2013 Exhibits

For the second time, Janelle Jenstad has worked with a team of co-curators to mount an exhibit celebrating a Pacific Opera Victoria production. Following the model of 2012's " Macbeth and Music," this year's "Falstaff and Music" brings together rare editions, adaptations, scores, and theatrical ephemera featuring Shakespeare's larger-than-life character. Joining Jenstad on this project are English faculty member Erin Kelly and graduate students Telka Duxbury and Nathan Phillips.
For the second time, Janelle Jenstad has worked with a team of co-curators to mount an exhibit celebrating a Pacific Opera Victoria production. Following the model of 2012's " Macbeth and Music," this year's "Falstaff and Music" brings together rare editions, adaptations, scores, and theatrical ephemera featuring Shakespeare's larger-than-life character. Joining Jenstad on this project are English faculty member Erin Kelly and graduate students Telka Duxbury and Nathan Phillips.

Falstaff and Music

Shakespeare’s character of Falstaff has inspired composers over the centuries.

This exhibit, planned to accompany the Pacific Opera Victoria performance of Verdi’s Falstaff, traced Falstaff’s history through rare books, scores, and performance artifacts from Special Collections.

The exhibit, which is part of the Shakespeare Onstage-Offstage special community celebration of the Bard, ran from September 16 to November 29, 2013.

Shakespeare’s “Big Books”

The Shakespeare First Folio (courtesy of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto) is the first collected edition of his plays.

In this exhibit, curated by Dr. Erin Kelly and Dr. Janelle Jenstad from UVic’s Department of English, viewers discovered why all four of Shakespeare’s 17th-century folios have held people’s fascination through the centuries.

Exhibit dates ran from September 21 – October 23, 2013. This exhibit was also part of the collaborative Shakespeare Onstage-Offstage community celebration.

More information on Shakespeare Onstage-Offstage can be found here.

The Long Now of Ulysses

The Long Now of Ulysses exhibit held in the Maltwood Gallery ran from May—August 2013.The exhibit challenged graduate students to produce elements of the display anchored in excerpts from James Joyce’s Ulysses, by linking them to the “long now” of the twentieth century.

Department of English faculty, Dr. Jentery Sayers and Dr. Stephen Ross, had graduate students in their courses collaborate with the Modernist Versions Project and the Maker Lab in the Humanities. The exhibition also featured art works from the UVic Art Collections and digital investigations of the novel.

Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada exhibit

Canada's award winning books are on tour and the University of Victoria was one of the Canadian university library stops.

The books will also be entered in the international book design competition in Leipzig, Germany in February 2014. The winners of the 31st annual Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada were avaible for viewing in the McPherson Library Special Collections Reading Room from October 28 – November 29.

The winning titles were chosen from 236 Canadian entries published in 2012, from 9 provinces and 112 publishers. Here is a complete list of the winners.