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Camosun to deliver new culinary arts program with Songhees Nation The provincial government announced in the last week of March that $665,000 would go toward starting up a new Aboriginal Culinary Arts, Hospitality and Tourism Management program at Camosun College. The program will be a partnership with Songhees Nation and delivered at the college. Camosun […]

Camosun indigenous artist in residence Margaret Briere focuses on Coast Salish art, a genre found largely in the Pacific Northwest; much of Briere’s art deals with issues surrounding mental health. She says her art does not represent mental health in a typical way, often using birds as symbolism. “In my mind, if I didn’t say […]

If you notice that students seem a bit happier this week, not to mention falling over drunk, that’s because an error on the part of work crews occurred while installing a new pipeline that has replaced the school’s drinking water with local craft beer. A spokesperson for Camosun College says this couldn’t come at a […]

With the stress of final exams looming, the tension on both Camosun’s Lansdowne and Interurban campuses is palpable. Camosun students are wandering like time-bomb zombies, waiting to explode with the pressure of mounting assignments and tests; some students, apparently, have, literally, not slept for three years. Lucky for the tension-riddled masses, a solution has been […]

Keen eyes may have noticed that there’s basically always a lot of construction happening at Camosun College’s Lansdowne campus. The Slum Building has been caught up in a legal battle for years now, and students can’t actually walk around it. Meanwhile, Wisher’s construction, slated to be done by September 1 of 1998, is still not […]

Spring has arrived, and students and faculty are enjoying being out of the dull greyness of constant cloud and rain. So the name of the year-end exhibit for first-year Camosun Visual Arts students, Out of the Grey, makes perfect sense, which Visual Arts instructor John Boehme acknowledges with a laugh. He says that Out of […]

William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, adapted by Jeffrey Renn, brought me great joy last night at the University of Victoria’s Phoenix Theatre; it’s a creative and colourful farcical comedy and the soundtrack to this “pop musical reboot” of the play is great. As those who are familiar with the play know, it’s all about […]

Women’s voices reach out across the pitch-black room in a tune that sounds almost mournful. When the lights come up, two women wearing bathing suits sitting in a soaker tub are illuminated on centre stage. The floor, ceiling, and curtains shroud the stage in funerary black, contrasting the virginal white bathtub and swimsuits. So begins […]

I’m just about done with Victoria Beer Week. You shouldn’t be able to attend this many fun beer events in one week. No, you should. Victoria Beer Week is probably the best festival of its kind you’re going to find anywhere. This is not hyperbole. If you wanted to have one night of fun during […]