Events

Parol making workshop
November 24, 2025
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Main Building & Rosalie Sharp Centre for Design (MCA)
A lantern-making workshop at OCAD University.
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  • Alumni
  • Faculty
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Staff
  • Undergraduate Student
Photo of star lantern making
Job Ready: Building a Strategy that Gets Results
November 25, 2025
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Rosalie Sharp Pavillion (MCD)
Success in today’s job market begins with a clear plan and the right tools. This hands-on workshop will guide you through the essential steps to launch a focused and effective job search. 
Workshop
  • Alumni
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Undergraduate Student
White background with blue checkered border, blue, orange and pink shapes in foreground with cartoon eyes looking to the right.
Student Exhibition - Research Tool Kit & Fallacy Flyers
November 26, 2025
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
115 McCaul
As a part of their research course, a group of 2nd year Advertising students were tasked with coming up with their own research tool kits, their own code of conduct - on how to make research more inclusive and more ethical. By doing so, they attempt to break out of the restrictive colonial lens of looking at research, honor other ways of knowledges, and include the communities which have been historically and systematically overlooked or misrepresented.Along with this, they…
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  • Alumni
  • Faculty
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Public
  • Staff
  • Undergraduate Student
toolbox icons on green background
Emily Adrian: "Seduction Theory" Book Reading
November 27, 2025
12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
115 McCaul
Please join us for acclaimed author Emily Adrian's book reading and audience Q&A for her new book, Seduction Theory: A Novel!   
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  • Alumni
  • Faculty
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Public
  • Staff
  • Undergraduate Student
Seduction Theory
Lunch & Learn: Creative Entrepreneurship
November 27, 2025
12 p.m. - 1 p.m.
Online-Only
Join Alumni Relations for this lunch-hour professional development webinar discussing establishing their own businesses. 
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  • Alumni
  • Faculty
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Public
  • Undergraduate Student
Composite image, from left: Everett Vane, Franca Pranovi
Jailbreaking Canada
November 27, 2025
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Main Building & Rosalie Sharp Centre for Design (MCA)
OCAD U’s Digital Futures program welcomes Cory Doctorow to OCAD University for a public lecture as part of “Jailbreaking Canada”, a three-day playshop presented by Super Ordinary Lab and game:play Lab with SFI Alum Madeline Ashby to playfully co-fabulate possible futures for Canada in the contemporary climate of late-stage capitalism.
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  • Public
Jailbreak Canada
Evening life drawing – November 27th
November 27, 2025
7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Main Building & Rosalie Sharp Centre for Design (MCA)
Join Alumni Relations for an evening of life drawing on campus. 
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  • Alumni
  • Faculty
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Staff
  • Undergraduate Student
Alumni Relations evening life drawing 2025-Robert-Akow
Global Voices: Redefining Creativity – Stories, Skills and The Future
November 28, 2025
9 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
A no-slides, no-filter, virtual coffee chat on the future of creativity, tech and storytelling with Karla Congson, CEO and CTO of Agentiiv and OCAD University President and Vice-Chancellor Ana Serrano.
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  • Alumni
  • Faculty
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Public
  • Staff
  • Undergraduate Student
Ana Serrano and Karla Congson
Living Frames
November 28, 2025
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Main Building & Rosalie Sharp Centre for Design (MCA)
Animation for Ecology + Sustainbility
Workshop
  • Undergraduate Student
Black background poster with leave and stone. Workshop information in white font
Morning life drawing - November 29th
November 29, 2025
10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Annex Building (MCC)
Join Alumni Relations for a morning of life drawing on campus. 
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  • Alumni
  • Faculty
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Staff
  • Undergraduate Student
Alumni Relations life drawing fall 2025-Robert Avow
Info Session & Tour: 2026 Akin Career Launcher
December 3, 2025
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Off Campus
Join us for this info-session if you are thinking about applying to Akin Career Launcher.
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  • Graduate Student
  • Undergraduate Student
Remote Gallery space at Akin Studio.
Curatorial Tour with Ryan Rice
December 3, 2025
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Onsite Gallery (RHD)
Join us at Onsite Gallery for an exciting curatorial tour of Rosalie Favell | Belonging (1982 - 2024)!
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  • Alumni
  • Faculty
  • Graduate Student
  • International Student
  • Public
  • Staff
  • Undergraduate Student
A man standing with arms crossed wearing eye glasses