New City of Victoria youth poet laureate James Summer aims to give backJames Summer has been selected as the City of Victoria’s youth poet laureate for 2021. Through the position—which is open to poets between the ages of 14 and 24—Summer will engage with youth through poetry. As part of the position, Summer, who was chosen for the position by a committee made up of people from […] Continue Reading |
Student Editor’s Letter: Waiting during the mandated lifeMaybe you’re waiting for classes to be in person again, or maybe you’re waiting for the vaccine to get rolled out to enough of us for that to happen, or maybe you’re just simply waiting in line—distanced and masked—at the grocery store. Either way, it’s more of the same these days. It’s too true. And […] Continue Reading |
50 things Camosun College needs to do in its next 50 yearsOn September 16, 1971, Camosun College first opened its doors to students. This year, the college is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and it got us thinking about how far Camosun has come in 50 years. But where does it need to go from here? We tapped into our Nexus team to get, straight from the […] Continue Reading |
Victoria Film Fest movie Coral Ghosts explores climate change through coral reefs, familyConsidering the current state of our economy and society, grocery stores, hospitals, and law enforcement are completely essential. There is no doubt about that. However, with its line-up of powerful films that bravely take on important themes, this year’s Victoria Film Festival (VFF) successfully establishes just how essential movies are to us in 2021. One […] Continue Reading |
New Music Revue: Chris Garneau’s new album a stripped-down successChris Garneau The Kind (The Orchard) 4/5 NYC-based singer-songwriter Chris Garneau’s fifth album The Kind is pretty close to perfect for a cold pandemic day huddled away in your apartment. This album addresses what we try to hide: smothering relentless shame, the strength we can find in darkness, and how we manage to get by. […] Continue Reading |
An Inside Voice: Our screens, ourselvesSo, it’s two weeks into the semester, and we’re just starting to get that feeling of familiarity, of “This is how things work, and I think I understand things.” We probably have a bit of a pattern established of how and when to complete our weekly readings, of how much or how little we can […] Continue Reading |
Student Editor’s Letter: Walking on in silenceWe are all living a slightly different pandemic. Being a writer and a student means I’ve scarcely left my apartment for anything other than groceries or walks for almost a year. And that does funny things to me. I wake up five or six times a night, never sleeping for more than an hour or […] Continue Reading |
Victoria NDP MP Laurel Collins sponsoring petition for student aidVictoria NDP MP Laurel Collins has sponsored a parliamentary e-petition that calls on the Canadian government to increase supports for students in light of COVID-19. The petition, signed by 9,580 people, asks that the government uses the remaining funds from the $9 billion in aid allocated for the Canada Student Services Grant that was originally […] Continue Reading |
Freedom from Addiction: Romantic relationships and waking upAddiction is about staying asleep, so to speak. Part of the function of being swaddled in the dark cloud of addiction is, more or less, to block out reality. In Pia Mellody’s book Facing Love Addiction she writes that all addicts—including sex, love, and relationship addicts—find reality “intolerable.” Addiction recovery is about waking up from […] Continue Reading |
Artist Kegan McFadden looks at love and loss in A Separate PeaceWhat’s first striking about the work of local artist and A Separate Peace, and other bouquets curator Kegan McFadden is how ordinary the images selected for the sprawling title piece of the show are. A Separate Peace is a collection of 500 images of men facing away from the camera, caught in moments very different […] Continue Reading |
