Rifflandia: Victoria music festival in picturesThe sixth annual Rifflandia Music Festival recently took place in Victoria’s Royal Athletic Park, as well as a host of local clubs. Nexus‘ managing editor and grizzled music festival veteran Jason Schreurs was there to capture some of the action in pictures and words. […] Continue Reading |
Celtic Thunder defy cohesion, please Victoria crowd anywayI’m completely puzzled as to why people would shell out so much money for a show like this, Celtic Thunder at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre here in Victoria (the $75 seats were all full). Not that the musicians were bad; they were all talented enough. But all I could think about was that a Celtic-themed […] Continue Reading |
A play-by-play review of Bumbershoot Music Festival 2013: Seattle’s Labour Day weekend cultural gemAs an avid music festival attendee, and a second-time Bumbershoot-goer, I decided the best way to recap the three-day music and arts festival in Seattle was to give you a play-by-play review of all of the wonderful things that I happened to take in at Seattle Centre over the Labour Day long weekend (just because […] Continue Reading |
Steve Bays brings Hot Hot Heat back to Victoria for RifflandiaSteve Bays will be one busy and excitable guy come September 13 and 14, when he pulls double duty playing in two different bands on the main stage during the Rifflandia music festival. But this is really nothing new. After all, Bays is always busy, and always excitable, whether it be playing music or working […] Continue Reading |
UVic alumni Sam Dunn finds success with movies and television, tries hand with crowdfundingWhen filmmaker, University of Victoria anthropology grad, and lifelong heavy metal fan Sam Dunn sat down with executives from VH1 to pitch his Metal Evolution television show idea, he must have done a good job. They bought it. (Considering Dunn had the strength of popular documentaries Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey and Global Metal behind him, […] Continue Reading |
Integrate Fest exposes art to VictoriaMany people think of art galleries as sterile places, full of things that you’re not allowed to touch made by dead people. Not very fun; but not very true either. One of the major aims of the Integrate Arts Festival is to remind people that artists actually live here in Victoria and they are creating […] Continue Reading |
Bumbershoot festival a true Seattle arts experienceAsking a festival programmer what they are looking forward to the most for their upcoming festival is like asking a parent who their favourite child is. Bumbershoot programming director Chris Porter answers that question the only way he can: by rattling off as many children as he can think of. “I’m psyched about who we […] Continue Reading |
Quentin Tarantino’s work comes to Fringe FestivalWhen Dave Morris was looking for source material for a new Victoria Fringe Festival improv show, the early films of Quentin Tarantino were one of the first things that came to mind. An Improvised Quentin Tarantino, directed by Morris and featuring an ensemble cast from Victoria’s Paper Street Theatre, attempts to recreate the feel of […] Continue Reading |
Review: New Emily Carr book collects best pieces in one compact digestI’m not the sharpest tool in the shed, nor do I claim to be. So I’m going to get this out in the open right now and say I’m just not much of an art guy. I try, and I appreciate what people do; I can barely draw a stick figure. I drew a princess […] Continue Reading |
Rock of the Woods, Camosun marketing grad brings Cowichan Valley to music festival fansLocation trumps everything else. And for Rock of the Woods, which takes place every July in the picturesque Cowichan Valley, nothing could ring more true. Now in its third year, the upstart music festival has had its share of challenges with dealing with bureaucracy, changing locations, and marketing the area to urban centres, but the […] Continue Reading |
