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Come see Jasper’s exhibit in the #uvicvisualarts building A111 (across from the Audain Gallery) until October 17.
Congratulations Jasper on winning the @audainprize Travel Award!!!
Jasper van Alderwegen is an artist born and based on unceded Lekwungen and WÁNEĆ Territories also known as Victoria, BC. His practice explores abstraction, illusion, and multiplicity as they shape modern identity and social structure under late-stage capitalism, typically working through painting and sound. His process emphasizes experimentation and inexpert handling, using traditional methods imperfectly to foreground spontaneity, contradiction, and emergence. His recent oil paintings abstract and destabilize the visual language of heraldry and vexillology.
Reimagining the blazon as a vessel for uncertainty and hope rather than authority, these works undermine the promise of fixed identity and legibility. Soft geometry, misaligned grids, wandering lines, erasures, and provisional marks replace stable symbols, allowing new forms to emerge that remain open, contradictory, and unknowable. This approach extends into sound installation, where musical notation becomes a form of drawing and scores operate as visual and spatial structures. By diluting and reinterpreting inherited systems of order, van Alderwegen’s work acknowledges history while holding space for ambiguity and utopian possibility. @vanalderwegen
Filmed by @artshay :)
#uvicarts #uvic #uviclife #uvicgrad taken in University of Victoria, Visual Arts by @uvicarts

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It's back! Our amazing behind-the-scenes open house and information session!

Curious about studying theatre? Come explore everything UVic Theatre has to offer!

Tour our THREE theatres, discover our professional-level costume, scenery and props shops, and get a glimpse into life in the Department of Theatre, guided by our amazing current students.

Watch a professional director in action during a live rehearsal of our upcoming mainstage production, The Cherry Orchard. Then enjoy a FREE pizza lunch and mingle with cast, crew, faculty and current theatre students!

I Want to Be in Theatre Open House
Saturday, October 24
11 AM - 3 PM

More info and register by Oct 20: phoenixtheatres.ca/openhouse
or check out the link in our bio

#theatredegree #BFA #UVIC #uvictheatre #yyjarts @bcdrama

Photos @kalyanstudios taken in University of Victoria by @uvicarts

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Did you know Fine Arts offers a wide range of creative electives open to all students in any faculty? And we host over 300 cultural & scholarly events throughout the year — from concerts, plays & readings to exhibits, talks & film screenings — most of which are free for #UVic students to attend?

Enjoy some free pizza & connect with Fine Arts Indigenous Resurgence Coordinator Karla Point + staff/faculty when she hosts the latest in this weekly networking series held at UVic’s First Peoples House.

This event is free & open to all students: if you’ve never been inside First Peoples House before, it’s a great chance to visit it!

#uvicarts #uvicstudent #uviclife taken in UVIC First People's House by @uvicarts

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How did a Hungarian architect shape the iconic skyline of interwar Shanghai? ️✨

Join us for László Hudec in Interwar Shanghai: Architecture, Migration, and Cultural Exchange, an afternoon exploring the life and legacy of one of Shanghai's historical architects.

The program includes a screening of Episode 3 of the documentary L. E. Hudec (2024), directed by Qing Chen, followed by presentations from three guest speakers. An exclusive post-event viewing of original Hudec archival materials in Special Collections will also be available.

UVic has a special connection with Hudec and his legacy: UVic Libraries stewards the Hudec archives, generously donated by his family.

📅 Date: Tuesday, October 20

⏰ Time: 2:45 pm - 4:30 pm PDT

📍 Location: Mearns Centre for Learning / McPherson Library, Room 210 (2nd Floor)

🎟️ Admission: FREE!

Please register at capi.uvic/events

This event is co-hosted by the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, the Centre for Global Studies, and the Office of Global Engagement, with special thanks to UVic Special Collections & University Archives.

#UVic #CAPI #LászlóHudec #ArtHistory #GlobalStudies by @uvicarts

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The BFA grad class presents Where Do We Begin?, the first show of the year in The Mezzanine (Visual Arts Building). Every two weeks, a new show will take place on the upper floor of the VA Building, featuring a rotating selection of works from our graduating class.

Featuring five artists’ explorations into the human experience, Where Do We Begin? delves into questions surrounding the familiar and alien, the curiosity that binds us as humans, and the ways in which we seek to explain and interpret the world around us. Through personal experiences of friendship, religion, environment and culture, each work offers a unique perspective and opportunity for viewers to consider these themes for themselves.

Callie Clissold-Hoyle, Rhaine Lyon, Michelle Butterfield, Julie Lacasse, and Sadie Pollock Shepherd provide works that showcase their skills both technically and conceptually. Featuring a combination of painting, sculpture, and print - from representative to surreal - Where Do We Begin? reflects our curious human nature back at us.

Where Do We Begin? runs from October 13th-24th on the second floor of the the Visual Arts building, open daily 8am-10pm. taken in University of Victoria, Visual Arts by @uvicarts

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Listen to a sneak peak of the Katarina String Quartet preparing for their UVic debut in the Phillip T. Young recital hall! You can hear them this evening at 8pm performing works ranging from Haydn to Beethoven to Fung. by @uvicarts

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We are pleased to announce that Shary Boyle ( @magiclanterns ) will be joining us for a guest lecture on October 28, at 5-6:20 PM. The event will be taking place in room A120 of David Turpin Building, Uvic.

Free and open to all!

@uvicarts @uviclegacygalleries @artgalleryvic
#uvicvisualarts #uvic #artistlecture #art by @uvicarts

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Come see Jasper’s exhibit in the #uvicvisualarts building A111 (across from the Audain Gallery) until October 17.
Congratulations Jasper on winning the @audainprize Travel Award!!!

Jasper van Alderwegen is an artist born and based on unceded Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ Territories also known as Victoria, BC. His practice explores abstraction, illusion, and multiplicity as they shape modern identity and social structure under late-stage capitalism, typically working through painting and sound. His process emphasizes experimentation and inexpert handling, using traditional methods imperfectly to foreground spontaneity, contradiction, and emergence. His recent oil paintings abstract and destabilize the visual language of heraldry and vexillology. Reimagining the blazon as a vessel for uncertainty and hope rather than authority, these works undermine the promise of fixed identity and legibility. Soft geometry, misaligned grids, wandering lines, erasures, and provisional marks replace stable symbols, allowing new forms to emerge that remain open, contradictory, and unknowable. This approach extends into sound installation, where musical notation becomes a form of drawing and scores operate as visual and spatial structures. By diluting and reinterpreting inherited systems of order, van Alderwegen’s work acknowledges history while holding space for ambiguity and utopian possibility. @vanalderwegen

Filmed by @artxshay :)
#uvicarts #uvic #uviclife #uvicgrad taken in University of Victoria, Visual Arts by @uvicarts

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🎻 An exciting quartet, and a homecoming!

We’re thrilled to welcome the award-winning Katarina String Quartet to UVic for their debut performance! 🌟

Winners of the 2025 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition Grand Prize, this dynamic young ensemble is making waves across North America with performances that bring fresh energy and perspective to the string quartet tradition. They’ve recently completed a two-year residency at The Juilliard School and are now Quartet in Residence at the New England Conservatory.

Their program travels across more than 200 years of music, from Haydn and Beethoven to the vibrant sounds of Canadian composer Vivian Fung’s Spiraling and the traditional Acadian folk tune L’Acadien d’Acadie. And there’s a special connection to UVic: first violinist Jeanel Liang is a School of Music alumna! 💛

📅 Thursday, October 15 | 8 PM 📍 Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, UVic 🎟️ Pay What You Can: $14–$38

#UVic #stringquartet #yyjarts by @uvicarts

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Happening this week ➡️➡️➡️

MFA exhibit: Jasper Van Alderwegan (Oct 11-17) in VISU A111

CSRS talk – Oct 15
Why would Benedictine monks commission an illuminated Bible to address post-modernism? Join CSRS Associate Fellow and AHVS PhD candidate Jessica Ziakin-Cook to find out.
https://events.uvic.ca/event/111862-illuminating-post-modernism-contemporary-catholic-art

The no-tech Offline Club is back! Run by Writing professor Deborah Campbell, the Offline Club meets 4-6pm Tuesdays weekly in the Kula Lounge (1st floor, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library). The Offline Club offers students the chance to gather and spend time without their devices: hang out, read a book, meet people—conversation is encouraged but not required. Learn to unplug, be present, talk to others, read and write without constant disruption, and escape the infinite scroll. Inspiration comes from real life. Details here.

The Taqsiqtuut | Indigenous Research Creation Lab in the Visual Arts building is once again hosting their Just Bead It workshops for students from 12-2pm Tuesdays through December. Starting Oct 13, these free weekly sessions are drop-in and open to all in Visual Arts room A134.

Victoria Festival of Authors
Oct 12-18 • Various venues, various prices

Among the dozens of authors participating in Victoria’s annual literary festival are Writing professor Danielle Geller plus MFA alumni Neil Griffin, Garth Martens, Hannalora Leavitt & Sara Cassidy, plus Theatre/Writing alum and busy instructor Mark Leiren Young — but not all on the same event, so check the schedule for their times and talks.

Orion Series: author Lisa Robertson
7:30pm Tues, Oct 13 • Fine Arts room 103 • Free
Poet Rae Armantrout will lead a conversation with Canadian author & poet Lisa Robertson focused on Robertson’s new novel Riverwork, which explores women’s labour & textile politics on the now-disappeared Bièvre River in Paris. A Canadian poet, essayist and novelist, Lisa Robertson now lives in France and has published 9 books of poetry, most recently Boat (2022), two books of essays — Nilling (2012) & Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (2003) — plus a novel, The taken in University of Victoria, Visual Arts by @uvicarts

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Happy to announce our first concert of the 2026/27 season this Friday, October 16th at 8:00pm! Come see an electric mix of works exploring the natural sound force of the wind symphony! Featuring works by Alfred Reed, John Mackey, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Peter Meechan, and more!

Free tickets for UVic students!

Livestream available on the UVic Fine Arts website!
finearts.uvic.ca taken in The Farquhar at UVic by @uvicarts

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⁉️ Did you know that parts of the new series Private Eyes West Coast starring Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson was filmed in and around UVic and Victoria?

⁉️ And did you know that Sarah Dodd, one of the showrunners of the program, which airs on Global TV, is a UVic grad, who received her BA in writing in 1995?

⁉️ ANNNNNNND that Jason Priestley’s mom, Sharon Mason (née Kirk), is also a UVic grad, and acted in a number of Phoenix Theatre productions before graduating in 1964?

Now you do!

@uvicalumni @uvicarts @uvichumanities @uvicwriting @globaltv @lionsgatecanada @phoenixtheatreuvic by @uvicarts

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