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TVSG1 · Corporate body · 1966-1975

Television Sir George (TVSG) came into existence in October 1966, with the ratification by the Students’ Association of Sir George Williams University (later the Day Students’ Association) and made its home in the then newly erected Henry F. Hall Building. The first organization staff was composed of James Joyce as executive producer, Rob Joyce as creative director, and Barry Barnes as technical advisor. Membership was open to all undergraduate students. TV Sir George’s first show appeared on Channel 9 on November 21st 1966. TVSG became CUTV in January 1975.

CUT1 · Corporate body · 1975 -

Concordia University Television (CUTV) is a closed circuit television station under student management. TV Sir George became CUTV in January 1975, following the creation of Concordia University in August 1974. CUTV enjoyed a good working relationship with the Concordia Audio-Visual Department. The arrangement they had was mutually advantageous. CUTV had special borrowing privileges which represented a substantial saving. The AV Department, on the other hand, looked to CUTV for the skilled people it needed as part-time workers. CUTV was a club member of the Concordia University Student Association (CUSA) and then the Concordia Student Union (CSU) until 2003 when CUTV transferred its ownership to the Concordia Student Broadcasting Corporation, the parent company of CJLO radio.

Lawton, Les
LL1 · Person

Les Lawton is a former interim director of the department of Recreation and Athletics. He began his career at Concordia in 1982 as the assistant coach of Concordia’s women hockey team, becoming head coach the following year. Lawton had previously coached the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Maroons hockey program before moving on to guide Loyola High School. In the fall of 2000, he coached Concordia’s newly formed golf team. He would ne named Interim Director of Recreation and Athletics department in 2001, a position he kept until he returned to coaching in 2003. Health issues forced him to step down from being a Stingers coach in 2015 but he has since redirected his energy to fundraising.

  • In 1994, Lawton is chosen to coach Canada’s gold-medal national women’s hockey team. He would lead the team to a gold medal at that year’s World Championship.
  • Lawton received a Merit Award from the Concordia Council on Student Life (CCSL) in 1998 for his contribution in building women’s hockey ‘from a social pursuit to a serious sport’.
  • In 1999, Lawton received an Athletic Award for his 400th coaching victory, on January 17, 1998. By 2003, he would have won his 500th game, a historic milestone in women’s college hockey.
  • Lawton is named top women’s university hockey coach in the country by the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) in February 2000 at the all-Canadian banquet held at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
  • Lawton served as a consultant to the Italian women’s national hockey team in 2003. He helped them prepare for the B Group World Championships and mentored the Italian coaching staff.
  • In 2005, Lawton was the director of the Concordia Junior Stingers Summer Sports Program, a camp providing an opportunity to local children age seven to 16 to learn, participate and discover the passion for sport.
  • In 2011, Lawton coached Canada’s women’s team at the Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey.
  • Les Lawton was inducted in Concordia’s Sports Hall of Fame as a builder in 2022.
CULBEAG1 · Corporate body · 1966 -

The Sir George Williams University Art Gallery officially opened in 1966 in the Henry F. Hall Building. In 1984, the space was renamed the Concordia Art Gallery. In 1992 the Gallery was renamed in honour Leonard and Bina Ellen.

Isacsson, Magnus
MI1 · Person · 1948-2012

Magnus Isacsson, a Swedish-Canadian filmmaker, was born in Sweden in 1948 and moved to Canada in 1970. He studied political science at the University of Stockholm in Sweden and later in Montreal, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the Université de Montreal in 1973. He also studied history and cinema at McGill University and took classes at Concordia University in Montreal, though he did not receive a degree from either institution. He was married to Jocelyne Clarke, documentary filmmaker and founder of Productions Pléiades. They had two children, Anna and Béthièle.

Early during his career, Isacsson worked as a radio producer for the Swedish Broadcasting and the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC). From 1980 to 1986 he was a producer for CBC’s English and French-language networks and worked as a producer for several programs, including Le Point, The Fifth State, and Contrechamps. Isacsson became an independent filmmaker in 1986.

With a documentary filmmaking career of over 25 years, Isacsson produced, wrote and directed several documentaries about critical social and political issues. During his career, he won several awards. Notably, he was the recipient of the Golden Sheaf Award for Uranium in 1991, and his film Power won best documentary at both the Paris International Environmental Film Festival in 1997 and at the Lausanne festival in 1999. Pressure Point (1999) received the Quebec Film Critics award for Best Documentary in 2000.

Magnus Isacsson was awarded the 2004 Prix Lumières from the Quebec Directors’ Association, and in 2012, Isacsson was named member Emeritus of the association. He was also a member of the Documentary Association of Canada, the Association des Réalisateurs et Réalisatrices du Québec (ARRQ), the Société des auteurs de radio, télévision et cinéma (Sartec), and was a former vice-president of the Observatoire du documentaire,

Isacsson was also an educator and throughout his career taught several courses and workshops about documentary film production. He taught at Concordia University in Montreal, Whitman College, the Quebec film school and at University of Montreal, among others. He also taught audiovisual production in South Africa and Zimbabwe, and collaborated in the production of teaching material Produire en Vidéo Légère volumes 1, 2 and 3.

His last film, Granny Power (2014), was completed and released posthumously by his wife Jocelyne Clarke.

Magnus Isacsson died in August 2012.

Bordan, Jack
JB1 · Person · 1926-

Born in Montreal in 1926, Professor Jack Bordan received a B. Eng. (Engineering Physics) and M. Sc. (Physics) degrees from McGill University in 1950 and 1952 respectively. He joined Sir George Williams University in 1952 as Lecturer and became Assistant Professor in Physics in 1955. He was made Associate Professor of Engineering in 1957 and Professor of Engineering in 1962. The following year, Professor Bordan became the first Sir George Williams University Dean of Engineering, a post he held until May 31, 1969. Following John O’Brien’s appointment as Rector, Jack Bordan was made Acting Vice-Principal, Academic in August 1969. He was appointed to the position in February 1970, effective June 1. With the merger of Sir George and Loyola College to form Concordia University in 1974, Professor Bordan was appointed Vice-Rector, Academic of the new institution. He held this position until his retirement in May 1980.

Cappelluto, Ana
AC1 · Person

Ana Cappelluto is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre at Concordia University where she teaches Design for the Theatre. She is also the Faculty of Fine Arts' Associate Dean, Planning and Academic Facilities. Ana Cappelluto first came to Concordia Fine Arts as a young student in Design for the Theatre in 1984. Born in Rome, Italy she lived in England for many years before settling in Montreal. After completing her degree, a BFA in scenography (1987), she was hired as assistant to the props master at the Department of Theatre in 1988. In 1993 she earned her Master’s from McGill University. In the fall of that year, Ana began teaching in the theatre department where she served as Chair from 2004 to 2007. Before serving in her current position as Associate Dean, Planning and Academic Facilities, she held the position of Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies.

She is an accomplished, award-winning scenographer and an integral member of the Montreal theatre community. Her longstanding professional relationships with 7 Doigts de la main, Repercussion Theatre, Geordie Productions, Black Theatre Workshop, Porte Parole, Dulcinea Langfelder & Co, Imago Theatre and Pigeons International have established her reputation for artistic dedication and excellence. Her research, financially supported by Hexagram Research Institute, Industry Canada, Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture, and the Gouvernement du Québec Ministère de l'Industrie et du Commerce and the CANARIE initiative, focuses on the development of new scenographic tools.

In 2000, she completed a two-year project on the works of major Quebec costume designers that dominated the Quebec theatre landscape since the mid-1960s. The project involved researching, documenting and photographing works of costume designers from over 800 the theatrical costumes at the Montreal-based Centre national de recherche et de diffusion du costume (CNC). Established in 1994, CNC was a non-profit organization and housed one of the largest and most important private collection of theatre costumes and accessories in Canada. At the core of the CNC collection was the inherited inventory of l’Atelier de Costume B.J.L. founded in 1972 by the designers François Barbeau, Louise Jobin and François Laplante. In 1996, CNC acquired the whole costume collection of the Théâtre Populaire du Québec.

Because of the lack of financial resources, the CNC was closed and the costume collection was dismantled in 2005. A website in French, entitled “Centre national du costume – recherche et diffusion: La Collection de costumes de théâtre” was created by Ana’s research team in 2000 with the CNC collaboration. The website was part of the Canada’s Digital Collections (CDC) operated by Industry Canada. In 2004, the Industry Canada CDC Program was stopped and later on, all the websites of the program were deactivated. At the end of 2015, the web site was reactivated on Wordpress, under a new name: “Archive de costume de Montréal / Montréal Costumes Archive”. At the same time, some costume descriptions were revamped and English translations were added.

CUDT1 · Corporate body · 1983-

1975-1976: Theatre Arts programme is under the Division of Performing Arts. At that time, the Drama (BA) is offered on Loyola Campus while the Theatre Arts (BFA) is on Sir George Williams Campus. They both appear in the first Concordia University Undergraduate Calendar.

September 1977: John O’Brien announces to the University Senate that the Certificate in Theatre Arts and Creative Drama has been approved by the Ministry of Education.

June 1, 1979: The Fine Arts Faculty Council states the creation of Theatre Arts as an academic department effective, as the program was already functioning as such.

May 19, 1983: The name of the Department of Theatre Arts is changed to Department of Theatre. D. Childs is the first Chairman.

Fall 1992: The department of Theatre leaves the Chameleon Theatre spaces for the newly renovated F. C. Smith Auditorium and the D. B. Clarke Theatre.

December 1995: Co-produced with Geordie Productions, the play ‘A Christmas Carol’ receives critical acclaim from Montreal Press.

Winter 2007: Edward Little goes to India with the Theatre and Development program to teach students how to use theatre as a social tool for change and activism. The three-weeks trip is taking them to poor rural areas as part of a project called ‘A Theatre for Human Rights’, with the collaboration of the Centre for Social Action in India and members of the Teesri Duniya Theatre.

May 2009: Prof. Robert Reid and a dozen of students are headed to Beijing. They are taking part in an educational exchange with China’s National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts.

Fall 2009: Along with the department of Contemporary Dance, the department of Theatre is moving to their new facilities in the GM building. The goal is to consolidate all of performing arts departments on the downtown campus (the department of Music would move the following year).