1998 WILLIAM MORRIS EVENTS IN CANADA Compiled by the William Morris Society of Canada NOTE: The William Morris Society of Canada now maintains its own web site. Sunday, 18 January 1998, 2.00pm St. James and its neighbours: Georgian unity and Victorian diversity & The Great Toronto Fire of 1904 A double exhibit at the Market Gallery of the City of Toronto Archives, South St. Lawrence Market, 95 Front Street East. To commemorate the bicentennial of the Cathedral Church of St. James, this exhibit surveys the architecture of the cathedral and its neighbours in the Georgian and Victorian eras. Guest curator Carl Benn and Sharon Vattay will explore architectural drawings, historic maps and photographs, artifacts and archival records. At 2:00pm an illustrated lecture on the Great Toronto Fire of 1904 which devastated another neighbourhood to the west of St. James Cathedral, will be given. Sponsored by the William Morris Society of Canada. This special event is limited to a maximum of 35 members due to space requirements and you must indicate your wish to attend. Fee: $2.00. Contact: Pat Govaerts, Tel. (416) 759-0155. Friday, 20 February 1998, 7.30pm A Full Life and an Honest Place Showing of 1975 UK film about William Morris. Winter event of the William Morris Society of Canada. Held at Claude Bissell Building, Room 205, 130 St. George Street, Toronto. Cost: $2.00 for members of the William Morris Society of Canada and students with i.d./non-members $5.00. Contact: Paula Browne, William Morris Society of Canada, 52 Berkeley Court, Unionville, Ontario L3R 6L9, Tel. (905) 475-9370, fax (905) 940-8698, :mckenna@yorku.ca. Wednesday, 4 March 1998, 10.30am Building the Palace of Attila: Some Aspects of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Hungary Lecture by Peter Cormack in Concordia University Department of Art History Speakers Series, Montreal, Quebec. In Room VA-323, Concordia University Visual Arts Building, 1395 boul. Rene-Levesque, Montreal (QC). With its rich and, in the 1900s, still living tradition of Folk Art, Hungary was fertile ground for the ideas of the Arts & Crafts Movement. An additional stimulus to the creation of a distinctive national style in architecture and the applied arts was provided by the Hungarians' competitive position (with Austria) in the Hapsburg 'Dual Monarchy'. The lecture will focus on some of the principal designers and craft-workers of the 1900-20 period, among them Sándor and Laura Nagy, Aladár Körösfói-Kriesch, Mariska Undi and other members of the Gödölló Colony, and the architects Károly Kós, Ede Toroczkai Wigand and István Medgyaszay. Contact: Sandra Alfoldy, Tel. (514) 848 4700, salfol@vax2.concordia.ca. Saturday, 21 March 1998 Morris & Co.: William Morris's Relationship with Four Masters of Design: Edward Burne-Jones, Emery Walker, Philip Webb, and Lewis F. Day. Annual symposium sponsored by the William Morris Society of Canada. At 140 University College, 15 King's College Circle, University of Toronto. Fee: $35 or $15 student/concessionary (including lunch & closing reception/toast in the Croft Chapter House). Steps from Rm 140 is the University of Toronto Art Centre, which displays two paintings by Burne-Jones. The papers to be presented are: "Topsy and Ned: The Story of a Friendship" (Douglas Schoenherr), "'A close dependence': Emery Walker, William Morris and the Arts & Crafts Movement" (Mary Greensted), "Philip Webb" (Peter Burman), "Lewis F. Day: Harmonizing Art with Industry" (Conrad Biernacki). Contact: Paula Browne, William Morris Society of Canada, 52 Berkeley Court, Unionville, Ontario L3R 6L9, Tel. (905) 475-9370, fax (905) 940-8698, :mckenna@yorku.ca. Saturday, 18 April 1998 Victorian British Empire The Victorian Studies Association of Ontario annual conference at Ryerson Polytechnical University,Toronto. Speakers: Antoinette Burton (Johns Hopkins University) and Chelva Kanaganayakam (University of Toronto). The Conference day will begin with a graduate student panel concerned with any aspect of the Victorian British Empire - literature, history, science, art, theater, economics, politics, philosophy, theology, law etc. Contact: Gillian Fenwick, Victorian Studies Association, Victoria College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7. E-mail enquiries: Cory Davies, cedavies@julian.uwo.ca or Ann-Barbara Graff, ann.graff@utoronto.ca. To Sunday, 3 May 1998 Julia Margaret Cameron: The Creative Process: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum Exhibition at Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Curated for the AGO by Julian Cox, Assistant Curator of Photographs at The J. Paul Getty Museum; coordianted by Maia-Mari Sutnik, Head of Collections, AGO. Exhibition of Ninety-five widely acclaimed prints by this famous Victorian photographer are on display. Works range from an 1864 photograph Cameron declared 'my first success' to commanding portraits of eminent mid-19th century artists, poets and scholars to her later work in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Visit the Art Gallery of Ontario Website for more information. Through May 1998 Corsets to Calling Cards: The Etiquette of Victorian Women's Clothing Exhibition at Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto, Ontario. Contact: Royal Ontario Museum web site. Thursday, 25 June 1998 William Morris's London An illustrated lecture of London's churches, museums, railway stations, and other monuments of the high Victorian eras by Corey Keeble, Royal Ontario Museum Curator in th ROM Western Art and Culture department (intended to reinforce in the ROM's summer exhibition of articles from The V&A).  Sponsored by the William Morris Society of Canada. The lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, 140 St. George Street, Room 205. WMSC members and students with ID: $3; non-members: $5. Contact: Paula Browne, William Morris Society of Canada, 52 Berkeley Court, Unionville, Ontario L3R 6L9, Tel. (905) 475-9370, fax (905) 940-8698, :mckenna@yorku.ca. Wednesday through Sunday, 22-26 July 1998 Summer Excursion to Manhattan, The Berkshires, and The Catskills Annual trip for members of the William Morris Society of Canada, with visits to museums and historic sites, in particular those associated with the Arts and Crrafts movement; includes the Burne-Jones exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tuesday, 22 September 1998, 7.30pm Annual General Meeting of the William Morris Society of Canada and William Morris, the Manders and Interpreting the Decorative Arts and Wightwick Manor Annual meeting and election of officers, followed by talk by James Thompson on the English country house built by Sir Thomas Mander and decorated by Morris and Co. Open to all. At Heritage Toronto, 205 Yonge Street, Toronto. Contact: Paula Browne, William Morris Society of Canada, 52 Berkeley Court, Unionville, Ontario L3R 6L9, Tel. (905) 475-9370, fax (905) 940-8698, :mckenna@yorku.ca. Wednesday, 7 October 1998, 7.30pm The Only Thing Worth Finding: The Ideological Foundations of Cranbrook Illustrated talk by Mark Coir, resident historian of Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI, the arts colony established at the turn of the century by George Booth, Toronto-born newspaper tycoon and follower of William Morris. Sponsored by the William Morris Society of Canada. At Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 130 St. George Street, Toronto. Fee: $3.00 members, $5.00 non-members. Contact: Paula Browne, William Morris Society of Canada, 52 Berkeley Court, Unionville, Ontario L3R 6L9, Tel. (905) 475-9370, fax (905) 940-8698, :mckenna@yorku.ca. Advance notice Morris Millenium Conference 11 to 25 June 2000 Following the centenary conference at Oxford in 1996, the William Morris Society of Canada is now organizing the Morris Millennium Conference as the second international conference to bring together scholars and students of Morris as an artist, writer, socialist, and early ecologist. The conference will be held at the University of Toronto and will include lectures on all aspects of Morris's work, exhibitions of Pre-Raphaelite art, tours of Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts architecture. Accommodation will be available on the university campus. 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