New Music Revue: Yasmine Hamdan offers cathartic pleas for hopeYasmine Hamdan I remember I forget (Crammed Discs) 4.5/5 To listen in length to an unfamiliar language is to become fluent in a spirit. When listening to Yasmine Hamdan’s latest album I remember I forget, I do just that—understand not the words but the distress, the devotion, the tenderness. She carries in her tune a […] Continue Reading |
Intrepid Theatre’s Metro Studio closing after 20 yearsAfter two decades of running the Metro Studio, a small venue in the southwest corner of the Victoria Conservatory of Music that has provided a performance space for independent theatre initiatives since 2005, Intrepid Theatre will soon be closing its doors. Confronted by a large rent increase, the organization has made the decision to not […] Continue Reading |
Pieces of Performance: A slice of Cheesecake offered up with burlesque revueFor 20 hot years of sweat and happy tears, The Cheesecake Burlesque Revue troupe has been blessing stages and audiences from Victoria to Europe. Longtime Cheesecake performer Champagne Sparkles has deep pride in their small beginnings, which built to who they are today. “It started off as friends taking a workshop… [to performing] in a […] Continue Reading |
Nexus newspaper September 17, 2025 full issueRead the full issue here. Continue Reading |
Camosun College Faculty Association says college is restricting intakes, overloading classesThe Camosun College Faculty Association (CCFA) is saying that Camosun College is restricting intakes for the fall, and claims that it’s not in relation to demand; the CCFA also claims the college is overloading sections. CCFA president Lynelle Yutani points to computer science programming in particular as an area where students are struggling to get […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: September 17, 2025 issueCamosun president appointed for second term Lane Trotter has been appointed as Camosun College president for a second five-year term. Trotter’s first term started on January 1, 2022; that term ends on December 31, 2026 and his new term will begin on January 1, 2027. Before starting at Camosun, Trotter was president and CEO of […] Continue Reading |
Orange Shirt Day event returns to Lansdowne campusOn Monday, September 29, Camosun College will host its annual Orange Shirt Day ceremonies at the Lansdowne campus. Morning workshops will run from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm at Na’tsa’maht and the Sherri Bell Hall in Wilna Thomas, and the ceremony takes place at 1:30 pm at Na’tsa’maht. Last year, the English department spearheaded the […] Continue Reading |
How to hide from heartache: books to help during hard timesMy dog died very suddenly recently of massive organ failure, and I have no answers as to why. My heart is broken, and as I grieve, I turn to media that is fit to nurse a mournful condition. Below are books that I rediscover when I need to leave this painful world behind. Who doesn’t […] Continue Reading |
Victoria Fringe Fest returns with mixed bag of performancesThis year, going on their 39th, Victoria Fringe Fest returned with over 35 shows from small creators across the country. As a reviewer I’m limited in my ability to see all of them, and as such, I have to base my observations on an extremely small sample size. This time, two out of three shows […] Continue Reading |
The degree of separationFor a long time, the topics in the ethos of femininity or fields that women, for the most part, choose to study within have not been taken seriously. The social sciences and humanities are seen this way: dismissed under the assumption that they add less to societies, especially compared to subjects traditionally dominated by men. […] Continue Reading |
