Events: Royal Canoe and other musicians with odd names; canoeing programs; things that have nothing to do with canoesThursday, August 15 and Thursday, August 29 Arts and Alzheimer’s Does someone you know suffer from dementia? If so, head down to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria on one of these two days for a guided gallery tour for people with dementia and their families. Space is limited; email info@werageweweep.com or call 250–920–9573 for […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun College business instructor Al MorrisonKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of articles helping you get to know the instructors at Camosun College a bit better. This time around we caught up with business instructor Al Morrison and talked about classroom diversity, faking it, and Telus ads. Is there a professor on campus that you want to see interviewed? […] Continue Reading |
Camosun chair Gilbert Noussitou receives Canadian Culinary Federation honourWhen a colleague of Camosun culinary arts chair Gilbert Noussitou insisted that Noussitou attend a recent national conference of the Canadian Culinary Federation (CCF), he kind of knew something was up. But little did Noussitou realize that he’d be coming back home from the conference as a prestigious member of the CCF’s honour society, a […] Continue Reading |
Events: Victoria park programs, Crossing Channels, Abstractions, accordionist Joaquin Diaz, Inlet Sound: the band, Lavenderfest, and much moreThursday, July 18 and Friday, July 19 Park program paradise At least it’ll feel like paradise for these two days if you’re into park programs. “Going buggy” goes down on Thursday from 11 am to 2 pm at Elk/Beaver Lake and is an all-ages event looking at bugs. On Friday, there’s “Nature babies in backpacks,” […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun economics instructor Bijan AhmadiKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of articles helping you get to know the instructors at Camosun College a bit better. Got someone you want to see interviewed? Email editor@nexusnewspaper.com and we’ll get on it. This time around we caught up with economics instructor Bijan Ahmadi and talked about robot teachers, cell phones, and […] Continue Reading |
International Film Series connects Camosun with Brazilian studentsLike everything else in 2013, Camosun’s International Film Series started with an email. After a visit to Brazil in November 2012, Tom Roemer, vice president of strategic development at Camosun, sent out the idea to some peers: a series of events that screen films and have a follow-up lecture teleconferenced between Camosun and a school […] Continue Reading |
Events: Skam, Pat Benatar, Stigma Stomp Day, TedXVictoriaLive, People & Places, and moreUntil Tuesday, June 25 Photos of things Man, the hardest part about writing these listings is coming up with “clever” headlines for each one. Take, for example, this listing, for the photo exhibit People & Places, by Helene Cyr, happening at Dales Gallery, 537 Fisgard. The best I could come up with, after thinking about […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Tara TudorKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of articles helping you get to know the instructors at Camosun College a bit better. Got someone you want to see interviewed? Email editor@nexusnewspaper.com and we’ll get on it! This issue’s victim… er, subject: Camosun anthropology instructor Tara Tudor. 1: What do you teach and how long have […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Francis Adu-FebiriWelcome to the first installment of our new column, Know Your Profs, where we find a Camosun instructor and ask them 10 questions. Got a teach you want to know more about? Let us know at editor@nexusnewspaper.com and we’ll put ‘em in the hot seat! For our maiden voyage, we cornered Francis Adu-Febiri. Read on […] Continue Reading |
Events: Films, UFO (not UNO) Fest, Camosun film lecture series, neo burlesque, and much moreUntil Thursday, May 16 Hating the sun Check out Light Sensitive, an exhibit of photographs from students at the Western Academy of Photography, running until May 16. Which is either tomorrow, today, or it already happened, so get down there, quick! Unless it already happened. Oh, where? Dales Gallery, 537 Fisgard. Thursday, May 16 and […] Continue Reading |
