News Briefs: August 6, 2025 issueCamosun student takes home co-op award Saffron Hilder, a recent Camosun Accounting graduate, was recently selected as the recipient of the 2025 Gordon Hutcheson Memorial Co-op Award. The award, sponsored by Hutcheson & Co. Chartered Professional Accountants, is given to an Accounting student based on co-op and academic performance. Mechanical Engineering Technology students showcase capstone […] Continue Reading |
Chargers women’s volleyball welcomes new coachThe Camosun College Chargers women’s volleyball team will usher in a new coach courtside this coming semester. Scott Freeburn will be succeeding Brent Hall as head coach during the 2025-26 season as Hall moves into an assistant coach position with the women’s volleyball team at the University of the Fraser Valley. For 15 years, Freeburn […] Continue Reading |
Editor’s Letter: The easy poseIn Salabhasana, the locust pose, I was ordered by a poised, cavalier, liberated man to abandon my likes and dislikes—my dislikes there in those damp moments assumed to be the waves of contractions burning in my lower abdomen and then the rest of me. This was the correct expectation. We paused, all nine of us […] Continue Reading |
Great Works Theatre Festival presents timely mix of comedy and tragedyChallenging audiences with relevant issues, the Great Works Theatre Festival features two plays presented in collaboration through Puente Theatre and Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre that will be performed at the Belfry Theatre. The plays on offer are a modern retelling of Blood Wedding, originally by Federico Garcia Lorca, and a classic rendition of David Hirson’s […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Völur and Cares deliver breathtaking collaborative effortVölur/Cares Breathless Spirit (Batke Records) 4.5/5 Close your eyes and let Toronto-based experimental doom metal band Völur and solo sound artist Cares take you on a fantastic adventure with collaborative effort Breathless Spirit. The album is musical storytelling at its best—most of the narrative beats are told with carefully crafted classical and metal. Listening to […] Continue Reading |
Natural Selection: July 2, 2025 issue |
New Music Revue: Allo Darlin’ stuck in 2010s naivetyAllo Darlin’ Bright Nights (Slumberland Records) 2/5 On a warm, windy afternoon in 2012 I lay on unattended grass listening to acoustic Jens Lekman and Cat Power, determining my 10-year plan. It was this young woman who believed sporting a carefully teased bob as a career-barista would be most fulfilling. By now, then, I’d be […] Continue Reading |
Pieces of Performance: Junk Male gets wacky, nerdy, and silly with a smileJunk Male is jumping into the spotlight with a mish-mash of positivity, seduction, and gut-hurting laughter. This non-binary bean lights up every room they walk into and has become one of the top producers to work with on the island. “I’ve been involved with the drag scene since 2018. [I] watched a couple friends in […] Continue Reading |
Museum exhibit looks at artists behind protest musicThe Royal BC Museum’s Beyond the Beat: Music of Resistance and Change exhibit centres on protest music throughout the decades, boasting a wide range of paraphernalia—from Neil Young’s harmonica to the jacket of Public Enemy’s Chuck D. The goal of the exhibit is to illustrate how music functions as a catalyst for social change and […] Continue Reading |
A student’s reflection on the Lapu-Lapu Day tragedyI had not always known a great deal about Filipino culture, but about three years ago, when I started seeing my partner Jaime, my learning process began. Jaime comes from a long descent of Filipino heritage, and we try to make a point of going to most of the events and festivals in Vancouver and […] Continue Reading |
