Category: Brandon University

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The annual festival of creativity and celebration of art known as “Nuit Blanche” returns to Brandon at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba this Saturday, and Brandon University artists are among the main attractions.

More than half a dozen faculty are presenting, including Deanna Smid, Lisa Wood, Kevin McKenzie, Andrée Dagenais, Megumi Masaki, Leanne Zacharias, and Jimmie Kilpatrick, as well as many students from the university’s visual art, creative writing and music programs.

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The entire Brandon University community offers our sincere condolences to the family and loved ones of Doug Palson, following his passing yesterday. 

Palson, who was Chief of Police of the Manitoba First Nations Police Service, had longstanding personal and family ties to Brandon University, including the earning of a graduate diploma in education in 2010.

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A Brandon University student is hanging a unique portrait of Newfoundland puffins after her caption was selected in an interactive art show at BU’s Curve Gallery.

The show featured portraits of Atlantic Puffins — colourfully beaked birds with engaging personalities — and invited viewers to suggest their proposed tag lines for the varied and often silly poses that the puffins were captured in. Some may think of the project as similar to making memes; older attendees may have been reminded of a New Yorker cartoon caption contest.

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Brandon University employees were able to present a big cheque in support of Brandon-Westman Christmas Cheer fundraising at this year’s BU Holiday Luncheon.

BU President David Docherty handed over a novelty-sized cheque to representatives from Christmas Cheer — but the number written on the cheque was oversized as well.

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The remarkable service records of nearly 50 Brandon University employees were celebrated during a ceremony on Thursday.

The annual Long Service Employee Recognition Event honours staff and faculty members who have reached five-year milestones of 10 years or more in their BU careers.