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Oral history interview with James Nugent conducted by Ruth Belay

Dr. James Nugent, currently Lecturer at the University of Waterloo, received his undergraduate degree in 2006 from UTSC and continued with his graduate work at UofT’s St. George Campus. Nugent shares his early experiences of student activism and involvement at UTSC, particularly through Resources for Environmental and Social Action (RESA), while also reflecting on the larger societal and political shifts following 9/11. Nugent remarks on the unique student environment at UTSC, noting events, initiatives, as well as the cross-cultural learning he experienced there. In describing his participation in the anti-globalization movement and peace action, through to his later work on climate justice and social policy, Nugent discusses the impact of service learning and community engagement in education. He reflects on the pressures faced by current students and questions how these will shape youth activism, as well as considering the effects of social media and the breadth of issues in which students are engaged both here and abroad.

Organizations

  • Resources for Environmental & Social Action (RESA)
  • International Development Studies Association (IDSA)
  • University of Toronto Scarborough College (UTSC)
  • Grrl Fest, University of Toronto Scarborough College
  • The Meeting Place, University of Toronto Scarborough College

Subject Topics

  • Anti-globalization movement
  • Protests and demonstrations
  • Anti-war movement
  • International development studies
  • Fair trade
  • Climate / environmental justice
  • Community partnerships
  • Social media
  • International students

Oral history interview with Ikem Opara conducted by Ruth Belay

Ikem Opara, currently Director of National Learning Partnerships at the Rideau Hall Foundation, was an international student at UofT’s St. George campus. His active involvement at the University included executive roles with Black Students’ Association (BSA), playing Varsity football, and membership in organizations such as the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the African Students’ Association and the Nigerian Students’ Association. Opara describes the personal impact that these organizations had in forming deep social connections, while emphasizing throughout the interview their commitment to create spaces of belonging on campus that reflected both racial and ethnic identities. He recounts many of the BSA’s and Alpha Phi Alpha’s activities, including mentorship initiatives, talks, social events, and discusses their underlying goals, particularly regarding the strategic use of space to highlight Black presence at the University. He reflects on the BSA’s engagement in issues such as representation within curriculum and broader community activism around police violence in the city, while also reflecting on challenges faced at UofT.

Organizations

  • Black Students’ Association (BSA)
  • High School Conference, Black Students’ Association
  • BLACKLIGHT, Black Students' Association
  • African Students’ Association (ASA)
  • Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (AΦA)
  • Nigerian Students’ Association (NSA)
  • Tan Furu
  • UofT Korean Students’ Association (UTKSA)
  • Hart House, UofT

Subject Topics

  • Acculturation
  • Varsity sports
  • Mentorship
  • Equity in education
  • Community engagement
  • Solidarity networks
  • Social networks
  • Food
  • Organizational memory
  • Institutional response
  • Institutional racism
  • Funding of student groups

Photographs

Series consists of professional portraits of Michael Colgrass, as well as photographs from workshops, concerts, and rehearsals, and family photographs. Series includes photographs of Colgrass in Stuttgart when he was a timpanist with the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra (1955-1956); from his time in Copenhagen for the performance of his Rhapsodic Fantasy by the Danish Radio Orchestra conducted by Tamas Vetö (1965); from his Fort Wayne Residency (1972); of his rehearsals with the Canadian Brass for Flashbacks (1979); from a production of Colgrass' "Something's gonna happen" at Duggan Jr. High School in Edmonton, Alberta (1982); from rehearsals of Chaconne with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis (1984); neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) workshops, particularly at the Dynamic Learning Center at NLPU in Santa Cruz, California (1987); workshop at University of New Mexico (1988); at Longmeadow High School and Springfield Public School in Massachusetts (1992); University of Manitoba workshop (1997); and Winona Drive School workshop (1999).

Interview with Leighton Harrell conducted by Hillary Chu

Item is a video recorded interview between Rosemonde Desjardins (interviewer, representative of FoMARA) and Leighton Harrell (interviewee). Leighton Harrell is a bassist and composer from Raleigh, North Carolina, currently attending the University of Toronto's Jazz Performance program. Leighton has held a biweekly residency at Poetry Jazz Cafe with his quartet since 2019. He has also performed at venues such as The Toronto Jazz Festival, the Kensington Market Jazz Festival, and Toronto Meridian Centre for the Arts. As a composer and artist, Leighton draws inspiration from hymns and spirituals, folk music, and various traditions of Black American Music. Leighton and Hillary's conversation covers topics including Black AMerican Music, colonialism, cultural appropriation, performative diversity, and music pedagogy.

Interview with Ricardo Ferro conducted by Rosemonde Desjardins

Item is a video recorded interview between Rosemonde Desjardins (interviewer, representative of FoMARA) and Ricardo Ferro (interviewee). Ricardo Ferro is a Venezuelan-Canadian composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Toronto, Ontario. As an emerging composer, Ricardo has written music for and worked with North American ensembles and performers such as the Calidore String Quartet, Oakville Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Younggun Kim. He has written award-winning music for film and theatre for the Sundeis Film Fastival in Boston and the National Theatre School Festival in Canada. In 2019, Ricarod co-founded the Green Room Sound Collective, a contemporary music organization dedicated to the creation and performance of new dramatic and multimedia works of music, and is currently their artistic director. Ricardo is currently pursuing a degree in composition at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. Ricardo and Rosemonde's conversation covers topics including eurocentrism in music, music pedagogy, Black Lives Matter, and representation.

Interview with Tara Kannangara conducted by Hillary Chu

Item is a video recorded interview between Hillary Chu (interviewer, representative of FoMARA) and Tara Kannangara (interviewee). Tara Kannangara is a vocalist and instrumentalist known for her diverse sound. She is a Juno-nominated artist, and holds a degree in Jazz studies from the Unviersity of Toronto. Tara has performed across North America at venues including the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and New York City's Jazz Gallery. Tara is currently a sessional teacher at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Music's Jazz program. Tara and Hillary's conversation covers topics including assimilation, gender disparity, music pedagogy, racial inequity, and systemic discrimination.

Reviews

Sub-series consists of reprints and digital drafts of reviews written by Hacking. The subject of the reviews focus largely on the philosophy of science, logic, and objectivity.

A Sept 2012

Drafts and research notes for Why is there philosophy of mathematics at all?

Articles

Sub-series consists of reprints and digital drafts of articles written by Hacking. Records span his early career to the 2000s and cover topics including statistics, logic, categorization, natural kinds, psychological trauma and disease.

Lawrence Hill Papers

Includes drafts, research, correspondence and other material related to The Book of Negroes, including the screenplay for the televised series and the illustrated edition; interviews for Black Berry, Sweet Juice; notes, drafts, proofs, copy-editing and other material for The Illegal (early title ‘Underground’) forthcoming novel Fall 2015 (fourth novel and tenth book); personal and professional correspondence; appearances; extended family material; awards; photographs; notebooks; community activities; short pieces, including ‘Africville Forever’; Karen Hill’s Café Babanussa; research, various drafts, proofs and appearance material related to The Massey lectures: Blood: the Stuff of Life; The Deserter’s Tale; and other material related to the life, work and family of Lawrence Hill.

University of Toronto Students' History Collective fonds

  • UTA 1897
  • Fonds
  • 2016-2019

Fonds consists of promotional materials, budgets, planning files, grant applications, and draft website content for the University of Toronto Students' History Collective (UTSHC), documenting the activities of this undergraduate-led club. Also included are raw and edited video files of an on-camera oral history interview of Margaret MacMillan and an HTML file of the group chat amongst members from Facebook Messenger.

University of Toronto Students' History Collective

Howard Engel Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00779 (Downsview Offsite)
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1945-2019

Collection contains personal and professional papers relating to Howard Engel. These papers contain extensive material on the novels,
books, screenplays, playscripts and radio episodes of Engel. This notably includes drafts for all fourteen novels in the Benny Cooperman series, many including prolific drafts with holograph and editorial revisions. Also included in the collection are extensive drafts for Engel’s final Cooperman novel, Over the River, which was slated to be published in both 2016 and 2018 but was eventually cancelled by the publisher, along with the complete drafts for two unpublished Benny Cooperman novels, and partial drafts and outlines for three additional novels. In addition to his fictional writing, the archives include poetry, articles, reviews, and drafts and proofs for his works of non-fiction. In particular, there are extensive drafts for the memoir of his 2001 stroke, The Man Who Forgot How to Read, the book was originally intended as an autobiography and several earlier drafts exist which detail Engel’s childhood, adolescence and adulthood. During the process of recovering from his stroke, Engel became acquainted with Oliver Sacks, who would later pen an article on Engel in The New Yorker and would go-on to write the afterword of Engel’s memoir. Their extensive correspondence, along with several drafts of Sacks is also present. In addition to material related to Engel’s professional career as a writer, including photographs and press clippings, as well as speeches given over the course of several decades. Engel’s career as a journalist, writer and producer at the CBC is well-documented through scripts and research written or produced by Engel, which is further augmented by audio tapes and reels. The personal life of Engel is well-documented through a nearly complete set of diaries dating between 1991 and 2019, with additional diaries dating from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1980s, as well as photographs, mementos and through correspondence of a personal and professional nature. The collection contains manuscripts written by other writers, often sent to Engel for feedback or as gifts, this includes drafts or proofs from Kildare Dobbs, Mavis Gallant, Eric Wright and Jack Batten.

Engel, Howard

Judith Skelton Grant fonds

  • UTA 1302
  • Fonds
  • [197-]-2017

Fonds consists of research compiled by Grant for her book, A Meeting of Minds: The Massey College Story (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015), documenting the history of Massey College from its inception in 1962-63 through to 2013. Includes interview recordings, interview transcripts, extensive research files (chronologically, 1959-2017; and by subject), correspondence, publishing files, and manuscript drafts. Interviewees include many prominent members of the University of Toronto and Massey College community including Robertson Davies, Claude Bissell, John Evans, John Fraser, Ann Saddlemyer, (J.N.) Patterson Hume, Vincent Tovell, Geoffrey Massey, and Ed Safarian, amongst others.

Grant, Judith Skelton

Programs, posters, and other ephemera

Series consists of programs and posters from concerts held at Gallery 345, as well as thank you cards and notes from performers, and building plans for the gallery space and building (345 Souraren Ave., Toronto, Ontario). Series also includes a USB thumb drive (173 MB) with archived files from the Gallery 345 website, including performance announcements, program information, and performer biographies.

Mary Brereton fonds

  • UTA 1108
  • Fonds
  • 2013, 2023

Two Word files about the Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry [MPC] course in the Faculty of Arts & Science, compiled by Mary Brereton, BSc 6T3, MA 6T5.

  1. 50th Anniversary Celebrations in 2013, article by Mary Brereton written in 2013 speaking to the 50th anniversary of the Lash Miller building and the graduation of the MPC class of 6T3
  2. Memories of MPC 6T3 Grads: Collected after 60th Anniversary Celebrations, June 2023
    • Includes 3 group photographs from the reunion.

Brereton, Mary

U of T Opera spotlight on diversity

File consists of a program from the concert, rescheduled from March 26, 2021, which was curated by Korin Thomas-Smith.

Program:

  • Azan on a Toronto streetcar / Alex Sandoval (Elias Theocharidis, tenor ; Sandra Horst, piano)
  • Introduction (Korin Thomas-Smith
  • Don Giovanni. La ci darem la mano / W.A. Mozart (David Walsh, tenor ; Luke Noftall, baritone ; Andrea Grant, piano)
  • L'hiver attends beaucoup de moi. Ah, les murmures / Laurence Jobidon (Lindsay Conolly, mezzo-soprano ; Andrea Grant, piano)
  • L'amant anonyme. Ah! Quel trouble m'agite! /Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (Noelle Slaney, soprano ; Angelo Moretti, tenor ; Alex Matthews, baritone ; Andrea Grant, piano)
  • Cask of Amontillado. First scene / Julia Perry (Nicholas Higgs, baritone ; Andrea Grant, piano)
  • A Bayou legend. Now they will be coming to the tree / William Grant-Still (Melissa Danis, soprano ; Sandra horst, piano)
  • Troubled island. I dream a world / William Grant Still (Korin Thomas-Smith, baritone; Andrea Grant, piano)
  • Noli me tangere. Act 3, scene 2 / Felipe Padilla de Leon (Renee Fajardo, mezzo-soprano ; Danlie Rae Acebuque, baritone ; Andrea Grant, piano)
  • Ernestine. O, Clemagis / Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (Juliana Krajcovic, soprano ; Sandra Horst, piano)
  • Tearless. Excerpts / Robert Owens (Parker Clements, baritone ; Sandra Horst, piano)
  • Margaret Atwood Songs. Memory / Tania Leon (Sacha Smith, soprano ; Sandra Horst, piano)
  • Night / Florence Price (Alex Hetherington ; Andrea Grant piano)
  • Patience and Sarah. I want to live , I want to paint / Paula Kimper (Melissa Danis, soprano ; Alexandra Fee, mezzo-soprano ; Sandra Horst, piano)
  • Patience and Sarah. Finale / Paula Kimper (Heidi Duncan, soprano ; Alessia Vitali, mezzo-soprano ; Sandra Horst, piano)
  • I will lift up mine eyes. I will lift up mine eyes / Adolphus Hailstork (Elias Theocharidis, David Walsh, Angelo Moretti, tenors ; artists of U of T Opera ; Sandra Horst, piano).

Celebrating our diversity : the road home

File consists of a program from the concert, presented by Voice Studies at the University of Toronto. The concert was broadcast online.

Program:

  • Linstead market / Traditional Jamaican mento song, arr. Anne Louise-Turgeon, inspired by Miss Lou (Gabrielle Turgeon, soprano ; Anne Louise-Turgeon, piano ; Corinne Turgeon, cello)
  • Ninveh / William Dnaiel (Janelle Yausif, soprano ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano)
  • Pari Arakil / Aleqsey Heqimyan, Ashod Krashi (Taline Yeremian, mezzo-soprano ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano)
  • Becha = Spring / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Aleksey Pleshcheyev (Dasha Tereschenko, soprano ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano)
  • Drei jiddische Lieder, op. 53. Margaritkelech ; Mejdl in di Johren / Viktor Ullman (Carly Naimer, mezzo-soprano ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano)
  • Marie / Ron Hynes (Megan O'Donnell, soprano ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano)
  • Le Le Yaman / Komitas Vardapet (AlexaFrankian, soprano ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano)
  • Steal away / Traditional African-American spiritual, arr. Harry T. Burleigh (Ineza Mugisha, soprano ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano)
  • Over the rainbow / Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg (William Salinas-Crosby, tenor ; Narmina Efendiyeva, piano).

Jo Beverley Papers

This accession of Jo Beverley’s papers includes manuscript drafts for A Lady’s Secret (2008), The Secret Wedding (2009), The Raven and the Rose (2014), The Viscount Needs a Wife (2016) and other writing drafts; research and other files for novels; promotional materials; correspondence; personal documents including drawings; memorabilia; contracts; royalties; audiobooks; and a USB hard drive containing thousands of files; and other material relating to her life and work.

Contains series:

  1. Manuscripts
  2. Research and other files relating to novels
  3. Promotional materials, reviews, book covers
  4. Correspondence
  5. Personal documents and memorabilia
  6. Contracts and royalties
  7. Audiovisual and other files
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