Virago Nation decolonizes Indigenous sexuality with burlesque performanceEight-piece BIPOC burlesque collective Virago Nation performed in the UVic Farquhar Auditorium on Saturday, October 21, and the entire show was an act of decolonization. The collective is all about decolonizing Indigenous—especially femme—sexuality. What they do is art, sex work, and good medicine all working harmoniously together. Settlers who sought to eradicate Indigenous ways of […] Continue Reading |
Camosun student releases debut album with Anteater EaterLocal alt/surf/indie rockers Anteater Eater dropped their debut album, If that’s Your Thing, on August 26, and there’s a Camosun connection: drummer Daniel Hubert is a second-year University Transfer student at the college. Hubert says the album—which features 10 original songs—is a collaborative effort that manages to create its own sound. “[The album features] mostly […] Continue Reading |
East Side Story not your average roller-coasterHaving visited Vancouver many times throughout my life, I was intrigued by Nick Marino’s East Side Story: Growing Up at the PNE, a historical retelling of his childhood growing up as a cog in the PNE’s wooden wheels. What I wasn’t expecting was the emotional whiplash I experienced reading about the ups and downs of […] Continue Reading |
SETYA double bill offers healing for Indigenous peoples through cultural storytellingI attended the Thursday, October 12 performance of the SETYA (Staging Equality Theatre for Young Audiences) double bill at University of Victoria’s Phoenix Theatre, and it was truly a meaningful experience. And not just for me: the show got a standing ovation in the almost-full theatre. The night featured The Woman Who Outshone the Sun […] Continue Reading |
William Head on Stage returns, continues to tear down stereotypesWilliam Head Theatre Society was created in 1981 by a group of incarcerated men taking a theatre course within the William Head Institution. These men decided to create a company, which at the time was called WHAT (William Head Amateur Theatre) to produce plays to show to the public. Later, the company was renamed to […] Continue Reading |
How to Be Found tale of determination and teen loveThis is the first novel I’ve read by Vancouver-based author Emily Pohl-Weary, but it definitely won’t be the last. Her other works, such as Ghost Sick: A Poetry of Witness and Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril, have both won awards and showcased Pohl-Weary’s diverse writing style. How to Be Found is […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Hallie Spoor hits all the right notes on new EPHallie Spoor Heart Like Thunder (Independent) 3.5/5 Brooklyn-based Americana artist Hallie Spoor’s latest release, the Heart Like Thunder EP, provides an insightful lens into the folk genre. Spoor—who was raised in Colorado—shows the thematic context of folk’s rural roots through the connectivity of her storytelling. The EP offers a developing new voice to the folk […] Continue Reading |
Erdoğan unique perspective of life of Turkish autocratErdoğan is a very unique graphic-novel biography written by Turkish journalist and author Can Dündar and drawn by Egyptian caricaturist Anwar. This idea of telling the story of Turkey’s “modern autocrat” Tayyip Erdoğan couldn’t be executed any better. I was so excited when I found out about this book by my fellow countryman Dündar, but […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: GLDN EP reissue a mixed bagGLDN First Blood (Deluxe Edition) (Independent) 2.5/5 Lukewarm off the presses! The deluxe reissue of Brooklyn-based industrial punk group GLDN’s First Blood EP is the musical definition of a mixed bag. Industrial punk can get a bad rep for maxing out intensity at all times, often to a song’s detriment. It’s a stereotype of the […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Fur Trade offer up chaotic fun after 10 years awayFur Trade Dark Celebration (Light Organ Records) 4/5 Victoria’s Steve Bays and Parker Bossley (both ex-Hot Hot Heat) are back with Fur Trades’ second album after a decade-long absence, and it’s a rockin’ good time. Dark Celebration is filled with 10 chaotic, funky, fun, feel-good tracks. It’s music you can blast in the car: turn […] Continue Reading |
