Arts

Every year, artists contribute to festivals around the globe to help celebrate the value of art and its ability to cover challenging topics, like racism and gender issues, that some attendees would perhaps not be thinking about. A good example of this is Victoria’s own UNO Fest, which is running online from April 20 to […]

Everyone can find something to like about the Beatles, says Victoria-based director Jacob Richmond, who is directing Spring Beatles, a five-person Beatles tribute show being livestreamed by Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre, starting today. Richmond’s second stab at online directing is still an experiment, he says, because of the many different artistic mediums this show demands. […]

In 2001, Dan Eastabrook made the winning bid on an old Fuji digital camera on eBay and started taking pictures. Twenty years later, he’s being featured in Real Life, Real Light, a solo show at Fortune Gallery. Eastabrook is a multi-genre photographer with a penchant for landscape and urban images. He attended Victoria’s Western Academy […]

The Reds, Pinks & Purples Uncommon Weather (Slumberland Records) 2.5/5 Uncommon Weather is the third album from San Franscisco-based solo indie/pop artist Glenn Donaldson, and is meant to be a portrait of San Francisco. Donaldson’s path to this release has several threads of inspiration, the most important of which is the artistic heritage of his […]

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV) is presenting Blue & White, an exhibit of blue and white porcelain, until January 30, 2022. AGGV curator of Asian art Heng Wu calls porcelain a highly appreciated global product, both for the beauty of the combination of blue and white colours on ceramic and the global influence […]

A few minutes before midnight on January 22, 1906, a large passenger steamer packed with passengers veered from its course during a heavy gale and smashed into a reef off the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, its hull breached and flooding with icy seawater. The lights failed on the ship, plunging the terrified passengers into […]

For Powell River-raised, UVic-graduated country/roots duo Twin Kennedy, it’s all about spreading positivity, strength, and love through music. For their latest single, “Wise Woman,” the two—identical twins Julie (vocals/fiddle) and Carli Kennedy (vocals/guitar)—teamed up with Nashville-based country singer Mallory Johnson to add to the narrative around feminism and equality. The song is being launched in […]

We’re all yearning for good news after the year we’ve had. Camosun alumni Michael Wilford found just that when he opened up his email one morning recently and found out that he has made it into the finals of the International Songwriting Competition’s blues category for his inspiring song “Scotch.” Over 26,000 songs were submitted […]

Real Numbers Brighter Then (Slumberland Records) 2.5/5 Real Numbers’ last album, Wordless Wonder, came out in 2016, but the Minneapolis-based band has finally released a new EP, Brighter Then. The EP was recorded last winter and shows the band journeying deeper into late-’80s indie-pop. The five-song EP is very rhythmic and easy to listen to, […]

For the actors in Being Here: The Refugee Project, getting into the role meant something a little different. The play, created by Joel Bernbaum, is verbatim theatre, meaning these stories are presented in the person’s own words—false starts, filler words and all. “We are speaking word for word, every ‘um’, comma, interrupted word and interrupted […]