- UTA 0302-3-3.2
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- 17 Dec 2019
Transcript of oral history interview with Julie Mathien conducted by Ruth Belay.
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Transcript of oral history interview with Julie Mathien conducted by Ruth Belay.
Audio recording for oral history interview with Bill Gardner conducted by Ruth Belay.
Transcripts for oral history interview with Bill Gardner conducted by Ruth Belay, one edited, one verbatim.
Audio recording of oral history interview with Norman Kwan conducted by Ruth Belay and Daniela Ansovini.
Digital audio recording of oral history interview with Tom Mathien conducted by Ruth Belay.
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.
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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.
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Digital audio recording of oral history interview with June Larkin conducted by Ruth Belay and Daniela Ansovini.
Transcript of oral history interview with June Larkin conducted by Ruth Belay and Daniela Ansovini.
Photographs of SHREW article taken during oral history interview.
Portraits and photograph of Rochdale alumni card taken at the interview.
Transcript of oral history interview with Sean Wharton conducted by Ruth Belay.
Transcript of oral history interview with Ike Okafor conducted by Ruth Belay.
Part of Michael Colgrass fonds
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).
Workshops and other educational appearances
Part of Michael Colgrass fonds
Series consists of notes and scripts used for various workshops led by Michael Colgrass, and select recordings of these workshops.
ISRN, ONRIS, PROGRIS website backups – 2002-12-09
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.
Part of Ian Hacking fonds
Part of Ian Hacking fonds
Part of Ian Hacking fonds
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.
Part of Ian Hacking fonds
Drafts and research notes for Why is there philosophy of mathematics at all?
Part of Ian Hacking fonds
Part of Ian Hacking fonds
Part of Ian Hacking fonds
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.
Part of Ian Hacking fonds
Part of Ian Hacking fonds
Part of Ian Hacking fonds
Part of Ian Hacking fonds
Part of Ian Hacking fonds
Part of Ian Hacking fonds
Personal and professional records
Part of Victor Feldbrill fonds
Series consists of correspondence relating to Victor Feldbrill's conducting career, and other personal and family records.
Biographical material and photograph
Part of Victor Feldbrill fonds
Part of 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
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
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
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
1960s interviews [digital files]
Part of Judith Skelton Grant fonds
2002-14 interviews Fraser [digital files]
Part of Judith Skelton Grant fonds
Part of Judith Skelton Grant fonds
Programs, posters, and other ephemera
Part of Gallery 345 fonds
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.
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.
Brereton, Mary
Master class with Lawrence Brownlee, tenor : question and answer period
File consists of recordings from the question and answer period with Lawrence Brownlee, tenor, as the John R. Stratton Visitor in Music (October 6-8, 2020). Event recorded in Walter Hall and live-streamed on the Faculty of Music's YouTube channel.
Art song master classes with Denyce Graves
File consists of a program from the master classes, which were livestreamed on the Faculty of Music's YouTube channel. Denyce Graves was a John R. Stratton Visitor in Music.
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:
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:
Part of 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.
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