dewarc@douglascollege.ca
Office: #3200B
Courses Taught: THEA 1130, THEA 1230, PEFA 1102, PEFA 1101
Areas of Expertise: Theatre History; Performing and Fine Arts
Education: BA, Honours English; and MA, English, University of British Columbia
Published Works:
"Hitting the Road." Event. Volume 29. Number 1. 2000.
"Home and Away." Event. Volume 27. Number 3. 1999.
"Vigilance and Balance." Event. Volume 26. Number 3. 1997.
"Secret Rituals." Event. Volume 25. Number 2. 1996.
"Ancestral Voices, Inner Voices." Event. Volume 24. Number 3. 1995.
"Green Thoughts and Worms." Event. Volume 24. Number 2. 1995.
"Snakes and Ladders: Charting the Journey of the Soul." Event. Volume 24. Number 1. 1995.
"Filling Empty Spaces." Event. Volume 23. Number 1. 1994.
Links:
- Event Magazine
- The Amelia Douglas Gallery
- Certificate in the Performing and Fine Arts
Christine Dewar completed both her BA and MA Degrees at the University of British Columbia. Her passion for Theatre History was ignited while studying with historian Peter Loeffler. Christine performed in plays and films at UBC and wrote arts reviews for The Ubyssey. She directed Here We Are by Dorothy Parker, and Cubistique by Tom Cone.
Christine has had a long association with the award-winning Douglas College literary journal, Event, where she currently works as Fiction Editor and writes fiction reviews. She has also been active with the Amelia Douglas Gallery, curating a range of art exhibits in including: Valerie Romain, Deep Water; Michael Downs, Mythologies; Sharalee Regehr, Women of Substance and, most recently, Joe Rosenblatt, Magic Gardens. Her recent public lectures include "Sarah Siddons and Edmund Kean: Two Actors in the Age of Jane Austen." Christine has been teaching at Douglas College since 1987. She believes her mission is to encourage all students to see live theatre, dance, music and art, and to explore history as a rich resource for their own creative work. All of her courses are open to University Transfer students seeking imaginative arts electives.
Cheryl Swan
Phone: 604-527-5279
Email: swanc@douglascollege.ca
Office: 3249
Courses Taught: Theatre 1110, 1111, 1171, 1180, 1211, 1271, 1280, 2311, 2380, 2480 and PEFA 1120
Area of Expertise: Speech/Voice and Movement
Education: National Voice Intensive, Simon Fraser University, Voice for Actors/ Instructors. Bachelor of Education, Drama Major (degree with distinction) University of Alberta, 1983; Bachelor of Fine Arts, Acting Major (degree with distinction), University of Alberta (Schocter Award in Drama - 1982)
Professional Associations: Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance, Voice and Speech Trainers Association.
A native Edmontonian, Cheryl received her degrees from the University of Alberta's BFA (Acting) and Education faculties. An actor, teacher and theatre administrator, Cheryl has many theatre, film, and television credits to her name. She has taught voice, movement, and acting at a number of institutions including Victoria School for the Performing Arts, the Citadel Theatre, Theatre Network, Grant MacEwan Community College, and the University of Alberta, all in Edmonton; and UBC and Douglas College here in Vancouver. Cheryl just finished her fifteenth year of teaching at Douglas and her fourteenth as Program Co-ordinator. She teaches voice, movement, and acting and directs one or two productions each year. Her most recent directing credits at Douglas include Most Massive Woman WIns and Louis and Dave; Unity (1918); Kindertransport; A Sense of Place; A Clockwork Orange; Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; Ten Lost Years; The Diviners; Quiet in the Land and Agnes of God.
Allan Lysell
Phone: 604-527-5281
Email: lysella@douglascollege.ca
Office: Room 3253
Courses Taught: THEA 1110, THEA 1210, THEA 2310, THEA 2410, THEA 1180, THEA 1280, THEA 2380, THEA 2480 and PEFA 1120
Areas of expertise: Acting including Acting for the Camera, Directing, Theatre History
Education: BA (Theatre and English), BEd (British Columbia), Certificate in Arts Administration (Harvard). Allan has taught at Douglas College since 1994. After leaving UBC Allan worked as a professional actor in Vancouver and on tour throughout BC and the rest of Canada. He was a writer for network television and has written documentaries, TV dramas and sketch comedies, and a feature film. In 1974 he co-founded Northern Light Theatre in Edmonton and guided that company through the first eight years which included the establishment of a Playwright's Workshop and two seasons of Shakespeare in a Tent. Allan was General Manager of Theatre Lennoxville in Quebec before returning to Vancouver to open an acting school; the Arts Club Drama Centre. Allan has worked extensively in film and television with credits in feature films, TV Movies of the Week, episodic TV, voice-overs and commercials. Allan has directed over a dozen productions at Douglas College including Frankenstein, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Our Country's Good, Mariner, Italian-American Reconciliation, Love's Fire, and The Good Woman of Setzuan. Recent film and television projects include feature film Rogue and Rat Race, and episodes of Stargate SG1, Cold Squad, Mysterious Ways and Poltergeist.
Professional Associations: ACTRA, Union of BC Performers, Writer's Guild of Canada, Actors Equity Association.
Roger Holdstock
Courses developed and taught: currently: PEFA 1116 (Introduction to Film Studies), PEFA 1216 (Canadian Film Studies); formerly: "Novel into Film: The Art of Adaptation," "Screenwriting," "Poetry, Novel, and Film," and earlier courses in Introduction to Film Studies and Canadian Film at Langara College. Also taught "Creative Writing: Poetry" and a range of English department courses.
Education: Film Diploma Program, University of British Columbia M.A. & PhD, English Literature (Medieval), University of California, Davis Dissertation: "The Origins of Subversive Literature in English" researched at Oxford Bodleian and Cambridge University Libraries.; BA, English and Communications, California State University, Los Angeles
Teaching Awards: Association of Canadian Community Colleges 1992 Teaching Excellence Award; Langara College 2004/2005 Teaching Excellence Award.
Publications: (sampling) Editing the Moving Image (handbook developed for Provincial Curriculum); The View From Here (anthology of essays) Langara Press; poems: "lecture" (in Wormwood Review and A Government Job at Last), "L.A." (Wormwood Review); song: "Westcoast Lullaby" (recorded on This Old World).
Public Lectures: "Here's Looking at Us" (on Canadian film--2005) and "Cinema of Quebec" (2006) at the Vancouver Public Library.
Recordings: CDs recorded with the group Fraser Union: Hello, Stranger; From There to Here; This Old World, B.C. Songbook: Songs of Canada's West Coast.
As witnessed by the recordings, Roger Holdstock's extra-curricular life has included performing with a group called Fraser Union for many years. They have performed at Seattle Folklife, the Islands Festival, national conferences, as well as countless other venues, including the 30th anniversary of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival in 2007, and again in 2008.
Roger Holdstock's background includes a PhD. in Medieval English literature after growing up in Los Angeles (and studying in England). Then, after immigrating to Vancouver he studied film production, history, criticism and screenwriting at UBC---go figure. During 30 years of teaching at Langara College he developed five courses in film (from introductory appreciation to screenwriting). The screenwriting course included collaboration with Studio 58 actors and a professional film director. Now he is very happy to have initiated film studies courses at Douglas College (PEFA 1116 and PEFA 1216) and has a special interest in promoting Canadian film.
Roger's courses are fully transferable to universities and are open to all students at Douglas College. They can be a good stepping-stone toward further film studies, including film production or writing for film. On the other hand, film courses are by nature inter-disciplinary in their inclusion of social history, technological development, art movements, and national/popular culture. These courses are for everyone.
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Jared Burrows
Courses Taught: PEFA 1136 Inroduction to Music
Areas of expertise: Jazz Performance, World Music, Composition, Music Education, Music Business, Arts Administration
Education: Ph.D. in Arts Education Simon Fraser University (2004) Master of Music in Jazz Studies University of Oregon (2000) Doctoral Studies in Composition University of Oregon (1997-1999) Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music) Simon Fraser University (1996) Diploma in Commercial Music Capilano College (1992)
Jared Burrows is a guitarist, composer, educator, and record producer. Burrows leads the Jared Burrows Trio, co-leads the East Van Jazz Orchestra with Brad Muirhead and is involved with many other ensembles as a freelance player in the Vancouver area and in Oregon including: the indo-jazz fusion band Ta Ki Ta, gypsy jazz group Djangophilia, the chamber-improv groups Sukha Trio and Knotty Ensemble, British saxophonist Len Aruliah's Quartet, Burrows/Clark 4, and the Chinese music/jazz fusion group Koan. With these and many other bands he has performed extensively on the concert stage, festivals, radio and television throughout Canada and the USA. He has also worked as a studio player, mastering engineer and producer on local projects and operates the independent record label Third rail Music. Jared is the Artistic Director of the very successful South Delta Jazz Festival and South Delta Jazz Workshop. He also directs ensembles at Delta Community Music School and during the summers is on faculty at the Stanford Jazz Workshop at Stanford University. Apart from performance and composition, his research interests are in music education, Sufi and Taosit philosophy, and cognitive theory applied to improvised performance. He has presented his research at conferences and seminars in Canada, the US and the UK and recently completed a term as President of the College Music Society Pacific Northwest Chapter.
Websites:
- http://jaredburrows.com
- www.myspace.com/jaredburrowstrio
- www.southdeltajazzfestival.com
- www.ta-ki-ta.com
Publications:
Burrows, J. (2007) Community Music education programs: working hand in hand with school teachers. British Columbia Music Educators Journal, Summer 2007. Vancouver, BC: BCMEA Press.
Burrows, J. (2007) Reflections on playing and teaching. British Columbia Music Educators Journal, Spring 2007. Vancouver, BC: BCMEA Press.
Burrows, J. (2004) Musical archetypes and the collective conscious: cognitive distribution and improvised music. Critical Studies in Improvisation (inaugural issue). Guelph, Ontario: University of Guelph Press.
Burrows, J. (2003) Confronting existential questions: the benefits of free improvisation in jazz pedagogy. IAJE Jazz research proceedings 2003. Kansas: IAJE Press.
Conference Papers and presentations:
College Music Society National Conference 2007 presentation: "Developing Community-based Music Initiatives". Nov. 15-18, 2007, Salt Lake City.
College Music Society Pacific Northwest Conference 2007 presentation: "Developing Community-based Music Initiatives". February 16-17, 2007, Boise State University.
College Music Society Pacific Northwest Conference 2006 performance: tabla/guitar duo performance with Terry Longshore. February 18-19, 2006, Douglas College.
College Music Society National Conference 2005 invited panel member, "Considering Curricular Challenges: Balancing Emerging Student and Cultural Demands with Traditional Teaching and Learning" Quebec City, QC, Nov. 2005.
Creative Music Think Tank invited panel member. Vancouver Creative Music Institute, Vancouver
Community College, Vancouver, BC, June 27, 2005.
College Music Society Pacific Northwest Conference paper: Balancing Curricular Demands for the 21st Century. Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon. Feb. 12, 2005.
Imaginative Education Research Group Conference 2004 lecture/workshop: Imagining a New Music Education: Learning Through Improvisation. Vancouver, BC. July 14-17, 2004.
International Association of Jazz Educators Conference 2003 paper: Confronting Existential Questions: the Benefits of Free Improvisation in Jazz Pedagogy Toronto, Jan. 9-12, 2003.
Northwest Philosophy of Education Society Conference "Astonishing Silences" paper: Confronting Existential Questions: the Musical and Educational Benefits of Free Improvisation. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Oct. 2003.
Intellectual Frontiers of Music Conference paper: Confucian Philosophy and the Jazz Improviser.
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland. Jun. 2002.
Investigating Music Performance Conference paper: Confucian Philosophy and the Jazz Improvisor.
Royal College of Music, London, UK. Apr. 2002. College Music Society Northwestern Conference paper: Confucian Philosophy and the Jazz Improviser. Feb. 2002.
