Three Concordia alumni shared the stage with Mick Jagger when the Rolling Stone hosted Saturday Night Live in New York in May. Members of the Grammy Award-winning band Arcade Fire, Sarah Neufeld, BFA 03, and Richard Reed Parry, BFA 03, both hold a music degree, specializing in electroacoustic studies, and Régine Chassagne, BA 98, is a communications studies graduate.
Yung Chang - photo by Wang Shiqing
Yung Chang, BFA 99, recently released his second documentary, China Heavyweight. A Globe and Mail film critic wrote that Chang "shows himself to be one of our great young cinéma-vérité directors." Both this and his critically acclaimed debut film, Up The Yangtze (2007), were produced by EyeSteelFilm, co-founded by Cinema faculty member Daniel Cross.
Two undergraduate students whose pioneering research work has been recognized around the world were chosen as Concordia Great Graduates of 2012. Drawn to the university for its electroacoustic studies program, Julian and Max Stein, BFA 12, created the Montreal Sound Map.
Film production graduate Chloé Robichaud, BFA 10, was a finalist for the 2012 Short Film Palme d'or award at the Cannes Film Festival. It was her third Cannes entry in as many years. Read more about her.
Contemporary Dance alumni Andrew Tay, BFA 10, and Sasha Kleinplatz, BFA 04, were hired to choreograph the Cirque du Soleil's summer show Chemins invisibles in Quebec City, in which other alumni will perform.
Montreal International Design Show
Undergraduate students from the Department of Design and Computation Arts got to show off their newfound chops at the Montreal International Design Show. Known as SIDIM, the high-profile show attracts some 20,000 industry folks, consumers and journalists from around the world.
The 2012 valedictorian for the Faculty of Fine Arts comes from the Department of Art History. Successful singer/musician -- and 2012 Great Graduate -- Felicity Hamer relishes art history, saying it's like detective work, and is going to pursue an MFA in the field.
Concordia has been well-represented at this year's St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival, a celebration of independent theatre, dance and music. The festival director is Amy Blackmore, a Contemporary Dance alumna, and many other Concordians were involved.
Nearly a quarter of the artists and curators featured in an exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) are Studio Arts and Art History alumni and faculty. MASS MoCA's Oh, Canada will showcase works by artists from across the country until April 1, 2013.
Ida Zhang
Armed with a new BFA in Art Education, Ida Zhang is heading to Asia this summer to begin the one-year teaching position she earned from JET, the Japan Exchange and Teaching program. Zhang, who was chosen as one of the university's Great Graduates of 2012, also won the Art Education Prize for her leadership and academic achievement.
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