Quentin Tarantino’s work comes to Fringe FestivalWhen Dave Morris was looking for source material for a new Victoria Fringe Festival improv show, the early films of Quentin Tarantino were one of the first things that came to mind. An Improvised Quentin Tarantino, directed by Morris and featuring an ensemble cast from Victoria’s Paper Street Theatre, attempts to recreate the feel of […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: CamFest, Chargers revamp/represent, sexual assault centre movesCamFest returns! On September 3 on the Lansdowne campus and September 5 out at Interurban, come check out food, festivities, and friendship (their words, not ours, but we like ’em!) at the annual CamFest. Information booths, food, games, music, the president’s BBQ lunch, a beverage garden, and much more. Check out camosun.ca for information, including […] Continue Reading |
Ability’s Muse: Accommodation is not special treatmentWe live in an ableist society. It’s all too common when discussing topics such as income assistance and other disability-oriented accommodations to encounter an ideal that we each should have access to the same resources, regardless of outside factors such as heritage, ability, gender, or financial standing. It sounds lovely in theory, but in reality […] Continue Reading |
August 14, 2013 comics: Pablo and Earth Council |
Review: New Emily Carr book collects best pieces in one compact digestI’m not the sharpest tool in the shed, nor do I claim to be. So I’m going to get this out in the open right now and say I’m just not much of an art guy. I try, and I appreciate what people do; I can barely draw a stick figure. I drew a princess […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College gets BC provincial funding for Aboriginal learnersIn late June, the BC government announced that they were investing $4.4 million in postsecondary institutions in 2013. The money will go towards programs and other activities that improve Aboriginal students’ experiences at universities and colleges across the province. Eleven institutions received the funding, including Camosun. The funding will go towards supporting postsecondary institutions’ work […] Continue Reading |
Summer titles heat up Playstation 3 and Nintendo 3DSNo more books, no more cramming for tests: summer is finally here, which means we have more free time on our hands (unless you’re in summer classes, that is). We can finally play our favourite video games and not feel guilty about picking up the controller. Here’s a look at some of the games being […] Continue Reading |
Camosun chair Gilbert Noussitou receives Canadian Culinary Federation honourWhen a colleague of Camosun culinary arts chair Gilbert Noussitou insisted that Noussitou attend a recent national conference of the Canadian Culinary Federation (CCF), he kind of knew something was up. But little did Noussitou realize that he’d be coming back home from the conference as a prestigious member of the CCF’s honour society, a […] Continue Reading |
Rock of the Woods, Camosun marketing grad brings Cowichan Valley to music festival fansLocation trumps everything else. And for Rock of the Woods, which takes place every July in the picturesque Cowichan Valley, nothing could ring more true. Now in its third year, the upstart music festival has had its share of challenges with dealing with bureaucracy, changing locations, and marketing the area to urban centres, but the […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Canadian Target store openings good for studentsAmerican megastores such as Walmart are often maligned for their aggressive business expansion and homogenization of local marketplaces. This is an issue again this year as discount retail giant Target opens stores across Canada. Many Canadians feel some resentment at yet another big-box corporate invasion of our retail space, bringing with it some echoes of […] Continue Reading |
