Release: University Well Represented at Mayor's Arts and Business Awards

Fine Arts faculty member Sarah Abbott led a strong contingent of University of Regina representatives into the fifth annual Mayor's Arts and Business Awards held May 27 in Regina. Abbott, an assistant professor of Media Production and Studies, accepted the award in the Innovation in the Arts ca...

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Main Author: External Relations, University of Regina
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: External Relations, University of Regina 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10294/4890
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Summary:Fine Arts faculty member Sarah Abbott led a strong contingent of University of Regina representatives into the fifth annual Mayor's Arts and Business Awards held May 27 in Regina. Abbott, an assistant professor of Media Production and Studies, accepted the award in the Innovation in the Arts category for Out in the Cold, a film that shed light on the "starlight tour," the non-sanctioned police practice of taking individuals, mainly First Nations men, to the edge of town and abandoning them in freezing weather. Staff no