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Addressing Disparities: A Study Of Service And Resource Gaps For Bipoc Community Members In Hamilton And The Surrounding Area, Michelle Scott

Capstone Research Posters

This research investigates the challenges faced by the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) community in Hamilton, Ontario, with a focus on hate crimes, social support, and access to community resources. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, data was collected through surveys administered to twenty-five BIPOC individuals, parents/guardians of BIPOC children, and social service providers. Findings reveal a significant surge in reported hate crimes targeting specific communities, highlighting the urgent need for comprehensive action to address discrimination and promote inclusivity. Moreover, the study identifies gaps in awareness and utilization of community resources among BIPOC individuals, underscoring the importance of culturally sensitive …

Sanctuary Support, Flora Chubbs, Dan Tarakanov, Jonathan Cheung

Egypt Migrations Partnership and Comparative Immigrant Experiences

Our StoryMap, Sanctuary Support, showcases the importance of religion and places of worship for immigrants, and demonstrates how religiosity contributes to facilitating a smooth integration into newcomers’ adopted cultures. Religion is a powerful aid that can help to ground us in our identity, morals, spirituality, and community. Firstly, we delve into Canada's immigration history, exploring how faith-based organizations have played a crucial role in meeting the burgeoning demands of support for newcomers during immigration waves. Through secondary sources, we researched what types of support are available currently and how these pertain to immigrants’ needs. Finally, in our Case Studies: Fostering …

The Healing Power Of Art: Navigating Identity And Belonging, Shenqui Huang, Jingzi Ruan, Liuhan Dong, Christina Sun

Egypt Migrations Partnership and Comparative Immigrant Experiences

After choosing the theme artwork, our group tried to explore its connection to immigrants from various perspectives. After researching different immigrants and receiving suggestions from peers, we focused on “The Healing Power of Art”. In this project, we found 7 artists who originated from Egypt, Greece and Judea who became Canadian immigrants at different phases of time and tried to compare their experiences and how they use art as a power to heal themselves or others.

Preserving Cultural Harmony: Music's Role In Connecting Communities, Justin Marton,, Hudson Steele, Ahmed Khawaja

Egypt Migrations Partnership and Comparative Immigrant Experiences

This project tells the story of different ethnic groups and their relation to their cultural heritage through music. It goes over the roots of their music, and the stages of immigration to Canada and how they’ve adapted this music to their new environment.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

This 11-time Tony Award-winning masterpiece follows SweeneyTodd, a man with a mysterious past, hungry for vengeance against the judge who destroyed his life. Joining forces with Mrs. Lovett, a proprietress of a failing pie shop, they develop a spine-chilling plot to exact revenge. With a soaring score by Stephen Sondheim, this musical is full of drama, dark comedy, terror, and romance…and is sure to leave you hungry for more.

Director: Avery-Jean Brennan*
Choreographer: Greg Carruthers*
Music Director: Robertx

In Studio: The Words And Music Of Britta Johnson, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Director: Kaylee Harwood*
Writer/Composer: Britta Johnson
Music Director: Adam Sakiyama
Mentor: Robert McQueen*
Set Designer: Denise Lisson
Costume Designer: Katrina Carrier
Lighting Designer: BC Batty
Choreographer: Krista Leis
Sound Designer: Anna-Marie Grant
Projection Designer: Sean Nieuwenhuis

He Is Coming
As her neighborhood undergoes gentrification, 92-year-old portrait artist Irene prepares to move out of her home. As she packs her belongings, the paintings on her walls come to life and she reflects on and recollects memories and important moments in her life.

The Last Broadcast
The show is live on air and the ladies of The Beat are covering the hot …

Candlewood Lake, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Inspired by the real Candlewood Lake in the Hudson Valley, a hotbed of UFO activity in the 1980s. This musical follows a UFO-obsessed Cindii who dreams of being abducted by aliens. Under the watchful eye of a sceptical community, she is in search of a reason to stay in town. Asking (and perhaps answering) the big question “Are We Alone?”, Candlewood Lake is an exploration of strength in community and the lengths we go to find meaning and belonging.

Director: Denise Yvette Serna
Music Director: Oli Jackson
Writer: Carol Grose
Composer: Tim Phillips

Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

This play with music is a dark comedy that begins after an apocalyptic event has left the world void of electricity. Every moment a struggle for survival, people turn to storytelling for entertainment to distract them from the cataclysmic horrors they have endured. Set over the course of 75 years, Mr. Burns explores how stories and myths evolve over time all while recounting the adventures of the most famous family on TV, the Simpsons.

Director: Mitchell Cushman
Choreographer: Nicola Pantin
Music Director: Adam Sakiyama

Enchanting!, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

The Grimm family take a trip to Fableburg, which is, at first glance, a quaint, quiet, German town, perfect for writing stories and negotiating film deals...or so we thought. When the Grimms discover a sinister plot of greed permeating through the town, they race to save Fableburg and its inhabitants and must ultimately decide on what really matters to them.

Director: Jordan Laffrenier
Music Director: Benjamin Kersey
Writer: Liana Del Mastro
Composer: Darnell Thomas

Urinetown, The Musical, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

In a Gotham-like city, a 20-year drought has caused a terrible water shortage. This has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity's most basic needs. Amid the chaos, a hero emerges and decides he's had enough. It's time for a revolution that will lead them all to freedom!

Director: Herbie Barnes
Choreographer: Monica Dottor
Music Director: Stephan Ermel

The Sheridan Art Hive Initiative: Supporting Wellness, Edi And Sustainability, Kirsten Abrahamson

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Jesus Christ Superstar, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

This rock opera, loosely based on the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, follows the last week of Jesus Christ’s life and explores the personal relationships and struggles between Jesus, his followers, and the Roman Empire. Seen through the eyes of Judas Iscariot, this musical has thrilled audiences for over fifty years.

Director: Saccha Dennis
Choreographer: Nicola Pantin
Music Director: Alexandra Kane

Social Media “Ghosts”: How Facebook (Meta) Memories Complicates Healing For Survivors Of Intimate Partner Violence, Nicolette Little

Publications and Scholarship

This paper contributes to feminist conversations about algorithms and design justice by examining ways Facebook’s (Meta) Memories affordance, when it draws on previously posted photographs of abusive former partners, is problematic for gender-based violence (GBV) survivors. With analyses drawn from semi-structured interviews with twelve “survivor-users” and a walkthrough of Memories’ settings to better understand what opportunities users have to control this function, this paper finds that Memories triggers survivors, makes their abuser seem inescapable and reduces survivors’ sense of agency, among other challenges to their well-being. By extending abusers’ intimidation back into survivors’ lives, Memories unintentionally supports perpetrators’ aims: to …

Hearts + Minds Knowledge Round Up: Co-Creating Civic Connections For Indigenous And Black Young People In Peel, Esrah Akasha, Shamas Berantuo, Alex Hansen, Yasmin Hashi, Michella Mark, Fallon Melander, Abigail Salole

Hearts + Minds

This knowledge round-up addresses the question: What ought to be prioritized by non-profit organizations for meaningful civic connections for Indigenous and Black young people? The answer to this question is our Hearts + Minds theory of change mapped out in this paper.

Turn The Page: Three Musical Shorts, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Three Musical Shorts

Written by Kevin Wong with Julie Tepperman
Director: Julie Tomaino*
Writer: Kevin Wong
Choreographer: Jera Wolfe
Music Director: Chris Tsujiuchi
Set Designer: Brian Dudkiewicz
Costume Designer: Barbie Rowe
Lighting Designer: Logan Cracknell
Sound Designer: Tim Lindsay

Recurring John: A Song Cycle
What is the impact of a life?

A mother sings a lullaby to her child. A teacher imparts 'wordly wisdom' upon a student. A tired lawyer eagerly awaits the chance for a promotion. A man recounts his emotional journey on his wedding day. A homeless park dweller fondly recounts the lives of passersby. These disparate lives …

Twelfth Night, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

A musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. An empathetic happiness-drenched and turned upside down Illyria, that celebrates and asks us to "see though the eyes of another, hear through the ears of someone else".

Happy End, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Happy End is a musical about capitalism, spiritual and gang-land armies, and theatre. Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s attempt at a follow-up to the very successful Threepenny Opera follows the romance between a Salvation Army worker and gang leader and features the exquisite Surabaya Johnny, Bilbao Song and Mandalay Song. While seeming familiar to fans of Guys and Dolls, Happy End pre-dates it by 21 years and is fuelled at once by Brecht’s desire to dismantle political structures and Weill’s music that drives narrative structure and character. Overshadowed by Threepenny Opera, Happy End is a “young” musical, a …

Head Over Heels, April 13–14, 2022, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

A joyous mashup adaptation of Sir Philip Sidney’s 16th Century prose pastoral romance ARCADIA and the iconic music of the 80’s all-ARCADIA and the iconic music of the 80’s all female rock band THE GO-GO’s.

Director: Bobby Garcia
Choreographer: Stephanie Graham

Loop Advertisement: Corporate Interior Design Proposal, Uyen Nguyen, Katrina Nunes

Featured Student Work

Loop Advertising is a marketing agency whose goal is to bring equity, diversity, and inclusivity to advertisements. They offer a wide range of services and primarily work with some representative banks in Canada such as TD, to assist them in embracing diversity in their advertisements. The design concept for Loop Advertising is centered around the progress flag. This flag is a reinterpretation of the 6 colour pride flag to include people of colour. Our design goal was to celebrate marginalized communities who are typically underrepresented in the media. Each colour of the flag along with its meaning is incorporated it …

Novus : Coworking Space. Cafe. Retail, Vidhi Nandasana

Interior Environments-Commercial Spaces

The core idea for the thesis is based on adaptive reuse of a historically valuable gem " Distillery District" and transform it into a coworking space, cafe, and a pop-up retail shop. The most crucial challenge of the design is to create a sustainable interior space inspired from concepts like biophilia and biomimicry, achieving all by using the most ecofriendly construction materials. Entire space has lots of natural elements and vegetations to create a natural looking space. the furniture and art selection has been done from lots of local Indigenous artists to support their art. All the client requirements were …

Dance Pieces, February 22nd - 28th, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Working Title
The process: it's a moment, but the end is worth it. When twelve talented humans come together...magic is made.

Choreographer: Shakeil Rollock

The Chorines
Inspired by the chorus girls of the 1940's, this new dance work will feature hyper-synchronized choreography, while honing the individual expressions of the performers as they pay homage to some of the most memorable female stage performers of the chorus girl era.

Choreographer: Natasha Powell
Composer : Waleed Abdulhamid

First Drafts, February 2022, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Sheridan’s new works development program, First Drafts, is a platform that champions writers creating original musicals that break away from the Western canon of Musical Theatre. Each installment of the initiative supports three teams of writer/composers to generate 30 minutes of a new musical to be developed with and performed by Sheridan’s fourth year students. This writing development program perfectly encapsulates Sheridan’s dual interest in training exceptional musical theatre performers, and using our resources to create an engine for producing a more diverse canon of work, one that speaks to the issues we’re facing presently, and represents the stories of …

Casimar & Caroline, January 26th - 30th 2022, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

This fresh adaptation of an already shockingly contemporary 1932 text opens on a flamboyant office party, where we meet employees and bosses engaged in the absurd and toxic behaviours demanded by capitalism as they attempt to survive the corporate and social hierarchy.

The party becomes a slow-mo disaster in hilarious, enraging and heartbreaking fashion. See how these emerging performers, already so conscious of the drastic changes needed in today's world, will explore, mock, challenge, question, sympathise with, and skewer these characters, as they dance-dance-dance the night away.

Director: Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster

Concord Floral, January 12-16, 2022, Theatre Sheridan

Theatre Sheridan Productions

Concord Floral was first produced in 2014 by Suburban Beast and presented by Why Not Theatre at the Theatre Centre (Toronto, ON). It was written by Jordan Tannahill and developed over a three-year period with Erin Brubacher, Cara Spooner and a group of teenagers from across the Greater Toronto Area. The original production was created and directed by Erin Brubacher, Cara Spooner, and Jordan Tannahill.

Director: Philip Akin*

Coworkists, Aishwarya Kulkarni

Interior Environments-Commercial Spaces

The final thesis commercial project was a complete commercial interior designing package. The final presentation of this thesis book met the interior decorating field standard and was presented to a client in a digital format. The book has a strong and professional appearance. The project starts with the research phase; that includes the investigation of the project area including site location, demographics, and neighborhood, understanding the client and their interaction with the built environment, client target market, gathering planning data as a comprehensive source for the Planning & Design phase, concept development process. The second phase includes schematic design development …

Arts Participation In Canadian Older Adults During Covid-19, Kate Dupuis, Emma Bender

Arts Participation in Canadian Older Adults

Arts participation can be incredibly beneficial for the health and well-being of older adults. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many arts organizations were unable to provide in-person activities, and moved to alternate forms of program delivery. We examined whether and how Canadian older adults continued participating in the arts during the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. A 28-item survey was completed by 141 individuals (M = 70.5 years, range = 55-94, 66% female). Although the majority of respondents (70%) were engaging in the arts during the first wave of the pandemic, their engagement had declined compared to …

55 Mill Street, Junrong Yu

Interior Environments-Commercial Spaces

The main idea of this design is to create an elegant, artistic, eco-friendly space. All materials used are sustainable. In selecting wood, glass, and other materials, the focus is on durable products. In terms of color selection, beige, pink, green, orange, etc., are used in this design to match the red brick wall of the building itself. The overall style of this design is contemporary. The work area in Building One is minimalist, keeping the entire work environment clean and tidy. Many plant elements and natural elements are applied to this area to maintain the natural atmosphere.

Interior Environments - Commercial Spaces, Meiyi Sun

Interior Environments-Commercial Spaces

The project's central idea is to create a work and recreational space that incorporates natural elements and an artistic atmosphere. Additionally, it is the source of the project's name: art + nature= arture. The two structures will stimulate visitors' appreciation for art and the environment.

Barriers And Facilitators To Arts Participation In Older Adults, Kate Dupuis

Arts Participation in Canadian Older Adults

Despite a growing literature showcasing the benefits of arts participation for older adults, data on potential barriers to participation are limited. A survey was developed to assess key facilitators and barriers to participation in the arts in Canadian older adults. One hundred and ninety-four residents of Ontario, Canada aged 55 years+ completed the survey. Almost half of the participants (45%) were participating in the arts, with the most common activities in the domains of visual arts and dance. Barriers to participation included lack of interest in available programs, cost, and not wanting to participate alone. Facilitators to participation included a …

Interior Environments - Residential Spaces, Meiyi Sun

Interior Environments - Residential Spaces

The clients are looking to redesign their space with an elegant, contemporary, and sophisticated feel. The design must be both practical and aesthetically pleasing. They are particularly attracted to the "Parisian Style." Particularly, 19th- and early-20th-century architectural details were combined with contemporary elements. The entire design utilizes a clean and delicate colour palette, where simple lines and intricate details are combined.