Know Your Profs: Francis Adu-FebiriWelcome to the first installment of our new column, Know Your Profs, where we find a Camosun instructor and ask them 10 questions. Got a teach you want to know more about? Let us know at editor@nexusnewspaper.com and we’ll put ‘em in the hot seat! For our maiden voyage, we cornered Francis Adu-Febiri. Read on […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: Election ad restrictions limit democracyThe BC government has imposed a number of advertisement restrictions on the activities of third-party conservation groups and other organizations during the election period. This has essentially acted to support partisan politics and reduce the voice of the people. And what type of democracy is that? In the Elections Act it reads that “an advertising […] Continue Reading |
Capoeira on centre stage for Brazilian festThe art of Capoeira will be spotlighted in Victoria for the annual Brazilian Cultural Festival. Axe Capoeira will be bringing some of their finest Capoeiristas from all over the world to expose Victoria to their culture, folklore, music, dancing, combat, and impressive acrobatics. According to Axe Capoeira Victoria’s Professor Testa (real name: Kevin Brett), Capoeira […] Continue Reading |
News Briefs: Camosun energy plan, Vancouver Island Brewery seasonal ales, Hellbound, and Andrea Paquette awardedCamosun energy plan kicks ass There’s no other way to put it: the college’s five-year energy management plan recently ended, and it exceeded its greenhouse gas targets by a whopping 400 percent. The plan also resulted in a $2.7 million savings in avoided costs and new infrastructure. New brews is good news Here’s another news […] Continue Reading |
Speed filming: Cinecoup accelerator pushes young filmmakersYoung Vancouver filmmaker Jay Rathore has something in common with most independent artists: he is waiting for his big break. So when he stumbled across something called Cinecoup online, he thought it might be the chance he was looking for. Turns out, it was. The film accelerator program, launched by a Vancouver online entrepreneur, has […] Continue Reading |
Uno Fest takes one-person plays to new levelsCan you imagine one performer playing more than 20 different characters? At Uno Fest, solo performers from across North America play many different characters in innovative and cutting-edge theatre. Uno Fest started in the humble beginnings of a hotel basement 17 years ago; now Uno is North America’s longest-running festival of solo performance. Many performers […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Bike to Work Week is hereLiving in one of Canada’s most bike-able cities has its perks: great routes, optimal weather, and short distances. The annual Greater Victoria Bike to Work Week takes place at the end of May and Camosun is set to promote, celebrate, and engage the campus community in creative ways. But the conversation doesn’t stop there: year-round […] Continue Reading |
CCSS rep Keller-MacLeod named CFS-BC women’s liaisonOne of Camosun’s own has been elected provincial women’s liaison for the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS). Madeline Keller-MacLeod, the Lansdowne campus executive for the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS), will be in charge of “helping to facilitate the work that women students are doing across BC,” she says. Keller-MacLeod, who is studying political science […] Continue Reading |
Events: Films, UFO (not UNO) Fest, Camosun film lecture series, neo burlesque, and much moreUntil Thursday, May 16 Hating the sun Check out Light Sensitive, an exhibit of photographs from students at the Western Academy of Photography, running until May 16. Which is either tomorrow, today, or it already happened, so get down there, quick! Unless it already happened. Oh, where? Dales Gallery, 537 Fisgard. Thursday, May 16 and […] Continue Reading |
Kitt & Jane tackle the apocalypse head-onThe idea for Kitt & Jane, the stage sequel to Fringe favourite Little Orange Man, germinated in director/star Ingrid Hansen’s mind when she was 12 years old and flipping through dog-eared copies of National Geographic magazine. The result, a look at fighting off an apocalypse through the eyes of two 14-year-olds, isn’t nearly as heavy […] Continue Reading |
