Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival returns to Camosun groundsIf you’ve been hanging around the Wilna Thomas building on Camosun’s Lansdowne campus, you might have noticed actors and actresses rehearsing a play nearby. Director Barbara Poggemiller is working on Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale “by the huge beautiful oak trees” at Lansdowne for the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival. Some critics regard The Winter’s Tale as […] Continue Reading |
New York dancer coming to Victoria’s ROMP! festThis year’s ROMP! Festival Of Dance will feature the premiere of Joshua Beamish’s new solo collection, Lone Wolf. Beamish, who moved from Vancouver to New York in 2012 and has been working with the ROMP! festival since 2007, says he “basically grew up in a dance studio” as his mother owned one when he was […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College not raising Civil Engineering Technology tuitionIn February, we reported on tuition for Camosun’s Civil Engineering Technology program possibly going up by 43.9 percent, which, as far as Camosun Civil Engineering student Blair Roche was concerned, went against the Ministry of Advanced Education’s two-percent annual tuition-increase cap for existing programs (if program changes are significant enough for the Ministry to consider […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Chargers’ Charles Parkinson joins CBC Olympic broadcast teamCamosun Chargers men’s volleyball coach Charles Parkinson will be part of the CBC/Radio Canada broadcast team during the 2016 Olympic Games, which are being held in Rio. Parkinson will be commentating from the CBC office in Toronto during the Olympic volleyball events. Parkinson, who is a former captain of the Canadian men’s volleyball team, says […] Continue Reading |
Photo gallery: Camosun’s Fine Furniture and Joinery students display final projects at art galleryIf you haven’t made it down to the Gallery at Cedar Hill Rec Centre to check out Chairisma: Seating in Western Maple (gotta be honest: we love the name), you still have a chance. The exhibit, which displays the final projects of Camosun’s Fine Furniture and Joinery students, is open to the public until 8pm […] Continue Reading |
The Man Who Knew Infinity more trailer than movieThe Man Who Knew Infinity (2016) 2/5 The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016) is a poor-boy-cum-genius flick set mainly in the politically and socially incorrect era of early 20th-century England. It tells the true story of Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a mathematics genius who gets the opportunity to study at Cambridge University with G.H. Hardy […] Continue Reading |
Theresa Caputo connects with emotions, wallets in VictoriaLong Island Medium personality and, well, Long Island medium Theresa Caputo brought a good-sized crowd into Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre on Monday night. After she got through telling the audience all about her hair and her shoes, and how they could join her fan club for $19.99 (to be fair, she did say all proceeds go […] Continue Reading |
The Meddler shows moms in a real light, with much successThe Meddler 4/5 The Meddler (2016) is so much better than you think it’s going to be. Don’t read a plot synopsis before watching, as the wonderfulness of this film isn’t found in the storyline; The Meddler is most exceptional in the moments in between, when it sits back and allows Susan Sarandon to really […] Continue Reading |
Anti-Flag brings spirit of punk to Victoria“Welcome to the goddamn punk rock show,” sang Anti-Flag bassist Chris #2 during the bridge of their song “Fabled World” at their April 29 show at Victoria’s Distrikt Nightclub. And it made sense: Anti-Flag is a band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that embodies the very essence of punk. The band members sport mohawks and black skinny […] Continue Reading |
Social Media Camp teaches more than marketingAttention marketing, communication, and social-media fans: Social Media Camp is coming soon. Co-Producer Paul Holmes started doing events based around website software WordPress in 2008, and things have been going strong since. “We ended up running those for five years,” he says. “People were very interested in what was happening with WordPress.” The strong interest […] Continue Reading |
