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Ideas That Change The World Symposium ProfilesPanel Theme: Critical Cultural InquiryPanel 2: Performing, Visual and Media Arts
Stephen Stohn '66President, Epitome Pictures Inc.Moderator
Mr. Stohn is Executive Producer of the television series Degrassi, Instant Star and The L.A. Complex and their related websites, webisodes, new media and social media initiatives. He is also a founding partner of Stohn Hay Cafazzo Dembroski Richmond LLP, where he provides strategic legal advice to performers, advertisers, merchandisers, multimedia creators, broadcasters and film and television producers. In 2011, Mr. Stohn was inducted into the Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame. 
Ian Tamblyn '67Musician, Songwriter, Traveller
Mr. Tamblyn is a musician, songwriter, and playwright. He has recorded 29 albums, and has written over 1500 songs, many of which have been recorded by other artists. He has received and been nominated for several music awards. He also works in the adventure travel field as a lecturer, zodiac driver, and musician, and spent 40 days in Antarctica, South Georgia, and the Falklands in the winter of 2010. In summer 2013 he worked in Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, and the Canadian Arctic in association with Adventure Canada and Students on Ice. Mr. Tamblyn is the 2014-15 writer in residence, Faculty of Music, Carleton University. 
Christopher Ward '67Songwriter
Mr. Ward has written songs for Diana Ross, Hilary Duff, Wynonna Judd, The Backstreet Boys, Meredith Brooks, Tina Arena, Amanda Marshall, Roch Voisine, and many others. His best-known song is the worldwide # 1 hit for Alannah Myles, ‘Black Velvet’. Previously, Ward was a member of the ‘Second City Touring Company’, based in Toronto. In 1984, as Canada’s first ‘VJ’, he helped launch Much Music, where he interviewed artists as diverse as Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Tina Turner. 
Dr. Spencer J. Harrison '97Drawing and Painting Professor, in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University; Artist-In-Residence, George Vanier Secondary School
Spencer J. Harrison, is an artist, a human rights activist, a storyteller, an educator, and a PhD Candidate. He combines all aspects of this identity into what he calls "his studio practice." He presently teaches in the Faculty of Art, in Drawing and Painting at OCAD University. The focus of his courses are not the instruction of how to paint, but rather "why paint?" and "why are you the one doing that painting?" He is a very strong fan of Trent University where he completed his Masters in the Frost Centre and where he began his career as a University administrator. 
Mary Elizabeth Luka '80Producer – Director
Ms. Luka is a Vanier Canada graduate scholar, HASTAC scholar and PhD candidate in the Joint Program in Communication and Media Studies at Concordia University. She is an award winning producer – director for television and digital platforms; strategic planning consultant in the Arts, Media and Culture, Part-time faculty at Mount Saint Vincent University and NSCAD University, Vice-Chair at Arts Nova Scotia, Board Member at NSCAD University and Creative Nova Scotia Leadership Council. 
Caroline Langill '02Acting Dean Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, OCAD
Caroline Langill is a writer, artist, and independent curator who occupies the position of Associate Dean, Facilities, Policies and Planning in the Faculty of Art. Her interdisciplinary practice began with a degree in biology, which she followed with studies in sculpture/installation at the Ontario College of Art. Ideas That Change The World Symposium: Critical Cultural Inquiry » |