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Irene Loughlin
Irene Loughlin was born on May 20, 1967, in Hamilton, Canada. Loughlin is known for her performance artwork, writings, drawings and cultural work. Biography Her art embodies images of feminism, health activism, and anti-poverty movements. Over the last twenty years, the artworks created have focused further on images challenging many social constructs such as mental illness (now described as neurodiversity or neurodivergence), visual metaphors of medical treatment, and ecological landscapes. She created this work as a contemporary emotive discourse. The works of art stem from images drawn from Loughlin's experiences or as witnessed throughout her life, in relation to childhood, spiritualism, labour, exercise, depression, diagnosis, sexual abuse, processed foods, rehabilitation, happiness, nourishment, hope, class distinction, sexuality, desire, speech, addiction, therapy, silence, and historical re-enactments. Loughlin further developed her practice as an artist in Vancouve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Hamilton has a population of 569,353, and its census metropolitan area, which includes Burlington and Grimsby, has a population of 785,184. The city is approximately southwest of Toronto in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, the town of Hamilton became the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe. On January 1, 2001, the current boundaries of Hamilton were created through the amalgamation of the original city with other municipalities of the Regional Municipality of Hamilton–Wentworth. Residents of the city are known as Hamiltonians. Traditionally, the local economy has been led by the steel and heavy manufacturing industries. During the 2010s, a shift toward the service sector occurred, such as health and sciences. Hamilton is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario College Of Art
Ontario College of Art & Design University, commonly known as OCAD University or OCAD, is a public art university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus is spread throughout several buildings and facilities within downtown Toronto. The university is a co-educational institution which operates three academic faculties, the Faculty of Art, the Faculty of Arts and Science, and the Faculty of Design. The university also provides continuing education services through its School of Continuing Studies. Established in 1876 as the Ontario School of Art by the Ontario Society of Artists, the institution was the first school opened in Canada dedicated to art education. The institution was renamed twice in 1886 and 1890 before it was granted a provincial charter and renamed the Ontario College of Art (OCA) in 1912. The institution was known as the OCA until 1996 when it was renamed the ''Ontario College of Art and Design''. The institution was granted universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with three campuses, all in Greater Vancouver: Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, and Vancouver. The main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and comprises more than 30,000 students and 160,000 alumni. The university was created in an effort to expand higher education across Canada. SFU is a member of multiple national and international higher education associations, including the Association of Commonwealth Universities, International Association of Universities, and Universities Canada. SFU has also partnered with other universities and agencies to operate joint research facilities such as the TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, which houses the world's largest cyclotron, and Bamfield Marine Station, a major centre for teaching and research in marine biology. Undergraduate and graduate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brock University
Brock University is a public research university in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It is the only university in Canada in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, at the centre of Canada's Niagara Peninsula on the Niagara Escarpment. The university bears the name of Maj.-General Sir Isaac Brock, who was responsible for defending Upper Canada against the United States during the War of 1812. Brock offers a wide range of programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including professional degrees. Brock was ranked third among Canadian universities in the undergraduate category for research publication output and impact indicators in 2008 (the most recent ranking completed). Brock University is the only school in Canada and internationally to offer the MICA (Mathematics Integrated with Computing and Applications) program. Brock University's Department of Health Sciences offers the only undergraduate degree in Public Health in Canada. At the graduate level, Brock offers 49 programs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Loughlin
Irene Loughlin was born on May 20, 1967, in Hamilton, Canada. Loughlin is known for her performance artwork, writings, drawings and cultural work. Biography Her art embodies images of feminism, health activism, and anti-poverty movements. Over the last twenty years, the artworks created have focused further on images challenging many social constructs such as mental illness (now described as neurodiversity or neurodivergence), visual metaphors of medical treatment, and ecological landscapes. She created this work as a contemporary emotive discourse. The works of art stem from images drawn from Loughlin's experiences or as witnessed throughout her life, in relation to childhood, spiritualism, labour, exercise, depression, diagnosis, sexual abuse, processed foods, rehabilitation, happiness, nourishment, hope, class distinction, sexuality, desire, speech, addiction, therapy, silence, and historical re-enactments. Loughlin further developed her practice as an artist in Vancouve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayles Ice Shelf
The Ayles Ice Shelf was one of six major ice shelves in Canada, all on the north coast of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. The ice shelf broke off from the coast on August 13, 2005, forming a giant ice island thick and measuring around in size (approximately in area or in volume). The oldest ice in the ice shelf is believed to be over 3,000 years old. The ice shelf was at (), approximately south of the North Pole. The Ayles Ice Shelf, like the nearby Mount Ayles, was named for the Arctic explorer, Adam Ayles, who served under George Nares as the Petty Officer of HMS ''Alert'' in the British Arctic Expedition. A 1986 survey of Canadian ice shelves found that , a volume of , of ice calved from the Milne and Ayles ice shelves between 1959 and 1974. Canada lost 94% of its overall ice shelf area between 1906 and 2015. Ayles Ice Island On August 13, 2005, the entire shelf broke clear from the coast of Ellesmere, forming a new ice island. It is believed to be the largest shelf brea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shannon Cochrane
Shannon may refer to: People * Shannon (given name) * Shannon (surname) * Shannon (American singer), stage name of singer Shannon Brenda Greene (born 1958) * Shannon (South Korean singer), British-South Korean singer and actress Shannon Arrum Williams (born 1998) * Shannon, intermittent stage name of English singer-songwriter Marty Wilde (born 1939) * Claude Shannon (1916-2001) was American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as a "father of information theory" Places Australia * Shannon, Tasmania, a locality * Hundred of Shannon, a cadastral unit in South Australia * Shannon, a former name for the area named Calomba, South Australia since 1916 * Shannon River (Western Australia) Canada * Shannon, New Brunswick, a community * Shannon, Quebec, a city * Shannon Bay, former name of Darrell Bay, British Columbia * Shannon Falls, a waterfall in British Columbia Ireland * River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland ** Shannon Cave, a subterranean section of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award
The Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award is a monetary award given since 1971 by the Canada Council for the Arts to Canadian artists judged to be outstanding in their mid-careers. Since 2005, the award is given to one recipient in each of the following seven fields: dance, inter-arts, media arts, music, theatre, visual arts and writing and publishing. The award, worth Cdn$15,000 ( CAD), was founded by Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton in 1967. Until 2005, the award was given usually to 3-4 people in the fields of visual arts (including sculpture) and music, though not in both fields every year. Once, in 1986, it included a "dance teacher and historian", as well as a "critic and curator"; once, in 1971, it included a "weaver", and once, in 1981, it included a "harpsichord A harpsichord ( it, clavicembalo; french: clavecin; german: Cembalo; es, clavecín; pt, cravo; nl, klavecimbel; pl, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard, keyboard. This ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 Births
Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and commercial relations (not diplomatic ones). ** Charlie Chaplin launches his last film, ''A Countess from Hong Kong'', in the UK. * January 6 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps, USMC and Army of the Republic of Vietnam, ARVN troops launch ''Operation Deckhouse Five'' in the Mekong Delta. * January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts. * January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under the leadership of Étienne Eyadema. * January 14 – The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for the Summer of Love. * January 15 ** Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species ''Proconsul nyanzae, Kenyapithecus africanus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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