Anthony Harrison currently teaches the Cartooning 1 course which has been running for the past 16 years at George Brown College (GBC). The course has slowly developed into a cartooning certificate program offered by continuing education today. Harrison is a self-taught artist, “My love of art was initially, really, comics and cartoons. That’s what I…
You are waiting for the elevator on the ground floor, while you have your class on the seventh. The elevator bell rings, the doors open and you hear the machine saying, “going down.” What will you do in such a situation when you’re at George Brown College (GBC) these days? I will not speak for…
This is the 65th anniversary of the tragedy of the Nakba, the 20th anniversary of the Oslo Accord, the 47th day of John Greyson and Tarek Loubani’s detention by Egyptian police without charges and the 6th annual Toronto Palestine Film Festival and all of these are deeply connected. The Toronto Palestine Film Festival began on Sept.28…
“Diversity Matters at George Brown College,” is a new campaign by the diversity, equity & human rights services (DEHRS). The campaign launched on Sept. 19 at the School of Design building, consists of a video and a 2013- 2014 school year calendar featuring 17 George Brown College (GBC) students. The students were asked to respond to three…
George Brown College’s (GBC) School of Hospitality and Tourism Management offers a special event planning (SEP) program, a two year diploma, where students are introduced to the world of social and corporate events. Students are educated on how to organize events ranging from birthdays and bar mitzvahs to corporate events and golf tournaments. Students are taught…
Whether you are a social extrovert or a quiet introvert, according to studies, can have an impact on a student’s academic performance. The academic performance and success rates of students, revolves around the question of extraversion and introversion and whether personality types have an impact. According to a study by Extraversion and Introversion in Canadian…
Next door to George Brown’s Casa Loma campus, Tarragon Theatre opens its 2013-14 season with the Toronto premiere of The Best Brothers, written by Daniel MacIvor, one of Canada’s best known playwrights, and directed by the award-winning Dean Gabourie. MacIvor shares the stage as an actor with Nova Scotian John Beale who was involved in his previous…
He didn’t even know the rules of baseball four months back. Now he is on the George Brown College’s (GBC) varsity baseball team. Maninder Singh Ajmani, 28, who is studying marketing management – financial services at GBC, is a big sports buff. “I actually used to hate baseball, it seemed so slow. I was like,…
The Huskies basketball team took on Toronto Police on Friday at St. Jams campus’ Alex Barbier Gym. And they won quite comfortably. George Brown College (GBC) always had a hold on the game, leading by 46-27 at half time and finishing with a final score of 90-56. Rookie John Cadough was the top scorer for…
A team of former George Brown Theatre School students “with a passion for creating high-energy, unpretentious and above-all fun theatre” managed to raise $6,000 for their show called ‘Callaghan! And the Wings of the Butterfly’ through the online funding platform Indiegogo. This March marked five years since they started their company Sex T-Rex which evolved…
The “Taking It Back” campaign launched in Allan Gardens on Sunday, Sept. 22 by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). The campaign demands the city expropriate buildings left empty by landlords, make the necessary repairs and turn it into viable social housing for the neighbourhood. They point to the past to show its been done before. OCAP’s Gaetan…
Hands over hoops! Watch the video to find out who owned the game George Brown College’s Select Team vs. Street Ball Kingz, which took place on Sept. 12 at St. James’ Alex Barbier Gym.
