High Performance, Hidden Harm: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding and Preventing Abuse within Coaching and Teaching Relationships

The Faculty of Music presents High Performance, Hidden Harm: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding and Preventing Abuse within Coaching and Teaching Relationships. Join us for a screening of Dear Lara,* a deeply personal documentary that exposes decades of sexual abuse and institutional complicity in the classical music world, followed by an interdisciplinary panel discussion. Registration is required.

Date: Monday, November 16, 2026

Time: 5:30–8:30 p.m. Refreshments at 5 p.m., opening remarks at 5:30pm, Dear Lara screening at 5:40 p.m., panel discussion at 7:25 p.m.

Location: Faculty of Music, 80 Queen's Park — Edward Johnson Building, Walter Hall (lower basement)

Supports: Staff from the Sexual Violence Prevention and Support Centre will provide confidential 1-1 support. A decompression/low-sensory space will also be available.

Panelists: