Arts for Everyone
Synopsis
With Arts for Everyone, the Faculty of Arts at Saint Mary’s University is opening our doors to the community.
Members of the public are invited to attend a selection of courses on a drop-in basis. On this page you can explore course topics and schedules.
Those who wish to engage with course material a bit more deeply (and earn a digital badge to showcase their accomplishment!) can choose to register and complete a suite of assignments.
Arts is for everyone - come join us!
Program Overview
Courses in Program
This course excavates monstrous bodies to discover what they reveal about their creators, how they construct and police otherness, and how they serve as subversive sites of liberation from cultural norms.
9/3/2025 - 12/20/2025
Explore the development of popular culture in Latin America, and discover how diversity, social and political struggles influenced the cultures of the region.
9/3/2025 - 12/20/2025
How could William Shakespeare, a glovemaker’s son from Stratford Upon Avon, write such astonishing plays and poetry? Part of the answer lies in the history of London and this course explores intersections between Shakespeare’s life and art in the nation’s cosmopolitan capital, the fastest growing city in Europe, between the 1580s and the 1610s.
9/3/2025 - 12/20/2025
This course examines women’s experiences during the First and Second World Wars. During both conflicts, women fought as soldiers and spies, worked in industry and support services, tended to the wounded, and served as symbols of home and family. Women were also targets of unprecedented violence.
9/3/2025 - 12/20/2025
