Cartooning certificate draws out artists in con-ed students

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…

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Toronto Palestine Film Festival's revolutionary art shines through dark times

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…

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Does your personality affect your academic success?

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…

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The Best Brothers is a universal story filled with dark humour

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…

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Former GBC Theatre students are ‘jerks’ enough to make their own play

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…

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