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The Kreft Arts Program at Concordia University strives to stimulate the artistic, intellectual, and creative experiences of students and the community.  The series includes art exhibitions, concerts, lectures, dance performances, author appearances, and theatrical productions by artists from around the world and by Concordia’s own students and faculty.

This year’s program incorporates a thematic approach, reflected in many of the events, that seeks to provide unity and coherence to the series. The 2010-2011 theme is “Fusion.” The arts have always been, and continue to be, transgressive in the most literal sense of that word—about stepping across boundaries.  In our own day, the arts are likely to be hybrids, unstable compounds, amalgams of traditional forms and methods with new media and technologies. In this sense, “Fusion” denotes the merging or blending of styles, materials, genres in a way that produces something unlike any of the original ingredients. Even the process of nuclear fusion, with its consequent powerful release of energy, suggests a figure for the way that the arts work on us as viewers, listeners, thinkers.  We hope, then, that this year’s theme will open up for discussion the idea of unity in a world of divisiveness, and for deeper contemplation the grand synthesis of God’s creation.

The Kreft Arts Program at Concordia University will seek to give Concordia students multiple and varied opportunities to connect and work with artists at the highest level of their artistic field, and will attempt to link all arts events and visits to the curriculum. Kreft Arts aims to have a profound impact on students’ course of study, and to connect in a deliberate way with faculty in disciplines other than the arts, in order to undergird a broad cross-section of undergraduate and graduate curricula.

We salute Print-Tech, Inc. for their extraordinary printing work and their continued sponsorship this fall season. On behalf of the Concordia faculty, staff, and students who devote their time and talents to this artistic endeavor – welcome to the fall 2010 Kreft Arts season.