What’s Going On: February 15 to 28, 2017Until Thursday, February 23 Get high Have you ever wanted to sing? The Gettin’ Higher Choir is looking for new additions to their troupe this spring season. All voices welcome; no audition necessary. The choir will be recruiting until February 23; for full dates, times, and locations, visit gettinhigherchoir.ca. Until Saturday, March 4 Get secretarial […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Excess consumption must stopMateriality is a spectre, possessing our body without our knowledge, causing us pain that we think we are enjoying. There are things—physical things—that we need; there is nothing wrong with a certain amount of possessions. What is wrong is when the volume of one’s possessions begins to fill their mortal glass until their cup runneth […] Continue Reading |
Cooking and dancing form unlikely alliance in new performance exhibitCooking is great. The smells, taste, and presentation of a dish can go a long way, working together to bring the art of cooking into day-to-day life. A new art performance, Practices of Everyday Life: Cooking, combines two popular art styles—dancing and cooking—and is helped along by visual media prompts and large moving projections. Composer […] Continue Reading |
Calculated Thought: Personal information is a commodityOur generation is very educated, but we also face a tougher job market than our parents did, so, it’s befitting that we should learn how to make sound financial decisions in a changing economic landscape. Since many say we are entering a new knowledge economy driven by information, I’d like to shift the conversation from […] Continue Reading |
To See or Not to See: The Player a film about filmmakers making filmsThe Player 4/5 In art there exists the now-well-documented phenomenon of the “meta”: a piece of art, literature, theatre, film—anything—that is self-referential, self-conscious, about its own existence. In the art world, there’s Andy Warhol’s pop-art “Campbell’s Soup Cans”; literature has Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote; in film, there’s Robert Altman’s The Player (1992). But what […] Continue Reading |
Penguin & Peacock: February 15, 2017 issue |
Camosun gets feedback on new sexual violence policyCamosun College is moving ahead with its drafting of a new sexual violence and misconduct policy. As part of this process, Camosun recently had community feedback sessions, where students and others could make their voices heard. According to Camosun vice president of student experience Joan Yates, the first feedback session, held on January 24, went […] Continue Reading |
Where are the men?: The ongoing gender problem in early childhood educationThere’s this idea that something is inherently wrong with a man who wants to work with children. But to work with children, a male in early childhood education (ECE) must accept that he will be making less income and know that he will be working in a field that isn’t viewed as respectable by some. […] Continue Reading |
Dearest Reader: A proposal: the battle of the bathrooms has only just begunDearest Reader, It is well understood that the ever-mighty marching feet of the feminist movement have traversed a long and unsteady ground throughout the preceding decades. The victories of suffrage and legal gender equality long behind us, the most noble endeavour has fallen to our generation’s finest and brightest to find new enemies, and to […] Continue Reading |
Wolf Parade return to where it all began with new EPAfter a six-year break, BC-born/Montreal-bred indie rockers Wolf Parade are returning to Victoria. For drummer Arlen Thompson (who was in the University Transfer program at Camosun in 1999, when he also penned some Nexus articles), proximity and timing played a large part in the band reuniting, recording new material, and touring again after the release […] Continue Reading |
