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Congratulations Ted!

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Doris Hutton Auxier, Associate Professor of Art at Trinity Western University and Jeff R. Warren, Assistant Professor of Music at TWU have collaborated again. This time, along with interdisciplinary artist, Suzanne Northcott, their pieces make up the exhibit Transformation and Memory – Endangered Spaces showing at the Evergreen Cultural Center in Coquitlam, July 16 to September 18, 2010, with a public opening reception on Sunday, July 18 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

The first exhibition of their work, Bog: Transformation and Memory, was a group engagement in response to the vulnerable and newly protected site of the Langley Bog (Fort Gallery, August 2009). Now the trio is furthering their exploration of protected spaces to include an intimate reflection on the Colony Farm environment in Coquitlam.

“The real interest is in the manner the works of three artists interact, shedding light on each other’s work,” says Warren of the heightened experience of collaboration.

Doris Hutton Auxier's two groups of work include a series of paintings of small pieces of sphagnum and other organic material isolated and expanded to fill entire canvases, and a mixed media series called Insertions and Intrusions that address the uneasy sociopolitical issues that surround the protected areas of Colony Farm and the Langley Bog.

The photography and paintings of Suzanne Northcott investigate how things are reflected in each other to expose or transform memory and nature. For example, Northcott photographs original furnishings from Riverview (hospital gurney, stool) in select areas at Colony Farm. By doing so, she links these histories and allows the viewer to contemplate their relationship and the often “inarticulatible” space in between.

Addressing concerns surrounding acoustic ecology, Jeff R. Warren’s site-specific sound installation examines the effects of music and sound on ecosystems. A live, interactive soundscape created using drops of water allows viewers to alter the sounds by interacting with the piece.

The Art Gallery at Evergreen is located at 1205 Pinetree Way in Coquitlam City Centre. Gallery hours are 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Saturday.

Author: Jennifer Watton
Email: media@twu.ca
Originally posted at twu.ca

TWU's MBA Students Encounter Values-Based Curriculum

When you buy a heater or air conditioner, you probably don’t expect your money to go toward micro-loans for businesses in the developing world. But that’s exactly what happens when customers purchase heaters at Jerry Braun’s company, Complete Heating and Air Conditioning Ltd., in Abbotsford, BC. Braun, a student of TWU’s School of Business MBA program, set up a website where customers can donate a percentage of their purchase to a charity of their choice.

"The idea of my corporate social responsibility website came from working in classes with professors Rick Goossen, and Murray MacTavish,” explains Braun. “We were talking about the principle of tithing in relation to business—how businesses should probably give a percentage of the profits they earn back to the community.”

Braun’s MBA stream, Management of the Growing Enterprise, focuses on social entrepreneurialism—creating sustainable businesses that not only make money, but also contribute to social good and positive change. “It is difficult,” says Braun, “because we are all challenged to think of how a Christian would run a business.”

TWU’s MBA program, launched just two years ago, offers streams in entrepreneurship, international business, and non-profit management. TWU is one of only two universities in Canada to offer the non-profit stream.

Paul Goodyear ’09, a graduate of the non-profit stream and a member of the MBA’s first cohort of students, is cfo and corporate secretary for The Salvation Army in Canada. “When I first started working in the non-profit sector, its business models were considered second-rate,” explains Goodyear. “Sitting in a program that recognizes the uniqueness and complexity of non-profit organizations and examines the issues from a Christian worldview is invigorating.”

Goodyear completed the program while still working, as the entrepreneurial and non-profit streams can be completed part-time in 22 months. The international stream—a full-time program—takes 12 months to complete. “Our program is designed with a working person in mind,” explains MacTavish, Director of the MBA program. “Our professors work with students’ actual projects for their companies, and the project development helps every student in the class engage different work scenarios.”

Christian leadership and ethics are the main curricular focus in all of the streams. “We are the only Christian values-based MBA program in Canada,” says MacTavish. “This education is essential, because leading in business is always values-driven, and leaders are making ethical decisions, good or bad, all the time.”

Written by J.J. Hutcheson '08
Originally published in Trinity Western Magazine

Trinity Western University is pleased to welcome Dr. N. T. Wright, prominent New Testament scholar and Bishop of Durham (Church of England), on November 16-17, 2010, for the Distinguished Lecturer Series.

To find out more about his visit and details of his speaking events, visit the NT Wright project page.

TWU alumna Kaylee Harwood won the Sam Payne Award for Most Promising Newcomer at the 2010 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. This prestigious award honours an emerging artist within three years of professional debut, and is open to playwrights, stage managers, and designers, as well as performers.

“Having my name read aloud on the same stage honoring the artists who are part of the reason I do this, humbled and utterly floored me,” says Harwood. “It was an amazing evening capping off the absolute whirlwind of the last year and a half.”

That whirlwind began immediately after finishing classes in December, 2008. Kaylee went directly from Mr. Pim Passes By at Chemainus Theatre Festival, into the role of Cosette in Les Miserables at Vancouver’s largest professional company, The Arts Club Theatre. This acclaimed production was followed by a school tour of a new Canadian play with Shameless Hussy Theatre, the role of Eliza in My Fair Lady at Western Canada Theatre in Kamloops, playing Johanna in Sweeney Todd at The Citadel in Edmonton, and then coming home to be part of A Year With Frog and Toad at Vancouver’s Carousel Theatre.

Kaylee also received a second Jessie at the event for Ensemble Performance in A Year With Frog and Toad, which also won Outstanding Production in the Theatre For Young Audiences category.

Harwood continues a legacy of TWU success at the Jessie awards that was begun by her former instructor, Angela Konrad, who won a Jessie in 2007 for outstanding direction. Konrad, chair of TWU’s theatre department, is proud of her former student. "Kaylee Harwood is a superstar,” she says. “She's got the whole package. She can sing, dance, act, and audition. And more importantly, she's a lovely human being so people like working with her.”

Harwood, while excited about what the future brings, is also thankful for the opportunities she has been given. “The teaching and mentoring I received at TWU was fantastic preparation for my professional career,” she says.

TWU’s new BFA in Acting is sure to create such opportunities for many more in the future. As part of the School of the Arts, Media and Culture (SAMC), this professional actor training program welcomes its first students this fall.

"We've had a great acting program at TWU for a several years and Kaylee is a proud result,” say Konrad. “With our new BFA in Acting, we will become even stronger, providing the credentials that the industry demands while continuing to develop well-rounded theatre artists like Kaylee."

Visit the twu.ca/samc to learn about more TWU successes at the Jessie Awards.

Author: Caleb Zimmerman
Email: media@twu.ca
Originally posted at twu.ca