Open Space: Stop romanticizing romanceCollege is, apart from a place of study, the centre of building relationships. Small classes, group activities, and asking to borrow notes or a pen from the cutie beside you are all contributors to socializing in Camosun’s community-college environment. I myself admit that after watching numerous rom-coms and dramas, I always expect the next person […] Continue Reading |
Camosun eyes potential Interurban film studioCamosun College is working with Vancouver-based construction company Lexi Development Group to discuss the feasibility of building a film studio, sound stage, and related educational facilities at its Interurban campus. This could lead to new programs for students in film-specific trades such as carpentry, metalwork, hair and makeup, and 3D animation. These discussions are still […] Continue Reading |
C’est la Vie: July 10, 2019 issue |
Know Your Profs: Camosun’s Alena Chercover takes offense over plagiarism and gendered children’s clothingKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions in an attempt to get to know them a little better. Do you have an instructor who you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you […] Continue Reading |
Camosun student awarded Van den Brink Residency seeks truth in film photographyIn all forms of art lies a space between what the creator of the art intends and what the viewer of the art perceives. Camosun second-year Visual Arts student Nina Parrotta—who was awarded the Camosun Van den Brink Residency, given to a second-year Visual Arts student, this year—intends to narrow that space down through her […] Continue Reading |
Penguin & Peacock: July 10, 2019 issue |
News Briefs: July 10, 2019 issueCamosun hires new student experience VP Starting Monday, August 19, Heather Cummings will be the new vice president of student experience at Camosun College. She replaces Joan Yates, who will be returning to teaching at Camosun. Cummings was previously the executive director of student success at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. She has a master’s […] Continue Reading |
Victoria theatre company puts local talent to use in ConstellationsLocal theatre company hapax theatre—lower case intentional—is named for a linguistic term that dates back to ancient Greece. A “hapax legomenon” is a word that appears only once within a certain context—for example, in a play or an entire body of work. A hapax legomenon can be very mysterious and difficult to interpret, since it […] Continue Reading |
Victoria Operatic Society braces for a whole lot of NunsenseThe Victoria Operatic Society (VOS) mounts theatre productions twice a year; with RENT and Shrek the Musical already under its belt, the assumption was that VOS was done for 2019. However, that’s not the case: VOS recently announced a surprise third show, Nunsense. “This is kind of unusual for VOS,” admits director Doug Crockett. “We […] Continue Reading |
Camosun alumnus toys with genre expectations with new bookLocal author Logan Hunder recently released his second novel, Astro-Nuts, but six years ago, he was a Camosun student about to graduate from the Criminal Justice program. Although he had never taken more than the mandatory English classes required for his degree, in the months after he graduated, he decided to attempt to write his […] Continue Reading |
