Art Matters
North America's largest student-run arts festival celebrates its 25th birthday this year! Running until March, the festival features 11 events showcasing over 50 artworks by undergraduate artists from Concordia.
SPRING SHOWS
2025
Art and design exhibitions, film festivals, vernissages, concerts, theatre shows and dance performances – this year, students in Concordia's Faculty of Fine Arts will present their end of year work in many different forms. We'll update this page as new events pop up, so be sure to visit often to catch all the creative work being produced by our fine arts students.
Exhibitions
Design
Nodes.Noeuds, the 2025 Design & Computation Arts Annual End of Year Exhibition will take place at the end of April.
Design
A ____ Design Show: 14 Master’s Students Present Their ____ Work is a three-day exhibition showcasing the research-creation projects of the 2025 Master of Design (MDes) cohort at Concordia University, presenting work across disciplines such as graphic, interaction, accessible, industrial, and game design, as well as urban planning. Running from April 24–27, 2025, on the 7th floor of the EV Building.
Lectures & Special Events
Art History
On April 4, the doctoral forum will unite faculty and students from the Interuniversity Program (Concordia, UdeM, UQAM) to foster intellectual exchange. Each student will present and discusse their research-in-progress, with this show made possible in part by the Bronfman Fellowship.
Creative Arts Therapy
Celebrate Mother’s Day with us while supporting a program that is changing lives in the community! Friends 4 Hope is hosting a fundraiser for the Centre for the Arts in Human Development on May 11.
Contemporary Dance
On March 26, attend The Mary Ann Beckett-Baxter Memorial Lecture on Decolonizing the Concept of Indian Classical Dance with Anurima Banerji, PhD.
Design
On March 27, Pippin Barr, Professor and Chair of the Department of Design and Computation Arts, will give a lecture titled "It is as if I make games." Hosted by Conversations in Contemporary Art and the Dead_Pixels series, organized by the Intermedia (Video, Performance, Electronic Arts) Program, Barr will discuss his game design research over the past decade and a half.
Interdisciplinary Sustainability Symposium
In.site2 and Sustainability Across Disciplines is a free, multi-event symposium running from March 17 to 21, hosted by the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Arts and Science. With presentations, workshops, films, and exhibitions, the event explores innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to sustainability.
Studio Arts
CRUST - Ceramics Reimagined Using Sustainable Techniques is a free panel discussion on March 17, featuring artists Linda Swanson, Teresa Dorey, Daniel Gillberg, and Loriane Thibodeau. They will present their work using ceramics while emphasizing sustainability through local, recycled, and renewable materials.
Performances
Contemporary Dance
From March 13 to April 4 the Department of Contemporary Dance presents multiple shows.
Theatre: Short Works
The Department of Theatre presents Short Play Fest, an evening of student-directed short plays running from March 27 to 30. Facilitated by Mindy Parfitt, the festival showcases 10–15 minute plays by published playwrights.
Theatre: Site-Specific Project
The Department of Theatre presents Site-Specific Project, a devised work conceived and curated by Shauna Janssen. Exploring memory and haunting through site-specific performance, the production runs April 10-12 at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Reservations required; tickets by donation.
Theatre: Oresteia
The Department of Theatre presents Oresteia, Robert Icke’s bold adaptation of Aeschylus’s classic trilogy, directed by Leslie Baker. Running April 9-12.
Film screenings
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
The Concordia Film Festival (CFF) is a student-run, non-profit festival that runs in collaboration with Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema (MHSoC) at Concordia University. Through screenings and events, we are able to display the works produced by the diverse range of filmmakers at MHSoC, and invited works from filmmakers around the globe. Running May 8 to 11.
