Capstone Symposium to showcase Camosun grad’s tech projectsOn Thursday, June 14, 12 teams of Camosun students will be showcasing their final projects of their technology-related courses. The public and potential employers are welcome to come check out the semi-annual Capstone Symposium, being held at Camosun’s Interurban campus, from 10 am to 2 pm. The graduating students are from the Computer Systems Technology […] Continue Reading |
Boat builder takes cliché artistic concept and brings it to lifeAh, yes, paintings of boats, the ocean, the sun setting over a wharf. Blissful? Serene? Peaceful? No, sounds about as cliché and dull as the rest of your grandma’s goddamn décor. But paintings of boats don’t have to be cheeseball. Tony Grove’s exhibition A Boatbuilder’s Perspective, being shown at Dales Gallery, shows the Gabriola Island-based […] Continue Reading |
BED Talks raise money for charityBy now, most of us have heard of TED Talks, unless we’ve been living in a remote shack someone in Alaska (sounds relaxing, actually). But how many of us have heard of BED Talks? An upcoming two-night event in Victoria on “Being. Empowering. Discovering” is promising to “engage community” through a series of talks by […] Continue Reading |
Angels watching over Rush, alwaysRush Clockwork Angels (Anthem/Universal) 4.5/5 A new Rush album. Always, there is a certain crispness, hidden away in a sonic place between the hi hat and the vocal mix. Vocalist Geddy Lee, song one: “I can’t stop thinking big.” There are lonely men in record stores all across North America at this very moment. The […] Continue Reading |
Human Body Project continues with naked vigilsIn 2006, when Tasha Diamant first decided to take her clothes off in public as a way to demonstrate how each of us is vulnerable, and how by being vulnerable we can break the cycle of harm, her intention was to do so at least once per year. Only a few short years later, Diamant […] Continue Reading |
Men Without Hats get anachronistic in the best of waysMen Without Hats Love in the Age of War (Big Fat Truck) 3.5/5 Everything old is new again. Or, at least, everything old has a new album. The tunes on ’80’s Canadian hitmakers Men Without Hats’ new release, Love In the Age of War, harken back to a different era. A time when real instruments […] Continue Reading |
Dieselboy and friends just kill it at 919When you see the best show of your life, do you know it? At what point does it surpass the best memories you have of shows you saw when you were younger, the first time you saw one of your favourite bands (finally), or that time when that upstart hip-hopper blew your mind in a […] Continue Reading |
UNO Fest review: Blue BoxThe amazing Blue Box is a 90-minute memoir to author and actor Carmen Aguirre’s life as a freedom fighter in Chile. Whether it’s being subjected to government surveillance or undertaking perilous missions to deliver supplies through the Andes, Aguirre’s story is seeping in political unrest and secret-life paranoia. But Blue Box is also seeping in […] Continue Reading |
UNO Fest review: The Atomic Weight of HappinessDisclaimer: I’m not a dance guy. I can barely move around my room in the morning without stubbing several toes, and I’m certainly not the right person to be analyzing choreography and fluidity and movement, or whatever words you use to talk about dance. I appreciate the human form and I like to see bodies […] Continue Reading |
UNO Fest review: Photo BoothImprov has long been the ugly stepchild of live theatre and I, for one, have never understood why improvisational shows can’t fill bigger venues and get the same kind of buzz as, in my opinion, less exciting forms of theatre (um, Shakespeare, anyone?). So, here we are with local improv magician Dave Morris’ Photo Booth, […] Continue Reading |
