News Briefs: October 10, 2018 issueCamosun instructor first to defend doctoral dissertation in traditional territory Camosun indigenization and sustainability strategist Dawn Smith recently became the first person in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia to defend her thesis off campus in her traditional Nuu-chah-nulth territory. Smith’s thesis focused on epistemological collisions experienced by Indigenous professors teaching […] Continue Reading |
Unpacking the Bags: Making the biggest step possibleMany people ask me what led me to leave my country, my family, and my culture behind to come and live in Canada. The truth is that every international student has a different answer to why they made that decision; in my case, I left my country in search of better opportunities in the labour […] Continue Reading |
New play about motherhood has Camosun College rootsFor actress and playwright Nicolle Nattrass, the journey to motherhood was not a simple one. “It was quite a journey,” says Nattrass, “because I always said if I don’t have a child by the time that I’m 40 then that’s okay, because I had lots of kids in my life. You know, ‘happy auntie,’ and […] Continue Reading |
Beethoven’s freedom fight on display with new performanceSocial justice meets opera with Pacific Opera Victoria (POV)’s contemporary production of Beethoven’s Fidelio, which may just challenge your perceptions of the human condition. Bogotá-raised multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Monica Hernandez has joined with director Wim Trompert and designer Nancy Bryant to create an on-set memorial to resistance and freedom fighters that is “extraordinarily expressive,” […] Continue Reading |
What’s Going On: October 10 to 23, 2018Until Saturday, October 27 Get your creep on! The only thing creepier than classic horror movies is classic horror movies in a historical castle. Craigdarroch Castle is launching Classics at Craigdarroch Movie Series on Thursday and Saturday nights at 6 pm throughout October. The movie list includes Dracula, Frankenstein, House on Haunted Hill, and more. […] Continue Reading |
The Periodic Column: Gene-driving out of controlA huge breakthrough in the world of gene editing is a tool known as CRISPR, or “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.” CRISPR guides enzymes to certain places in a genetic code where they can cut the DNA. Then the cells repair the genes, or other pieces of genetic code can be inserted. Another recent […] Continue Reading |
Toronto singer/songwriter Ben Kunder connects through carpentry, musicSince he was a little kid—stumbling over his dad’s old college guitar in the basement and teaching himself to play it with Bob Dylan songbooks—music has played a vital role in Toronto singer/songwriter Ben Kunder’s life. “We always had music in the house; we had a pretty expansive record collection, and [my dad] always took […] Continue Reading |
Let’s Talk?: On privacy, the pharmacy, and gender expectationsAs woke as I am, I am also desensitized to the daily chip-aways I experience as a woman. Even when they happen, I don’t speak up as much as I should. This was brought to my attention recently when I went to the pharmacy with a friend to refill a prescription. I walked to the […] Continue Reading |
Demian DinéYazhi´ tackles queer and Indigenous issues in art worldPortland-based transdisciplinary artist and poet Demian DinéYazhi´ is making a space for queer Indigenous people within the art world, but it’s proving to be a hard task. “I think for a while I had a really difficult time having pride in my identity because it was tied so much to this border town [Gallup, New […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun instructor Christian Lieb on the future of historyKnow 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 |
