Arts

Jason Stevens is welcoming this year’s Halloween season by haunting the Craigdarroch Castle in a one-man production of Frankenstein. This will be Stevens’ third year producing and portraying 10 different characters from Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Stevens says that although it’s a popular story, on-screen portrayals have slightly clouded the audience’s understanding of the play.  […]

As his submission to the 2022 Antimatter film festival, Toronto-based video artist Warren Chan created City of Forever, a series of shifting, morphing AI-generated images of urban landscapes devoid of humanity, accompanied by an eerie, frenetic soundtrack. Chan originally began the video project as his grad school thesis, a way to examine the feeling of […]

On Saturday, October 29, beloved children’s group The Wiggles are making a stop at the McPherson Playhouse as part of their Big Show tour. This is the first time The Wiggles have been in Canada since 2019, but, more importantly, this will be the first Canadian tour for Yellow Wiggle Tsehay Hawkins. Hawkins says that […]

Local visual artist Richelle Osborne wanted to diverge from the usual styles of art found here on the west coast, so she looked deeper into her wood and acrylic rod materials. The result is her current show, Wood, Copper & Steel. “I find that on the west coast there’s a lot of artists who are […]

After a two-year hiatus, half-naked troupe The Comic Strippers is taking the stage again in Victoria. Over the last 10 years, the Strippers have been performing across North America and beyond; this crew of entertainers and improv comedians are friends who have been specializing in comedy for 30 years. Comic Stripper Roman Danylo has appeared […]

Start Here: Kiyooka, Nakamura, Takashima, Tanabe is a new exhibit up now at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Guest curator Bryce Kanbara says that the exhibit serves as a tribute to the pioneering work done by nisei artistes Roy Kiyooka, Kazuo Nakamura, Shizuye Takashima, and Takao Tanabe. “This exhibit is another example of what […]

Indigenous throat-singing duo PIQSIQ—consisting of Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik and Kayley Inuksuk Mackay—want to talk about the weather, but it’s not just small talk. The word “piqsiq” means a specific type of weather phenomenon where the wind blows the snow upwards from the ground, so it looks like the snow is falling upwards into the sky; […]

26-year-old Dean Gustin thought he had it all figured out. A few years after earning his Red Seal from Camosun, he was really happy working with sheet metal. “It was a good union job and I was a union trustee and then everything kind of fell apart,” he admits. “I was in a lot of […]