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
Art History
On March 18, Candice Hopkins, chief curator and executive director of Forge Project, will discuss the challenges and possibilities of curatorial practice today. Presented in collaboration with the MAC, this lecture is part of ongoing reflections on the museum’s major renovation and reopening. The event also marks the launch of Concordia’s new Graduate Microprogram and Graduate Certificate in Curatorial Studies.
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
Join Prof Heather McLaughlin on March 21 for Harnessing Emotions to Inspire Climate Action, a free public workshop exploring how to identify, process, and channel climate-related emotions into meaningful action. Hosted by Concordia’s Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, this event supports the university’s Sustainability Action Plan by highlighting research on sustainability and social change.
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.
FOFA Gallery
The FOFA Gallery and the Grantham Foundation invite you to Shadow Collection: Chemical Intimacies in the Museum and Archive, a lecture by Kirsty Robertson, winner of the 2024 Research in Visual Arts award, on March 13. The talk will explore the hidden chemical interactions within museum and archive spaces.
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.
Research-Creation
Hosted by Meghan Moe Beitiks and a team of researchers, Angles of Consequence, a site-specific solar performance exploring climate accountability through art, activism, and design will take place on March 19.
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 1 to 4.
