Grab your favourite beverage, sit back and enjoy our Creative Coffeehouse on Zoom as we feature a variety of musical, spoken and creative acts. The coffeehouse begins at 7:00 p.m ET on Friday, October 16. (Are you located in a different time zone? Find out when to watch in your local time here.)

 

Part of Virtually Canada’s Best Homecoming, the Coffeehouse is your chance to celebrate Homecoming 2020 with the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, the Don Wright Faculty of Music and the Faculty of Information & Media Studies. The virtual coffeehouse features collaborative performances from alumni, students, and faculty, including a curated performance by Ivan Coyote, Western’s Alice Munro Chair in Creativity.

 

A live talkback with Lisa Henderson, Dean, Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Michael Milde, Dean, Arts & Humanities and Betty Anne Younker, Dean, Don Wright Faculty of Music will follow the performances. Our emcee will be David Simmonds, BA’07, Homecoming Chair and Visiting Professor at Western's School of Advanced Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

 

• Nicole Bellamy, MMus’01 (Collaborative piano) with Tracy Cantin, MMus’11 (Voice)
• Sydney Brooman, BA’18 (Creative Writing/ English)
• Kelly Bylica, PhD’20 (Music Education)
• Basil Chiasson, Assistant Professor in FIMS
• Ivan Coyote, Alice Munro Chair in Creativity
• Quincy Doenges and Andrew Busch – current Music students (Percussion)
• Mina Gerges, BA'16 (FIMS - Media & the Public Interest)
• Philip Glennie, MA’07, PhD’12 (English)
• Jennifer Hale, BA’08 (English)
• Antony Hare, BA’98 (Philosophy/ Economics)
• Camille Intson, BA’19 (English/ Theatre Studies)
• Dorothy Lin, HBA/BMus’20 (Violin)
• Chad Louwerse, MMus’01 (Voice – Opera)
• Heidi Jacobs, MLIS'16
• Louise Pitre, BMus’79, DMus’06 (Music Education)
• Jessica Sherman, BMus’02 (Voice) with piano accompaniment from Peter Cavell, BMus’04 (Piano)
• Sharon Sliwinski, Professor & Associate Dean, Faculty of Information & Media Studies
• Gabriella Solti, MFA’14 (Visual Arts) and Tegan Moore, MFA’14 (Visual Arts)
• Hannah Sung, FIMS Spring 2020 Asper Fellow