New Music Revue: New Zealand indie-popsters Mild Orange deliver uplifting third albumMild Orange Looking for Space (AWAL) 3.5/5 New Zealand indie-pop band Mild Orange recently released their third album, Looking for Space. The album carries an uplifting message and tone throughout almost the entirety of its runtime, with a few more sombre songs spliced in. Relaxing vocals and instruments back up this message with a chill […] Continue Reading |
Australia’s Great Wild North another IMAX successAustralia: a country and continent where extremes meet, where life and death are very close to each other, seen through the eyes of a Murrungun Aboriginal whose people have been on the lands for thousands of years. That’s the story that Balang T.E. Lewis narrates in Australia’s Great Wild North. The movie is playing now […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College closed today, classes to resume on MondayBoth Camosun College campuses are closed today, Thursday, January 6, due to weather conditions. Classes are resuming as scheduled on Monday, January 10. The college is following the advice of provincial health officer Bonnie Henry and resuming with in-person classes; several other post-secondary institutions in the province have switched back to online learning temporarily due […] Continue Reading |
Despite flaws, solo performance of A Christmas Carol wonderfully entertainingA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is likely the most well-known piece of traditional holiday literature of all time, and for good reason: it tells a gripping story of ordinary people grappling with the human condition, and it has starkly relatable characters. Indeed, the most compelling thing about Ebenezer Scrooge is that the audience feels […] Continue Reading |
A Christmas Carol at Blue Bridge keeps tradition aliveThis month at Blue Bridge Theatre, the world-renowned Victorian-era Christmas story A Christmas Carol will be told in the same fashion that it was originally presented: with one actor playing the cast of over 20 characters. But actor Sanjay Talwar is no stranger to taking on a role where he plays multiple people. “I actually […] Continue Reading |
International at Camosun: Final goodbyesOur exams are right around the corner, but so is Christmas! Victoria is a really beautiful place, especially during Christmas time—there are Christmas decorations everywhere, and I was pleased to recently be able to attend a Christmas parade. I finally feel like I’m at home here, settled in (enough, anyway), and adapted to this wonderful […] Continue Reading |
Camosun ETP students holding Winter Holiday SaleCamosun College Employment Training and Preparation (ETP) students are holding a Winter Holiday Sale on Thursday, December 2. Third-year ETP student Nathan Wong and ETP instructor Laura Friesen say that among other items for sale will be conifer cookies, rosemary cookies, apple chips, and roasted chick peas in a special sauce (courtesy of Camosun’s Mosaic […] Continue Reading |
A Christmas Carol returns to Craigdarroch Castle as solo performanceThis holiday season, viewers will be visited by three spirits at Craigdarroch Castle in a performance of A Christmas Carol by veteran local actor Jason Stevens. Stevens—who is returning for his tenth year telling the story—brings 19 characters to life in his solo performance of the Dickens classic tale of a man beset by greed […] Continue Reading |
Serving Elizabeth shines with beautiful set and intriguing plotCanadian playwright Marcia Johnson’s play Serving Elizabeth has made its way to Victoria’s Belfry Theatre. People may be drawn to seeing this play because Johnson was originally inspired by the popular Netflix series The Crown, in particular, an episode set in Kenya. Johnson had, apparently, seen the episode and believed that the depiction of the […] Continue Reading |
International at Camosun: My first HalloweenThey say that when there’s a festival coming up, you can feel it in the air. I’ve never honestly understood why everyone celebrated Halloween, a spooky holiday, but when it was coming up this year, I could certainly feel it in the air, and it made me excited to understand it better. It’s not just […] Continue Reading |
