ALC Festival – Spring 2020

Live Events

Emergent celebrates and shares the achievements of graduating students in the Arts Literature and Communication Program as they present their work to their peers and the broader Dawson Community. The theme for this year鈥檚 ALC festival was imagined pre-pandemic. Initially the title Emergent was intended to reference our graduating students as 鈥榚mergent鈥� and also to recognize our urgent need for political action: last fall鈥檚 global 鈥淪trike for Climate Change鈥� was foremost on our minds. The pandemic has added another layer of meaning, as it now also describes our students鈥� work as emerging from Covid isolation. By exhibiting the works of ALC students in their respective fields, our festival showcases their accomplishments, hard work and talent, and also speaks to their commitment to make change in their worlds, to be present and to make their voices matter.

We would like to offer our gratitude to staff, students, teachers, administrators and community members for making this festival possible.

Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture Pamphlet Download

Literature

Under more "normal" circumstances, as part of their Integrating Activity course, graduating students of the Literature Profile write a 10-page paper and deliver these major, end-of-term projects at the Literature Profile Conference during the ALC Festival. Sadly, no such conference is being held this year due to the pandemic. The 2020 graduating cohort of Literature Profile students have all worked hard at completing their end of term projects for Liana Bellon's IA class despite the distancing, and we are proud to present a selection of students' excellent papers in the 2020 edition of the Creations Journal.

This year's group of indefatigable student editors of Creations also brings you a beautiful selection of creative writing in all shapes and sizes, some composed for their Creative Writing classes. They invite you to join them at 5pm on Friday the 29th as they launch the journal with live readings from contributors on Zoom! Please also visit the instagram account of Andrea Strudensky's Creative Writing class for a collection of micro-essays straight from the heart.

We hope you emerge from these readings inspired!

Pauline Morel, profile coordinator, Literature

Live Event

Creations Live Zoom Launch

The Creations Journal editing team invites you
to a launch with live readings from contributors.

May 29th at 5pm
Creations Journal 2020 edition

Edited by a very dynamic team of graduating Literature students, and featuring creative writing from ALC students as well as the cr猫me de la cr猫me of IA papers from Liana Bellon's graduating class.

Dawson English Journal 2020 edition

Check out the amazing new student academic writing from 2019-2020 in this latest edition of the Dawson English Journal, an academic journal edited by Dawson students.
Instagram Micro-Essay project
Andrea Strudensky鈥檚 Creative Writing Workshop

Leap off the page and into the "gram" for personal poetic prose pieces accompanied by visual inspiration from the students鈥� own camera rolls. These graduating students from the Literature profile were directed to tease out the emotional complexity involved in reminiscing and relate the feelings they discovered, all in the space of 200 words. They were asked to see the writing more as play because micro-essays privilege discovery - you arrive at them instead of whittling away at them. The instagram page morphed into a place where students shared their "stories" (24 hour videos that disappear) about their experiences during the pandemic and isolation. The stories connected the students and made them feel less alone.