Japanese/Canadian pianist Yoko Hirota performs a concert of music by contemporary Canadian composers, including Gary Kulesha, Francois Morel and our very own Laurie Radford.
www.music.ucalgary.ca
Since its inception in 1969, Dance Montage has integrated beginning dancers and choreographers with experienced professionals to facilitate the creation of new dance work.
www.dance.ucalgary.ca
Find out everything that the University of Calgary has to offer at our annual Open House. Parents, prospective students, or high school students planning ahead can speak with professors, staff and current students about programs, faculties and life on campus.
www.ucalgary.ca/openhouse
7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Metropolitan Conference Centre, 333 4th Avenue S.W.
The School of Public Policy presents its 2nd Symposium on Taxation and Economic Growth: “The GST at 20: Did it work, and is it ‘good’?” featuring analysis from the world’s leading experts in taxation. A dinner and keynote speech will be held the night before at 6 p.m. at the Westin Calgary.
www.policyschool.ca
2:30 p.m. Libin Lecture Theatre, Health Sciences Centre
Recent Canada Gairdner awardees provide lectures on their area of expertise. The theme for this year’s speakers is “Minds that Matter.”
www.gairdner.org
Zayn Kassam, associate professor of religious studies at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., and an expert in Islamic philosophy, mysticism, gender and literature, delivers the 2011 Peter Craigie Memorial Lecture.
www.arts.ucalgary.ca
