Camosun student helps college create virtual reality witness blanketCamosun College has hired a team to create a virtual reality witness blanket, inspired by traditional Indigenous woven blankets. Second-year Camosun visual art student Louise Black, Camosun Innovates director Richard Gale, and applied research and development technologist Matt Zeleny recently went to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg to spend several days scanning […] Continue Reading |
25 Years Ago in Nexus: March 4, 2020 issueDepressing reading: Imagine if we compiled a book featuring every story we’ve ever written over the years about cuts to education budgets, or about tuition-fee raises. The history of Nexus is really just a history of documenting this bad news, and stories like “Federal budget promises education cuts” in our March 6, 1995 issue are […] Continue Reading |
Frazey Ford decides to keep it simple, jammy on new albumFrom the moment you hit “play” on Frazey Ford’s 2010 solo debut, Obediah, “Firecracker” showcases the Vancouver singer’s unmistakable voice being carried by an acoustic strum and a banjo slowly plucking a soulful melody. Obediah has all of the folk/Americana sounds associated with Ford’s time with The Be Good Tanyas, but it has the listener’s […] Continue Reading |
Provincial government announces new student grantsOn Tuesday, February 18, the provincial government announced its 2020 budget. Of note to students is a new BC Access Grant of up to $4,000 for low-to-middle-income earners entering post-secondary studies. The grant will help more than 40,000 eligible full- and part-time BC students every year pay for their degree, diploma, or certificate program. It […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Insect Ark get bold, original on new albumInsect Ark The Vanishing (Profound Lore Records) 4.5/5 First there was Portal/Well in 2015. Then came Marrow Hymns in 2018. Now, the path continues with Brooklyn-based experimental doom metal band Insect Ark’s third harrowing album, The Vanishing. For nearly 10 years, Insect Ark have been producing amazing work that does a great job of entertaining […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: March 4 to 17, 2020Until Saturday, March 14 Where’s Walt? I always like to encourage my fellow students to attend live theatre. It’s educating and entertaining and sometimes you won’t exactly break your bank account. Langham Court Theatre is staging I and You, directed by John Han—the play revolves around two teenagers, Caroline and Anthony, and their endearing road […] Continue Reading |
Documentary about breast-milk issues screening at CamosunMilk, a 2015 documentary by Noemi Weis about how political and commercialized childbirth and infant feeding has become, is being shown at Camosun College this month. Event organizer Samara Oscroft, who is also a Nexus contributor, says that although getting this screening together with her Geography 102 class has been a lot of work, she’s […] Continue Reading |
Spark Festival gains national attention with quality of playsThe Belfry Theatre’s Spark Festival is the brainchild of Belfry artistic director Michael Shamata. To get more of that festival feel, Shamata transformed what was once called The Festival and had a six-week run into the two-week Spark Festival. “It didn’t feel much like a festival,” says Shamata. “When I got here, I started to […] Continue Reading |
Camosun MyWellness column: Creative ways to deal with mental healthAs a creative person who’s struggled with anxiety most of my life, I’ve found many ways to write, paint, and sing my way to mental freedom. Author Neil Gaiman once said that when things go wrong (which they most certainly will), you should make good art. Now, you may be thinking that there’s no way […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: No one has better or worse taste in musicIt’s ridiculous to pretend that there is such a thing as objectively good taste in music. Yet, this is often discussed. Music is subjective, and it’s shortsighted to label some as universally superior. Twice, Rolling Stone has compiled a list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, in 2004 and in 2010. Out of […] Continue Reading |
