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A Scoping Review: Sensory Interventions For Older Adults Living With Dementia, Leigh Hayden, Christina Passarelli, Susan Shepley, William Tigno

Publications and Scholarship

This scoping review focused on the existing scholarly literature exploring sensory interventions and immersive environments developed for, and used by, older adults living with dementia. The purpose of the scoping review is 1) to understand the various sensory interventions that have been developed, used, and have provided data to show how such interventions are expected to impact the lives of individuals living with dementia; and 2) to understand how the field is moving forward. We chose to map the literature to understand the types of interventions, the types of outcomes measured, and the contexts of their implementation. Our search was …

The 3d Acid Test: Perceptual Attributes Vs Renderable Elements, Kathryn Wehrle

Publications and Scholarship

The Romantics artificially embellished light and colour to convey emotion in their artworks. Light and colour were used to ignite a sense of enchantment and to stir an emotional response from the viewer. 3D software operates within this established visual tradition: current digital artistic representation involves a similarly embellished reality. This is a testament to what we continually want to see and how we would like to be visually entertained and informed, and physically based 3D renderer Arnold provides the tools for this continuation. Inherent in the world’s most-used 3D rendering programme Arnold are light and surface attributes which have …

Emergent Fiction, Brandon Mcfarlane

Publications and Scholarship

The sixty-four works of emergent fiction of 2015 evidence several noteworthy transitions in Canadian prose. While it is admittedly problematic to discuss the novels and collections of short stories as some form of unified whole, several patterns emerged that merit highlighting and demand critical attention because they represent new directions for Canadian fiction.

The texts mark the arrival of a new wave of literary experimentation that embraces risk-taking and the pursuit of novelty as fundamental characteristics of good art and great storytelling. The featured texts created wonderfully new ways to tell stories by inventing narrative techniques or breaking with generic …

Foodwork Or Foodplay? Men’S Domestic Cooking, Privilege And Leisure, Michelle Szabo

Publications and Scholarship

Market research documents a rising passion for cooking among men. Yet, some feminists argue that men see cooking as ‘leisure’ in part because they have distance from day-to-day care obligations. However, empirical research on men’s home cooking is still limited. This article investigates the relationship between cooking and leisure among 30 Canadian men with significant household cooking responsibilities. Drawing on interview, observational and diary data, and poststructural conceptualizations of leisure, I ask, to what extent do these men understand cooking as leisure and why? Opposing the notion that women’s cooking is ‘work’ and men’s, ‘leisure’, I find that these men …

The Music Man, February 15 – 26, 2005, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Once a flautist and piccolo player for John Philip Sousa's famous marching band then turned NBC radio orchestra conductor, Meredith Willson would spend many an evening entertaining dinner guests with whimsical stories of his childhood in Mason City, Iowa. Amongst his closest friends was Broadway composer-lyricist Frank Loesser (Guys and Dolls) who encouraged Willson to develop his stories in written form. The result was Willson's 1948 best-selling memoir And There I Stood With My Piccolo. The subsequent 1957 Broadway classic The Music Man was based on the memoir. The Music Man presents many technical challenges that have prevented Theatre Sheridan …